Guide to the Burt Green Wilder Papers,
1841-1925

Collection Number: 14-26-95

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Compiled by:
Alexandra C. Lipsky
Laura Linke
Date completed:
March 9, 1992
May 2009
EAD encoding:
Peter Martinez, February 2002
Evan Fay Earle, December 2009
Date modified:
Jude Corina, May 2012

© 2009 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library


Descriptive Summary

Title
Burt Green Wilder papers, 1841-1925
Collection Number:
14-26-95
Creator:
Burt G. (Burt Green) Wilder, 1841-1925
Quantity:
7 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, diaries, photographs.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Diaries; notes and charts pertaining to family genealogy; clippings concerning vivisection; correspondence, photographs, and printed material pertaining to spiders, phrenology, hygiene and education, writing music, Nantucket Island, the Field family, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., temperance, natural history, Wilder's career as a medical cadet and military surgeon during the Civil War; activities of members of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry both during and after the war, Negro troops, his training under Louis Agassiz, Asa Gray, and Jeffries Wyman, and his career as a professor at Cornell University.
Language:
Collection material in English


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Neurologist, professor of anatomy, comparative neurology, and zoology at Cornell University.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life, BGW actively corresponded with veterans of the war, both Yankee and Confederate. There are letters and clippings re pension requests, commission papers, discharge and parole papers, treatment of prisoners from both the North and South; a history of black soldiers; federal government segregation; clippings and letters re battles such as River's Causeway, Fort Wagner, the siege of Charleston, Grimball's Causeway, Fort Sumter, Honey Hill, Pocotaligo and Folly Island. (While he was stationed at Folly Island in 1863, BGW discovered a large spider later named the NEPHILA WILDERI, from which at a later time he reeled off 150 yards of yellow silk.) An account of "The 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Colored", written by BGW and given as a address before the Brookline, Massachusetts Historical Society on May 28, 1914; and letters and clippings re the death and burial of Col. Robert Gould Shaw of the Massachusetts 54th Volunteers with his fallen black troops at the battle of Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863, and clippings re the Shaw Monument in the Boston Common by Augustus St. Gaudens are also included. Other Civil War reminiscences include BGW's Civil War diary, 1863-1865; letters and newspaper clippings re Lt. George T. Garrison (eldest son of William Lloyd Garrison), General Sam Jones, Robertson James (brother of Henry James), Lt. Col. Charles B. Fox, Capt. Charles C. Soule, Capt. Wheelock Pratt, Francis H. Brown, M.D., James F.A. Allen, M.D., Rev. James H. Fowler, Luis F. Emilio, Col. Robert Gould Shaw, Col. Norwood Penrose Hallowell (Commander of the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment), Col. John L. Clem (the youngest soldier to serve with the Union Army), Gen. William T. Sherman, Jefferson Davis, and many others.
These papers also contain correspondence with Prof. Louis Agassiz (the naturalist), Asa Gray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and Jeffries Wyman, with whom BGW worked at Harvard University as an assistant after receiving his M.D. degree there in 1866. There are letters, papers, clippings and various medical pamphlets from BGW's years as a professor of anatomy, physiology, comparative neurology and vertebrate zoology at Cornell from 1867-1910, where he devoted special attention to human and animal brain mechanism experiments, and the nervous system. At the time of his retirement he had gathered between 1,600 and 2,000 brain specimens with completed data. (Currently, 70 of these specimens survive.) The collection also contains "Brain Bequest" forms, and letters dealing with the reneged brain bequest of Goldwin Smith; papers relating to BGW's laboratory studies of cats (possibly as many as 400 cats per year were used for these studies) and other "wild" animals such as opossums (including many others.)
At the end of twenty-five years of teaching, Professor Wilder was presented with "The Wilder Quarter Century Book" (a festschrift). This was a collection of original papers dedicated to him by former students in 1893.

SUBJECTS:

Names:
Adams, J. F. A.
Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907.
Agassiz, George R. (George Russell), b. 1862
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873.
Agassiz, R. L.
Allen, Harrison, 1841-1897.
Bean, Arthur.
Bean, Robert Bennett, 1874-1944
Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938.
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919.
Codman, John.
Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930.
Comstock, John Henry, 1849-1931.
Corson, Eugene Rollin, b. 1855.
Corson, Hiram, 1828-1911.
Curtis, George William, 1824-1892.
Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell, 1857-1945.
Drew, Alice.
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926.
Gage, Simon Henry, 1851-1944.
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888.
Herrick, Clarence Luther, 1858-1904.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841-1935.
Holt, Henry, 1840-1926.
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
Humphrey, G. M.
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895.
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931.
Kellog, John Harvey.
Lamb, D. S.
Minot, Charles Sedgwick, 1852-1914.
Reed, H.D. (Hugh Daniel), 1875-1937.
Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942.
Seaman, Louis Livingston, 1851-1932.
Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910.
Spitzka, Edward A.
Spitzka, E. C. (Edward Charles), 1852-1914
Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933.
Wilder, Burt Green, 1841-1925. Wilder quarter century book.
Wyman, Jeffries, 1864-
Cornell University--Faculty.
Cornell University--Students.
Cornell University. Dept. of Zoology.
United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 54th (1863-1865).
United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 55th (1863-1865).
United States. Army. Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, 5th (1862-1865).

Subjects:
Brain.
College students.
Composition (Music).
Education.
Hygiene.
Natural history.
Neurology.
Phrenology.
Racism.
Science--Study and teaching.
Sex instruction.
Silk.
Spiders.
Temperance.
Vivisection.
College teachers.
Neurologists.
Surgeons.
Physicians.

Places:
Nantucket Island (Mass.)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.

Form and Genre Terms:
Diaries.
Genealogies.
Notebooks.
Photographs.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Burt Green Wilder papers, #14-26-95. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
1841-1866
Letters from Asa Gray, Elliot Coues and others. Also, museum item descriptions of Dr. Paul B. DuChaillu's African collection and a seaman's "relief and protection" agreement. January 22 1841, July 7, 1849 - August 21, 1866
Box 1 Folder 1
Sept. 4, 1866-Nov. 25, 1869
Letters from A.D. White, Major John W. M. Appleton, Louis Agassiz, Dr. Asa Gray, Mary A. Quincy Gould (daughter of Josiah Quincy and wife of Benjamin A. Gould), Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Edward Everett Hale, Dr. Harrison Allen, Eliza Susan Quincy, George William Curtis and others.
Box 1 Folder 2
Jan. 22, 1870-Jan. 16, 1872
Letters from W.P. Samson, Elizabeth C. Agassiz, James Dwight Dana, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Wendell Phillips Garrison, Jeffries Wyman, Louis Agassiz, and others.
Box 1 Folder 3
Apr. 1, 1872-May 30, 1874
Letters from Goldwin Smith, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Elizabeth Agassiz (Mrs. Louis Agassiz), and Louis Agassiz, (including the letter Agassiz wrote to BGW asking him to accept a position at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology).
Box 1 Folder 4
June 17, 1874-Nov. 25, 1876
Letters from Jeffries Wyman, William Dean Howells, Asa Gray, Elizabeth C. Agassiz, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sir Richard Owen, George Rolleston, Charles Darwin, James Dwight Dana, Simon Henry Gage.
Box 1 Folder 5
Jan. 11, 1877-Dec. 19, 1880
Harrison Allen, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sir Richard Owen, Simon Henry Gage, Dr. William Parker.
Box 1 Folder 6
Jan. 16, 1881- Apr. 25, 1882
Letters from Leland Ossian Howard, Thomas Dwight, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Simon Henry Gage, Spencer Fullerton Baird, and others.
Box 1 Folder 7
May 3, 1882-Nov. 15, 1883
Dr. Louis L. Seaman, Wendell Phillips Garrison, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Elliot Coues, David Starr Jordan, J. W. Slater, Theodore Gill and others.
Box 1 Folder 8
Jan. 15, 1884-Nov. 18, 1886
Simon Henry Gage, Joseph Leidy, Charles M. Tyler, Harrison Allen, and others.
Box 1 Folder 9
Apr. 12, 1887-Jan. 27, 1889
Edward Drinker Cope, Simon Henry Gage, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William A. Sprague, Sir Richard Owen, Harrison Allen, Alexander Graham Bell.
Box 1 Folder 10
Feb. 26, 1889-Dec. 20, 1889
William Dean Howells, Simon Henry Gage, Joseph Leidy, Charles M. Tyler, Harrison Allen, Othniel Charles Marsh.
Box 1 Folder 11
Jan. 11, 1890-Dec. 23, 1891
Thomas Henry Huxley, Harrison Allen, Mary Gage Day, James Thurber, E. L. Williams, Goldwin Smith, Simon Henry Gage.
Box 1 Folder 12
Jan. 1, 1892-May 29, 1893
Goldwin Smith, Harrison Allen, Charles Sedgwick Minot, Flavel S. Thomas, M.D., John Henry Comstock, Simon Henry Gage, Pierre A. Fish, Theobald Smith, Hermann M. Briggs, Elizabeth C. Agassiz, George Lincoln Burr, Dr. William Browning.
Box 1 Folder 13
June 23, 1883-Nov. 28, 1893
John Henry Comstock, Charles Sedgwick Minot, William Parker, Harrison Allen, Andrew D. White, Dr. Theobald Smith, W.R. Dudley, Elizabeth C. Agassiz, David Starr Jordan, George M. Gould, Jacob Gould Schurman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, George R. Williams, William Channing Russell and others.
Box 1 Folder 14
Dec. 21, 1893-Apr. 7, 1895
Charles Sedgwick Minot, Andrew Carnegie, Harrison Allen, George M. Gould, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William Clark Russell, William Russel Dudley, and others.
