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Letter From Ida May Griffin To John Muir, 1865 Mar, Ida May Griffin Feb 1865

Letter From Ida May Griffin To John Muir, 1865 Mar, Ida May Griffin

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Madison, WIS., MARCH 1865.

Dear Mr Muir;

What town do you stay in now? My un- cle is here now, and he took me to Iowa to see my cousins, Jimmy Willy Joheny Getty Charle and the baby donna [illegible]. you will find a picture in the letter that I drew. father is gone away now, and we expect him home all the time

so good bye from your friend Ilda S.P. write soon.










[Ida May Griffin]

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Letter From Wm. E. Sibley To John Muir, 1865 Feb 28, William E. Sibley Feb 1865

Letter From Wm. E. Sibley To John Muir, 1865 Feb 28, William E. Sibley

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I often think of you and the pleasant Sunday morning we spent up the R.R. track last Summer "where do you intend Studying medicine I am exceeding busy every day. I [illegible] I have almost engaged too much for my limited experience in the way of hard work for this Spring at least" but I hope with good luck and God's bless ing to go thro with it all How much I wish at times I could like you lay aside all care and Business and persue some thing that would not bring so much responsibility & worldly anxiety …

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Letter From Daniel Muir Sr. To Daniel H. Muir, 1865 ? 18, Daniel Muir Sr. Dec 1864

Letter From Daniel Muir Sr. To Daniel H. Muir, 1865 ? 18, Daniel Muir Sr.

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Town of Buffalo 18th 1865.

Dear Daniel I recieved yours of the 3d that we were thinking you were long of writing but we were glad to hear you were both well in body. I should like to give you a good advice but it is god only that can by his Spirit through the attonement of Jesus Christ accompanying my pray and advice & that can make it profitable unto you, for you know by the three first chapters of Romans what man is of himself and what he may be by grace Rom 3 - Rom 1:25-52 …

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Nationale Geschichte Des Krieges Für Die Union, Politisch Und Militärisch Nach Offiziellen Und Andern Authentischen Dokumenten, Evert Augustus Duyckinck Dec 1864

Nationale Geschichte Des Krieges Für Die Union, Politisch Und Militärisch Nach Offiziellen Und Andern Authentischen Dokumenten, Evert Augustus Duyckinck

Civil War Text

This is the second volume of a work which has a first volume with title "Geschichte des Krieges für die Union, Politisch und Militärisch Nach Offiziellen und Andern Authentischen Dokumenten". The volume 2 includes added title page in English: History of the War for the Union, Civil, Military & Naval. The book is edited by Friedrich Kapp, and illustrated by Alonzo Chappel and Thomas Raft. Special Collections have v. 2 only. Paging continuation from vol. 1. Vol. 2 is paged 577-1188 and includes 21 leaves of plates.

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A Narrative Of The Campaign In The Valley Of The Shenandoah, In 1861, Robert Patterson Dec 1864

A Narrative Of The Campaign In The Valley Of The Shenandoah, In 1861, Robert Patterson

Civil War Text

This book is about the 1861 Shenandoah Valley campaign. It includes a map of Shenandoah Valley in 1861 and a portrait of Robert Patterson with a reproduction of his signature. At the end of the book there is a newspaper clipping (with a handwritten date Jan 2, 1904) of a review of a book entitled: The Shenandoah Valley and Virginia (1861-65) a war study by Sanford C. Kellogg.

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The Military And Naval History Of The Rebellion In The United States: With Biographical Sketches Of Deceased Officers, William Jewett Tenney Dec 1864

The Military And Naval History Of The Rebellion In The United States: With Biographical Sketches Of Deceased Officers, William Jewett Tenney

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The book provides a general history of the Civil War, describing the battles, related political events and relevant issues of equipment and medicine. On title page "Illustrated with steel plate portraits." Includes 843 pages, additional leaves of portraits, and 10 pages on roman numerals. The portraits are engraved by H.W. Smith. Also includes maps and index. Special Collections copy lacks folded map. The copy has inscription: Presented to John Lusadder by his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Geo Nelson, New years 1892.

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Letter From James Harrison To James A. Seddon, December 23, 1864., James Harrison Dec 1864

Letter From James Harrison To James A. Seddon, December 23, 1864., James Harrison

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Harrison, colonel in the Confederate Army, suggests to the Confederate Secretary of War James Seddon the establishment of an alliance with Comanche Native Americans to disrupt United States trade and government routes in the West.

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Letter From John Muir To Annie L. Muir, 1864 Oct 23, John Muir Oct 1864

Letter From John Muir To Annie L. Muir, 1864 Oct 23, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

within a mile or two of the tremendous precipice they rush on in sublime fury each feathery billow dashing on as if anxious to be first to take the fearful plunge. If the falls were made into about ten thousand cat- aracts each would be grand & beautiful You will likely see them some day

Your Br John



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Meaford Oct 23d

Dear Annie I think that I wrote last & you know that letter for letter is the rule in all correspondence but I will give you a "wee ane" free gratis for nothing without charging you some- thin …

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Letter From John Muir To Mary Muir, 1864 Oct 23, John Muir Oct 1864

Letter From John Muir To Mary Muir, 1864 Oct 23, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

than thirty years an unmarried lady of a great many good qualities. Sixth Harriet Trout a very happy & sportive fish who employs herself in giggling & making giggle for hours at a time is about twenty years of age, 5 1/2 feet long & will perhaps some- time join affinity to the Jay who whistles and coos and gesticulates so funnily to her We all live happily to- gether. Occasionally an extra Trout comes up- stream or a brother jay slights at our door but they are not of our family


I must now bid goodbye. Write soon Yours, …

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Harper's Weekly Apr 1864

Harper's Weekly

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Saturday, April 30, 1864 issue of the Harpers Weekly. Featuring poem "April 20, 1864" with illustration on cover page. Include many lithographs. Centerfold lithograph: The Press on the field. Other lithographic illustrations: In the fair, Admiral porter’s flotilla, The steam-ram “Switzerland,” The massacre at Fort Pillow, The advance signal-station near Ringgold, Georgia, and Ringgold, Georgia. Also includes “Map of Fort De Russy.”

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Letter From Mary E. Newton To John Muir, 1864 Apr 17, Mary E. Newton Apr 1864

Letter From Mary E. Newton To John Muir, 1864 Apr 17, Mary E. Newton

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

may your life and health be precious in His sight. I suppose you have heard from Emma of late, that Mr Basset had moved into the Mondell with Mr Pelton and Emily, also of old Mrs Jacksons death. We had a letter from father Newton a few days since they are very well I am hoping to visit them this Summer or Fall. Sister Katie, Willie and I intend to go on East in June. I shall go to my Vermont home first. That would be a fine trip for you to take. You had better go on with us. …

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1864 Feb 27 Jm To Friend Emily P1, John Muir Feb 1864

1864 Feb 27 Jm To Friend Emily P1, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Fountain Lake Feb 27th 1864

Dear Friend Emily,

I was really glad to receive your letter on reading it I think I felt somewhat ashamed or guilty – or something of that kind. First came Mrs. Newton’s letter, bringing news of a paper sent which I did not receive, at least as from her, then you told me of one of your letters returned you, and the same day received one from Mr. Newton, telling me that he also had written one for the dead letters office, but I promise to be more careful in future. With study …

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Letter From John Muir To Emily O. Pelton, 1864 Feb 27-Mar 1, John Muir Feb 1864

Letter From John Muir To Emily O. Pelton, 1864 Feb 27-Mar 1, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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and the barn yard at hand with its old strawstack and street of dilapidated stables and sheds, with cows, dirty children, and broken plows sprinkled over all. But judge Emily of our sur- prise when upon a piece of ground where the bluffs had curved backward a little from the river we at once seen the [illegible] old house with four gandily dressed females in an even row in front with two idle men seated a little to one side looking complacently upon them like a successful merchant upon a stock of newly arrived goods, not a broken fence …

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Letter From John Muir To Ambrose Newton, 1864 Feb 16, John Muir Feb 1864

Letter From John Muir To Ambrose Newton, 1864 Feb 16, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Fountain Lake Feb 16th, 1864 Dear friends, It was with real pleasure that I recd your long good letter yesterday so full of the experience and fruit of the aged Christian. I was sorry to think that it had been so long a time in the office, but I shall hereafter be more careful about my mail. A draft was being made just when I should have been starting for Ann Arbor which kept me at home, but letters addressed to Midland shall always reach me wherever I am. I was happy to perceive in your letter so much of …

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Letter From John Muir To Ambrose Newton, 1864 Feb 16, John Muir Feb 1864

Letter From John Muir To Ambrose Newton, 1864 Feb 16, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Fountain Lake Feb 16th, 1864 Dear friends, It was with real pleasure that I recd your long good letter yesterday so full of the experience and fruit of the aged Christian. I was sorry to think that it had been so long a time in the office, but I shall hereafter be more careful about my mail. A draft was being made just when I should have been starting for Ann Arbor which kept me at home, but letters addressed to Midland shall always reach me wherever I am. I was happy to perceive in your letter so much of …

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Letter From A Newton To John Muir, 1864 Feb 5, Ambrose Newton Feb 1864

Letter From A Newton To John Muir, 1864 Feb 5, Ambrose Newton

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

(Letter of Sept. 13th, 1863) N.B. Feb. 5th, 1864 Mr. Muir, Dear Sir: This letter is one in answer to the one you wrote me in August last. I directed it to Ann Arbor Michigan. You not being there to receive it, it was sent to Washington, and from there sent back to me. If you ever receive it please let me hear from you immediately. Truly yours, A.N.

