COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Collection includes a series of letters from Charles William Wall, a sergeant in the 151st Regiment, New York Volunteers, mainly concerning troop movements, camp experiences, and other aspects of his life as a Union Army soldier in Maryland, Virginia, Canada, and Washington, D.C., but also dealing with his employment by a mining and milling company in Colorado (1869); other Civil War letters from William Emerson, Henry Harrington, and Charles McCarthy; letters from Jane Middleton, telling of her work in New York City at the Christian Female Home with indigent women (1864); and an autobiographical sketch (1881) of Andrew Wall, who had emigrated from England in 1833.
Dates
- 1857-1881.
Creator
- Wall family. (Family)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Collection includes a series of letters from Charles William Wall; other Civil War letters from William Emerson, Henry Harrington, and Charles McCarthy; letters from Jane Middleton; and an autobiographical sketch of Andrew Wall.
Physical Description
Correspondence.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- February 2016
- EAD encoding:
- Marcie Farwell, February 2016
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, February 2016
- Camps (Military)
- Emerson, William.
- Harrington, Henry.
- McCarthy, Charles.
- Middleton, Jane.
- Mills and mill-work.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Poor.
- Soldiers.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
- United States. Army. Regiment Infantry, New York Volunteers, 151st
- Wall, Andrew.
- Wall, CHarles William, 1844-1917.
- Women, Poor -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- February 2016
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu