{"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Bcreators%5D%5B%5D=Charles+F.%0A+++++++++Morrill","last":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Bcreators%5D%5B%5D=Charles+F.%0A+++++++++Morrill\u0026page=1"},"meta":{"pages":{"current_page":1,"next_page":null,"prev_page":null,"total_pages":1,"limit_value":10,"offset_value":0,"total_count":1,"first_page?":true,"last_page?":true}},"data":[{"id":"viu_viu00738","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Morrill Civil War Collection \n          1862-1907","creator":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00738#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Charles F.\n         Morrill","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00738#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of 144 items, 1862-1866, 1902 \u0026amp; 1907, pertaining to Corporal Wilbur F. Hawxhurst[b. 1845], Company E, 65th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantryand Charles Plummer Morrill, 24th Maine Infantry, describing their experiences during and after the Civil War in Georgia, Louisiana, New York, Tennesseeand Texas. Also present are military discharge papers for Hawxhurst and Morrill's brother George Morrill[b. 1847], a member of the 4th Maine Light Artillery, a photograph of Hawxhurst (see his letter of January 31, 1866) and three ambrotypes: Charles Morrill(taken in Memphis, Tennessee, 1863), an unidentified woman and an unidentified man. A calotype print of an unidentified young Atlantawoman is attached to Hawxhurst's letter of May 31, 1865. 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Hawxhurst [b. 1845], \n          Company E, 65th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry and \n          Charles Plummer Morrill , \n          24th Maine Infantry , describing their\n         experiences during and after the Civil War in \n          Georgia , \n          Louisiana , \n          New York , \n          Tennessee and \n          Texas . Also present are military\n         discharge papers for Hawxhurst and Morrill's brother \n          George Morrill [b. 1847], a member of the \n          4th Maine Light Artillery , a photograph\n         of Hawxhurst (see his letter of January 31, 1866) and three\n         ambrotypes: \n          Charles Morrill (taken in \n          Memphis, Tennessee , 1863), an\n         unidentified woman and an unidentified man. A calotype print\n         of an unidentified young \n          Atlanta woman is attached to Hawxhurst's\n         letter of May 31, 1865. The letters of Hawxhurst and Morrill\n         are described below as two separate groups.","Wilbur F. Hawxhurst 's letters (1862-1866,\n         1902 \u0026 1907, 109 items) were written in \n          Ohio ( \n          Vermilion , \n          Elyria , \n          Youngstown , July 1862-January 1864), \n          Tennessee ( \n          Chattanooga , \n          Nashville , \n          Columbus Hill , \n          Cleveland , February-August,\n         October-December 1864, January-June 1865), \n          Georgia ( \n          Atlanta , \n          Vining Station [Vinings], \n          Catoosa Springs , August-October 1864), \n          New Orleans (July 1865) and \n          Texas ( \n          Placedo Creek , \n          Victoria County and Camp Irwin, July\n         1865-February 1866).","His letters are chiefly to his brother-in-law and sister\n         Reverend \n          John W. and \n          Mary Thompson (\"Bro \u0026 Sister\") of \n          Richfield, Summit County , and \n          Pittsfield, Lorain County, Ohio (see\n         letters of April 16, 1865 and January 31, 1866); there are\n         nine empty letter envelopes addressed to Reverend Thompson\n         from Hawxhurst. Sometimes Hawxhurst wrote more than one letter\n         on the same day; several letters on \"Office Union Line\n         Express,\" \n          United States Christian Commission , \n          U.S. Sanitary Commission , \n          U.S. Military Telegraph , \"Head-Quarters\n         District of the Etowah,\" \"Head Quarters 2d Division 4th Army\n         Corps,\" \"Head Quarters, Central District of Texas\" and \n          Soldier's Home, Nashville , stationery are\n         present. Topics of discussion include family and local news,\n         complaints about lack of letters, derogatory commentary on\n         African-Americans; the \n          Atlanta Campaign (Hawxhurst was more of a\n         witness than participant), his activities as a hospital nurse,\n         patient and detached duty as a company (chief) clerk at \n          Chattanooga and \n          Nashville, Tennessee , \n          Vining Station [Vinings] and \n          Atlanta, Georgia , \n          New Orleans , and occupation duties in \n          Victoria County, Texas . Select letters\n         from July to August 1865 were numbered by Hawxhurst (1 to 13;\n         some are missing); two Hawxhurst letters (post June 8 and July\n         1864) on \n          U.S. Christian Commission stationery are\n         missing pages.","Prominent military officers and civilians mentioned by\n         Hawxhurst include: \n          Ulysses S. Grant [1822-1885], \n          Charles G. Harker [1835-1864], \n          John Bell Hood [1831-1879], \n          Andrew Johnson [1808-1875], \n          Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865], \n          George B. McClellan [1825-1885], \n          Oliver Perry Morton [1823-1877], \n          George H. Pendleton [1825-1889], \n          William T. Sherman [1820-1890], \n          Edmund Kirby Smith [1824-1893], \n          David Stone Stanley [1828-1902], \n          George H. Thomas [1816-1870], \n          Horatio Wright [1820-1899] and \n          Felix Kirk Zollicoffer [1812-1862].","Hawxhurst discusses various \n          Ohio infantry regiments (the 31st, 38th,\n         64th, 65th) and various military personnel: Captain \n          Wilbur F. Hinman , \n          65th Ohio ; Colonel \n          Frederick W. Lister , \n          31st Ohio ; \n          Ira Pool , \n          Company A, 38th Ohio ; Captain \n          Joseph F. Sonnestine , \n          Company E, 65th Ohio ; Captain \n          Joseph H. Wilsey , \n          65th Ohio . Places or events discussed or\n         described include contemporary events and issues, military\n         camp life, Lincoln's assassination, and the battles of \n          Resaca (May 19, 1864), \n          Nashville (December 19, 1864).","A \"Hawxhurst Miscellaneous\" folders contains nine empty\n         letter envelopes from \n          William F. Hawxhurst to his brother-in-law\n         Reverend \n          J. W. Thompson , 1864-1865, and an October\n         30, 1902 letter from \n          Mary Thompson (Hawxhurst's sister), \n          Copopa(?), Ohio , to her nephew \n          M. M. Hawxhurst of \n          Ann Arbor, Michigan , scolding him and his\n         father (William) for not writing since their last visit and\n         promising to send M. M. a wartime photograph of his father\n         (see letter January 31, 1866). Also present is a February 16,\n         1907 certificate of Hawxhurst's army discharge with an April\n         29, 1880 copy of the record. It attests he was discharged by\n         Captain \n          Joseph F. Sonnestine , \n          Company E, 65th Ohio , on March 3, 1866 in\n          Victoria, Texas .","October 16, 1862: on patriotic stationery; asks about \n          George Morrill (?); lists discharged and\n         drafted men and those who obtained substitutes; is employed as\n         a telegraph operator. January 25, 1863: complains \n          Abraham Lincoln is not respected in \n          Vermilion ; his employer wants him to\n         study bookkeeping and penmanship; July 15, 1863: still a\n         civilian and discusses wages for a job offer; has just heard\n         of \n          Port Hudson 's (Louisiana) surrender [July\n         8, 1863]; November 19, 1863: describes \n          Youngstown and compares it with \n          Richfield (his sister's residence)\n         December 18, 1863: has \"15 regular correspondents\"; earns\n         $25.00 a month; discusses religion.","February 11, 1864: writes from \n          Chattanooga, Tennessee ; is now a soldier\n         employed as a clerk at the headquarters of the District of\n         Etowah; food consists of potatoes \"three times a day,\" beef\n         and pork; April 18, 1864: writes from \n          Nashville ; identifies his unit as \n          Company E, 65th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry ; encloses a piece of stick from the grave\n         of Confederate General \n          Felix Kirk Zollicoffer ; May 4, 1864: hard\n         marching [beginning of \n          Atlanta Campaign]; mentions presence of\n         flocks of \"negroes and white trash\"; describes the weather and\n         countryside of \n          Cleveland, Tennessee ; his brigade heading\n         for \n          Dalton and \n          Atlanta, Georgia ; May 5, 1864: mentions\n         General \n          Charles G. Harker 's orders to the brigade\n         in pursuit of the rebels to \n          Dalton ; description of a hard luck rebel\n         family; May 5, 1864: in camp at \n          Catoosa Springs, Georgia ; Gen. Harker\n         expresses confidence in victory; his company has only 18 men;\n         briefly mentions his equipment, including a revolver; May 19,\n         1864: writes from a general field hospital where he has\n         volunteered [as a nurse] and ordered to accompany wounded to \n          Chattanooga ; mentions the battle of \n          Resaca [May 13-16, 1864]; May 19, 1864:\n         detailed account of his brigade at the battle of \n          Resaca ; mentions his hospital duties,\n         \"They said I was too good a nurse to go back to the field\";\n         May 27, 1864: weather complaints; anxious to return to his\n         regiment; a \n          Chattanooga woman had been told Yankees\n         had \"horns\" on their heads; promises to send Luella (his\n         niece; see December 26, 1864) \"a nigger to play with\"; May 28,\n         1864: describes a patient and \"fine fellow\" \n          Ira Pool [ \n          Edgerton, Fulton County, Ohio ], \n          Co A, 38th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry , wounded at the battle of \n          Missionary Ridge [November 25, 1863];\n         description of the hospital's menu provided by the \n          U.S. Sanitary Commission ; May 30, 1864:\n         predicts Union victory and capture of \n          Richmond by General \n          Ulysses S. Grant .","[Post June 8, 1864]: \n          U.S. Christian\n         Commission stationery--everyone is for Lincoln and \n          Andrew Johnson ; \n          Ira Pool 's father lives in \n          Edgerton [pages are missing from this\n         letter]; July 1, 1864: tells his sister \"I have no earthly\n         friend who I care for except you at home, I have no\n         correspondents except you I have not received a letter from\n         any one in \n          Ohio since I left\"; July 11, 1864: his\n         political and spiritual efforts to convert three rebel\n         patients; expects arrival of 1,000 wounded rebels from General\n          William T. Sherman ; July 13, 1864: delay\n         of his mail due to movements of his brigade, admits he cries\n         when he does not receive mail; fears his diarrhea will become\n         chronic; promotion of Lieutenant \n          Wilbur F. Hinman to captain; tells Luella\n         \"I guess the best plan is to leave the Niggers here\" [see\n         Hawxhurst letter May 27, 1864]; also comments \"I do not feel\n         like coming home till the war is over\"; \n          Ira Pool 's rank is second sergeant [see\n         Hawxhurst letter May 28, 1864]; [July 1864]: on \n          U.S. Christian\n         Commission stationery--misses onions; requests a\n         comb [pages missing from this letter]; August 4, 1864: writes\n         from breastworks at \n          Atlanta and describes them; says \n          Wilbur Hinman is the most thoughtful\n         officer in the company; August 10, 1864: weighs 95 pounds; a\n         doctor describes him as no more than a baby; August 11, 1864: \n          Tom Powell offers to trade 89 acres of\n         land in \n          Royalton, Ohio , for the Hawxhurst house\n         and lot in \n          Berea ; urges his brother to inspect the\n         property first; August 28, 1864: has been sent to the general\n         field hospital at Vining Station [ \n          Vinings], Georgia , because of his poor\n         health; August 31, 1864: on stationery of \n          U.S. Military Telegraph Hawxhurst reports\n         Democratic nomination of General \n          George B. McClellan and \n          George H. Pendleton of \n          Ohio for president and vice-president;\n         says \"Abe\" (Lincoln) rejoices in their nomination because\n         soldiers will support him; August 31, 1864: capture of \n          Atlanta ; tells brother not to worry about\n         the draft.","September 12, 1864: describes \n          Atlanta , General Sherman and General \n          George H. Thomas ; October 29, 1864:\n         inquires about the soldier's vote for Lincoln in \n          Summit County, Ohio ; complains the war\n         has \"hanged on like grim death to a dead Nigger\"; December 13,\n         1864: pursuit of Confederate General \n          John Bell Hood's army ; December 19, 1864:\n         Confederate defeat at the battle of \n          Nashville [December 15-16, 1864]; December\n         26, 1864: asks his niece Luella about her Christmas; December\n         28, 1864: plans to buy land in \n          Crawford County, Iowa , after the war.","January 22, 1865: is homesick and asks for news; February\n         1, 1865: detailed as a clerk at the Inspector General's\n         office, headquarters, District of the Etowah; February 23,\n         1865: 100-gun salute at noon in honor of \n          George Washington 's birthday (February\n         22); March 1, 1865: characterizes \n          Vermilion, Ohio , as a \"God forsaken\n         hole\"; March 1, 1865: has received a letter from his \n          Iowa girl and boasts she \"is a beauty\"\n         unlike those in \n          Ohio ; he misses being away from \"all\n         kinds of womanhood or girlhood\" and is glad to receive a\n         friendly letter from the fair girls up north\"; March 7, 1865:\n         Colonel Lester [ \n          Frederick W. Lister ] of the \n          31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry is the new\n         inspector general; March 24, 1865: he and his comrades hand\n         over their rations to a woman (a \n          Chattanooga boardinghouse keeper) for\n         proper cooking; April 3, 1865: mentions the capture of \n          Richmond, Virginia ; earns $100 a month\n         plus rations in the quartermaster department; April 16, 1865:\n         mourns Lincoln's assassination and hopes \n          Andrew Johnson will remember his\n         senatorial pledge to hang traitors; encloses a poem calling\n         for vengeance against traitors; soldiers in mourning.","May 4, 1865: wants a wife after his return then will go\n         into business; has learned to ride on horseback; May 10, 1865:\n         printed General Orders No. 3, Major General \n          George H. Thomas , [Army and] Department\n         of the Cumberland, \n          Nashville , praising the \n          4th Army Corps 's review of previous day;\n         in a handwritten postscript Hawxhurst tells family he is well;\n         May 18, 1865: \"had some Photos taken please find Three\n         inclosed for yourself\" [not present]; May 31, 1865: General\n         Grant has telegraphed Indiana Governor \n          Oliver Perry Morton that troops are to be\n         mustered out in \n          Washington for final discharge and pay;\n         mentions surrender of Confederate General \n          Edmund Kirby Smith ; wants to settle in \n          Iowa ; in a faded pencilled postscript he\n         encloses an attached calotype print of \"a woman from \n          Atlanta dont know her got it in the\n         Gallery\" [this letter is filed in an oversize folder]; June 9,\n         1865: the Army of the Cumberland's 3rd Division stacked its\n         arms and refused to go to \n          Texas ; June 17, 1865: \"on board steamer\n         Emma Floyd bound for \n          Texas \"; has been detailed as a clerk at\n         division headquarters [2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army\n         Corps] and appointed to the rank of corporal; received pay of\n         $314.60 while at \n          Nashville ; June 22, 1865: \"on board\n         steamer Indiana near \n          New Orleans \"; compares \n          Mississippi and \n          Ohio rivers; saw alligators; increase in\n         desertions now that the war is over; discusses Joe Wilsey of \n          Berea [Captain \n          Joseph H. Wilsey , \n          65th Ohio ], an abusive brigade\n         adjutant-general who \"I will remember him as long as I live\n         just wait till he and I are both citizens\"; Wilsey assaulted\n         and nearly thrown overboard by angry soldiers.","July 2, 1865: in \n          New Orleans ; unable to write home because\n         \"there is no Sabbath in the Army and especially in Military\n         Office\"; mosquitoes are not a problem, plenty of food,\n         drinking river water; rumors the regiment is to sent to \n          San Antonio, Texas ; July 18, 1865: Letter\n         No. 2--mentions Captain \n          Wilbur F. Hinman ; July 27, 1865: Letter\n         No. 3--is in western \n          Texas but does not know where; July 30,\n         1865: Letter No. 4--describes area of Placido \n          [Placedo] Creek, Victoria County, Texas ;\n         complains eastern troops are being mustered out faster than\n         western troops; August 3, 1865: Letter No. 6--account of daily\n         activities; blames General \n          David Stone Stanley for the 4th Corps'\n         transfer to \n          Texas ; August 13, 1865: Letter No.