Box 1 Folder 15
June 11, 1895-Nov. 17, 1897
Letters from Andrew Sloan Draper, Frank Collins Baker, Simon Henry Gage, Dr. Harrison Allen (correspondence with Dr. Allen and newspaper clippings of his obituary), and others. Also, one photograph of Donald McGee, an infant whose brain was used for BGW's collection filed with four letters to Wilder from his mother Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee.
Box 2 Folder 1
Dec. 1897
Letters from Frank Collins Baker, George W. Allen, and others. Also, a biographical sketch and tribute written by Burt Green Wilder for Dr. Harrison Allen. Included in this folder is a military record of Harrison Allen's service in the Civil War.
Box 2 Folder 2
Jan. 4, 1898-Oct. 27, 1898
Letters from Goldwin Smith, Simon Henry Gage, Harrison Allen Jr., Elizabeth C. Agassiz, Samuel Eliot, George W. Gould and others. Included is a memoir of Dr. Harrison Allen, and several newspaper clippings.
Box 2 Folder 3
Nov. 15, 1898-Nov. 10, 1901
Letters from Simon Henry Gage, Edward Everett Hale, Francis Greenwood Peabody, George Milbry Gould, Dr. Matthew Woods, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (a document re the disposition of her brain from BGW's collection); Paul B. DuChaillu, J.B.Howes, Jacob Gould Schurman, C.L. Herrick, Elizabeth C. Agassiz, Goldwin Smith, and others.
Box 2 Folder 4
Jan. 29, 1903-Nov. 29, 1903
Newspaper clippings, various correspondence. Also, letters from George MilbryGould, Simon Henry Gage, Jacob Gould Schurman, Elizabeth C. Agassiz.
Box 2 Folder 5
Dec. 17, 1903-Feb. 13, 1905
One article: "Some Intellectual Weeds of American Growth," by George M. Gould, M.D.; several acknowledgements for "The Quarter Century Book," letters from Andrew D. White, Elizabeth C. Agassiz, Jeffries Wyman, George Lincoln Burr, and others.
Box 2 Folder 6
Mar. 12, 1905-May 23, 1906
Letters from Charles W. Elliot, Eugene Rollin Corson, Frank A. Barton, Jeffries Wyman, Goldwin Smith, W.P. Garrison, George M. Gould, Julia Ward Howe, Wendell Phillips Garrison. Also, some newspaper clippings.
Box 2 Folder 7
June 27, 1906-July 23, 1907
Letters from George M. Gould, Wendell Phillips Garrison, (Including his obituary), Henry Holt, Samuel McChord Crothers, Jacob Gould Schurman, Glover Morrill Allen, G.R. Agassiz.
Box 2 Folder 8
July 29, 1907-Feb. 25, 1908
Letters from A. Agassiz, William Lloyd Garrison, G.R. Agassiz, Goldwin Smith, Glover Morrill Allen, Phillip McK. Garrison, William Winter, Francis Greenwood Peabody, Henry Holt, and others.
Box 2 Folder 9
Mar. 6, 1908-May 11, 1910
George Milbry Gould, Thomas Dwight, George Hodges, Goldwin Smith (some of his last letters to Burt Green Wilder), Henry Holt, William Winter, and various other correspondence.
Box 2 Folder 10
May 16, 1910-Dec, 31, 1910
Letters from William Elliot Griffis, William Winter, R.L. Agassiz, Hiram Corson, Andrew Carnegie, John Henry Comstock, Andrew D. White, Thomas Dwight. Several newspaper articles and also correspondence re the disposition of Goldwin Smith's brain.
Box 2 Folder 11
Jan. 6, 1911 Sept. 29, 1912
Letters from David Starr Jordan, Charles W. Eliot, Andrew D. White, Charles Alexander and others. Also included are typescript copies of letters written by Burt Green Wilder.
Box 3 Folder 1
Nov. 18, 1912-Feb. 24, 1913
Letters to and from BGW mainly dealing with his writing and musical compositions such as the music he wrote for Joyce Kilmer's poem, "The Peacemaker."
Box 3 Folder 2
Feb. 1913?
Reprints of published articles and a typescript career resume of Vladimir Karapetoff.
Box 3 Folder 3
Mar. 3, 1913-Feb. 17, 1914
Various correspondence including some from men who served in the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment under Col. Robert Shaw.
Box 3 Folder 4
Mar. 19, 1914-Feb. 19, 1916
Letters from E. B. Titchener, W. Tecumseh Sherman, Charles W. Eliot, Robert T. Morris, F.P. Sprague and others. There are also letters dealing with racial questions, miscegenation, and the Oliver Wendell Holmes poem, "Old Ironsides."
Box 3 Folder 5
Apr. 15, 1916 - Jan. 31, 1917
Letters from David Starr Jordan, Charles W. Eliot and others.
Box 3 Folder 6
Feb. 2, 1917- Sept. 25, 1917
Letters from Elizabeth C. Agassiz, Alice H. James, David Starr Jordan, Katharine Lee Bates, Henry Smith Pritchett and others.
Box 3 Folder 7
Oct. 1, 1917-May 17, 1919
John Haynes Holmes, R.S. Woodward, Albert Bushnell Hart, Edward A. Horton, Marquise Clara Lanza, and others.
Box 3 Folder 8
June 27, 1918-May 27, 1919
Copy of a letter of Louis Agassiz, Samuel Atkins Eliot, Henry Cabot Lodge, Aline Kilmer, Henry Holt, Henry van Dyke, and others.
Box 3 Folder 9
June 2, 1919-Nov. 29, 1919
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Simon Henry Gage, Aline Kilmer (Mrs. Joyce Kilmer), Edward W. Emerson, and others.
Box 3 Folder 10
Dec. 16, 1919-May 28, 1920
Letters to and from Burt Green Wilder; also newspaper clippings.
Box 3 Folder 11
June 2, 1920-Dec. 21, 1920
Letters from Joyce Kilmer, John Henry Comstock, Walter R. Spaulding and others.
Box 3 Folder 12
Jan. 22, 1921-July 14, 1921
Letters from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Anna Comstock, Edward W. Emerson, Henry van Dyke, and others. Also included are typescript copies of letters written by BGW.
Box 3 Folder 13
Oct. 26, 1921-Nov. 27, 1921
Letters to and from BGW mainly dealing with his writing and musical compositions such as the music he wrote for Joyce Kilmer's poem, "The Peacemaker."
Box 3 Folder 14
1922-1933
Letters of condolence re Mrs. Wilder's death; music written by BGW for "The Peacemaker," expressions of concern for BGW's ill health; the Louis Agassiz Memorial exercises at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood's Hole, Mass.; other letters from colleagues and friends. October 17, 1922 - February 28, 1925, August 14, 1933
Box 3 Folder 15
Undated letters
Letters from Elizabeth C. Agassiz; Walter F. Willcox, Samuel A. Eliot, portion of a letter from Louis Agassiz, (very faded); George R. Kennedy, Frank W. Very and others.
Box 3 Folder 16
Undated items and letters
"Immortality and Sir Oliver Lodge" by William Dean Howells; Letters from Sir Richard Owen, Elizabeth C. Agassiz. Morrill Wyman; W.R. Spalding, W. Newton Parker, Samuel A. Eliot, William Russel Dudley, and others.
Box 3 Folder 17
Sept. 1, 1912
Biographical Sketch of Burt Green Wilder. (From the Boston Globe).
Box 4 Folder 1
1910, 1913, 1917-1919
A history of Black Soldiers. (Extract from a lecture, 1910). Also, letters and one newspaper clipping, 1913, 1917-1919.
Box 4 Folder 2
1920
Boy Scout "find" at Yellow Bluff, Florida, of Confederate items. Sent to Wilder from John Gordon.
Box 4 Folder 3
Aug. 28, 1913
Recollections of a Civil War expedition of February 28, 1865 by Major R.J. Hamilton.
Box 4 Folder 4
1912-1913
Clippings re Col. John L. Clem, the youngest soldier to serve in the Union army.
Box 4 Folder 5
1862-63, 1865-66, 1885
Commission Papers of Burt Green Wilder.
Box 4 Folder 6
1895, 1897, 1901-02, 1912-1917
Letters to B.G.W. from Confederate Soldiers.
Box 4 Folder 7
July, 1917
Clipping from the Confederate Veteran re the Ku-Klux Klan.
Box 4 Folder 8
1913-14
Letters to BGW from men who served with Company 1, 103rd New York.
Box 4 Folder 9
1862, 1865
Discharge papers and Parole forms.
Box 4 Folder 10
1901
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
Box 4 Folder 11
June 2, 1868
"Extra Digits," by BGW. Reprinted from the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Box 4 Folder 12
May 28, 1914
Address given by BGW on the "Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Colored," before the Brookline, Massachusetts Historical Society.
Box 4 Folder 13
Aug. 14, 1917-Mar. 22, 1919
Letters of thanks to BGW for his research and publication on the 55th Massachusetts Colored Regiment."
Box 4 Folder 14
1914, 1917-18, 1925
Letters to BGW from, and about the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Regiment Enlisted Men.
Box 4 Folder 15
1909-1910
Correspondence re the pay of 54th and 55th Massachusetts Volunteers.
Box 4 Folder 16
1912?
Obituary of Col. Norwood Penrose Hallowell
Box 4 Folder 17
1863, 1902, 1913
Hospitals in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War.
Box 4 Folder 18
c. 1888
Typescript sketch and hand sketched and printed maps of James Island, South Carolina.
Box 4 Folder 19
1912-1913
Letters from Emily Read Jones re her father's book on the Siege of Charleston. (Daughter of General Sam Jones).
Box 4 Folder 20
1913
Correspondence with R.E. Mellichamp (an Episcopal minister), including a hand drawn map of James Island and surrounding areas.