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Letter From Lucy Webster, R. Squire, W.F. Webster, And Alice M. Squire To John Muir, 1864 Jan 25, Lucy Webster, R. Squire Jan 1864

Letter From Lucy Webster, R. Squire, W.F. Webster, And Alice M. Squire To John Muir, 1864 Jan 25, Lucy Webster, R. Squire

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Dear friend Muir I am now seated to write you a few lines to let you know that I am well and hope these few lines will find you the same There have been a great many men enlisting and there is a great many more to go to war. I wish this war would soon end but I fear it will be a long time before [illegible] rebellion is Crushed. Mr Muir I thank you a thousand times for [thoes?] images alltho they never entered our house.

W. F. Webster

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Dear Mr Muir I will write a …

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Letter From John Muir To Alfred Bradley Brown, 1864 Jan 17, John Muir Jan 1864

Letter From John Muir To Alfred Bradley Brown, 1864 Jan 17, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Original in possession of Mr. A. B. Brown, Alexandria, S. Dak. [South Dakota]] Fountain Lake, [Wis.] [Wisconsin] January 17, 1864. Dear Friend Brad: Please excuse me for not having written sooner. I wish you “a happy New Year” and, Bradly, I do really mean it. I fondly hope that you are well. I am living quietly at home and am too apt to forget you, who are so much exposed to danger and disease besides that feeling of lone sadness when you remember the comforts of a true home. I hope that when you grow weary and heartsick you will …

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Harper's Weekly Jan 1864

Harper's Weekly

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Saturday, January 16, 1864 issue of the Harper's Weekly. Featuring "Averill’s Raid" in the American Civil War. With many lithographs. Cover: Averill's Raid. Centerfold lithograph: "An Advance of the Army of the Potomac - Sketched by Alfred R. Waud. Other lithographic illustrations include: Major-General Andrew A. Humphreys; General William W. Averill; the "suck" in the Tennessee River; the wreck of the "Aquila" at San Francisco; the ironclad screw frigate "Re d'Italia;" rebel screw steamer Rappahannock; The late most reverend John Hughes, D.C., Archbishop of New York – Photographed by Brady; The rebel screw steamer "Rappahannock" lying at Calais, France; Daboll's …

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Harper's Weekly Jan 1864

Harper's Weekly

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Saturday, May 21, 1864 issue of the Harper's Weekly. Featuring General Sherman's Advance in the American Civil War. With many lithographs. Cover lithograph: General Sherman's Advance- Buzzard's Roost Pass, Georgia. Centerfold lithograph: Grand musical festival in Philadelphia in aid of the Sanitary Commission; Departure of the Union Fleet from Newport News, Virginia, on May 4, 1864- From a sketch by a naval officer; Arrival of General Butler's advance at City Point, Virginia, on May 5, 1864- From a sketch by a naval office. Other lithographic illustrations include: The late General Wadsworth; Destruction of the East Tennessee and Virginia railroad; Destruction …

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Inauguration Of The College For The Deaf & Dumb, At Washington, District Of Columbia, June 28th, 1864, Amos Kendall, Laurent Clerc, James W. Patterson, Edward Miner Gallaudet Dec 1863

Inauguration Of The College For The Deaf & Dumb, At Washington, District Of Columbia, June 28th, 1864, Amos Kendall, Laurent Clerc, James W. Patterson, Edward Miner Gallaudet

Deaf Rare Books

No abstract provided.

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Idyls Of Battle And Poems Of The Rebellion, Howard Glyndon Dec 1863

Idyls Of Battle And Poems Of The Rebellion, Howard Glyndon

Deaf Rare Books

No abstract provided.

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Cosas De Los Estados Unidos, Simon Camacho Dec 1863

Cosas De Los Estados Unidos, Simon Camacho

Civil War Text

The author Simón Camacho wrote the book under the pseudonym "Nazareno." Edited by James Durand. It contains letters and sketches covering the years 1856 to 1863. Includes the author's portrait, engraved by J.A. O'Neill from a photograph by Fredericks. Also contains a reproduction of the author's signature. Spine title: Cosas de los E. Unidos.