\n         7--defends card playing as \"innocent relaxation\"; October 7,\n         1865: provides a brief physical description of himself;\n         October 10, 1865: quotes General Stanley's request to General \n          Horatio Wright , commander of the\n         Department of Texas, \n          Galveston , that the 64th and 65th Ohio\n         Infantry regiments be mustered out; October 17, 1865: troops\n         are at work restoring railroad [ \n          San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad ]\n         between Lavaca [ \n          Port Lavaca ] and \n          Victoria ; complains it will be \"turned\n         over to the civil authorities and Rebels will get the benefits\n         of Union Soldiers Labor\"; November 23, 1865: Head Quarters,\n         Central District of Texas, Office Commissary of Musters; has\n         decided to remain \"until all troops are mustered out they need\n         my services in this Office\" December 3, 1865: \n          65th Ohio is on its way home except for\n         Hawxhurst; December 7, 1865: busy mustering out troops; few\n         Union families but many \"Bitter Rebels\" in \n          Texas .","January 10, 1866: expects to be mustered out in February;\n         hopes to establish a bookstore in \n          Victoria because \"the South's the place\n         for a young man to get a start\"; recounts a dream during which\n         he met and married an acquaintance named \n          Maria Garget (?); January 31, 1866:\n         decided to remain in the army until March; asked an \n          Eau Claire, Wisconsin , friend to address\n         letters to Hawxhurst care of \"Rev. J. W. Thompson, Pittsfield,\n         Lorain County, Ohio\"; would like to flirt with the sister of\n         his \n          Iowa young lady (whom he has not heard\n         from in some time); encloses photograph [carte-de-visite]\n         taken at \n          C. Marmu Photograph Gallery , 69 Royal\n         Street, \n          New Orleans (\"it looks cross but it wont\n         bit if you dont tease\") showing a somber Hawxhurst in civilian\n         dress [most likely taken while stationed in \n          New Orleans , July 1865]; February 16,\n         1866: expresses appreciation to his sister and brother-in-law\n         for making him \"a better boy\"; will be home in 15 to 20 days;\n         wants to marry a girl named Ella; worries veterans unable to\n         find work [last Hawxhurst letter].","Charles Plummer Morrill 's letters\n         (1862-1865, 35 items) were written in \n          Maine ( \n          Camp E. D. Keyes and \n          Augusta , September-October 1862), \n          New York ( \n          Camp Maine and East New York, October\n         1862-January 1863, December 1863), \n          Fort Monroe, Virginia (January 1863), \n          Louisiana ( \n          New Orleans and \n          Port Hudson , February and May 1863), and \n          Washington, D.C. (April 14, 1865).\n         Morrill's letters are chiefly to his parents (his father was\n         register of deeds in \n          Franklin County, Maine ; see letter of\n         December 25, 1862) and occasionally his brother \n          George . Morrill\n         was employed in his regiment's hospital department and his\n         letters discuss camp news, visits to various site and\n         miscellaneous subjects. There is a gap in his letters from\n         February 25 to May 29, 1863 and May 31 to December 3, 1863.\n         Also present is an incomplete six-page draft pencil manuscript\n         (pages 3-8) of reminiscences and Lincoln's assassination and\n         three ambrotypes including one of \n          Charles Morrill (1863), an unidentified\n         woman and an unidentified man.","Two letters were not written by Morrill. A March 28, 1864\n         letter from \"Cousin Cyrus\" [ \n          Cyrus Birney ?--see Morrill's November 17,\n         1862 and February 24, 1863 letters] a member of \n          Company D, 1st District of Columbia\n         Cavalry , \n          Camp Baker, Washington , probably to\n         Morrill, inquires about his medical studies, discusses the\n         dangerous aftermath of a mounted reconnaissance, mentions\n         regimental chaplain \n          Samuel H. Merrill of \n          Portland, Maine , visits to the Capitol,\n         Senate and House of Representatives and characterizes\n         describes \n          Washington as \"a marshy hole.\" An undated\n         November 8 from \"Nell\" to \"Mother Morrill\" [daughter-in-law to\n         her mother-in-law?] discusses family matters, appreciates a\n         toy \"nigger baby\" sent to \"May\" from \"Grandma\" and other\n         presents to family for which \n          Charles P. Morrill also expresses his\n         thanks in a postscript. A June 17, 1865 certificate of \n          George H. Morrill 's army discharge, \n          Augusta, Maine , signed by Captain \n          Charles W. White , \n          4th Maine Light Artillery , and a captain\n         of the \n          13th United States Infantry , are also\n         present.","Prominent military officers and civilians mentioned by\n         Morrill include: \n          Nathaniel P. Banks [1816-1894], \n          Henry Ward Beecher [1813-1887], \n          Ambrose P. Burnside [1824-1881] and \n          Franklin S. Nickerson [1826-1917]. Other\n         military personnel mentioned by name include \n          Frederic R. Esterbrook , \n          Roscoe L. Harlow , \n          Ansel J. Libby , \n          John C. Manson , and \n          John A. Moreton (surgeons), Chaplain \n          Frederick A. Hodsdon , \n          Arthur Deering , \n          Samuel S. Brown and \n          Hiram C. Vaughan (captains), Lieutenant \n          John H. True , Lieutenant Colonel \n          Charles T. Bean (24th Maine), Dr. \n          Silas C. Thomas (21st Maine) and Captain \n          Charles W. White ( \n          4th Maine Light Artillery ). \n          Maine military units mentioned are the \n          4th Maine Light Artillery , \n          21st Maine Infantry , 24th Maine ( \n          24th Maine Volunteer Militia ) and \n          28th Maine Infantry .","September 27, 1862: Morrill as a member of \n          Company E, 24th Maine (24th Maine\n         Volunteer Militia); appointed a wardmaster and assigned to\n         Surgeon \n          John C. Manson ; refers to Captain \n          Hiram C. Vaughan of the 24th; October 4,\n         1862: requests clothes; brief mention of his duties; October\n         18, 1862: measles outbreak in the 21st and 28th Maine Infantry\n         regiments; October 28, 1862: witnessed the departure of the\n         21st; promises to \"take care of myself and try and do my\n         duty\"; October 30, 1862: transport of regiment to \n          Boston , \n          Norwich, Connecticut , and \n          New York City .","November 2, 1862: describes sightseeing in \n          New York City ; may hear \n          Henry Ward Beecher preach next Sunday;\n         November 9, 1862: measles continues to spread within 21st and\n         24th Maine Infantry; brief mention of hospital staff; regiment\n         quartered on \n          Long Island southeast of the city of \n          Brooklyn ; attended a \n          New York theater with Lieutenant \n          John H. True of Company E; describes a\n         Democratic voting hall; November 17, 1862: brief comments on a\n         Beecher sermon; accidental mortal wounding of a sergeant by\n         [Captain Vaughan]; mentions seeing \n          Cyrus Birney ; November 30, 1862:\n         describes his daily work routine; December 7, 1862: lameness\n         of Captain \n          Hiram Vaughan may lead to his discharge\n         [part of this letter is missing]; December 14, 1862: visited\n         the 28th Maine's hospital; plans to hear Beecher preach;\n         December 20, 1862: account of a Beecher sermon; Morrill\n         describes his devotionals; three new doctors assigned to the\n         regiment ( \n          Roscoe L. Harlow , \n          Ansel J. Libby and \n          John A. Moreton ); Dr. \n          Silas C. Thomas appointed the 21st Maine's\n         assistant surgeon and Morrill appointed hospital steward;\n         several officers under arrest for signing a petition calling\n         for Colonel \n          George M. Atwood 's resignation, including\n         captains \n          Arthur Deering , \n          Samuel S. Brown and Vaughan; December 25,\n         1862: describes and encloses drawing of the barracks housing\n         the 21st, 24th and 28th Maine regiments; refers to his father\n         as register of deeds for \n          Franklin County, Maine ; questions the\n         honesty and integrity of public and military officials; doubts\n         General \n          Ambrose P. Burnside will ever be\n         successful; Surgeon Libby, Colonel Atwood, and Lt. Col. \n          Charles T. Bean are ill; December 28,\n         1862: Surgeon Libby died of typhoid.","January 4, 1863: he and Surgeon Harlow undertook a walking\n         tour of \n          New York City where they purchased coal;\n         complains about regiment's lack of Sabbath observances;\n         January 11, 1863: regiment has received orders to travel on\n         ship Lizzie Southard; offers his brother advice about parents\n         and girls; January 14, 1863: on board Lizzie Southard, sailing\n         for \n          New Orleans , 700 men aboard; January 19,\n         1863: \"On Board transport Lizzie Southard Off \n          Fort Monroe , \" encloses drawing of ship's\n         position; January 25, 1863: \"Ship Lizzie Southard Off \n          Fortress Monroe, Hampton Roads , \"\n         describes he and Dr. \n          Frederic R. Esterbrook 's visit to the \n          Hampton Hospital ; complains Chaplain \n          Frederick A. Hodsdon resigned as the\n         Southard was about to leave \n          New York ; on Friday [January 23] a man\n         hanged for shooting a Negro; visited \n          Fort Monroe ; steamship Vanderbilt is\n         coaling in preparation to seek out the CSS Alabama; describes\n         presence of two monitors as \"funny looking rafts\"; February\n         13, 1863: has arrived at the \n          Mississippi River and \n          New Orleans ; describes voyage, does not\n         like sea travel; regiment assigned to General \n          Franklin S. Nickerson 's Third Brigade,\n         part of General \n          Nathaniel P. Banks 's \n          Red River Campaign; February 24, 1863:\n         description and drawing of his regiment's camp; death of\n         Assistant Surgeon Esterbrook due to typhoid; mentions \n          Cyrus (Birney ?); saw Gen. Banks and \n          New Orleans sights including statues of \n          Henry Clay and General \n          Andrew Jackson ; citizens are unhappy\n         rebels and \"war has laid its devastating hand with very\n         visible effect on this city.\"","May 30, 1863: writes from \n          Port Hudson with brief mention of the\n         first Union assault against it (May 27); December 31, 1863:\n         writes from \n          Camp Maine, East New York , that he has\n         received an appointment (but does not say exactly what type);\n         plans to study medicine as a student of Surgeon Harlow's.\n         April 14, 1865: writes to his brother from \n          Washington, D.C. , which is celebrating\n         victories over the rebels; saw General Grant; asks how long\n         brother's battery [ \n          4th Maine Light Artillery ] will remain at\n          City Point, Virginia ; adds postscript\n         regarding Lincoln's assassination [final \n          Charles P Morrill letter].","","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","Company E, 65th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry","24th Maine Infantry","4th Maine Light Artillery","United States Christian Commission","U.S. Sanitary Commission","U.S. Military Telegraph","Soldier's Home, Nashville","U.S. Christian Commission","65th Ohio","31st Ohio","Company A, 38th Ohio","Company E, 65th Ohio","Co A, 38th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry","U.S. Christian\n         Commission","31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry","4th Army Corps","San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad","C. Marmu Photograph Gallery","Company D, 1st District of Columbia\n         Cavalry","13th United States Infantry","21st Maine Infantry","24th Maine Volunteer Militia","28th Maine Infantry","Company E, 24th Maine","Hampton Hospital","Wilbur F. Hawxhurst","Charles Plummer Morrill","George Morrill","Charles Morrill","John W.","Mary Thompson","Ulysses S. Grant","Charles G. Harker","John Bell Hood","Andrew Johnson","Abraham Lincoln","George B. McClellan","Oliver Perry Morton","George H. Pendleton","William T. Sherman","Edmund Kirby Smith","David Stone Stanley","George H. Thomas","Horatio Wright","Felix Kirk Zollicoffer","Wilbur F. Hinman","Frederick W. Lister","Ira Pool","Joseph F. Sonnestine","Joseph H. Wilsey","William F. Hawxhurst","J. W. Thompson","M. M. Hawxhurst","Wilbur Hinman","Tom Powell","John Bell Hood's army","George Washington","Maria Garget","George","Cyrus Birney","Samuel H. Merrill","Charles P. Morrill","George H. Morrill","Charles W. White","Nathaniel P. Banks","Henry Ward Beecher","Ambrose P. Burnside","Franklin S. Nickerson","Frederic R. Esterbrook","Roscoe L. Harlow","Ansel J. Libby","John C. Manson","John A. Moreton","Frederick A. Hodsdon","Arthur Deering","Samuel S. Brown","Hiram C. Vaughan","John H. True","Charles T. Bean","Silas C. Thomas","Hiram Vaughan","George M. Atwood","Cyrus (Birney","Henry Clay","Andrew Jackson","Charles P Morrill","English"],"unitid_tesim":["11031"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Morrill Civil War Collection \n          1862-1907"],"collection_title_tesim":["Morrill Civil War Collection \n          1862-1907"],"collection_ssim":["Morrill Civil War Collection \n          1862-1907"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":["Charles F.\n         Morrill"],"creator_ssim":["Charles F.\n         Morrill"],"acqinfo_ssim":["The Morrill Civil War Collection was placed on deposit\n            in the Library by Mr. Charles F. Morrill of\n            Charlottesville, Virginia, on February 27, 1992."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["144 items"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of 144 items, 1862-1866, 1902\n         \u0026amp; 1907, pertaining to Corporal \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilbur F. Hawxhurst\u003c/persname\u003e[b. 1845], \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCompany E, 65th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry\u003c/corpname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Plummer Morrill\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e24th Maine Infantry\u003c/corpname\u003e, describing their\n         experiences during and after the Civil War in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eGeorgia\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eLouisiana\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew York\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTennessee\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTexas\u003c/geogname\u003e. Also present are military\n         discharge papers for Hawxhurst and Morrill's brother \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Morrill\u003c/persname\u003e[b. 1847], a member of the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e4th Maine Light Artillery\u003c/corpname\u003e, a photograph\n         of Hawxhurst (see his letter of January 31, 1866) and three\n         ambrotypes: \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Morrill\u003c/persname\u003e(taken in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eMemphis, Tennessee\u003c/geogname\u003e, 1863), an\n         unidentified woman and an unidentified man. A calotype print\n         of an unidentified young \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta\u003c/geogname\u003ewoman is attached to Hawxhurst's\n         letter of May 31, 1865. The letters of Hawxhurst and Morrill\n         are described below as two separate groups.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eWilbur F. Hawxhurst\u003c/persname\u003e's letters (1862-1866,\n         1902 \u0026amp; 1907, 109 items) were written in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eOhio\u003c/geogname\u003e( \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVermilion\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eElyria\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eYoungstown\u003c/geogname\u003e, July 1862-January 1864), \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTennessee\u003c/geogname\u003e( \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eChattanooga\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNashville\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eColumbus Hill\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCleveland\u003c/geogname\u003e, February-August,\n         October-December 1864, January-June 1865), \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eGeorgia\u003c/geogname\u003e( \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVining Station\u003c/geogname\u003e[Vinings], \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCatoosa Springs\u003c/geogname\u003e, August-October 1864), \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e(July 1865) and \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTexas\u003c/geogname\u003e( \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePlacedo Creek\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVictoria County\u003c/geogname\u003eand Camp Irwin, July\n         1865-February 1866).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis letters are chiefly to his brother-in-law and sister\n         Reverend \n         \u003cpersname normal=\"John W. Thompson\"\u003eJohn W.\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eMary Thompson\u003c/persname\u003e(\"Bro \u0026amp; Sister\") of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eRichfield, Summit County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePittsfield, Lorain County, Ohio\u003c/geogname\u003e(see\n         letters of April 16, 1865 and January 31, 1866); there are\n         nine empty letter envelopes addressed to Reverend Thompson\n         from Hawxhurst. Sometimes Hawxhurst wrote more than one letter\n         on the same day; several letters on \"Office Union Line\n         Express,\" \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eUnited States Christian Commission\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Sanitary Commission\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Military Telegraph\u003c/corpname\u003e, \"Head-Quarters\n         District of the Etowah,\" \"Head Quarters 2d Division 4th Army\n         Corps,\" \"Head Quarters, Central District of Texas\" and \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eSoldier's Home, Nashville\u003c/corpname\u003e, stationery are\n         present. Topics of discussion include family and local news,\n         complaints about lack of letters, derogatory commentary on\n         African-Americans; the \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta Campaign\u003c/geogname\u003e(Hawxhurst was more of a\n         witness than participant), his activities as a hospital nurse,\n         patient and detached duty as a company (chief) clerk at \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eChattanooga\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNashville, Tennessee\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVining Station\u003c/geogname\u003e[Vinings] and \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta, Georgia\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e, and occupation duties in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVictoria County, Texas\u003c/geogname\u003e. Select letters\n         from July to August 1865 were numbered by Hawxhurst (1 to 13;\n         some are missing); two Hawxhurst letters (post June 8 and July\n         1864) on \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Christian Commission\u003c/corpname\u003estationery are\n         missing pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProminent military officers and civilians mentioned by\n         Hawxhurst include: \n         \u003cpersname\u003eUlysses S. Grant\u003c/persname\u003e[1822-1885], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles G. Harker\u003c/persname\u003e[1835-1864], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Bell Hood\u003c/persname\u003e[1831-1879], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAndrew Johnson\u003c/persname\u003e[1808-1875], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c/persname\u003e[1809-1865], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge B. McClellan\u003c/persname\u003e[1825-1885], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eOliver Perry Morton\u003c/persname\u003e[1823-1877], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge H. Pendleton\u003c/persname\u003e[1825-1889], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam T. Sherman\u003c/persname\u003e[1820-1890], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eEdmund Kirby Smith\u003c/persname\u003e[1824-1893], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eDavid Stone Stanley\u003c/persname\u003e[1828-1902], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge H. Thomas\u003c/persname\u003e[1816-1870], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Wright\u003c/persname\u003e[1820-1899] and \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFelix Kirk Zollicoffer\u003c/persname\u003e[1812-1862].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHawxhurst discusses various \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eOhio\u003c/geogname\u003einfantry regiments (the 31st, 38th,\n         64th, 65th) and various military personnel: Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilbur F. Hinman\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e65th Ohio\u003c/corpname\u003e; Colonel \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFrederick W. Lister\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e31st Ohio\u003c/corpname\u003e; \n         \u003cpersname\u003eIra Pool\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCompany A, 38th Ohio\u003c/corpname\u003e; Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph F. Sonnestine\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCompany E, 65th Ohio\u003c/corpname\u003e; Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph H. Wilsey\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e65th Ohio\u003c/corpname\u003e. Places or events discussed or\n         described include contemporary events and issues, military\n         camp life, Lincoln's assassination, and the battles of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eResaca\u003c/geogname\u003e(May 19, 1864), \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNashville\u003c/geogname\u003e(December 19, 1864).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA \"Hawxhurst Miscellaneous\" folders contains nine empty\n         letter envelopes from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam F. Hawxhurst\u003c/persname\u003eto his brother-in-law\n         Reverend \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJ. W. Thompson\u003c/persname\u003e, 1864-1865, and an October\n         30, 1902 letter from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eMary Thompson\u003c/persname\u003e(Hawxhurst's sister), \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCopopa(?), Ohio\u003c/geogname\u003e, to her nephew \n         \u003cpersname\u003eM. M. Hawxhurst\u003c/persname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAnn Arbor, Michigan\u003c/geogname\u003e, scolding him and his\n         father (William) for not writing since their last visit and\n         promising to send M. M. a wartime photograph of his father\n         (see letter January 31, 1866). Also present is a February 16,\n         1907 certificate of Hawxhurst's army discharge with an April\n         29, 1880 copy of the record. It attests he was discharged by\n         Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph F. Sonnestine\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCompany E, 65th Ohio\u003c/corpname\u003e, on March 3, 1866 in\n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVictoria, Texas\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOctober 16, 1862: on patriotic stationery; asks about \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Morrill\u003c/persname\u003e(?); lists discharged and\n         drafted men and those who obtained substitutes; is employed as\n         a telegraph operator. January 25, 1863: complains \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c/persname\u003eis not respected in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVermilion\u003c/geogname\u003e; his employer wants him to\n         study bookkeeping and penmanship; July 15, 1863: still a\n         civilian and discusses wages for a job offer; has just heard\n         of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePort Hudson\u003c/geogname\u003e's (Louisiana) surrender [July\n         8, 1863]; November 19, 1863: describes \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eYoungstown\u003c/geogname\u003eand compares it with \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eRichfield\u003c/geogname\u003e(his sister's residence)\n         December 18, 1863: has \"15 regular correspondents\"; earns\n         $25.00 a month; discusses religion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFebruary 11, 1864: writes from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eChattanooga, Tennessee\u003c/geogname\u003e; is now a soldier\n         employed as a clerk at the headquarters of the District of\n         Etowah; food consists of potatoes \"three times a day,\" beef\n         and pork; April 18, 1864: writes from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNashville\u003c/geogname\u003e; identifies his unit as \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCompany E, 65th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry\u003c/corpname\u003e; encloses a piece of stick from the grave\n         of Confederate General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFelix Kirk Zollicoffer\u003c/persname\u003e; May 4, 1864: hard\n         marching [beginning of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta\u003c/geogname\u003eCampaign]; mentions presence of\n         flocks of \"negroes and white trash\"; describes the weather and\n         countryside of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCleveland, Tennessee\u003c/geogname\u003e; his brigade heading\n         for \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eDalton\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta, Georgia\u003c/geogname\u003e; May 5, 1864: mentions\n         General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles G. Harker\u003c/persname\u003e's orders to the brigade\n         in pursuit of the rebels to \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eDalton\u003c/geogname\u003e; description of a hard luck rebel\n         family; May 5, 1864: in camp at \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCatoosa Springs, Georgia\u003c/geogname\u003e; Gen. Harker\n         expresses confidence in victory; his company has only 18 men;\n         briefly mentions his equipment, including a revolver; May 19,\n         1864: writes from a general field hospital where he has\n         volunteered [as a nurse] and ordered to accompany wounded to \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eChattanooga\u003c/geogname\u003e; mentions the battle of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eResaca\u003c/geogname\u003e[May 13-16, 1864]; May 19, 1864:\n         detailed account of his brigade at the battle of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eResaca\u003c/geogname\u003e; mentions his hospital duties,\n         \"They said I was too good a nurse to go back to the field\";\n         May 27, 1864: weather complaints; anxious to return to his\n         regiment; a \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eChattanooga\u003c/geogname\u003ewoman had been told Yankees\n         had \"horns\" on their heads; promises to send Luella (his\n         niece; see December 26, 1864) \"a nigger to play with\"; May 28,\n         1864: describes a patient and \"fine fellow\" \n         \u003cpersname\u003eIra Pool\u003c/persname\u003e[ \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eEdgerton, Fulton County, Ohio\u003c/geogname\u003e], \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCo A, 38th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry\u003c/corpname\u003e, wounded at the battle of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eMissionary Ridge\u003c/geogname\u003e[November 25, 1863];\n         description of the hospital's menu provided by the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Sanitary Commission\u003c/corpname\u003e; May 30, 1864:\n         predicts Union victory and capture of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003eby General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eUlysses S. Grant\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Post June 8, 1864]: \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Christian\n         Commission\u003c/corpname\u003estationery--everyone is for Lincoln and \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAndrew Johnson\u003c/persname\u003e; \n         \u003cpersname\u003eIra Pool\u003c/persname\u003e's father lives in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eEdgerton\u003c/geogname\u003e[pages are missing from this\n         letter]; July 1, 1864: tells his sister \"I have no earthly\n         friend who I care for except you at home, I have no\n         correspondents except you I have not received a letter from\n         any one in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eOhio\u003c/geogname\u003esince I left\"; July 11, 1864: his\n         political and spiritual efforts to convert three rebel\n         patients; expects arrival of 1,000 wounded rebels from General\n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam T. Sherman\u003c/persname\u003e; July 13, 1864: delay\n         of his mail due to movements of his brigade, admits he cries\n         when he does not receive mail; fears his diarrhea will become\n         chronic; promotion of Lieutenant \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilbur F. Hinman\u003c/persname\u003eto captain; tells Luella\n         \"I guess the best plan is to leave the Niggers here\" [see\n         Hawxhurst letter May 27, 1864]; also comments \"I do not feel\n         like coming home till the war is over\"; \n         \u003cpersname\u003eIra Pool\u003c/persname\u003e's rank is second sergeant [see\n         Hawxhurst letter May 28, 1864]; [July 1864]: on \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Christian\n         Commission\u003c/corpname\u003estationery--misses onions; requests a\n         comb [pages missing from this letter]; August 4, 1864: writes\n         from breastworks at \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta\u003c/geogname\u003eand describes them; says \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilbur Hinman\u003c/persname\u003eis the most thoughtful\n         officer in the company; August 10, 1864: weighs 95 pounds; a\n         doctor describes him as no more than a baby; August 11, 1864: \n         \u003cpersname\u003eTom Powell\u003c/persname\u003eoffers to trade 89 acres of\n         land in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eRoyalton, Ohio\u003c/geogname\u003e, for the Hawxhurst house\n         and lot in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBerea\u003c/geogname\u003e; urges his brother to inspect the\n         property first; August 28, 1864: has been sent to the general\n         field hospital at Vining Station [ \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVinings], Georgia\u003c/geogname\u003e, because of his poor\n         health; August 31, 1864: on stationery of \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Military Telegraph\u003c/corpname\u003eHawxhurst reports\n         Democratic nomination of General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge B. McClellan\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge H. Pendleton\u003c/persname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eOhio\u003c/geogname\u003efor president and vice-president;\n         says \"Abe\" (Lincoln) rejoices in their nomination because\n         soldiers will support him; August 31, 1864: capture of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta\u003c/geogname\u003e; tells brother not to worry about\n         the draft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeptember 12, 1864: describes \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta\u003c/geogname\u003e, General Sherman and General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge H. Thomas\u003c/persname\u003e; October 29, 1864:\n         inquires about the soldier's vote for Lincoln in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eSummit County, Ohio\u003c/geogname\u003e; complains the war\n         has \"hanged on like grim death to a dead Nigger\"; December 13,\n         1864: pursuit of Confederate General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Bell Hood's army\u003c/persname\u003e; December 19, 1864:\n         Confederate defeat at the battle of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNashville\u003c/geogname\u003e[December 15-16, 1864]; December\n         26, 1864: asks his niece Luella about her Christmas; December\n         28, 1864: plans to buy land in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCrawford County, Iowa\u003c/geogname\u003e, after the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJanuary 22, 1865: is homesick and asks for news; February\n         1, 1865: detailed as a clerk at the Inspector General's\n         office, headquarters, District of the Etowah; February 23,\n         1865: 100-gun salute at noon in honor of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003e's birthday (February\n         22); March 1, 1865: characterizes \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVermilion, Ohio\u003c/geogname\u003e, as a \"God forsaken\n         hole\"; March 1, 1865: has received a letter from his \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eIowa\u003c/geogname\u003egirl and boasts she \"is a beauty\"\n         unlike those in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eOhio\u003c/geogname\u003e; he misses being away from \"all\n         kinds of womanhood or girlhood\" and is glad to receive a\n         friendly letter from the fair girls up north\"; March 7, 1865:\n         Colonel Lester [ \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFrederick W. Lister\u003c/persname\u003e] of the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry\u003c/corpname\u003eis the new\n         inspector general; March 24, 1865: he and his comrades hand\n         over their rations to a woman (a \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eChattanooga\u003c/geogname\u003eboardinghouse keeper) for\n         proper cooking; April 3, 1865: mentions the capture of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e; earns $100 a month\n         plus rations in the quartermaster department; April 16, 1865:\n         mourns Lincoln's assassination and hopes \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAndrew Johnson\u003c/persname\u003ewill remember his\n         senatorial pledge to hang traitors; encloses a poem calling\n         for vengeance against traitors; soldiers in mourning.