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Title	Marcellus W. Darling letters, 1862-1863
Creator	Darling, Marcellus W.
Date Original	1862/1863
Description	Marcellus Warner Darling was a native of New York. He enlisted in Company K, 154th New York Volunteers on September 6, 1862. The 154th saw a great deal of action during the Civil War. Darling was wounded in the battle of Chancellorsville, was subsequently captured and later escaped. While his regiment was fighting at Gettysburg, Darling was hospitalized with typhoid fever. He fought in the battles at Lookout Mountain and Chickamauga, and participated in the taking of Atlanta, Savannah, and Charleston, during General Sherman's march to the sea. After the war, he was a college professor and later a minister in Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Among his children was cartoonist Jay Norwood Darling.
Topical Subject (LCTGM)	War Soldiers Prisoners of war
Topical Subject (LCSH)	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863
Personal Name Subject	Darling, Marcellus W.
Corporate Name Subject	United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 154th (1862-1865)
Geographic Subject	United States United States -- Virginia -- Chancellorsville
Chronological Subject	1860-1870
Type (DCMIType)	Text
Type (AAT)	Correspondence
Type (IMT)	jpeg
Digital Collection	Civil War Diaries and Letters
Contributing Institution	University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept.
Archival Collection	Marcellus Warner Darling papers
Collection Identifier	MSC0236
Collection Guide	http://lib.uiowa.edu/collguides/?MSC0236
Box Number	1
Rights Management	Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital image. Commercial use or distribution of the image is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
Contact Information	Contact the Special Collections Dept. at The University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/contact/index.
Digitization Specifications	Scanned with Ricoh Aficio 2335 Scanner at 600 ppi, 24-bit color. Master image available in tiff format.
File Name	index.cpd
Identifier	318580551286759

Title	1862-10-05-Page 01
File Name	318580551286759_1862-10-05-Page 01.jpg
Full Text	Washington, D.C. Sunday Oct 5th 1862 Dear parents I take the opertunlty of informing you how I like my new position. Well I can say I like it well though I have had rather a dismal time coming down here and after I got here likewise. I caught cold am4 with my mumps and underwent a good deal of pain but I am most well now. Delos is well and enjoys it first best he ia full of fun all of the time. I did not sleep any much for three nights when we came down here

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