Box 4 Folder 21
May, 1903
"Proposed Arrangement of Specimens of a Single Structure for Museums," by Thomas Dwight. (One reprint).
Box 4 Folder 22
1865-1915
Miscellaneous items. Includes shoulder stripes.
Box 4 Folder 23
The Neale Advertiser on Civil War books.
Box 4 Folder 24
1914
Recollections of individuals who served aboard the S. S. Pawnee.
Box 4 Folder 25
Oct. 1904
Letter to The New York Evening Post from T.W. Higginson (Col. 1st South Carolina regiment) re the lower pay given to black Civil War troops.
Box 4 Folder 26
1916-1917
Pension requests for families of Civil War soldiers.
Box 4 Folder 27
Transfered
Box 4 Folder 28
1868-1893
Wilder "Quarter Century Book." (BGW's 25 years of service at Cornell.)
Box 4 Folder 29
Jan. 25, 1925
Obituary of BGW from The Ithaca Journal.
Box 4 Folder 30
Letters and recollections of Sgt. Andrew Jackson Smith, African-American member of the Massachusetts 55th Regiment
Box 4 Folder 31
May 1916
Andersonville (newspaper clippings).
Box 5 Folder 1
1913-1915
The Shaw Monument in the Boston Common (and other clippings re Robert Gould Shaw).
Box 5 Folder 2
1915
Letters re the Burial of Colonel Robert Shaw from General George P. Harrison.
Box 5 Folder 3
1863, 1915
Soldiers' First Free Library and Reading Room-Elida and John Fowle.
Box 5 Folder 4
1863-1865
Fort Sumter, as it was during the effects of the bombardment.
Box 5 Folder 5
1886-1917
Letters in answer to BGW's questions on Civil War reminiscences from veterans.
Box 5 Folder 6
1864-1865
Extracts from the Diary of George T. Garrison.
Box 5 Folder 7
Oct. 20, 1895
Manuscript memorial of Frank Goodwin, by Major Luis F. Emilio.
Box 5 Folder 8
Feb. 8-11, 1864
Johns Island Demonstration.
Box 5 Folder 9
1912-1913
Letters re allegations of misconduct by Yankee soldiers made by Mr. Mazyck Porcher.
Box 5 Folder 10
1864, 1899, 1901, 1914-1917
Letters re The Battle of Honey Hill. Also, newspaper clippings re this battle, (1898-1899, 1914.) and an address delivered to the Confederate Survivors' Association, 1885.
Box 5 Folder 11
Nov. 30, 1864
The Battle of Honey Hill on Broad River, South Carolina.
Box 5 Folder 12
Dec. 9, 1864
The Battle of Pocotaligo. Deveraux's Neck, South Carolina.
Box 5 Folder 13
July 18, 1913
50th Anniversary of the Battle of Fort Wagner. (Newspaper clippings and broadsides.)
Box 5 Folder 14
1914
Fort Wagner - Evacuation and Occupation. (Newspaper articles and letters.)
Box 5 Folder 15
1863
Excerpt from a public address by Jefferson Davis threatening commissioned officers who might aid negroes or mulattoes.
Box 5 Folder 16
1863-1864
Excerpts from the diary of Lieutenant Dennis Hartwell Jones; and a letter from Captain Charles Soule of the Massachusetts 55th Regiment re Jones' accidental death.
Box 5 Folder 17
Aug.-Sept. 1914
Letters from Anna G. Pratt (wife of Captain Wheelock Pratt of the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment.)
Box 5 Folder 18
1914
Excerpts from Civil War letters of Col. Charles Barnard Fox recorded by Burt Green Wilder.
Box 5 Folder 19
1901-1914
Letters and recollections of Major Charles Carroll Soule. (Including his obituary notices).
Box 5 Folder 20
1835-1917
Francis H. Brown, M.D., a prominent Civil War doctor, correspondence and biographic material.
Box 5 Folder 21
1883, 1914
William A. Hammond, M.D., Surgeon General of the United States, correspondence and biographic material.
Box 5 Folder 22
1912-1916
Joseph Trimble Rothrock, M.D. correspondence and biographic material
Box 5 Folder 23
1863-1864, 1910-1914
Rev. James H. Fowler, Chaplain of the 33rd U.S. Black Troops and also a "citizen-nurse" at Judiciary Square in Washington, D.C., correspondence and biographic material
Box 5 Folder 24
1907-1914
Nurses during the Civil War.
Box 5 Folder 25
1914
Doctors during the Civil War.
Box 5 Folder 26
Mar. 1913
Correspondence re Photographic History of the Civil War.
Box 5 Folder 27
1914-1919
Writings and Opinions of Burt Green Wilder.
Box 5 Folder 28
1863-1878, 1914
Short Narratives re the Civil War.
Box 5 Folder 29
Diagram of the Plan of Defences at "Yellow Bluff", now New Berlin, Florida, St. John's River.
Box 5 Folder 31
Oct. 1, 1914
Chaplains in the Civil War.
Box 5 Folder 30
Feb. 10, 1865
Account of Robertson James at Grimballs' Causeway. (Robertson James was the brother of Henry James).
Box 6 Folder 1
Feb. 10, 1865
Battle of Grimball's Causeway on James Island.
Box 6 Folder 2
1863-1919
Letters (and some drawings and maps) of the Incident at River's Causeway and other reminiscencesre this battle.
Box 6 Folder 3
July 2, 1864
Excerpts from newspapers and other writings re the River's Causeway, South Carolina battle.
Box 6 Folder 4
1914-1916
Army Medical Museum Items.
Box 6 Folder 5
1903
Alleged murders of captured Black soldiers by Confederate troops. Referred to in "Reminiscences of the Civil War," by John Hallum. (A former Confederate soldier.)
Box 6 Folder 6
1864-65
Treatment of soldiers during the Civil War.
Box 6 Folder 7
1862-1863
Recollections of life as a Civil War medical cadet at Judiciary Square Hospital, Washington, D.C.
Box 6 Folder 8
June, 1862-June, 1865
Recollections of the USA General Hospital on Judiciary Square, Washington, D.C. (BGW as a medical cadet).
Box 6 Folder 9
Aug. 29, 1863
Private Joseph Parsons, Company F, 2nd Maryland Infantry. (Account of injuries at Bull Run).
Box 6 Folder 10
June 1863 - September 1865
"Calendar of main events - national - regimental - personal," Wilder's own title for record book, mostly blank.
Box 6 Folder 11
1885?, 1885-1889
Letters from students to Burt Green Wilder.
Box 6 Folder 12
Nov. 1883
Tale of the University Bear on the C.U. campus (by BGW). The bear was for a long time under the care of John H. Comstock while he was a student at Cornell.
Box 6 Folder 13
1913-1917
Correspondence with publishers.
Box 6 Folder 14
June 1863
Adjutant and Inspector - General's Office, Woodstock Vermont. Register of Commissioned Officers of the Vermont Volunteers in the Service of the U.S.
Box 6 Folder 15
1863
Burt Green Wilder's Diary (typescript in 1910). pp. 1-50.
Box 7 Folder 1
This is a photocopy of the original found in Box 9.
1863-1864
Burt Green Wilder's Diary (typescript in 1910). pp. 51-100.
Box 7 Folder 2
This is a photocopy of the original found in Box 9.
1864
Burt Green Wilder's Diary (typescript in 1910). pp. 101-150.
Box 7 Folder 3
This is a photocopy of the original found in Box 9.
1864-1865
Burt Green Wilder's Diary (typescript in 1910). pp. 151-200.
Box 7 Folder 4
This is a photocopy of the original found in Box 9.
1865
Burt Green Wilder's Diary (typescript in 1910). pp. 201-241.
Box 7 Folder 5
This is a photocopy of the original found in Box 9.
1914
The Federal government and segregation. (newspaper clippings).
Box 7 Folder 6
1912-1916
Various newspaper clippings re the Civil War.
Box 7 Folder 7
1914
"The Week in the War." (newspaper clippings).
Box 7 Folder 8
1915
Excerpts from [UNK] review of Dr. R.W. Shufeldt: America's Greatest Problem: The Negro.
Box 7 Folder 9
1892-1895
Articles on Brains and Skulls.
Box 7 Folder 10
1882
Book notices and reviews of "Anatomical Technology as applied to the Domestic Cat" by BGW and Simon Henry Gage.
Box 7 Folder 11
1868-1872
Pamphlets on Insects, Birds, Bats, Monkeys and others.
Box 7 Folder 12
1868-1889
Medical pamphlets
Box 8 Folder 1
1880-1889
Fragments of articles from medical journals.
Box 8 Folder 2
June, 1909
Conference on the conditions of American Negroes.
Box 8 Folder 3
May 22, 1917
Mutilation and burning alive of Eli Persons, (a black man) in Memphis, Tennessee; BGW's interest in the case.
Box 8 Folder 4
1895, 1909 1912
Clippings from Ithaca Journal and Cornell Daily Sun. BGW's lectures on Military Science.
Box 8 Folder 5
1915
Clippings re the film "Birth of a Nation," and the play, "The Clansman."
Box 8 Folder 6
June, 1883
"Vivisection in the state of New York." (Written by BGW.) Article reprint.
Box 8 Folder 7
Nov. 1869
Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
Box 8 Folder 8
1870
Articles appearing in the Atlantic Monthly Magazine. "Time Works Wonders," "Right and Left," and "Equal yet Diverse."
Box 8 Folder 9
1881-1895, 1909
Clippings from The Cornell Daily Sun.
Box 8 Folder 10
May, 1884
One journal: The Sanitarian. Vol. XII. No. 174.
Box 8 Folder 11
June 20, 1888
"Food and Morals." A sermon by Rev. J.F. Clymer, First M.E. Church of Auburn, New York.
Box 8 Folder 12
1866-67, 1893-94
Annual Report of the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Report of the Director.
