Guide to the Wall Family Papers,
1857-1881

Collection Number: 2012

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Wall family papers, 1857-1881.
Collection Number:
2012
Creator:
Quantity:
.3 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Collection includes a series of letters from Charles William Wall, a sergeant in the 151st Regiment, New York Volunteers, mainly concerning troop movements, camp experiences, and other aspects of his life as a Union Army soldier in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., but also dealing with his employment by a mining and milling company in Colorado (1869); other Civil War letters from William Emerson, Henry Harrington, and Charles McCarthy; letters from Jane Middleton, telling of her work in New York City among indigent women (1864); and an autobiographical sketch (1881) of Andrew Wall, who had emigrated from England in 1833.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Collection includes a series of letters from Charles William Wall, a sergeant in the 151st Regiment, New York Volunteers, mainly concerning troop movements, camp experiences, and other aspects of his life as a Union Army soldier in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., but also dealing with his employment by a mining and milling company in Colorado (1869); other Civil War letters from William Emerson, Henry Harrington, and Charles McCarthy; letters from Jane Middleton, telling of her work in New York City among indigent women (1864); and an autobiographical sketch (1881) of Andrew Wall, who had emigrated from England in 1833.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Wall family.
Emerson, William.
Harrington, Henry.
McCarthy, Charles.
Middleton, Jane.
Wall, Andrew.
Wall, CHarles William, 1844-1917.
United States.Army.Regiment Infantry, New York Volunteers, 151st.

Subjects:
Military camps.
Mills and mill-work.
Poor women--New York (State)--New York.
Poor--New York (State)--New York.
Soldiers.

Places:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Wall family papers, #2012. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
NOTES

Related collection:Aram Houssig Dimijian. World War I Letters, #2014.
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