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMay 4, 1865: wants a wife after his return then will go\n         into business; has learned to ride on horseback; May 10, 1865:\n         printed General Orders No. 3, Major General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge H. Thomas\u003c/persname\u003e, [Army and] Department\n         of the Cumberland, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNashville\u003c/geogname\u003e, praising the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e4th Army Corps\u003c/corpname\u003e's review of previous day;\n         in a handwritten postscript Hawxhurst tells family he is well;\n         May 18, 1865: \"had some Photos taken please find Three\n         inclosed for yourself\" [not present]; May 31, 1865: General\n         Grant has telegraphed Indiana Governor \n         \u003cpersname\u003eOliver Perry Morton\u003c/persname\u003ethat troops are to be\n         mustered out in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eWashington\u003c/geogname\u003efor final discharge and pay;\n         mentions surrender of Confederate General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eEdmund Kirby Smith\u003c/persname\u003e; wants to settle in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eIowa\u003c/geogname\u003e; in a faded pencilled postscript he\n         encloses an attached calotype print of \"a woman from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta\u003c/geogname\u003edont know her got it in the\n         Gallery\" [this letter is filed in an oversize folder]; June 9,\n         1865: the Army of the Cumberland's 3rd Division stacked its\n         arms and refused to go to \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTexas\u003c/geogname\u003e; June 17, 1865: \"on board steamer\n         Emma Floyd bound for \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTexas\u003c/geogname\u003e\"; has been detailed as a clerk at\n         division headquarters [2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army\n         Corps] and appointed to the rank of corporal; received pay of\n         $314.60 while at \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNashville\u003c/geogname\u003e; June 22, 1865: \"on board\n         steamer Indiana near \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e\"; compares \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eMississippi\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eOhio\u003c/geogname\u003erivers; saw alligators; increase in\n         desertions now that the war is over; discusses Joe Wilsey of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBerea\u003c/geogname\u003e[Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph H. Wilsey\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e65th Ohio\u003c/corpname\u003e], an abusive brigade\n         adjutant-general who \"I will remember him as long as I live\n         just wait till he and I are both citizens\"; Wilsey assaulted\n         and nearly thrown overboard by angry soldiers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJuly 2, 1865: in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e; unable to write home because\n         \"there is no Sabbath in the Army and especially in Military\n         Office\"; mosquitoes are not a problem, plenty of food,\n         drinking river water; rumors the regiment is to sent to \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eSan Antonio, Texas\u003c/geogname\u003e; July 18, 1865: Letter\n         No. 2--mentions Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilbur F. Hinman\u003c/persname\u003e; July 27, 1865: Letter\n         No. 3--is in western \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTexas\u003c/geogname\u003ebut does not know where; July 30,\n         1865: Letter No. 4--describes area of Placido \n         \u003cgeogname\u003e[Placedo] Creek, Victoria County, Texas\u003c/geogname\u003e;\n         complains eastern troops are being mustered out faster than\n         western troops; August 3, 1865: Letter No. 6--account of daily\n         activities; blames General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eDavid Stone Stanley\u003c/persname\u003efor the 4th Corps'\n         transfer to \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTexas\u003c/geogname\u003e; August 13, 1865: Letter No.\n         7--defends card playing as \"innocent relaxation\"; October 7,\n         1865: provides a brief physical description of himself;\n         October 10, 1865: quotes General Stanley's request to General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Wright\u003c/persname\u003e, commander of the\n         Department of Texas, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eGalveston\u003c/geogname\u003e, that the 64th and 65th Ohio\n         Infantry regiments be mustered out; October 17, 1865: troops\n         are at work restoring railroad [ \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eSan Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad\u003c/corpname\u003e]\n         between Lavaca [ \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePort Lavaca\u003c/geogname\u003e] and \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVictoria\u003c/geogname\u003e; complains it will be \"turned\n         over to the civil authorities and Rebels will get the benefits\n         of Union Soldiers Labor\"; November 23, 1865: Head Quarters,\n         Central District of Texas, Office Commissary of Musters; has\n         decided to remain \"until all troops are mustered out they need\n         my services in this Office\" December 3, 1865: \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e65th Ohio\u003c/corpname\u003eis on its way home except for\n         Hawxhurst; December 7, 1865: busy mustering out troops; few\n         Union families but many \"Bitter Rebels\" in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTexas\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJanuary 10, 1866: expects to be mustered out in February;\n         hopes to establish a bookstore in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVictoria\u003c/geogname\u003ebecause \"the South's the place\n         for a young man to get a start\"; recounts a dream during which\n         he met and married an acquaintance named \n         \u003cpersname\u003eMaria Garget\u003c/persname\u003e(?); January 31, 1866:\n         decided to remain in the army until March; asked an \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eEau Claire, Wisconsin\u003c/geogname\u003e, friend to address\n         letters to Hawxhurst care of \"Rev. J. W. Thompson, Pittsfield,\n         Lorain County, Ohio\"; would like to flirt with the sister of\n         his \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eIowa\u003c/geogname\u003eyoung lady (whom he has not heard\n         from in some time); encloses photograph [carte-de-visite]\n         taken at \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eC. Marmu Photograph Gallery\u003c/corpname\u003e, 69 Royal\n         Street, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e(\"it looks cross but it wont\n         bit if you dont tease\") showing a somber Hawxhurst in civilian\n         dress [most likely taken while stationed in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e, July 1865]; February 16,\n         1866: expresses appreciation to his sister and brother-in-law\n         for making him \"a better boy\"; will be home in 15 to 20 days;\n         wants to marry a girl named Ella; worries veterans unable to\n         find work [last Hawxhurst letter].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eCharles Plummer Morrill\u003c/persname\u003e's letters\n         (1862-1865, 35 items) were written in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eMaine\u003c/geogname\u003e( \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCamp E. D. Keyes\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAugusta\u003c/geogname\u003e, September-October 1862), \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew York\u003c/geogname\u003e( \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCamp Maine\u003c/geogname\u003eand East New York, October\n         1862-January 1863, December 1863), \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eFort Monroe, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e(January 1863), \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eLouisiana\u003c/geogname\u003e( \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePort Hudson\u003c/geogname\u003e, February and May 1863), and \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eWashington, D.C.\u003c/geogname\u003e(April 14, 1865).\n         Morrill's letters are chiefly to his parents (his father was\n         register of deeds in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eFranklin County, Maine\u003c/geogname\u003e; see letter of\n         December 25, 1862) and occasionally his brother \n         \u003cpersname normal=\"George Morrill\"\u003eGeorge\u003c/persname\u003e. Morrill\n         was employed in his regiment's hospital department and his\n         letters discuss camp news, visits to various site and\n         miscellaneous subjects. There is a gap in his letters from\n         February 25 to May 29, 1863 and May 31 to December 3, 1863.\n         Also present is an incomplete six-page draft pencil manuscript\n         (pages 3-8) of reminiscences and Lincoln's assassination and\n         three ambrotypes including one of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Morrill\u003c/persname\u003e(1863), an unidentified\n         woman and an unidentified man.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters were not written by Morrill. A March 28, 1864\n         letter from \"Cousin Cyrus\" [ \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCyrus Birney\u003c/persname\u003e?--see Morrill's November 17,\n         1862 and February 24, 1863 letters] a member of \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCompany D, 1st District of Columbia\n         Cavalry\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCamp Baker, Washington\u003c/geogname\u003e, probably to\n         Morrill, inquires about his medical studies, discusses the\n         dangerous aftermath of a mounted reconnaissance, mentions\n         regimental chaplain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel H. Merrill\u003c/persname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePortland, Maine\u003c/geogname\u003e, visits to the Capitol,\n         Senate and House of Representatives and characterizes\n         describes \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eWashington\u003c/geogname\u003eas \"a marshy hole.\" An undated\n         November 8 from \"Nell\" to \"Mother Morrill\" [daughter-in-law to\n         her mother-in-law?] discusses family matters, appreciates a\n         toy \"nigger baby\" sent to \"May\" from \"Grandma\" and other\n         presents to family for which \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles P. Morrill\u003c/persname\u003ealso expresses his\n         thanks in a postscript. A June 17, 1865 certificate of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge H. Morrill\u003c/persname\u003e's army discharge, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAugusta, Maine\u003c/geogname\u003e, signed by Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles W. White\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e4th Maine Light Artillery\u003c/corpname\u003e, and a captain\n         of the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e13th United States Infantry\u003c/corpname\u003e, are also\n         present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProminent military officers and civilians mentioned by\n         Morrill include: \n         \u003cpersname\u003eNathaniel P. Banks\u003c/persname\u003e[1816-1894], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Ward Beecher\u003c/persname\u003e[1813-1887], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAmbrose P. Burnside\u003c/persname\u003e[1824-1881] and \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFranklin S. Nickerson\u003c/persname\u003e[1826-1917]. Other\n         military personnel mentioned by name include \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFrederic R. Esterbrook\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eRoscoe L. Harlow\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAnsel J. Libby\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn C. Manson\u003c/persname\u003e, and \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn A. Moreton\u003c/persname\u003e(surgeons), Chaplain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFrederick A. Hodsdon\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eArthur Deering\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel S. Brown\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHiram C. Vaughan\u003c/persname\u003e(captains), Lieutenant \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn H. True\u003c/persname\u003e, Lieutenant Colonel \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles T. Bean\u003c/persname\u003e(24th Maine), Dr. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSilas C. Thomas\u003c/persname\u003e(21st Maine) and Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles W. White\u003c/persname\u003e( \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e4th Maine Light Artillery\u003c/corpname\u003e). \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eMaine\u003c/geogname\u003emilitary units mentioned are the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e4th Maine Light Artillery\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e21st Maine Infantry\u003c/corpname\u003e, 24th Maine ( \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e24th Maine Volunteer Militia\u003c/corpname\u003e) and \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e28th Maine Infantry\u003c/corpname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeptember 27, 1862: Morrill as a member of \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCompany E, 24th Maine\u003c/corpname\u003e(24th Maine\n         Volunteer Militia); appointed a wardmaster and assigned to\n         Surgeon \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn C. Manson\u003c/persname\u003e; refers to Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHiram C. Vaughan\u003c/persname\u003eof the 24th; October 4,\n         1862: requests clothes; brief mention of his duties; October\n         18, 1862: measles outbreak in the 21st and 28th Maine Infantry\n         regiments; October 28, 1862: witnessed the departure of the\n         21st; promises to \"take care of myself and try and do my\n         duty\"; October 30, 1862: transport of regiment to \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBoston\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNorwich, Connecticut\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew York City\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNovember 2, 1862: describes sightseeing in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew York City\u003c/geogname\u003e; may hear \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Ward Beecher\u003c/persname\u003epreach next Sunday;\n         November 9, 1862: measles continues to spread within 21st and\n         24th Maine Infantry; brief mention of hospital staff; regiment\n         quartered on \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eLong Island\u003c/geogname\u003esoutheast of the city of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBrooklyn\u003c/geogname\u003e; attended a \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew York\u003c/geogname\u003etheater with Lieutenant \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn H. True\u003c/persname\u003eof Company E; describes a\n         Democratic voting hall; November 17, 1862: brief comments on a\n         Beecher sermon; accidental mortal wounding of a sergeant by\n         [Captain Vaughan]; mentions seeing \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCyrus Birney\u003c/persname\u003e; November 30, 1862:\n         describes his daily work routine; December 7, 1862: lameness\n         of Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHiram Vaughan\u003c/persname\u003emay lead to his discharge\n         [part of this letter is missing]; December 14, 1862: visited\n         the 28th Maine's hospital; plans to hear Beecher preach;\n         December 20, 1862: account of a Beecher sermon; Morrill\n         describes his devotionals; three new doctors assigned to the\n         regiment ( \n         \u003cpersname\u003eRoscoe L. Harlow\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAnsel J. Libby\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn A. Moreton\u003c/persname\u003e); Dr. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSilas C. Thomas\u003c/persname\u003eappointed the 21st Maine's\n         assistant surgeon and Morrill appointed hospital steward;\n         several officers under arrest for signing a petition calling\n         for Colonel \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge M. Atwood\u003c/persname\u003e's resignation, including\n         captains \n         \u003cpersname\u003eArthur Deering\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel S. Brown\u003c/persname\u003eand Vaughan; December 25,\n         1862: describes and encloses drawing of the barracks housing\n         the 21st, 24th and 28th Maine regiments; refers to his father\n         as register of deeds for \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eFranklin County, Maine\u003c/geogname\u003e; questions the\n         honesty and integrity of public and military officials; doubts\n         General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAmbrose P. Burnside\u003c/persname\u003ewill ever be\n         successful; Surgeon Libby, Colonel Atwood, and Lt. Col. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles T. Bean\u003c/persname\u003eare ill; December 28,\n         1862: Surgeon Libby died of typhoid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJanuary 4, 1863: he and Surgeon Harlow undertook a walking\n         tour of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew York City\u003c/geogname\u003ewhere they purchased coal;\n         complains about regiment's lack of Sabbath observances;\n         January 11, 1863: regiment has received orders to travel on\n         ship Lizzie Southard; offers his brother advice about parents\n         and girls; January 14, 1863: on board Lizzie Southard, sailing\n         for \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e, 700 men aboard; January 19,\n         1863: \"On Board transport Lizzie Southard Off \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eFort Monroe\u003c/geogname\u003e, \" encloses drawing of ship's\n         position; January 25, 1863: \"Ship Lizzie Southard Off \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eFortress Monroe, Hampton Roads\u003c/geogname\u003e, \"\n         describes he and Dr. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFrederic R. Esterbrook\u003c/persname\u003e's visit to the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eHampton Hospital\u003c/corpname\u003e; complains Chaplain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFrederick A. Hodsdon\u003c/persname\u003eresigned as the\n         Southard was about to leave \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew York\u003c/geogname\u003e; on Friday [January 23] a man\n         hanged for shooting a Negro; visited \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eFort Monroe\u003c/geogname\u003e; steamship Vanderbilt is\n         coaling in preparation to seek out the CSS Alabama; describes\n         presence of two monitors as \"funny looking rafts\"; February\n         13, 1863: has arrived at the \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eMississippi River\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e; describes voyage, does not\n         like sea travel; regiment assigned to General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFranklin S. Nickerson\u003c/persname\u003e's Third Brigade,\n         part of General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eNathaniel P. Banks\u003c/persname\u003e's \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eRed River\u003c/geogname\u003eCampaign; February 24, 1863:\n         description and drawing of his regiment's camp; death of\n         Assistant Surgeon Esterbrook due to typhoid; mentions \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCyrus (Birney\u003c/persname\u003e?); saw Gen. Banks and \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003esights including statues of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Clay\u003c/persname\u003eand General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAndrew Jackson\u003c/persname\u003e; citizens are unhappy\n         rebels and \"war has laid its devastating hand with very\n         visible effect on this city.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMay 30, 1863: writes from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePort Hudson\u003c/geogname\u003ewith brief mention of the\n         first Union assault against it (May 27); December 31, 1863:\n         writes from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCamp Maine, East New York\u003c/geogname\u003e, that he has\n         received an appointment (but does not say exactly what type);\n         plans to study medicine as a student of Surgeon Harlow's.\n         April 14, 1865: writes to his brother from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eWashington, D.C.\u003c/geogname\u003e, which is celebrating\n         victories over the rebels; saw General Grant; asks how long\n         brother's battery [ \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e4th Maine Light Artillery\u003c/corpname\u003e] will remain at\n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCity Point, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e; adds postscript\n         regarding Lincoln's assassination [final \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles P Morrill\u003c/persname\u003eletter].\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of 144 items, 1862-1866, 1902\n         \u0026 1907, pertaining to Corporal \n          Wilbur F. Hawxhurst [b. 1845], \n          Company E, 65th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry and \n          Charles Plummer Morrill , \n          24th Maine Infantry , describing their\n         experiences during and after the Civil War in \n          Georgia , \n          Louisiana , \n          New York , \n          Tennessee and \n          Texas . Also present are military\n         discharge papers for Hawxhurst and Morrill's brother \n          George Morrill [b. 1847], a member of the \n          4th Maine Light Artillery , a photograph\n         of Hawxhurst (see his letter of January 31, 1866) and three\n         ambrotypes: \n          Charles Morrill (taken in \n          Memphis, Tennessee , 1863), an\n         unidentified woman and an unidentified man. A calotype print\n         of an unidentified young \n          Atlanta woman is attached to Hawxhurst's\n         letter of May 31, 1865. The letters of Hawxhurst and Morrill\n         are described below as two separate groups.","Wilbur F. Hawxhurst 's letters (1862-1866,\n         1902 \u0026 1907, 109 items) were written in \n          Ohio ( \n          Vermilion , \n          Elyria , \n          Youngstown , July 1862-January 1864), \n          Tennessee ( \n          Chattanooga , \n          Nashville , \n          Columbus Hill , \n          Cleveland , February-August,\n         October-December 1864, January-June 1865), \n          Georgia ( \n          Atlanta , \n          Vining Station [Vinings], \n          Catoosa Springs , August-October 1864), \n          New Orleans (July 1865) and \n          Texas ( \n          Placedo Creek , \n          Victoria County and Camp Irwin, July\n         1865-February 1866).","His letters are chiefly to his brother-in-law and sister\n         Reverend \n          John W. and \n          Mary Thompson (\"Bro \u0026 Sister\") of \n          Richfield, Summit County , and \n          Pittsfield, Lorain County, Ohio (see\n         letters of April 16, 1865 and January 31, 1866); there are\n         nine empty letter envelopes addressed to Reverend Thompson\n         from Hawxhurst. Sometimes Hawxhurst wrote more than one letter\n         on the same day; several letters on \"Office Union Line\n         Express,\" \n          United States Christian Commission , \n          U.S. Sanitary Commission , \n          U.S. Military Telegraph , \"Head-Quarters\n         District of the Etowah,\" \"Head Quarters 2d Division 4th Army\n         Corps,\" \"Head Quarters, Central District of Texas\" and \n          Soldier's Home, Nashville , stationery are\n         present. Topics of discussion include family and local news,\n         complaints about lack of letters, derogatory commentary on\n         African-Americans; the \n          Atlanta Campaign (Hawxhurst was more of a\n         witness than participant), his activities as a hospital nurse,\n         patient and detached duty as a company (chief) clerk at \n          Chattanooga and \n          Nashville, Tennessee , \n          Vining Station [Vinings] and \n          Atlanta, Georgia , \n          New Orleans , and occupation duties in \n          Victoria County, Texas . Select letters\n         from July to August 1865 were numbered by Hawxhurst (1 to 13;\n         some are missing); two Hawxhurst letters (post June 8 and July\n         1864) on \n          U.S. Christian Commission stationery are\n         missing pages.","Prominent military officers and civilians mentioned by\n         Hawxhurst include: \n          Ulysses S. Grant [1822-1885], \n          Charles G. Harker [1835-1864], \n          John Bell Hood [1831-1879], \n          Andrew Johnson [1808-1875], \n          Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865], \n          George B. McClellan [1825-1885], \n          Oliver Perry Morton [1823-1877], \n          George H. Pendleton [1825-1889], \n          William T. Sherman [1820-1890], \n          Edmund Kirby Smith [1824-1893], \n          David Stone Stanley [1828-1902], \n          George H. Thomas [1816-1870], \n          Horatio Wright [1820-1899] and \n          Felix Kirk Zollicoffer [1812-1862].","Hawxhurst discusses various \n          Ohio infantry regiments (the 31st, 38th,\n         64th, 65th) and various military personnel: Captain \n          Wilbur F. Hinman , \n          65th Ohio ; Colonel \n          Frederick W. Lister , \n          31st Ohio ; \n          Ira Pool , \n          Company A, 38th Ohio ; Captain \n          Joseph F. Sonnestine , \n          Company E, 65th Ohio ; Captain \n          Joseph H. Wilsey , \n          65th Ohio . Places or events discussed or\n         described include contemporary events and issues, military\n         camp life, Lincoln's assassination, and the battles of \n          Resaca (May 19, 1864), \n          Nashville (December 19, 1864).","A \"Hawxhurst Miscellaneous\" folders contains nine empty\n         letter envelopes from \n          William F. Hawxhurst to his brother-in-law\n         Reverend \n          J. W. Thompson , 1864-1865, and an October\n         30, 1902 letter from \n          Mary Thompson (Hawxhurst's sister), \n          Copopa(?), Ohio , to her nephew \n          M. M. Hawxhurst of \n          Ann Arbor, Michigan , scolding him and his\n         father (William) for not writing since their last visit and\n         promising to send M. M. a wartime photograph of his father\n         (see letter January 31, 1866). Also present is a February 16,\n         1907 certificate of Hawxhurst's army discharge with an April\n         29, 1880 copy of the record. It attests he was discharged by\n         Captain \n          Joseph F. Sonnestine , \n          Company E, 65th Ohio , on March 3, 1866 in\n          Victoria, Texas .","October 16, 1862: on patriotic stationery; asks about \n          George Morrill (?); lists discharged and\n         drafted men and those who obtained substitutes; is employed as\n         a telegraph operator. January 25, 1863: complains \n          Abraham Lincoln is not respected in \n          Vermilion ; his employer wants him to\n         study bookkeeping and penmanship; July 15, 1863: still a\n         civilian and discusses wages for a job offer; has just heard\n         of \n          Port Hudson 's (Louisiana) surrender [July\n         8, 1863]; November 19, 1863: describes \n          Youngstown and compares it with \n          Richfield (his sister's residence)\n         December 18, 1863: has \"15 regular correspondents\"; earns\n         $25.00 a month; discusses religion.","February 11, 1864: writes from \n          Chattanooga, Tennessee ; is now a soldier\n         employed as a clerk at the headquarters of the District of\n         Etowah; food consists of potatoes \"three times a day,\" beef\n         and pork; April 18, 1864: writes from \n          Nashville ; identifies his unit as \n          Company E, 65th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry ; encloses a piece of stick from the grave\n         of Confederate General \n          Felix Kirk Zollicoffer ; May 4, 1864: hard\n         marching [beginning of \n          Atlanta Campaign]; mentions presence of\n         flocks of \"negroes and white trash\"; describes the weather and\n         countryside of \n          Cleveland, Tennessee ; his brigade heading\n         for \n          Dalton and \n          Atlanta, Georgia ; May 5, 1864: mentions\n         General \n          Charles G. Harker 's orders to the brigade\n         in pursuit of the rebels to \n          Dalton ; description of a hard luck rebel\n         family; May 5, 1864: in camp at \n          Catoosa Springs, Georgia ; Gen. Harker\n         expresses confidence in victory; his company has only 18 men;\n         briefly mentions his equipment, including a revolver; May 19,\n         1864: writes from a general field hospital where he has\n         volunteered [as a nurse] and ordered to accompany wounded to \n          Chattanooga ; mentions the battle of \n          Resaca [May 13-16, 1864]; May 19, 1864:\n         detailed account of his brigade at the battle of \n          Resaca ; mentions his hospital duties,\n         \"They said I was too good a nurse to go back to the field\";\n         May 27, 1864: weather complaints; anxious to return to his\n         regiment; a \n          Chattanooga woman had been told Yankees\n         had \"horns\" on their heads; promises to send Luella (his\n         niece; see December 26, 1864) \"a nigger to play with\"; May 28,\n         1864: describes a patient and \"fine fellow\" \n          Ira Pool [ \n          Edgerton, Fulton County, Ohio ], \n          Co A, 38th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry , wounded at the battle of \n          Missionary Ridge [November 25, 1863];\n         description of the hospital's menu provided by the \n          U.S. Sanitary Commission ; May 30, 1864:\n         predicts Union victory and capture of \n          Richmond by General \n          Ulysses S. Grant .","[Post June 8, 1864]: \n          U.S. Christian\n         Commission stationery--everyone is for Lincoln and \n          Andrew Johnson ; \n          Ira Pool 's father lives in \n          Edgerton [pages are missing from this\n         letter]; July 1, 1864: tells his sister \"I have no earthly\n         friend who I care for except you at home, I have no\n         correspondents except you I have not received a letter from\n         any one in \n          Ohio since I left\"; July 11, 1864: his\n         political and spiritual efforts to convert three rebel\n         patients; expects arrival of 1,000 wounded rebels from General\n          William T. Sherman ; July 13, 1864: delay\n         of his mail due to movements of his brigade, admits he cries\n         when he does not receive mail; fears his diarrhea will become\n         chronic; promotion of Lieutenant \n          Wilbur F. Hinman to captain; tells Luella\n         \"I guess the best plan is to leave the Niggers here\" [see\n         Hawxhurst letter May 27, 1864]; also comments \"I do not feel\n         like coming home till the war is over\"; \n          Ira Pool 's rank is second sergeant [see\n         Hawxhurst letter May 28, 1864]; [July 1864]: on \n          U.S. Christian\n         Commission stationery--misses onions; requests a\n         comb [pages missing from this letter]; August 4, 1864: writes\n         from breastworks at \n          Atlanta and describes them; says \n          Wilbur Hinman is the most thoughtful\n         officer in the company; August 10, 1864: weighs 95 pounds; a\n         doctor describes him as no more than a baby; August 11, 1864: \n          Tom Powell offers to trade 89 acres of\n         land in \n          Royalton, Ohio , for the Hawxhurst house\n         and lot in \n          Berea ; urges his brother to inspect the\n         property first; August 28, 1864: has been sent to the general\n         field hospital at Vining Station [ \n          Vinings], Georgia , because of his poor\n         health; August 31, 1864: on stationery of \n          U.S. Military Telegraph Hawxhurst reports\n         Democratic nomination of General \n          George B. McClellan and \n          George H. Pendleton of \n          Ohio for president and vice-president;\n         says \"Abe\" (Lincoln) rejoices in their nomination because\n         soldiers will support him; August 31, 1864: capture of \n          Atlanta ; tells brother not to worry about\n         the draft.","September 12, 1864: describes \n          Atlanta , General Sherman and General \n          George H. Thomas ; October 29, 1864:\n         inquires about the soldier's vote for Lincoln in \n          Summit County, Ohio ; complains the war\n         has \"hanged on like grim death to a dead Nigger\"; December 13,\n         1864: pursuit of Confederate General \n          John Bell Hood's army ; December 19, 1864:\n         Confederate defeat at the battle of \n          Nashville [December 15-16, 1864]; December\n         26, 1864: asks his niece Luella about her Christmas; December\n         28, 1864: plans to buy land in \n          Crawford County, Iowa , after the war.","January 22, 1865: is homesick and asks for news; February\n         1, 1865: detailed as a clerk at the Inspector General's\n         office, headquarters, District of the Etowah; February 23,\n         1865: 100-gun salute at noon in honor of \n          George Washington 's birthday (February\n         22); March 1, 1865: characterizes \n          Vermilion, Ohio , as a \"God forsaken\n         hole\"; March 1, 1865: has received a letter from his \n          Iowa girl and boasts she \"is a beauty\"\n         unlike those in \n          Ohio ; he misses being away from \"all\n         kinds of womanhood or girlhood\" and is glad to receive a\n         friendly letter from the fair girls up north\"; March 7, 1865:\n         Colonel Lester [ \n          Frederick W. Lister ] of the \n          31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry is the new\n         inspector general; March 24, 1865: he and his comrades hand\n         over their rations to a woman (a \n          Chattanooga boardinghouse keeper) for\n         proper cooking; April 3, 1865: mentions the capture of \n          Richmond, Virginia ; earns $100 a month\n         plus rations in the quartermaster department; April 16, 1865:\n         mourns Lincoln's assassination and hopes \n          Andrew Johnson will remember his\n         senatorial pledge to hang traitors; encloses a poem calling\n         for vengeance against