Box 8 Folder 13
May 21, 1881
Articles re the resignation of William C. Russel from Cornell University.
Box 8 Folder 14
1880-82
Experiments and study of anatomy of cats and other animals by BGW. All newspaper clippings.
Box 8 Folder 15
Oct. 22, 1873
Burt Green Wilder's views of Secret Societies.
Box 8 Folder 16
May, 1883
"The Living Death" (an anti-drug use pamphlet by Dr. H.H. Kane.)
Box 8 Folder 17
1894
Medical pamphlets in German.
Box 8 Folder 18
c. 1897
Medical pamphlets in French and Italian.
Box 8 Folder 19
1886-1888
Medical reports on Alcoholics and Alcoholism.
Box 8 Folder 20
1868
"The House that Jack Built," a poem written by George Shepard Burleigh, and hand copied by BGW.
Box 8 Folder 21
Mar. 17, 1887
"Darwinism in Ethics." A lecture given by W.M. Salter.
Box 8 Folder 22
1886
American Public Health Association Lomb Prize Essays. (Four volumes).
Box 8 Folder 23
1885
Report of the Ann Arbor Meeting of the American Association of the Advancement of Science.
Box 8 Folder 24
1. Ruttan Heating and Ventilating Company, Bloomington, Ill. "Cut [i.e. cutaway drawing of house] representing the Ruttan System of warming and ventilation, with Hawley's improvements." R.R. Donnelley, Lakeside Press, printer; Bond & Chandler, engravers [undated, folded, colored diagram, ca. 26" x 22"]. 2. "A new idea in architecture": undated journal article with floor plan and illustration, describing a modern, healthful apartment building 3. Photo of unidentified clapboard house
Box 8 Folder 25
Original Typescript Diary of BGW 1862-1865
Box 9
Do not use this original, it is fragile. Use the photocopy found in Box 7.
1872, 1879, and 1897
Phrenology Materials
Box 10 Folder 1
1898 and 1913
Phrenology Materials
Box 10 Folder 2
1905-1905
Phrenology Materials
Box 10 Folder 3
1909-1910
Phrenology Materials
Box 10 Folder 4
1874-1888
News Clippings, Essays, Course Description. 1874, 1879, 1881, 1888, and Undated
Box 10 Folder 5
Ca. 1880s
News Clippings, Booklets
Box 10 Folder 6
1895-1899
News Clippings
Box 10 Folder 7
1900-1907
News Clippings
Box 10 Folder 8
1908-1912
News Clippings
Box 10 Folder 9
1913
News Clippings
Box 10 Folder 10
1914-1925
News Clippings
Box 10 Folder 11
1929-1930
News Clippings
Box 10 Folder 12
1906, 1911-1913, 1916-1918
Old Ironsides Clippings (Music)
Box 10 Folder 13
1911-1913, 1916, 1921
Old Ironsides, Bulletins
Box 10 Folder 14
1912, 1916
Old Ironsides (Music)
Box 10 Folder 15
1912, 1916, 1918
Old Ironsides (Music)
Box 10 Folder 16
1907, 1909, 1911, 1914, 1922
Ode to Lifesavers, Peacemaker, Dr. Hooker (Music)
Box 10 Folder 17
1885-1916
Clippings Related to Nantucket (Music)
Box 10 Folder 18
1885-1916
Clippings Related to Nantucket (Music)
Box 10 Folder 19
1917
County Guy (Music)
Box 10 Folder 20
1897, 1909
Founder's Centenary Hymn, Fiat Justitia
Box 10 Folder 21
1904, 1911, 1915, 1925
Fiat Justitia (Music)
Box 10 Folder 22
1910-1912
Fiat Justitia (Music)
Box 10 Folder 23
1909, 1917
Home Song, Thanatopsis, Last Night (Music)
Box 10 Folder 24
1905, 1911-1912, 1915, 1917
Largo, Newsclippings
Box 10 Folder 25
1909, 1913, 1915
Largo (Music)
Box 10 Folder 26
1901, 1903-1905, 1909
Miscellaneous Music
Box 10 Folder 27
1903, 1909, 1923
Miscellaneous Music
Box 10 Folder 28
1904-1911
Miscellaneous Music
Box 10 Folder 29
1905-1906, 1908-1909
Miscellaneous Music
Box 10 Folder 30
1905, 1907, 1908
Miscellaneous Music
Box 10 Folder 31
1905, 1907, 1909
Miscellaneous Music
Box 10 Folder 32
1905, 1908-1911, 1920
Miscellaneous Music
Box 10 Folder 33
1905, 1909
Miscellaneous Music
Box 10 Folder 34
1914, 1916-1917
Miscellaneous Music
Box 10 Folder 35
1919
Miscellaneous Music
Box 10 Folder 36
1894, 1914
Photographs and Portraits, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (printed, not original), John Townsend Trowbridge, "Six Great Authors", (Unidentified composite engraving)
Box 10 Folder 37
1901, 1906-1908, 1912
Field Family Genealogy
Box 10 Folder 38
1894-1932
Oliver Wendell Holmes News Clippings. 1894, 1896, 1900, 1902, 1909, 1916, 1932
Box 10 Folder 39
Undated
Unidentified graphics, 2 color landscapes, 1 engraving of ships.
Box 10 Folder 40
Ca.1910-1920
Draft of B. G. Wilder's Biography of Holmes and Notes Concerning Publication
Box 11 Folder 1
1856-1920
Correspondence, Clippings and Notes Relating to the Spider and Silk Producing Spiders
Box 11 Folder 2
1865, 1866, 1900, 1903, 1910
Papers Published about the Spider
Box 11 Folder 3
1920
Papers Published about the Spider
Box 11 Folder 4
Ca. 1850s-1910s
Clippings and Notes about the Spider
Box 11 Folder 5
Ca. 1890s
Hygiene and Morality Leaflet and Poem by Ruth Putnam
Box 11 Folder 6
Ca. 1890s
Notes on Health
Box 11 Folder 7
1866-1869
Diaries
Box 11 Folder 8
1870-1875
Diaries
Box 11 Folder 9
1877-1882
Diaries
Box 11 Folder 10
1883-1889
Diaries
Box 11 Folder 11
1890-1895
Diaries
Box 11 Folder 12
1896-1903
Diaries
Box 12 Folder 1
1904-1909
Diaries
Box 12 Folder 2
1910-1913
Diaries
Box 12 Folder 3
1914-1918
Diaries
Box 12 Folder 4
1919-1920
Diaries
Box 12 Folder 5
1860-1868
Louis Agassiz , clippings, Wilder's notes about Agassiz
Box 12 Folder 6
1869
Louis Agassiz , includes printed copy of his will
Box 12 Folder 7
1870-1872
Louis Agassiz
Box 12 Folder 8
1873-1874
Louis Agassiz , printed photo of him at blackboard, 1873
Box 12 Folder 9
1883-1885
Louis Agassiz
Box 12 Folder 10
1883, 1908-1909, 1911, 1918-1919
Louis Agassiz
Box 12 Folder 11
1886-1997
Louis Agassiz
Box 12 Folder 12
1898-1899
Louis Agassiz
Box 12 Folder 13
1902-May 1907
Louis Agassiz
Box 12 Folder 14
June-Sept. 1907
Louis Agassiz
Box 12 Folder 15
Ca. 1910s
Louis Agassiz
Box 12 Folder 16
1868-1891
Cornell University , schedule of subjects Spring Term 1872, general courses of study, October 1868
Box 12 Folder 17
1893-1922
Cornell University , including photos of McGraw Hall, cyanotype and sepia
Box 12 Folder 18
1875-1905
Etiquette, Health and Hygiene Article, Correspondence, and Leaflets, (1875-1876, 1882, 1886-1889, 1893-1894, 1905, Bulk 1889)
Box 12 Folder 19
1875, 1897, 1902, 1940
Hygiene, Physiology, and other Professional Notes
Box 12 Folder 20
1866-1915 (Bulk 1897)
Requests to Attend Lectures and Lecture Tickets
Box 12 Folder 21
1893-1894, 1911
The Wilder Quarter-Century Book
Box 12 Folder 22
1887, 1889, 1915 (Bulk 1889)
University Related Articles (Cornell and others)
Box 12 Folder 23
1872, 1882, 1892
Anatomy Manuscripts, microscope instructions
Box 13 Folder 1
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Bone (Cyanotype) Photographs
Box 13 Folder 2
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Brain (Black and White) Photographs
Box 13 Folder 3
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Brain (Cyanotype) Photographs
Box 13 Folder 4
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Cat Dissection (Cyanotype) Photographs
Box 13 Folder 5
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Chimpanzee Photographs
Box 13 Folder 6
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Dissection Equipment (Cyanotype) Photographs
Box 13 Folder 7
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Dissection Photograph
Box 13 Folder 8
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Heart (Cyanotype) Photographs
Box 13 Folder 9
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Miscellaneous Animal Photographs
Box 13 Folder 10
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Miscellaneous Dissection (Cyanotype) Photographs
Box 13 Folder 11
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Photograph of unidentified office with table, desk, books, lab equipment
Box 13 Folder 12
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Small Anatomy Photographs
Box 13 Folder 13
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Caged Cat Photograph
Box 13 Folder 14
Ca. 1880s
Brain Collection Photographs
Box 13 Folder 15
Ca. 1880s
Brain Collection Photographs
Box 13 Folder 16
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Anatomy Sketches (Miscellaneous)
Box 14 Folder 1
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Anatomical Sketches
Box 14 Folder 2
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Bone Sketches
Box 14 Folder 3
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Brain Sketch with Commentary
Box 14 Folder 4
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Brain Sketches
Box 14 Folder 5
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Cat Dissection Sketches
Box 14 Folder 6
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Dissection Equipment Sketches
Box 14 Folder 7
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Dissection Equipment Sketches
Box 14 Folder 8
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Frog Anatomy Sketches
Box 14 Folder 9
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Heart Sketches
Box 14 Folder 10
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Printed dissection manual, unidentified, (Muscles, Viscera, Blood Vessels), Pages 204-368, mounted on pages in an album
Box 15 Folder 1
Ca. 1870s-1890s
Printed dissection manual, unidentified, continued, (Lymphatics, Nervous System, Cranial Nerves, Organs of Sense, Bibliography, Index), Pages 364-575
Box 16
1860-1868
Bound volume with names on spine, Agassiz, Dana, Gray, Parsons, Wyman. Contains primarily journal articles responding to Darwin's Origin of Species, and other articles on species. Includes James D. Dana's "Thoughts on Species", 1857, "The Arwinian Theory Consistent with Christianity", lecture by Dr. McCosh, Princeton.