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Letter From R. Squire To John Muir, 1863 Dec 21, R. Squire Dec 1863

Letter From R. Squire To John Muir, 1863 Dec 21, R. Squire

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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One could hardly ask for a greater enjoyment, on New Years day, than a warm fire, and there did not seem to be much pleasure away from it, your friends here are well, and you have some very good ones, We do not have very good meetings, this winter, And our school I am afraid will not amount so much, The children like her very much as an associate, (their teacher I mean) Mr. & Mrs. [Teoffer?] wish to be remembered to you with much respect, & Mr & Mrs Hays also, The girls have obtained your drawing, and …

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Letter From John Muir To Daniel Muir, 1863 Dec 20, John Muir Dec 1863

Letter From John Muir To Daniel Muir, 1863 Dec 20, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Old Fountain Lake Dec 20th /63

I was really glad to hear from you uncle Dan (as they call you here), but was sorry to hear that you were about to leave school. but again I am glad that you [evince?] [illegible] sufficient to shift for yourself by [melodizing?] the daughters & sons of the queens Canada. Still I almost wish that this might reach you before you could sing a single ral, I can easily afford to send you a few Yankee greenbacks as I have but few expences and can maul cord wood from gnarly trees at …

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Letter From Anna Watson To John Muir, 1863 Dec 6, Anna Watson Dec 1863

Letter From Anna Watson To John Muir, 1863 Dec 6, Anna Watson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Poynett Dec the 6, 1863

Dear Friend

I have been so long in fulfilling my promise that I am almost ashamed to do it at I had my picture taken soon after I saw you but did not know where to send it till after I came home I have been at home now most seven weeks so there is little excuse for me but you must not be to hard on me as I never wrote much I have not been very well since I came home Mothers health has been poor David and his wife …

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Letter From John Muir To Mary E. Newton ?, 1863 Dec, John Muir Nov 1863

Letter From John Muir To Mary E. Newton ?, 1863 Dec, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Original in possession of Mr. Wm. [William] Newton, Omaha, Neb. [Nebraska] [No place or date] [Fountain Lake in December 1863] [To Mrs. John A. Newton, Prairie du Chien, Wis.] And is little Elmer really dead? Seemingly so well and happy upon my knee, and so soon away to the tomb. I sent you a picture, my boy, just a few weeks ago. I thought of you as the same gleeful little fellow in the parlor with Willie, or receiving your fond Mother's kisses. Ah, little did I think that the chill winds were then heaping the frozen snows upon your …

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Letter From J. A. Blake To John Muir, 1863 Nov 24, J. A. Blake Nov 1863

Letter From J. A. Blake To John Muir, 1863 Nov 24, J. A. Blake

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

about so when you write please tell me about the matter. Rice is not here this term he is teaching. Griffins folks I suppose you know have mov- ed to another part of the town. During this term I have boarded with Prof. Sterling. The Corr. Sec. of the young men's chris. asso. is a new member Mr M. Norton. Our Sec. has been instructed to write to absent mem- bers. I have not seen Mrs Skinner for an age and I do not know much about her. But I must stop for want of paper Your brother in Christ …

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Letter From J. L. Heigh To John Muir, 1863 Nov 14, J. L. Heigh Nov 1863

Letter From J. L. Heigh To John Muir, 1863 Nov 14, J. L. Heigh

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Blake has been confined to his room with a sore throat for some days past, and Stein, poor little Hebrew has been quite sick but is doing finely now. I have taken care of him for the past four days and my treatment has been so emuiently successful that I am led to think I have mistaken my profession and had better become a disciple of Sesculapuis than to follow Blackstone & Kent. Your inquiry about the prosperity of the churches. I am hardly prepared to answer as I attend non but the Baptist. it is however in a …

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Letter From Flora Griffin To John Muir, 1863 Nov 8, Flora Griffin Nov 1863

Letter From Flora Griffin To John Muir, 1863 Nov 8, Flora Griffin

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Madison Wis. Nov. 8th /63.

Dear Friend; Although not par- ticularly invited to participate in the correspondence, which is car- ried on between you and the children I hope you will excuse the liberty I take in so doing so; for I feel that I owe you an apology, for my neg- ligence in fulfilling your request at the time I certainly intended doing so, but in laying it away safely until the time should come, for me to send it, I laid it away so securely, that it

was many days after the appointed time, e're its hiding place …

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