traitors; soldiers in mourning.","May 4, 1865: wants a wife after his return then will go\n         into business; has learned to ride on horseback; May 10, 1865:\n         printed General Orders No. 3, Major General \n          George H. Thomas , [Army and] Department\n         of the Cumberland, \n          Nashville , praising the \n          4th Army Corps 's review of previous day;\n         in a handwritten postscript Hawxhurst tells family he is well;\n         May 18, 1865: \"had some Photos taken please find Three\n         inclosed for yourself\" [not present]; May 31, 1865: General\n         Grant has telegraphed Indiana Governor \n          Oliver Perry Morton that troops are to be\n         mustered out in \n          Washington for final discharge and pay;\n         mentions surrender of Confederate General \n          Edmund Kirby Smith ; wants to settle in \n          Iowa ; in a faded pencilled postscript he\n         encloses an attached calotype print of \"a woman from \n          Atlanta dont know her got it in the\n         Gallery\" [this letter is filed in an oversize folder]; June 9,\n         1865: the Army of the Cumberland's 3rd Division stacked its\n         arms and refused to go to \n          Texas ; June 17, 1865: \"on board steamer\n         Emma Floyd bound for \n          Texas \"; has been detailed as a clerk at\n         division headquarters [2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army\n         Corps] and appointed to the rank of corporal; received pay of\n         $314.60 while at \n          Nashville ; June 22, 1865: \"on board\n         steamer Indiana near \n          New Orleans \"; compares \n          Mississippi and \n          Ohio rivers; saw alligators; increase in\n         desertions now that the war is over; discusses Joe Wilsey of \n          Berea [Captain \n          Joseph H. Wilsey , \n          65th Ohio ], an abusive brigade\n         adjutant-general who \"I will remember him as long as I live\n         just wait till he and I are both citizens\"; Wilsey assaulted\n         and nearly thrown overboard by angry soldiers.","July 2, 1865: in \n          New Orleans ; unable to write home because\n         \"there is no Sabbath in the Army and especially in Military\n         Office\"; mosquitoes are not a problem, plenty of food,\n         drinking river water; rumors the regiment is to sent to \n          San Antonio, Texas ; July 18, 1865: Letter\n         No. 2--mentions Captain \n          Wilbur F. Hinman ; July 27, 1865: Letter\n         No. 3--is in western \n          Texas but does not know where; July 30,\n         1865: Letter No. 4--describes area of Placido \n          [Placedo] Creek, Victoria County, Texas ;\n         complains eastern troops are being mustered out faster than\n         western troops; August 3, 1865: Letter No. 6--account of daily\n         activities; blames General \n          David Stone Stanley for the 4th Corps'\n         transfer to \n          Texas ; August 13, 1865: Letter No.\n         7--defends card playing as \"innocent relaxation\"; October 7,\n         1865: provides a brief physical description of himself;\n         October 10, 1865: quotes General Stanley's request to General \n          Horatio Wright , commander of the\n         Department of Texas, \n          Galveston , that the 64th and 65th Ohio\n         Infantry regiments be mustered out; October 17, 1865: troops\n         are at work restoring railroad [ \n          San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad ]\n         between Lavaca [ \n          Port Lavaca ] and \n          Victoria ; complains it will be \"turned\n         over to the civil authorities and Rebels will get the benefits\n         of Union Soldiers Labor\"; November 23, 1865: Head Quarters,\n         Central District of Texas, Office Commissary of Musters; has\n         decided to remain \"until all troops are mustered out they need\n         my services in this Office\" December 3, 1865: \n          65th Ohio is on its way home except for\n         Hawxhurst; December 7, 1865: busy mustering out troops; few\n         Union families but many \"Bitter Rebels\" in \n          Texas .","January 10, 1866: expects to be mustered out in February;\n         hopes to establish a bookstore in \n          Victoria because \"the South's the place\n         for a young man to get a start\"; recounts a dream during which\n         he met and married an acquaintance named \n          Maria Garget (?); January 31, 1866:\n         decided to remain in the army until March; asked an \n          Eau Claire, Wisconsin , friend to address\n         letters to Hawxhurst care of \"Rev. J. W. Thompson, Pittsfield,\n         Lorain County, Ohio\"; would like to flirt with the sister of\n         his \n          Iowa young lady (whom he has not heard\n         from in some time); encloses photograph [carte-de-visite]\n         taken at \n          C. Marmu Photograph Gallery , 69 Royal\n         Street, \n          New Orleans (\"it looks cross but it wont\n         bit if you dont tease\") showing a somber Hawxhurst in civilian\n         dress [most likely taken while stationed in \n          New Orleans , July 1865]; February 16,\n         1866: expresses appreciation to his sister and brother-in-law\n         for making him \"a better boy\"; will be home in 15 to 20 days;\n         wants to marry a girl named Ella; worries veterans unable to\n         find work [last Hawxhurst letter].","Charles Plummer Morrill 's letters\n         (1862-1865, 35 items) were written in \n          Maine ( \n          Camp E. D. Keyes and \n          Augusta , September-October 1862), \n          New York ( \n          Camp Maine and East New York, October\n         1862-January 1863, December 1863), \n          Fort Monroe, Virginia (January 1863), \n          Louisiana ( \n          New Orleans and \n          Port Hudson , February and May 1863), and \n          Washington, D.C. (April 14, 1865).\n         Morrill's letters are chiefly to his parents (his father was\n         register of deeds in \n          Franklin County, Maine ; see letter of\n         December 25, 1862) and occasionally his brother \n          George . Morrill\n         was employed in his regiment's hospital department and his\n         letters discuss camp news, visits to various site and\n         miscellaneous subjects. There is a gap in his letters from\n         February 25 to May 29, 1863 and May 31 to December 3, 1863.\n         Also present is an incomplete six-page draft pencil manuscript\n         (pages 3-8) of reminiscences and Lincoln's assassination and\n         three ambrotypes including one of \n          Charles Morrill (1863), an unidentified\n         woman and an unidentified man.","Two letters were not written by Morrill. A March 28, 1864\n         letter from \"Cousin Cyrus\" [ \n          Cyrus Birney ?--see Morrill's November 17,\n         1862 and February 24, 1863 letters] a member of \n          Company D, 1st District of Columbia\n         Cavalry , \n          Camp Baker, Washington , probably to\n         Morrill, inquires about his medical studies, discusses the\n         dangerous aftermath of a mounted reconnaissance, mentions\n         regimental chaplain \n          Samuel H. Merrill of \n          Portland, Maine , visits to the Capitol,\n         Senate and House of Representatives and characterizes\n         describes \n          Washington as \"a marshy hole.\" An undated\n         November 8 from \"Nell\" to \"Mother Morrill\" [daughter-in-law to\n         her mother-in-law?] discusses family matters, appreciates a\n         toy \"nigger baby\" sent to \"May\" from \"Grandma\" and other\n         presents to family for which \n          Charles P. Morrill also expresses his\n         thanks in a postscript. A June 17, 1865 certificate of \n          George H. Morrill 's army discharge, \n          Augusta, Maine , signed by Captain \n          Charles W. White , \n          4th Maine Light Artillery , and a captain\n         of the \n          13th United States Infantry , are also\n         present.","Prominent military officers and civilians mentioned by\n         Morrill include: \n          Nathaniel P. Banks [1816-1894], \n          Henry Ward Beecher [1813-1887], \n          Ambrose P. Burnside [1824-1881] and \n          Franklin S. Nickerson [1826-1917]. Other\n         military personnel mentioned by name include \n          Frederic R. Esterbrook , \n          Roscoe L. Harlow , \n          Ansel J. Libby , \n          John C. Manson , and \n          John A. Moreton (surgeons), Chaplain \n          Frederick A. Hodsdon , \n          Arthur Deering , \n          Samuel S. Brown and \n          Hiram C. Vaughan (captains), Lieutenant \n          John H. True , Lieutenant Colonel \n          Charles T. Bean (24th Maine), Dr. \n          Silas C. Thomas (21st Maine) and Captain \n          Charles W. White ( \n          4th Maine Light Artillery ). \n          Maine military units mentioned are the \n          4th Maine Light Artillery , \n          21st Maine Infantry , 24th Maine ( \n          24th Maine Volunteer Militia ) and \n          28th Maine Infantry .","September 27, 1862: Morrill as a member of \n          Company E, 24th Maine (24th Maine\n         Volunteer Militia); appointed a wardmaster and assigned to\n         Surgeon \n          John C. Manson ; refers to Captain \n          Hiram C. Vaughan of the 24th; October 4,\n         1862: requests clothes; brief mention of his duties; October\n         18, 1862: measles outbreak in the 21st and 28th Maine Infantry\n         regiments; October 28, 1862: witnessed the departure of the\n         21st; promises to \"take care of myself and try and do my\n         duty\"; October 30, 1862: transport of regiment to \n          Boston , \n          Norwich, Connecticut , and \n          New York City .","November 2, 1862: describes sightseeing in \n          New York City ; may hear \n          Henry Ward Beecher preach next Sunday;\n         November 9, 1862: measles continues to spread within 21st and\n         24th Maine Infantry; brief mention of hospital staff; regiment\n         quartered on \n          Long Island southeast of the city of \n          Brooklyn ; attended a \n          New York theater with Lieutenant \n          John H. True of Company E; describes a\n         Democratic voting hall; November 17, 1862: brief comments on a\n         Beecher sermon; accidental mortal wounding of a sergeant by\n         [Captain Vaughan]; mentions seeing \n          Cyrus Birney ; November 30, 1862:\n         describes his daily work routine; December 7, 1862: lameness\n         of Captain \n          Hiram Vaughan may lead to his discharge\n         [part of this letter is missing]; December 14, 1862: visited\n         the 28th Maine's hospital; plans to hear Beecher preach;\n         December 20, 1862: account of a Beecher sermon; Morrill\n         describes his devotionals; three new doctors assigned to the\n         regiment ( \n          Roscoe L. Harlow , \n          Ansel J. Libby and \n          John A. Moreton ); Dr. \n          Silas C. Thomas appointed the 21st Maine's\n         assistant surgeon and Morrill appointed hospital steward;\n         several officers under arrest for signing a petition calling\n         for Colonel \n          George M. Atwood 's resignation, including\n         captains \n          Arthur Deering , \n          Samuel S. Brown and Vaughan; December 25,\n         1862: describes and encloses drawing of the barracks housing\n         the 21st, 24th and 28th Maine regiments; refers to his father\n         as register of deeds for \n          Franklin County, Maine ; questions the\n         honesty and integrity of public and military officials; doubts\n         General \n          Ambrose P. Burnside will ever be\n         successful; Surgeon Libby, Colonel Atwood, and Lt. Col. \n          Charles T. Bean are ill; December 28,\n         1862: Surgeon Libby died of typhoid.","January 4, 1863: he and Surgeon Harlow undertook a walking\n         tour of \n          New York City where they purchased coal;\n         complains about regiment's lack of Sabbath observances;\n         January 11, 1863: regiment has received orders to travel on\n         ship Lizzie Southard; offers his brother advice about parents\n         and girls; January 14, 1863: on board Lizzie Southard, sailing\n         for \n          New Orleans , 700 men aboard; January 19,\n         1863: \"On Board transport Lizzie Southard Off \n          Fort Monroe , \" encloses drawing of ship's\n         position; January 25, 1863: \"Ship Lizzie Southard Off \n          Fortress Monroe, Hampton Roads , \"\n         describes he and Dr. \n          Frederic R. Esterbrook 's visit to the \n          Hampton Hospital ; complains Chaplain \n          Frederick A. Hodsdon resigned as the\n         Southard was about to leave \n          New York ; on Friday [January 23] a man\n         hanged for shooting a Negro; visited \n          Fort Monroe ; steamship Vanderbilt is\n         coaling in preparation to seek out the CSS Alabama; describes\n         presence of two monitors as \"funny looking rafts\"; February\n         13, 1863: has arrived at the \n          Mississippi River and \n          New Orleans ; describes voyage, does not\n         like sea travel; regiment assigned to General \n          Franklin S. Nickerson 's Third Brigade,\n         part of General \n          Nathaniel P. Banks 's \n          Red River Campaign; February 24, 1863:\n         description and drawing of his regiment's camp; death of\n         Assistant Surgeon Esterbrook due to typhoid; mentions \n          Cyrus (Birney ?); saw Gen. Banks and \n          New Orleans sights including statues of \n          Henry Clay and General \n          Andrew Jackson ; citizens are unhappy\n         rebels and \"war has laid its devastating hand with very\n         visible effect on this city.\"","May 30, 1863: writes from \n          Port Hudson with brief mention of the\n         first Union assault against it (May 27); December 31, 1863:\n         writes from \n          Camp Maine, East New York , that he has\n         received an appointment (but does not say exactly what type);\n         plans to study medicine as a student of Surgeon Harlow's.\n         April 14, 1865: writes to his brother from \n          Washington, D.C. , which is celebrating\n         victories over the rebels; saw General Grant; asks how long\n         brother's battery [ \n          4th Maine Light Artillery ] will remain at\n          City Point, Virginia ; adds postscript\n         regarding Lincoln's assassination [final \n          Charles P Morrill letter]."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc/\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":[""],"names_ssim":["University of Virginia. 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Hawxhurst","Charles Plummer Morrill","George Morrill","Charles Morrill","John W.","Mary Thompson","Ulysses S. Grant","Charles G. Harker","John Bell Hood","Andrew Johnson","Abraham Lincoln","George B. McClellan","Oliver Perry Morton","George H. Pendleton","William T. Sherman","Edmund Kirby Smith","David Stone Stanley","George H. Thomas","Horatio Wright","Felix Kirk Zollicoffer","Wilbur F. Hinman","Frederick W. Lister","Ira Pool","Joseph F. Sonnestine","Joseph H. Wilsey","William F. Hawxhurst","J. W. Thompson","M. M. Hawxhurst","Wilbur Hinman","Tom Powell","John Bell Hood's army","George Washington","Maria Garget","George","Cyrus Birney","Samuel H. Merrill","Charles P. Morrill","George H. Morrill","Charles W. White","Nathaniel P. Banks","Henry Ward Beecher","Ambrose P. Burnside","Franklin S. Nickerson","Frederic R. Esterbrook","Roscoe L. Harlow","Ansel J. Libby","John C. Manson","John A. Moreton","Frederick A. Hodsdon","Arthur Deering","Samuel S. Brown","Hiram C. Vaughan","John H. True","Charles T. Bean","Silas C. Thomas","Hiram Vaughan","George M. Atwood","Cyrus (Birney","Henry Clay","Andrew Jackson","Charles P Morrill"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":9,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-01T02:37:21.612Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viu_viu00738","ead_ssi":"viu_viu00738","_root_":"viu_viu00738","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu00738","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/uva-sc/viu00738.xml","title_ssm":["Morrill Civil War Collection \n          1862-1907"],"title_tesim":["Morrill Civil War Collection \n          1862-1907"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["11031"],"text":["11031","Morrill Civil War Collection \n          1862-1907","144 items","This collection consists of 144 items, 1862-1866, 1902\n         \u0026 1907, pertaining to Corporal \n          Wilbur F. Hawxhurst [b. 1845], \n          Company E, 65th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry and \n          Charles Plummer Morrill , \n          24th Maine Infantry , describing their\n         experiences during and after the Civil War in \n          Georgia , \n          Louisiana , \n          New York , \n          Tennessee and \n          Texas . Also present are military\n         discharge papers for Hawxhurst and Morrill's brother \n          George Morrill [b. 1847], a member of the \n          4th Maine Light Artillery , a photograph\n         of Hawxhurst (see his letter of January 31, 1866) and three\n         ambrotypes: \n          Charles Morrill (taken in \n          Memphis, Tennessee , 1863), an\n         unidentified woman and an unidentified man. A calotype print\n         of an unidentified young \n          Atlanta woman is attached to Hawxhurst's\n         letter of May 31, 1865. The letters of Hawxhurst and Morrill\n         are described below as two separate groups.","Wilbur F. Hawxhurst 's letters (1862-1866,\n         1902 \u0026 1907, 109 items) were written in \n          Ohio ( \n          Vermilion , \n          Elyria , \n          Youngstown , July 1862-January 1864), \n          Tennessee ( \n          Chattanooga , \n          Nashville , \n          Columbus Hill , \n          Cleveland , February-August,\n         October-December 1864, January-June 1865), \n          Georgia ( \n          Atlanta , \n          Vining Station [Vinings], \n          Catoosa Springs , August-October 1864), \n          New Orleans (July 1865) and \n          Texas ( \n          Placedo Creek , \n          Victoria County and Camp Irwin, July\n         1865-February 1866).","His letters are chiefly to his brother-in-law and sister\n         Reverend \n          John W. and \n          Mary Thompson (\"Bro \u0026 Sister\") of \n          Richfield, Summit County , and \n          Pittsfield, Lorain County, Ohio (see\n         letters of April 16, 1865 and January 31, 1866); there are\n         nine empty letter envelopes addressed to Reverend Thompson\n         from Hawxhurst. Sometimes Hawxhurst wrote more than one letter\n         on the same day; several letters on \"Office Union Line\n         Express,\" \n          United States Christian Commission , \n          U.S. Sanitary Commission , \n          U.S. Military Telegraph , \"Head-Quarters\n         District of the Etowah,\" \"Head Quarters 2d Division 4th Army\n         Corps,\" \"Head Quarters, Central District of Texas\" and \n          Soldier's Home, Nashville , stationery are\n         present. Topics of discussion include family and local news,\n         complaints about lack of letters, derogatory commentary on\n         African-Americans; the \n          Atlanta Campaign (Hawxhurst was more of a\n         witness than participant), his activities as a hospital nurse,\n         patient and detached duty as a company (chief) clerk at \n          Chattanooga and \n          Nashville, Tennessee , \n          Vining Station [Vinings] and \n          Atlanta, Georgia , \n          New Orleans , and occupation duties in \n          Victoria County, Texas . Select letters\n         from July to August 1865 were numbered by Hawxhurst (1 to 13;\n         some are missing); two Hawxhurst letters (post June 8 and July\n         1864) on \n          U.S. Christian Commission stationery are\n         missing pages.","Prominent military officers and civilians mentioned by\n         Hawxhurst include: \n          Ulysses S. Grant [1822-1885], \n          Charles G. Harker [1835-1864], \n          John Bell Hood [1831-1879], \n          Andrew Johnson [1808-1875], \n          Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865], \n          George B. McClellan [1825-1885], \n          Oliver Perry Morton [1823-1877], \n          George H. Pendleton [1825-1889], \n          William T. Sherman [1820-1890], \n          Edmund Kirby Smith [1824-1893], \n          David Stone Stanley [1828-1902], \n          George H. Thomas [1816-1870], \n          Horatio Wright [1820-1899] and \n          Felix Kirk Zollicoffer [1812-1862].","Hawxhurst discusses various \n          Ohio infantry regiments (the 31st, 38th,\n         64th, 65th) and various military personnel: Captain \n          Wilbur F. Hinman , \n          65th Ohio ; Colonel \n          Frederick W. Lister , \n          31st Ohio ; \n          Ira Pool , \n          Company A, 38th Ohio ; Captain \n          Joseph F. Sonnestine , \n          Company E, 65th Ohio ; Captain \n          Joseph H. Wilsey , \n          65th Ohio . Places or events discussed or\n         described include contemporary events and issues, military\n         camp life, Lincoln's assassination, and the battles of \n          Resaca (May 19, 1864), \n          Nashville (December 19, 1864).","A \"Hawxhurst Miscellaneous\" folders contains nine empty\n         letter envelopes from \n          William F. Hawxhurst to his brother-in-law\n         Reverend \n          J. W. Thompson , 1864-1865, and an October\n         30, 1902 letter from \n          Mary Thompson (Hawxhurst's sister), \n          Copopa(?), Ohio , to her nephew \n          M. M. Hawxhurst of \n          Ann Arbor, Michigan , scolding him and his\n         father (William) for not writing since their last visit and\n         promising to send M. M. a wartime photograph of his father\n         (see letter January 31, 1866). Also present is a February 16,\n         1907 certificate of Hawxhurst's army discharge with an April\n         29, 1880 copy of the record. It attests he was discharged by\n         Captain \n          Joseph F. Sonnestine , \n          Company E, 65th Ohio , on March 3, 1866 in\n          Victoria, Texas .","October 16, 1862: on patriotic stationery; asks about \n          George Morrill (?); lists discharged and\n         drafted men and those who obtained substitutes; is employed as\n         a telegraph operator. January 25, 1863: complains \n          Abraham Lincoln is not respected in \n          Vermilion ; his employer wants him to\n         study bookkeeping and penmanship; July 15, 1863: still a\n         civilian and discusses wages for a job offer; has just heard\n         of \n          Port Hudson 's (Louisiana) surrender [July\n         8, 1863]; November 19, 1863: describes \n          Youngstown and compares it with \n          Richfield (his sister's residence)\n         December 18, 1863: has \"15 regular correspondents\"; earns\n         $25.00 a month; discusses religion.","February 11, 1864: writes from \n          Chattanooga, Tennessee ; is now a soldier\n         employed as a clerk at the headquarters of the District of\n         Etowah; food consists of potatoes \"three times a day,\" beef\n         and pork; April 18, 1864: writes from \n          Nashville ; identifies his unit as \n          Company E, 65th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry ; encloses a piece of stick from the grave\n         of Confederate General \n          Felix Kirk Zollicoffer ; May 4, 1864: hard\n         marching [beginning of \n          Atlanta Campaign]; mentions presence of\n         flocks of \"negroes and white trash\"; describes the weather and\n         countryside of \n          Cleveland, Tennessee ; his brigade heading\n         for \n          Dalton and \n          Atlanta, Georgia ; May 5, 1864: mentions\n         General \n          Charles G. Harker 's orders to the brigade\n         in pursuit of the rebels to \n          Dalton ; description of a hard luck rebel\n         family; May 5, 1864: in camp at \n          Catoosa Springs, Georgia ; Gen. Harker\n         expresses confidence in victory; his company has only 18 men;\n         briefly mentions his equipment, including a revolver; May 19,\n         1864: writes from a general field hospital where he has\n         volunteered [as a nurse] and ordered to accompany wounded to \n          Chattanooga ; mentions the battle of \n          Resaca [May 13-16, 1864]; May 19, 1864:\n         detailed account of his brigade at the battle of \n          Resaca ; mentions his hospital duties,\n         \"They said I was too good a nurse to go back to the field\";\n         May 27, 1864: weather complaints; anxious to return to his\n         regiment; a \n          Chattanooga woman had been told Yankees\n         had \"horns\" on their heads; promises to send Luella (his\n         niece; see December 26, 1864) \"a nigger to play with\"; May 28,\n         1864: describes a patient and \"fine fellow\" \n          Ira Pool [ \n          Edgerton, Fulton County, Ohio ], \n          Co A, 38th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry , wounded at the battle of \n          Missionary Ridge [November 25, 1863];\n         description of the hospital's menu provided by the \n          U.S. Sanitary Commission ; May 30, 1864:\n         predicts Union victory and capture of \n          Richmond by General \n          Ulysses S. Grant .","[Post June 8, 1864]: \n          U.S. Christian\n         Commission stationery--everyone is for Lincoln and \n          Andrew Johnson ; \n          Ira Pool 's father lives in \n          Edgerton [pages are missing from this\n         letter]; July 1, 1864: tells his sister \"I have no earthly\n         friend who I care for except you at home, I have no\n         correspondents except you I have not received a letter from\n         any one in \n          Ohio since I left\"; July 11, 1864: his\n         political and spiritual efforts to convert three rebel\n         patients; expects arrival of 1,000 wounded rebels from General\n          William T. Sherman ; July 13, 1864: delay\n         of his mail due to movements of his brigade, admits he cries\n         when he does not receive mail; fears his diarrhea will become\n         chronic; promotion of Lieutenant \n          Wilbur F. Hinman to captain; tells Luella\n         \"I guess the best plan is to leave the Niggers here\" [see\n         Hawxhurst letter May 27, 1864]; also comments \"I do not feel\n         like coming home till the war is over\"; \n          Ira Pool 's rank is second sergeant [see\n         Hawxhurst letter May 28, 1864]; [July 1864]: on \n          U.S. Christian\n         Commission stationery--misses onions; requests a\n         comb [pages missing from this letter]; August 4, 1864: writes\n         from breastworks at \n          Atlanta and describes them; says \n          Wilbur Hinman is the most thoughtful\n         officer in the company; August 10, 1864: weighs 95 pounds; a\n         doctor describes him as no more than a baby; August 11, 1864: \n          Tom Powell offers to trade 89 acres of\n         land in \n          Royalton, Ohio , for the Hawxhurst house\n         and lot in \n          Berea ; urges his brother to inspect the\n         property first; August 28, 1864: has been sent to the general\n         field hospital at Vining Station [ \n          Vinings], Georgia , because of his poor\n         health; August 31, 1864: on stationery of \n          U.S. Military Telegraph Hawxhurst reports\n         Democratic nomination of General \n          George B. McClellan and \n          George H. Pendleton of \n          Ohio for president and vice-president;\n         says \"Abe\" (Lincoln) rejoices in their nomination because\n         soldiers will support him; August 31, 1864: capture of \n          Atlanta ; tells brother not to worry about\n         the draft.","September 12, 1864: describes \n          Atlanta , General Sherman and General \n          George H. Thomas ; October 29, 1864:\n         inquires about the soldier's vote for Lincoln in \n          Summit County, Ohio ; complains the war\n         has \"hanged on like grim death to a dead Nigger\"; December 13,\n         1864: pursuit of Confederate General \n          John Bell Hood's army ; December 19, 1864:\n         Confederate defeat at the battle of \n          Nashville [December 15-16, 1864]; December\n         26, 1864: asks his niece Luella about her Christmas; December\n         28, 1864: plans to buy land in \n          Crawford County, Iowa , after the war.","January 22, 1865: is homesick and asks for news; February\n         1, 1865: detailed as a clerk at the Inspector General's\n         office, headquarters, District of the Etowah; February 23,\n         1865: 100-gun salute at noon in honor of \n          George Washington 's birthday (February\n         22); March 1, 1865: characterizes \n          Vermilion, Ohio , as a \"God forsaken\n         hole\"; March 1, 1865: has received a letter from his \n          Iowa girl and boasts she \"is a beauty\"\n         unlike those in \n          Ohio ; he misses being away from \"all\n         kinds of womanhood or girlhood\" and is glad to receive a\n         friendly letter from the fair girls up north\"; March 7, 1865:\n         Colonel Lester [ \n          Frederick W. Lister ] of the \n          31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry is the new\n         inspector general; March 24, 1865: he and his comrades hand\n         over their rations to a woman (a \n          Chattanooga boardinghouse keeper) for\n         proper cooking; April 3, 1865: mentions the capture of \n          Richmond, Virginia ; earns $100 a month\n         plus rations in the quartermaster department; April 16, 1865:\n         mourns Lincoln's assassination and hopes \n          Andrew Johnson will remember his\n         senatorial pledge to hang traitors; encloses a poem calling\n         for vengeance against traitors; soldiers in mourning.","May 4, 1865: wants a wife after his return then will go\n         into business; has learned to ride on horseback; May 10, 1865:\n         printed General Orders No. 3, Major General \n          George H. Thomas , [Army and] Department\n         of the Cumberland, \n          Nashville , praising the \n          4th Army Corps 's review of previous day;\n         in a handwritten postscript Hawxhurst tells family he is well;\n         May 18, 1865: \"had some Photos taken please find Three\n         inclosed for yourself\" [not present]; May 31, 1865: General\n         Grant has telegraphed Indiana Governor \n          Oliver Perry Morton that troops are to be\n         mustered out in \n          Washington for final discharge and pay;\n         mentions surrender of Confederate General \n          Edmund Kirby Smith ; wants to settle in \n          Iowa ; in a faded pencilled postscript he\n         encloses an attached calotype print of \"a woman from \n          Atlanta dont know her got it in the\n         Gallery\" [this letter is filed in an oversize folder]; June 9,\n         1865: the Army of the Cumberland's 3rd Division stacked its\n         arms and refused to go to \n          Texas ; June 17, 1865: \"on board steamer\n         Emma Floyd bound for \n          Texas \"; has been detailed as a clerk at\n         division headquarters [2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army\n         Corps] and appointed to the rank of corporal; received pay of\n         $314.60 while at \n          Nashville ; June 22, 1865: \"on board\n         steamer Indiana near \n          New Orleans \"; compares \n          Mississippi and \n          Ohio rivers; saw alligators; increase in\n         desertions now that the war is over; discusses Joe Wilsey of \n          Berea [Captain \n          Joseph H. Wilsey , \n          65th Ohio ], an abusive brigade\n         adjutant-general who \"I will remember him as long as I live\n         just wait till he and I are both citizens\"; Wilsey assaulted\n         and nearly thrown overboard by angry soldiers.","July 2, 1865: in \n          New Orleans ; unable to write home because\n         \"there is no Sabbath in the Army and especially in Military\n         Office\"; mosquitoes are not a problem, plenty of food,\n         drinking river water; rumors the regiment is to sent to \n          San Antonio, Texas ; July 18, 1865: Letter\n         No. 2--mentions Captain \n          Wilbur F. Hinman ; July 27, 1865: Letter\n         No. 3--is in western \n          Texas but does not know where; July 30,\n         1865: Letter No. 4--describes area of Placido \n          [Placedo] Creek, Victoria County, Texas ;\n         complains eastern troops are being mustered out faster than\n         western troops; August 3, 1865: Letter No. 6--account of daily\n         activities; blames General \n          David Stone Stanley for the 4th Corps'\n         transfer to \n          Texas ; August 13, 1865: Letter No.\n         7--defends card playing as \"innocent relaxation\"; October 7,\n         1865: provides a brief physical description of himself;\n         October 10, 1865: quotes General Stanley's request to General \n          Horatio Wright , commander of the\n         Department of Texas, \n          Galveston , that the 64th and 65th Ohio\n         Infantry regiments be mustered out; October 17, 1865: troops\n         are at work restoring railroad [ \n          San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad ]\n         between Lavaca [ \n          Port Lavaca ] and \n          Victoria ; complains it will be \"turned\n         over to the civil authorities and Rebels will get the benefits\n         of Union Soldiers Labor\"; November 23, 1865: Head Quarters,\n         Central District of Texas, Office Commissary of Musters; has\n         decided to remain \"until all troops are mustered out they need\n         my services in this Office\" December 3, 1865: \n          65th Ohio is on its way home except for\n         Hawxhurst; December 7, 1865: busy mustering out troops; few\n         Union families but many \"Bitter Rebels\" in \n          Texas .","January 10, 1866: expects to be mustered out in February;\n         hopes to establish a bookstore in \n          Victoria because \"the South's the place\n         for a young man to get a start\"; recounts a dream during which\n         he met and married an acquaintance named \n          Maria Garget (?); January 31, 1866:\n         decided to remain in the army until March; asked an \n          Eau Claire, Wisconsin , friend to address\n         letters to Hawxhurst care of \"Rev. J. W. Thompson, Pittsfield,\n         Lorain County, Ohio\"; would like to flirt with the sister of\n         his \n          Iowa young lady (whom he has not heard\n         from in some time); encloses photograph [carte-de-visite]\n         taken at \n          C. Marmu Photograph Gallery , 69 Royal\n         Street, \n          New Orleans (\"it looks cross but it wont\n         bit if you dont tease\") showing a somber Hawxhurst in civilian\n         dress [most likely taken while stationed in \n          New Orleans , July 1865]; February 16,\n         1866: expresses appreciation to his sister and brother-in-law\n         for making him \"a better boy\"; will be home in 15 to 20 days;\n         wants to marry a girl named Ella; worries veterans unable to\n         find work [last Hawxhurst letter].","Charles Plummer Morrill 's letters\n         (1862-1865, 35 items) were written in \n          Maine ( \n          Camp E. D. Keyes and \n          Augusta , September-October 1862), \n          New York ( \n          Camp Maine and East New York, October\n         1862-January 1863, December 1863), \n          Fort Monroe, Virginia (January 1863), \n          Louisiana ( \n          New Orleans and \n          Port Hudson , February and May 1863), and \n          Washington, D.C. (April 14, 1865).