Box 16
1863-1867
Bound volume with title, "Homology of Limbs", includes printed articles, manuscripts, notes, and letters on anatomy.
Box 16
1868
Agassiz' Lectures
Box 17 Folder 1
1861 and ca. 1918
Biographical Material: College
Box 17 Folder 2
1857-1859 and 1895
Biographical Material: Compositions and Sketches
Box 17 Folder 3
1868-1869 and 1892-1893
Biographical Material: Cornell Classes
Box 17 Folder 4
1924
Biographical Material: Pets
Box 17 Folder 5
1898, 1909-1912, ca.1913-1925
Biographical Material: Reminiscences
Box 17 Folder 6
1941
Correspondence, Re: Estate of Burt G. Wilder
Box 17 Folder 7
1841
Family Register
Box 17 Folder 8
1910
Retirement of Burt G. Wilder
Box 17 Folder 9
Four bound volumes. 1. "Tableau synoptique du cerveau, cervelet, et moelle epiniere" (from *Anatomie clastique du docteur Auzoux*): manuscript key/ index in unidentified hand. 2. Volume with spine title: "Nomenclature--papers & notes by B. G. Wilder" reprints bound together with mss. notes; includes a blank "Brain Bequest" form near back of volume. 3. "Records of the High-School Scrap-Book for the year commencing Sept. 1858" editors Burt G. Wilder and Miss Fannie W.(?) Chandler. 4. Volume with spine title: "Papers by G. Wilder": includes typed letters and printed articles.
Box 18
Printing block, microscope slides
Box 22
1809
Wilder family Bible, One volume, plus one newspaper clipping. [Old Testament, New Testament, and Apocrypha], published by Mathew Carey, Philadelphia, 1809 with inscriptions: Leominster, February 8, 1813; property of David Wilder, Jun. (given to him by his father, David Wilder, Sr., who had received it from his own father) The family record is written on p. 677-80, between the O.T. and the Apocrypha plus newspaper clipping: "Religions of the Presidents"
Box 23
ca. 1870s-1890s
Spider Specimens (Fragile glass frame) (MU-1391)
Box 25
1862
Right Ulna of Daniel P. Havey, Co. I. 19th Mass. and shot (MU-1392)
Box 25
ca. 1870s-1890s
Spider Specimen (MU-1393)
Box 25
ca. 1870s-1890s
Spider Specimen (MU-1394)
Box 25
ca. 1870s-1890s
Silk Specimen - 2 mile strand (MU-1395)
Box 25
1836, 1841, 1856
Papers in the Family Bible
Box 26 Folder 1
Papers on Family Background; Edward Marshall, David, and Harris Wilder, etc; Small Book of Wilder Family Clippings
Box 26 Folder 2
Includes ca. 1890s-1900s, 1910, 1913-1914, and 1917
Prepared Autobiography (1911) and Related Letters and Wilder Clippings
Box 26 Folder 3
Includes 1869, 1893, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1909-1912, 1915, and 1917
1861-ca.1911
Bibliography of Wilder Publications and List of Papers
Box 26 Folder 4
Photocopies of typescript diaries, manuscripts and correspondence.
Box 27
n.d.
"Report on Wilder Brain Collection", by Hedwig Kasprzak
Box 28 Folder 1
1927
"The Brain of Helen H. Gardner", by James W. Papez
Box 28 Folder 2
n.d.
How to make a brain bequest
Box 28 Folder 2
1924
Copy of Burt G. Wilder's will
Box 28 Folder 4
1859, 1865, 1869, 1881
Five Certificates awarded to Burt Green Wilder
Mapcase BB-25
Photographs
Portraits of BGW's military and medical colleagues during the Civil War (original cabinet card photographs, unless otherwise noted); two small photos of Civil War battle sites in South Carolina; one record-book [Descriptive captions based on Wilder's own notes]
1862-1863
J. F. (James Forster) Alleyne Adams (1844-1914) Intimate friend of Wilder's; acting Medical Cadet in Wash., DC Photo by: Warren, Lamson's Block, Cambridgeport, MA; 4.25" x 2.5" [housed together]
Box 19 Folder 1, 1a
Maj. John W. M. Appleton saw action at Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S. Carolina
Box 19 Folder 2
William Francis Bartlett (1840-1876) Major-General at age 24 Engineer with ? engraving of his statue in Pittsfield, Mass.
Box 19 Folder 3
John R. Bowles (African American) 2nd Chaplain of the 55th Mass; d. Sept. 3, 1874 Photo by: Matthews, Piqua, OH; 6.5" x 4.25"
Box 19 Folder 4
Dr. John Hill Brinton Surgeon, U.S. Vols.; In 1862—63 charged with preparing Surgical History of the War; died March, 1907 (printed, not original photo)
Box 19 Folder 5
Dr. Francis Henry Brown, Surgeon at Judiciary Square Hospital, Wash., D. C.
Box 19 Folder 6
Lieut. Henry Camp (mounted clipping from Colliers, NY Weekly by Walter Camp; with printed photos of BGW and Robert Gould Shaw)
Box 19 Folder 7
Sergt. William Harvey Carney (African American) Co. C, 54th Mass.; holding flag he saved at Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S. Carolina 6.5" x 4.75"
Box 19 Folder 8
Chandler family of Brookline, Mass. (clipping from the Brookline Chronicle, Dec. 7, 1918, which contains photos of Chandler family members who fought in the Civil War and WWI; includes Lieut. Col. Charles Lyon Chandler of the 57th Mass. Regiment, killed in action, 1864; was a schoolmate of BGW
Box 19 Folder 9
Col. John L. Clem youngest soldier to serve with the Union Army
Box 19 Folder 10
2nd. Lieut. Thomas Murrett DeLorme Confederate; Blake's Battery
Box 19 Folder 11
_____ DeLorme, son of 2nd. Lieut. Thomas M. DeLorme
Box 19 Folder 12
Orderly Sergt. William H. Dupree (African American) Co. H, 55th Mass.; for many years in charge of South End Station of the Boston Post Office 7.25" x 5.0"
Box 19 Folder 13
Capt. Luis F. Emilio Commander of Co. E, 54th. Mass. Vol. Infantry Regiment author of *A Brave Black Regiment; the history of the 54th Mass.* printed photo from journal, not original; 4.25" x 3.0"
Box 19 Folder 14
Rev. James H. Fowler Chaplain of the First South Carolina Colored Infantry; was a student of Divinity and Zoology at Harvard, 1862 2 photos, by: G. H. Loomis, Boston (as young man), 4.25” x 2.5” Metcalf, Boston (as older man), 6.5" x 4.25"
Box 19 Folder 15
1895
Lt. Col. Charles Barnard Fox, Dorchester, Mass. 3rd Commander of the 55th Mass.; Brevet Col. of U.S. Vols.; commanded the 55th at Rivers' Causeway, July 2, 1864. Later a member of Mass. State Legislature; died March 30, 1895 2 photos, by: Notman, Boston & Cambridge; 6.5" x 4.25" (1895) and J. W. Black & Co., n.p.; 6.5" x 4.25" (n.d.)
Box 19 Folder 16
Capt. Frank Goodwin Brevet Major, U.S. Vols.; with the 55th later photo
Box 19 Folder 17
Dr. Augustus A. Gould, M.D.
Box 19 Folder 18
August 10, 1922
Dr. George Milbry Gould, with his autograph. Inventor of bifocal lens eyeglasses Photo by: F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia
Box 19 Folder 19
Robert W. Gourdine (African American); with his autograph note to BGW former slave; soldier with the 55th Mass.; became station-master on Fitchburg RR.
Box 19 Folder 20
James Manter Greenleaf seated, white-bearded man, with head-covering that appears to be evidence of a past injury; his name appears on verso (accompanied by another photo of an unidentified younger man standing, in uniform; verso reads: "Please return to James Manter Greenleaf, Stark, Maine")
Box 19 Folder 21
Col. Norwood Penrose Hallowell, of Philadelphia First Commander of the 55th Mass.; wounded at Antietam. later president of the National Bank of Commerce died at West Medford, Apr. 11, 1914 6.5" x 4.75"
Box 19 Folder 22
Dr. William A. Hammond Surgeon General of the United States
Box 19 Folder 23
Col. Alfred Stedman Hartwell later, Brig. Gen. of 55th Mass.
Box 19 Folder 24
Lieut. William G. Hinson 7th S. C. Cavalry; born on James Island, S.C.; "A fine example of the southern soldier and courteous gentleman." 8.0" x 6.0"
Box 19 Folder 25
Maj. John Johnson Confederate engineer; in charge of engineering part of Fort Sumter; later Episcopal clergyman (engraved portrait, 6.0" x 5.5")
Box 19 Folder 26
1st Lieut. Dennis Hartwell Jones Co. 1, 55th Mass.
