War; Soldiers; Armies; Battlefields; Campaigns & battles; Infantry; Marching; Military camps; Military life; Troop movements; War casualties
Letters written home from Union soldiers belonging the White family, dating from 1861-1865. The letters are mainly written by Ned and James Howell White from various camps and battlefields of the Civil War back to family members living in southeast...
Cavalry; Military officers; Military camps; Soldiers; Guards; Guerrillas; Courts martial & courts of inquiry; Military deserters; Marching; Troop movements; Equipment & supplies; Spies; Executions; Prisoners of war; Refugees; Naval warfare
Holograph and printed copies of correspondence, orders, and invoices of the 1st Iowa Cavalry, mustered into service in Sept. 1861 under the command of Colonel Fitz Henry Warren, sent to Benton Barracks in Saint Louis and then on patrol in Missouri.