Box 19 Folder 27
1887
Rev. Frederick N. Knapp, Brookline, Mass. 1862-63, agent of the Sanitary Commission in Washington; Unitarian clergyman
Box 19 Folder 28
William H. Lathrop Asst. Surgeon, 55fth Mass. (later photo; with newspaper clipping)
Box 19 Folder 29
David Lee (African American) Pvt., Co. C, 55th Mass.; “Served for a time as my orderly. Absolutely trustworthy.” Later worked in Xenia, Ohio
Box 19 Folder 30
Dr. Elias J. Marsh Asst. Surgeon, in charge of Judiciary Square Hospital, Wash., DC photo by: W. Kurtz, NY
Box 19 Folder 31
William Mather Confederate gunner of DeLorme's section of artillery at River's Causeway, James Island, S.C. 7.75" x 3.75"
Box 19 Folder 32
Dr. James R. May, 1862-63, of Portsmouth, N.H. Medical cadet in Judiciary Square Hospital, 1862-63. 4.0" x 2.5'' (plus modern surrogate print of original cabinet card photo)
Box 19 Folder 33
ca. 1864
"Mitt" dog found on battlefield, (2 cc.)
Box 19 Folder 34
Robert T. Morris
Box 19 Folder 35
Jimmy Noland drummer boy photo by: Peln & Co., Wash., DC; 4.0" x 2.5"
Box 19 Folder 36
Lt. Col. William Nutt, of Natick, Mass. Capt., Major and Lt. Col. of Co. C, 55th Mass.; Brevet Col. .S. Vols.; died Aug. 31,1909 photo by: Henry Barrett, Cambridge, MA; 6.5" x 4.25"
Box 19 Folder 37
Major Frank Oakley, ca. 1900-1910s 1st Lieut., Co. K, Seventh Wisconsin Inf’y. Wounded Aug. 23, 1862 at Rappahannock Station, Va.; tended by his wife, BGW, and Dr. Francis H. Brown later, clerk of U.S. District Court, Madison with photo of Mrs. Frank Oakley, ca. 1900-1910s; both 11” x 11”
Box 19 Folder 38
Charles Page Surgeon and Brigadier General in charge of Judiciary Square Hospital when BGW was there, 1862-63
Box 19 Folder 39
Calvin Pratt (1842-1911), as older man, Medical Cadet at Judiciary Square Hospital, 1862-63
Box 19 Folder 40
ca. 1890s
Mrs. Col. David Price, of Newport, RI; with her dog; picture postcard
Box 19 Folder 41
Dr. Joseph Trimble Rothrock fellow student of BGW at Harvard; capt. in a Penn. regiment; wounded at Fredericksburg; BGW removed a ball from his leg photo of him as a young man, by: Henry Ulke, Wash., DC; 4.25" x 2.5" two additional photos: another as a young man; another (printed, not original) as an older man
Box 19 Folder 42
Col. Robert Gould Shaw, Commander of the 54th Mass. Regiment 3 printed, not original photos (two are on same page as Lieut. Henry Camp)
Box 19 Folder 43
Carleton A. Shurtleff son of the Brookline Shurtleff photo by: Warren, Lowell, MA; 4.25" x 2.0"
Box 19 Folder 44
Sergt. Andrew Jackson Smith (African American) Co. B, 55th Mass.; saved the colors at Battle of Honey Hill, S.C., Nov. 30, 1864 (2 cc of same photo: picture postcard by Paschal Studio, Paducah, KY)
Box 19 Folder 45
Geneva Smith Older daughter of Sergt. Andrew Jackson Smith when she was about 6 or 7 years ol picture postcard, by: Paschal Studio, Paducah, KY; 5.25" x 3.5"
Box 19 Folder 46
Capt. Charles Carroll Soule Co. K, 55th Mass.; Brevet-major in U.S. Vols. Later, founder and head of the Boston Book Company, publisher of L. Emilio’s A Brave Black Regiment; died Jan. 7, 1913
Box 19 Folder 47
Mrs. Sarah J. Sprague, Lynn, Mass., formerly Miss Milliken, nurse in the eighth ward of Judiciary Square Hospital, Wash., DC, 1862-63 2 photos, ca. 1900-1910s, 7.0" x 5.0"
Box 19 Folder 48
Frank E. Thayer Dedham, Mass.; at age 10 he had been BGW's "orderly" in action at River's Causeway; later a merchant in Springfield, Mass. Died July 6, 1911 4.75" x 5.0"
Box 19 Folder 49
Capt. James Danforth Thurber (1839-1921) Co. F, 55th Mass.; Brevet Maj. of U.S. Vols.; wounded July 2, 1864; "A perfect soldier and gentleman" b. Feb. 21, 1839; d. Sept. 12, 1921 photo by: D. Hinkle, Germantown, PA; 6.5" x 4.25"
Box 19 Folder 50
James O. Weil (1920) hospital patient of BGW in 1862
Box 19 Folder 51
Brig. Gen. Edward A, Wild commanded the brigade including the 55th during the first three months of its service; previously the Wilder family's physician photo by: F. T. Stuart, Boston; 6.75" x 5.75"
Box 19 Folder 52
Burt Green Wilder, Surgeon in uniform, ca. 1865 three photos (plus a modern surrogate print of one) plus one Ambrotype, by Davis & Co., Boston
Box 19 Folder 53
____ Wing, Lieut.
Box 19 Folder 54
unidentified officer, standing; has lost left arm
Box 19 Folder 55
unidentified officer, seated photo by: Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, New York and Washington, D.C.; 4.0" x 2.5"
Box 19 Folder 56
unidentified officer 6.5” x 8.5”
Box 19 Folder 57
1863
Drs. John L. Craven and Samuel A. Green (and others), examining a wounded soldier in a hospital tent, summer of 1863, Morris Island, S.C.
Box 19 Folder 58
1895
trench near River's Causeway, S.C. trench used by Union army for refuge, July 2, 1864; photo taken spring 1895; 6.5" x 5.0"
Box 19 Folder 59
1895
Fort Lamar, the most easterly of the line of Confederate works on James Island, S.C., 6.5" x 5.0"
Box 19 Folder 60
modern negatives of several prints in Box 19
Box 19 Folder 61
Record-book, containing ruled pages with signatures, annual meeting notes, treasurers’ reports, etc.: Association of Officers of the Fifty-Fifth Mass. Vol. Inftr’y ,1877, 1909
Box 19 Folder 62
Photographs (primarily cabinet cards, but also some tintypes)
Box 20 Folder
Burt Green Wilder (several photos, mostly cabinet cards)
Box 20 Folder
Celia Colton Burt (1812-1904), BGW's mother, photo in later life
Box 20 Folder
David Wilder, Sr. (1809-1891), BGW's father, photo in later life
Box 20 Folder
Sarah Cowell Nichols, BGW's first wife: solo portrait (between 1874-1884); with eldest daughter, Ruth
Box 20 Folder
Dr. William Nichols, BGW's father-in-law
Box 20 Folder
Ruth Wilder, eldest daughter, who died before reaching one year: Oct. 29, 1869 (at 7 1/2 mos.); several undated; just after she died
Box 20 Folder
Mary Nichols Wilder (b. 1871? second daughter): cabinet card photos of her as an infant, little girl, and young woman also, 10 tintypes, probably of Mary, including one with her as little girl with an African American woman, probably a nanny
Box 20 Folder
Bertha Wilder, youngest daughter (b. 1874): as an infant; little girl; as a teenager playing the violin; as a young woman
Box 20 Folder
BGW and his second wife, Mary Field Wilder, 1919 at Siasconset ("Sconset") Nantucket, with BGW's note: "ourselves & 'Gray Brother Jr.' [cat] taken by Juanita Bates at close of her visit here in spring of 1919"
Box 20 Folder
Wilder Breckenridge (1899-1976): two photos: one cabinet card dated Feb. 1901 (at 19 months); one portrait, dated 1915 (at age 16) grandson of BGW: son of Mary N. Wilder and Roeliff Morton Breckenridge, '92, Cornell Class of 1919 brother of Hugh, '26, and brother-in-law, via sister Anne, of Mordelo Lee Vincent, Jr., '26
Box 20 Folder
David Wilder, Jr. (BGW's brother, b. 1837) and his wife
Box 20 Folder
Edward Wilder (BGW's brother, b. 1843)
Box 20 Folder
Mabel Scott Wilder (b. 1869), daughter of Edward Wilder (in group photo with her two brothers, as young children; photo by Imperial, San Francisco: see two below)
Box 20 Folder
Edward Twichell Wilder (1872-1929), '93, son of Edward Wilder (see above)
Box 20 Folder
Walter Robb Wilder (1875-1934), '96, son of Edward Wilder (see above)
Box 20 Folder
Mary Catherine Scott Wilder (?--unidentified, but very possibly wife of Edward Wilder (photo by Imperial, San Francisco; she resembles Mabel Scott Wilder in photo above)
Box 20 Folder
Sophronia Wilder Edgerly (1823-1915), in 1880 at age 57; BGW's paternal aunt (youngest child of his grandparents David Wilder and Sally Nourse Butler)
Box 20 Folder
BGW's cousins: young children of Sophronia Wilder and James Wheeler Edgerly: 9 miniature tintypes, four of which identified only by first name only one tintype has complete name: William Drew Edgerly (1866-1869)
Box 20 Folder
Mary Nichols Barnard, sister of Sarah Nichols Wilder
Box 20 Folder
William Nichols Barnard, '97 (1875-1947), as young boy; son of Mary Nichols Barnard and William Stebbins Barnard, '71. Cornell Prof. of Mechanical Engineering; became Director of Sibley School of Engineering in 1938
Box 20 Folder
Group portrait of little boy, older boy, and little girl, with note on verso: "Aunt Mamie with best love from Dick, Sister & Harry, Jan 1st 1881" (Boston)
Box 20 Folder
Tintype, ca. 2-3" : unidentified African-American man, standing; holds a cabinet card photo of an unidentified bearded white man (photo by R. L. Wood, Canal St., NYC)
Box 20 Folder
Four small cartes-de-visite: friends and/or family: Jessie G. Dart, New London, CT, Barbara M. Ringeling, April 1874, Staten Island, Charles H. Robinson, of Nantucket, "who built my cottage at Sciasconset ….", Mrs. Vincent, Boston Museum
Box 20 Folder
Two snapshots, both dated 1914, with BGW's notes: "Dr. Edw. Cranch and family, 813 Sassafras St., Erie, Pa. 6 sons, 1 daughter, 10 grandchildren"; "Dr. Edw. Cranch's children: Charles, Gerard, Raymond, Walter, Eliot, Edith, Eugene" [ages 20-37]
Box 20 Folder
Snapshot taken at Woodlawn Cemetery, May 30, 1921, by E??. Flagg: Mrs. Alice Field Dudley of Newton Centre; Mr. Isaac Sprague of Wellesley, Mass.; Mr. Edward Dudley of Newton Centre; Mr. Edward H. Flagg and Mr. Walter E. Flagg of Wellesley; soldier not known
Box 20 Folder
3 cabinet card photos: unidentified young women (at least two were possible brain donors):
Box 20 Folder
Photo by J. Notman, Boston, w. BGW's notation, verso upper right: "4629" (brain no.?)
Box 20 Folder
Photo by J. Notman, Boston, w. BGW's notation, verso upper right: "4675" (brain no.?)
Box 20 Folder
With spectacles; photo by Pach Bros., Cambridge, Mass., "19641" noted by ?, verso lower right
Box 20 Folder
Katharine Kemp-Stillings, violinist two printed photos of her as a young woman, in a brochure about her; w. BGW's note that "we lived in her mother's house on Park St., Brookline"
Box 20 Folder
1910
George Washington Meacham (b. 1827), at age 83, picture postcard, from Idah Meacham Strobridge, Los Angeles, who writes: "A California Pioneer of 1849 …" (friend or colleague of BGW?)
Box 20 Folder
April 1913
Two houses: "Grandfather's house at Leominster, Mass.; return to Mrs. Marshalt, occupying it"; "Pringle Mansion, King St. Charleston, S.C. April 1913"
Box 20 Folder
Photographs of Burt Green Wilder's students (their class years given, when known); Cornell faculty colleagues; non-Cornell colleagues, primarily zoologists, anatomists, neurologists, physicians, etc. (some of whose correspondence is elsewhere in the collection); other persons identified by name but lacking attribution; some brain donors
Box 21 Folder
Louis Agassiz and Count De Pourtales (Boston)
Box 21 Folder
Major W. E. Arnold, Military Science, Cornell
Box 21 Folder
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Fordyce Barker (with autograph)
Box 21 Folder
Bischoff [probably Theodor L. W. Bischoff, 1807-1882, anatomist, neurologist]
Box 21 Folder
Wm. (?) Bourland
Box 21 Folder
March 1889
William E.(?) Browning
Box 21 Folder
Prof. H. Carmichael (Portland, Me.)
Box 21 Folder
Major Louis Cazione, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me.
Box 21 Folder
Prof. H. L. Chapman (Boston)
Box 21 Folder
James Bertram Clarke, Cornell Class of 1910 (with autograph) African-American student; member of Alpha Phi Alpha BGW’s note: “One of the best men and most brilliant scholars graduated from Cornell University. He is now connected with the Crisis in New York.”
Box 21 Folder
Dr. Eugene Rollin Corson (1855-1946); Cornell Class of 1875 2 photos from Ithaca: by Beardsley; by Evans son of Prof. Hiram Corson
Box 21 Folder
Benjamin E. Cotting, Curator of the Lowell Institute (with autograph)
Box 21 Folder
Hosea Curtice (1825-1893), with BGW's note: "Brain 3091" American mathematician and educator; donor to BGW's brain collection See: Dept. of Zoology records (# 14-26-966), Box 17, which contains Accession Book, 1882-1897 (record of specimens received): specimen no. 3091, Hosea Curtice of Moravia, NY, was received June 13, 1893, from his son, Dr. (Fred) Cooper Curtice, Cornell Class of 1881
Box 21 Folder
1889
James D(wight) Dana
Box 21 Folder
Orville A. Derby, Cornell Class of 1873 (with autograph)
Box 21 Folder
1872
DuBois Raymond, [Emil du Bois-Raymond (1818-1896), German physician and physiologist)]
Box 21 Folder
June, 1897
Arthur M. Edwards, M.D., Newark, NJ; BGW notes to see his letter about brain bequest
Box 21 Folder
Pierre A. Fish, Cornell Prof. Veterinary Physiology; 2 photos
Box 21 Folder
Horace Howard Furness, Philadelphia
Box 21 Folder
1877, 1889, 1890
Simon H. Gage ; 3 photos
Box 21 Folder
Carl Gegenbaur (1826-1903), Morphologist; 2 photos
Box 21 Folder
Gilder [American poet and editor Richard Watson Gilder, 1844-1909]
Box 21 Folder
ca. 1865
Benjamin Apthorpe Gould, PhD
Box 21 Folder
1872
Ernst Haeckel
Box 21 Folder
Alfredo Gottlieb Hammar, Cornell Class of 1907 (Agr.), 1907 student of BGW
Box 21 Folder
ca. 1880
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), poet and physician carte-de-visite, 1865 (at age 56); printed (not original) photo
Box 21 Folder
Grant Sherman Hopkins, Cornell Class of 1889 (BS), DSc 1893, DVM 1900 also CU Prof. of Veterinary Anatomy
Box 21 Folder
G. M. Humphrey, Cambridge
Box 21 Folder
1876
Thomas H. Huxley
Box 21 Folder
J. B. S. Jackson (Boston pathologist, d. 1879)
Box 21 Folder
Joe Jefferson
Box 21 Folder
David Starr Jordan (1851-1931); Cornell Class of 1872; 2 photos
Box 21 Folder
Dr. W. W. Keen, Philadelphia
Box 21 Folder
Koelliker [probably Albert Koelliker, 1817-1905]
Box 21 Folder
Dr. W. C. (William Christopher) Krauss, Buffalo, NY; Cornell Class of 1884 with autograph note to BGW
Box 21 Folder
Leuckart (?), Leipzig [probably Rudolf Leuckart (1822-1898), German zoologist and parasitologist]
Box 21 Folder
Henry B. Lord (1821-1915), CU Trustee from 1876-1915; photo by George C. Stanley Gallery, Ithaca March 1906
Box 21 Folder
Augustus Nathaniel Hubert Lushington, Med. Prep. Spec., Cornell 1889-94 (African descent; originally from Trinidad) became veterinarian in Lynchburg, VA
Box 21 Folder
June 1894
Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee (1864-1940), w. autograph Acting Ass't Surgeon in the U.S. Army; founder of the Army Nurse Corps mother of Donald McGee, whose brain she donated to BGW after he died at the age of 9 months [photo of Donald alive accompanies his mother's letters to BGW, in Box 2-1]
Box 21 Folder
Dr. Alfred Mitchell, Brunswick, Me. (of Bowdoin College?)
Box 21 Folder
S(ilas) Weir Mitchell, M.D.
Box 21 Folder
St. George Mivart (St. George Jackson Mivart), 1827-1900, anatomist
Box 21 Folder
Joseph Moore, Earlham College, Richmond, Ind. (seated, bearded older man)
Box 21 Folder
March 20, 1880
Veranus A. Moore, M.D.
Box 21 Folder
Nathaniel Allison Murray, Cornell Class of 1911 (with autograph) African-American student; one of Alpha Phi Alpha’s seven Jewels
Box 21 Folder
Andrew Newell, San Francisco
Box 21 Folder
R. Owen (Sir Richard Owen)
Box 21 Folder
February 1893
T(homas) Jeffery [sic] Parker, author of *Text-bok of zoology* (1897)
Box 21 Folder
1877
W(illiam) Kitchen Parker, father of T. Jeffery Parker and William Newton Parker author of *Morphology of the skull*
Box 21 Folder
Charles G. Pease, M.D., New York (with autograph)
Box 21 Folder
1891
Milton Josiah Roberts, Cornell Class of 1875; died 1893; 2 photos, Prof. of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Vermont)
Box 21 Folder
Dr. D. A. Robinson, Bangor, Me.
Box 21 Folder
George Rolleston, Prof. at Oxford (two photos, incl. one small)
Box 21 Folder
Max Gustav Schlapp, Cornell Class of 1893 (Special Course) physician in New York
Box 21 Folder
Edward Anthony Spitzka (1876-1922), anatomist, neurologist (printed, not original photo; w. printed signature)
Box 21 Folder
Edward Charles Spitzka (1852-1914), anatomist, neurologist (father of Edw. Anthony)
Box 21 Folder
March 29, 1869
Homer B. Sprague, (photo by Purdy & Frear, Ithaca; student or faculty or other Ithacan?)
Box 21 Folder
Mr. Elmer Stilwell Janitor of Dept. of Zoology, McGraw Hall
Box 21 Folder
T. B. (Thomas Blanchard) Stowell, Chair of Natural Sciences at Cortland State Normal School, 1869-1889
Box 21 Folder
1869, 1894, 1919
Thomas Blanchard Stowell and Mary Blakeslee Stowell: Cortland, NY 1869; Potsdam, NY 1894; Los Angeles, Calif. 1919; 3 small cameo, non-original photos of each, printed on single sheet; w. BGW's note on verso: "We made their acquaintance in 1873-4 at the Agassiz (Anderson) "Summer School of Natural History" on Penikese Id., near New Bedford …"
Box 21 Folder
Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts (1811-1874), abolitionist
Box 21 Folder
February 23, 1881
Henry Ward Turner, Philadelphia
Box 21 Folder
John Tyndall (?) (small engraving)
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1872
(Rudolf) Virchow (Berlin)
Box 21 Folder
1915
Booker T. Washington (not original photo; in newspaper clipping at time of his death)
Box 21 Folder
Millard Welfman (?), Boston
Box 21 Folder
Prof. S. A. White (Peoria, Ill.)
Box 21 Folder
Solon F. Whitney (photo of painted portrait) assistant teacher at Brookline, Mass. school, at time BGW was there
Box 21 Folder
Harris Hawthorne Wilder (1864-1928) Prof. of Zoology at Smith College (founded the dept. there in 1894) amphibians; evolution; comparative anatomy; anthropometry
Box 21 Folder
Chauncey Wright (2 photos)
Box 21 Folder
May 1868
Dr. Jeffries Wyman, Sr.(?) (2 photos, one dated May 1868)
Box 21 Folder
1863-1865
"Roster of Commissioned Officers of the 55th Regiment Mass. Vol. Infantry 1863-1865." Photo album compiled by Burt Green Wilder
Box 24
This list replaces an earlier typed list that neither included names of officers whose photos are lacking, nor identified African-American officers, nor provided page numbers. A note on the earlier list says: "Orig. List sent to National Archives, 1961." Names are listed in the order in which they appear in the album, followed by the page number; lacking photos are noted.
This list indicates African-American officers, including those whose photos are lacking. To confirm which officers (including those lacking photos) were African- American, the following website was consulted: http://suvcw.org/mollus/usctofficers.htm ( U.S. Commissioned Officers of African-American Descent who served during the Civil War). [SUVCW stands for Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War; MOLLUS for Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States; and USCT for United States Colored Troops]. Where photo is lacking, or where given information is possibly uncertain, the designation [African-American] indicates confirmation via this website. Please note that the website list may be incomplete, so not all officers lacking photos in the album are fully identified.
Individual companies of the 55th are indicated for each person, when known, and/or the person's rank/membership in other army divisions, when known; This list does not record the complete military history accompanying each photo.
Photos of some of the persons in the album appear elsewhere (loose) in the collection, as indicated in the guide; some of these additional photos are duplicates, while others are post-war; Wilder wrote captions on many of them.
Letters to Wilder from some of these officers, and/or references to these officers, appear elsewhere in the collection.
All photos in the album are 4.0" x 2.5" cabinet cards; photographer/ studio is given when available.
Col. Norwood Penrose Hallowell
Box 24 Page 1
Col. Alfred Stedman Hartwell
Box 24 Page 2
Lieut. Col. Charles Barnard Fox (photo by Whipple, Boston)
Box 24 Page 3
Lieut. Col William Nutt
Box 24 Page 4
Major Sigourney Wales
Box 24 Page 5
Maj. Wheelock Pratt
Box 24 Page 6
William Symmington Brown, Surgeon (Black & Case, Boston)
Box 24 Page 7
Burt Green Wilder, Surgeon
Box 24 Page 8
Chaplain William Jackson: photo lacking; [African-American]
Box 24 Page 9
Chaplain John R. Bowles (African-American; F. A. Simonds, Chillicothe, Ohio)
Box 24 Page 10
Capt. Robert James Hamilton (Co. G)
Box 24 Page 11
Capt. William Dwight Crane (Co. H)
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Capt. Charles Carroll Soule (Co. K)
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Capt. Charles Edward Grant (Co. B)
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Capt. John Gordon (Co. I)
Box 24 Page 15
Capt. Charles Pickering Bowditch (Co. A; Capt. 5th Mass. Cav.)
Box 24 Page 16
Capt. Frank Goodwin (Brevet Major, U.S. Vols.; Warren, Cambridgeport, Mass.)
Box 24 Page 17
Capt. James Danforth Thurber (Brevet Major, U.S. Vols.; A. H. Locke, Plymouth, Mass.)
Box 24 Page 18
Capt. William Haviland Torrey (Co. C; Brevet Major, U.S. Vols.)
Box 24 Page 19
Capt. George Moore Woodward (Co. A)
Box 24 Page 20
Capt. George Frederick McKay (Co. C; Brevet Major, U.S. Vols.)
Box 24 Page 21
Capt. Thomas Foldes Ellsworth (Co. H)
Box 24 Page 22
Capt. Josiah C. Hall (Co. D)
Box 24 Page 23
Capt. George Thompson Garrison (Co. I; Brevet Major, U.S. Vols.)
Box 24 Page 24
Capt. Nathaniel Eustace Ladd (Co. H; Brevet Major, U.S. Vols.; Whipple, Boston)
Box 24 Page 25
1st Lieut. and Qr. M. George B. Mussey: photo lacking
Box 24 Page 26
1st Lieut. and Adjt. William Penrose Hallowell
Box 24 Page 27
1st Lieut. Edward Stearns Stimpson
Box 24 Page 28
1st Lieut. Dennis Hartwell Jones (J. S. Black, Boston)
Box 24 Page 29
1st Lieut. Harrison Holt (A. Lonrel, Boston)
Box 24 Page 30
1st Lieut. Wyllys Gannett
Box 24 Page 31
1st Lieut. and Qr. M. John Osborne Mowry (O. C. Knox, Athol Depot, Mass.)
Box 24 Page 32
1st Lieut. Ephraim Albert Wood (J. W. Black, Boston)
Box 24 Page 33
1st Lieut. Robertson James (Brevet Capt.; Black & Case, Boston)
Box 24 Page 34
Asst. Surgeon Warren Morris Babbitt: photo lacking
Box 24 Page 35
1st Lieut. Ezekiel Fowler: photo lacking
Box 24 Page 36
1st Lieut. Winthrop Perkins Boynton
Box 24 Page 37
1st Lieut. Leonard Battelle Perry (Capt. & A.A.G. Vols.)
Box 24 Page 38
1st Lieut. Thomas Leader Harman (Whipple, Boston)
Box 24 Page 39
1st Lieut. Alphonso Marsh (Moulton ,Fitchburg, Mass.)
Box 24 Page 40
1st Lieut. William C. Roberts (Brevet Capt., U.S. Vols.)
Box 24 Page 41
1st Lieut. Josiah A. Bean (Brevet Capt., U.S. Vols.)
Box 24 Page 42
1st Lieut. E. Harris Jewett
Box 24 Page 43
1st Lieut. Henry Newton Sheldon
Box 24 Page 44
1st Lieut. Peter N. Sprague (L. W. Cook, Weymouth Landing, Mass.)
Box 24 Page 45
1st Lieut. and Adjt. Charles W. Mutell: photo lacking
Box 24 Page 46
1st Lieut. Charles L. Roberts (Frank Rowell, Boston)
Box 24 Page 47
1st Lieut. Solomon C. Starbird (Black & Case, Boston)
Box 24 Page 48
William H. Lathrop, Asst. Surgeon (G. Grellings, Detroit)
Box 24 Page 49
1st Lieut. George H. Carter: photo lacking
Box 24 Page 50
2nd Lieut. Leonard Case Alden (Black & Case, Boston)
Box 24 Page 51
2nd Lieut. John H. Kingston
Box 24 Page 52
2nd Lieut. William Dorance Messinger: photo lacking
Box 24 Page 53
2nd Lieut. Joseph Towne Nichols: photo lacking
Box 24 Page 54
2nd Lieut. Ezra P. Gould (Major, 59th Mass. Vols.; Warren, Cambridgeport, Mass.)
Box 24 Page 55
2nd Lieut. Albert Henry Bradish (Fisher Bros., Boston)
Box 24 Page 56
2nd Lieut. Edwin Ruthen Hill (Taylor & Preston, Salem, Mass.)
Box 24 Page 57
2nd Lieut. Charles F. Lee (Brevet 1st Lieut, U.S. Vols.; J. C. Spooner's Picture Palace, Springfield, Mass.)
Box 24 Page 58
2nd Lieut. George A. Glidden: photo lacking
Box 24 Page 59
2nd Lieut. Marshall E. Hunter (H. O. Foster, Charleston, S.C.)
Box 24 Page 60
2nd Lieut. John Freeman Shorter (African-American; Biddle, Photographer, Xenia, Ohio)
Box 24 Page 61
2nd Lieut. James Monroe Trotter (African-American)
Box 24 Page 62
2nd Lieut. William H. Dupree (African-American; F. A. Simonds, Chillicothe, Ohio)
Box 24 Page 63
Sergt. Charles L. Mitchell (2nd Lieut., 55th Mass. Vols.; Prescott Whiting, Boston) [African-American]
Box 24 Page 64
Sergt. Abram W. Shadd (African-American; 2nd Lieut., 55th Mass. Vols.; Brady's National Photographic Portrait, New York)
Box 24 Page 65
Com. Sergt. Richard M. White: photo lacking; [African-American]
Box 24 Page 66
Qr. M. Sergt. Martin F. Becker (born in Africa, 1834): photo lacking; [African-American]
Box 24 Page 67
1st Sergt. Armstead M. Jones: photo lacking; [African-American]
Box 24 Page 68
Items removed from the collection.
There are several other Wilder items that have been cataloged individually outside of this collection. This is just a partial listing.
Book: Official Records of Union and Confederate Armies (Washington: GPO, 1891) prepared by the late Lt. Col. Robert N. Scott, 3rd US Art., Series I, Vol. 35 - in 2 parts, part 1, now cataloged as Rare E491 U58 Ser.1,v.35,pt.1
Scrapbook including hygiene and other loose printed material. [See also CUL-CUF, bound volumes Wilder "Papers 1882-1911" "Miscellaneous Pamphlets 15"] now cataloged as Rare QL3.W55