\n         Morrill's letters are chiefly to his parents (his father was\n         register of deeds in \n          Franklin County, Maine ; see letter of\n         December 25, 1862) and occasionally his brother \n          George . Morrill\n         was employed in his regiment's hospital department and his\n         letters discuss camp news, visits to various site and\n         miscellaneous subjects. There is a gap in his letters from\n         February 25 to May 29, 1863 and May 31 to December 3, 1863.\n         Also present is an incomplete six-page draft pencil manuscript\n         (pages 3-8) of reminiscences and Lincoln's assassination and\n         three ambrotypes including one of \n          Charles Morrill (1863), an unidentified\n         woman and an unidentified man.","Two letters were not written by Morrill. A March 28, 1864\n         letter from \"Cousin Cyrus\" [ \n          Cyrus Birney ?--see Morrill's November 17,\n         1862 and February 24, 1863 letters] a member of \n          Company D, 1st District of Columbia\n         Cavalry , \n          Camp Baker, Washington , probably to\n         Morrill, inquires about his medical studies, discusses the\n         dangerous aftermath of a mounted reconnaissance, mentions\n         regimental chaplain \n          Samuel H. Merrill of \n          Portland, Maine , visits to the Capitol,\n         Senate and House of Representatives and characterizes\n         describes \n          Washington as \"a marshy hole.\" An undated\n         November 8 from \"Nell\" to \"Mother Morrill\" [daughter-in-law to\n         her mother-in-law?] discusses family matters, appreciates a\n         toy \"nigger baby\" sent to \"May\" from \"Grandma\" and other\n         presents to family for which \n          Charles P. Morrill also expresses his\n         thanks in a postscript. A June 17, 1865 certificate of \n          George H. Morrill 's army discharge, \n          Augusta, Maine , signed by Captain \n          Charles W. White , \n          4th Maine Light Artillery , and a captain\n         of the \n          13th United States Infantry , are also\n         present.","Prominent military officers and civilians mentioned by\n         Morrill include: \n          Nathaniel P. Banks [1816-1894], \n          Henry Ward Beecher [1813-1887], \n          Ambrose P. Burnside [1824-1881] and \n          Franklin S. Nickerson [1826-1917]. Other\n         military personnel mentioned by name include \n          Frederic R. Esterbrook , \n          Roscoe L. Harlow , \n          Ansel J. Libby , \n          John C. Manson , and \n          John A. Moreton (surgeons), Chaplain \n          Frederick A. Hodsdon , \n          Arthur Deering , \n          Samuel S. Brown and \n          Hiram C. Vaughan (captains), Lieutenant \n          John H. True , Lieutenant Colonel \n          Charles T. Bean (24th Maine), Dr. \n          Silas C. Thomas (21st Maine) and Captain \n          Charles W. White ( \n          4th Maine Light Artillery ). \n          Maine military units mentioned are the \n          4th Maine Light Artillery , \n          21st Maine Infantry , 24th Maine ( \n          24th Maine Volunteer Militia ) and \n          28th Maine Infantry .","September 27, 1862: Morrill as a member of \n          Company E, 24th Maine (24th Maine\n         Volunteer Militia); appointed a wardmaster and assigned to\n         Surgeon \n          John C. Manson ; refers to Captain \n          Hiram C. Vaughan of the 24th; October 4,\n         1862: requests clothes; brief mention of his duties; October\n         18, 1862: measles outbreak in the 21st and 28th Maine Infantry\n         regiments; October 28, 1862: witnessed the departure of the\n         21st; promises to \"take care of myself and try and do my\n         duty\"; October 30, 1862: transport of regiment to \n          Boston , \n          Norwich, Connecticut , and \n          New York City .","November 2, 1862: describes sightseeing in \n          New York City ; may hear \n          Henry Ward Beecher preach next Sunday;\n         November 9, 1862: measles continues to spread within 21st and\n         24th Maine Infantry; brief mention of hospital staff; regiment\n         quartered on \n          Long Island southeast of the city of \n          Brooklyn ; attended a \n          New York theater with Lieutenant \n          John H. True of Company E; describes a\n         Democratic voting hall; November 17, 1862: brief comments on a\n         Beecher sermon; accidental mortal wounding of a sergeant by\n         [Captain Vaughan]; mentions seeing \n          Cyrus Birney ; November 30, 1862:\n         describes his daily work routine; December 7, 1862: lameness\n         of Captain \n          Hiram Vaughan may lead to his discharge\n         [part of this letter is missing]; December 14, 1862: visited\n         the 28th Maine's hospital; plans to hear Beecher preach;\n         December 20, 1862: account of a Beecher sermon; Morrill\n         describes his devotionals; three new doctors assigned to the\n         regiment ( \n          Roscoe L. Harlow , \n          Ansel J. Libby and \n          John A. Moreton ); Dr. \n          Silas C. Thomas appointed the 21st Maine's\n         assistant surgeon and Morrill appointed hospital steward;\n         several officers under arrest for signing a petition calling\n         for Colonel \n          George M. Atwood 's resignation, including\n         captains \n          Arthur Deering , \n          Samuel S. Brown and Vaughan; December 25,\n         1862: describes and encloses drawing of the barracks housing\n         the 21st, 24th and 28th Maine regiments; refers to his father\n         as register of deeds for \n          Franklin County, Maine ; questions the\n         honesty and integrity of public and military officials; doubts\n         General \n          Ambrose P. Burnside will ever be\n         successful; Surgeon Libby, Colonel Atwood, and Lt. Col. \n          Charles T. Bean are ill; December 28,\n         1862: Surgeon Libby died of typhoid.","January 4, 1863: he and Surgeon Harlow undertook a walking\n         tour of \n          New York City where they purchased coal;\n         complains about regiment's lack of Sabbath observances;\n         January 11, 1863: regiment has received orders to travel on\n         ship Lizzie Southard; offers his brother advice about parents\n         and girls; January 14, 1863: on board Lizzie Southard, sailing\n         for \n          New Orleans , 700 men aboard; January 19,\n         1863: \"On Board transport Lizzie Southard Off \n          Fort Monroe , \" encloses drawing of ship's\n         position; January 25, 1863: \"Ship Lizzie Southard Off \n          Fortress Monroe, Hampton Roads , \"\n         describes he and Dr. \n          Frederic R. Esterbrook 's visit to the \n          Hampton Hospital ; complains Chaplain \n          Frederick A. Hodsdon resigned as the\n         Southard was about to leave \n          New York ; on Friday [January 23] a man\n         hanged for shooting a Negro; visited \n          Fort Monroe ; steamship Vanderbilt is\n         coaling in preparation to seek out the CSS Alabama; describes\n         presence of two monitors as \"funny looking rafts\"; February\n         13, 1863: has arrived at the \n          Mississippi River and \n          New Orleans ; describes voyage, does not\n         like sea travel; regiment assigned to General \n          Franklin S. Nickerson 's Third Brigade,\n         part of General \n          Nathaniel P. Banks 's \n          Red River Campaign; February 24, 1863:\n         description and drawing of his regiment's camp; death of\n         Assistant Surgeon Esterbrook due to typhoid; mentions \n          Cyrus (Birney ?); saw Gen. Banks and \n          New Orleans sights including statues of \n          Henry Clay and General \n          Andrew Jackson ; citizens are unhappy\n         rebels and \"war has laid its devastating hand with very\n         visible effect on this city.\"","May 30, 1863: writes from \n          Port Hudson with brief mention of the\n         first Union assault against it (May 27); December 31, 1863:\n         writes from \n          Camp Maine, East New York , that he has\n         received an appointment (but does not say exactly what type);\n         plans to study medicine as a student of Surgeon Harlow's.\n         April 14, 1865: writes to his brother from \n          Washington, D.C. , which is celebrating\n         victories over the rebels; saw General Grant; asks how long\n         brother's battery [ \n          4th Maine Light Artillery ] will remain at\n          City Point, Virginia ; adds postscript\n         regarding Lincoln's assassination [final \n          Charles P Morrill letter].","","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","Company E, 65th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry","24th Maine Infantry","4th Maine Light Artillery","United States Christian Commission","U.S. Sanitary Commission","U.S. Military Telegraph","Soldier's Home, Nashville","U.S. Christian Commission","65th Ohio","31st Ohio","Company A, 38th Ohio","Company E, 65th Ohio","Co A, 38th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry","U.S. Christian\n         Commission","31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry","4th Army Corps","San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad","C. Marmu Photograph Gallery","Company D, 1st District of Columbia\n         Cavalry","13th United States Infantry","21st Maine Infantry","24th Maine Volunteer Militia","28th Maine Infantry","Company E, 24th Maine","Hampton Hospital","Wilbur F. Hawxhurst","Charles Plummer Morrill","George Morrill","Charles Morrill","John W.","Mary Thompson","Ulysses S. Grant","Charles G. Harker","John Bell Hood","Andrew Johnson","Abraham Lincoln","George B. McClellan","Oliver Perry Morton","George H. Pendleton","William T. Sherman","Edmund Kirby Smith","David Stone Stanley","George H. Thomas","Horatio Wright","Felix Kirk Zollicoffer","Wilbur F. Hinman","Frederick W. Lister","Ira Pool","Joseph F. Sonnestine","Joseph H. Wilsey","William F. Hawxhurst","J. W. Thompson","M. M. Hawxhurst","Wilbur Hinman","Tom Powell","John Bell Hood's army","George Washington","Maria Garget","George","Cyrus Birney","Samuel H. Merrill","Charles P. Morrill","George H. Morrill","Charles W. White","Nathaniel P. Banks","Henry Ward Beecher","Ambrose P. Burnside","Franklin S. Nickerson","Frederic R. Esterbrook","Roscoe L. Harlow","Ansel J. Libby","John C. Manson","John A. Moreton","Frederick A. Hodsdon","Arthur Deering","Samuel S. Brown","Hiram C. Vaughan","John H. True","Charles T. Bean","Silas C. Thomas","Hiram Vaughan","George M. Atwood","Cyrus (Birney","Henry Clay","Andrew Jackson","Charles P Morrill","English"],"unitid_tesim":["11031"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Morrill Civil War Collection \n          1862-1907"],"collection_title_tesim":["Morrill Civil War Collection \n          1862-1907"],"collection_ssim":["Morrill Civil War Collection \n          1862-1907"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":["Charles F.\n         Morrill"],"creator_ssim":["Charles F.\n         Morrill"],"acqinfo_ssim":["The Morrill Civil War Collection was placed on deposit\n            in the Library by Mr. Charles F. Morrill of\n            Charlottesville, Virginia, on February 27, 1992."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["144 items"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of 144 items, 1862-1866, 1902\n         \u0026amp; 1907, pertaining to Corporal \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilbur F. Hawxhurst\u003c/persname\u003e[b. 1845], \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCompany E, 65th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry\u003c/corpname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Plummer Morrill\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e24th Maine Infantry\u003c/corpname\u003e, describing their\n         experiences during and after the Civil War in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eGeorgia\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eLouisiana\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew York\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTennessee\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTexas\u003c/geogname\u003e. Also present are military\n         discharge papers for Hawxhurst and Morrill's brother \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Morrill\u003c/persname\u003e[b. 1847], a member of the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e4th Maine Light Artillery\u003c/corpname\u003e, a photograph\n         of Hawxhurst (see his letter of January 31, 1866) and three\n         ambrotypes: \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Morrill\u003c/persname\u003e(taken in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eMemphis, Tennessee\u003c/geogname\u003e, 1863), an\n         unidentified woman and an unidentified man. A calotype print\n         of an unidentified young \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta\u003c/geogname\u003ewoman is attached to Hawxhurst's\n         letter of May 31, 1865. The letters of Hawxhurst and Morrill\n         are described below as two separate groups.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eWilbur F. Hawxhurst\u003c/persname\u003e's letters (1862-1866,\n         1902 \u0026amp; 1907, 109 items) were written in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eOhio\u003c/geogname\u003e( \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVermilion\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eElyria\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eYoungstown\u003c/geogname\u003e, July 1862-January 1864), \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTennessee\u003c/geogname\u003e( \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eChattanooga\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNashville\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eColumbus Hill\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCleveland\u003c/geogname\u003e, February-August,\n         October-December 1864, January-June 1865), \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eGeorgia\u003c/geogname\u003e( \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVining Station\u003c/geogname\u003e[Vinings], \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCatoosa Springs\u003c/geogname\u003e, August-October 1864), \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e(July 1865) and \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTexas\u003c/geogname\u003e( \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePlacedo Creek\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVictoria County\u003c/geogname\u003eand Camp Irwin, July\n         1865-February 1866).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis letters are chiefly to his brother-in-law and sister\n         Reverend \n         \u003cpersname normal=\"John W. Thompson\"\u003eJohn W.\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eMary Thompson\u003c/persname\u003e(\"Bro \u0026amp; Sister\") of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eRichfield, Summit County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePittsfield, Lorain County, Ohio\u003c/geogname\u003e(see\n         letters of April 16, 1865 and January 31, 1866); there are\n         nine empty letter envelopes addressed to Reverend Thompson\n         from Hawxhurst. Sometimes Hawxhurst wrote more than one letter\n         on the same day; several letters on \"Office Union Line\n         Express,\" \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eUnited States Christian Commission\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Sanitary Commission\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Military Telegraph\u003c/corpname\u003e, \"Head-Quarters\n         District of the Etowah,\" \"Head Quarters 2d Division 4th Army\n         Corps,\" \"Head Quarters, Central District of Texas\" and \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eSoldier's Home, Nashville\u003c/corpname\u003e, stationery are\n         present. Topics of discussion include family and local news,\n         complaints about lack of letters, derogatory commentary on\n         African-Americans; the \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta Campaign\u003c/geogname\u003e(Hawxhurst was more of a\n         witness than participant), his activities as a hospital nurse,\n         patient and detached duty as a company (chief) clerk at \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eChattanooga\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNashville, Tennessee\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVining Station\u003c/geogname\u003e[Vinings] and \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta, Georgia\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e, and occupation duties in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVictoria County, Texas\u003c/geogname\u003e. Select letters\n         from July to August 1865 were numbered by Hawxhurst (1 to 13;\n         some are missing); two Hawxhurst letters (post June 8 and July\n         1864) on \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Christian Commission\u003c/corpname\u003estationery are\n         missing pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProminent military officers and civilians mentioned by\n         Hawxhurst include: \n         \u003cpersname\u003eUlysses S. Grant\u003c/persname\u003e[1822-1885], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles G. Harker\u003c/persname\u003e[1835-1864], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Bell Hood\u003c/persname\u003e[1831-1879], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAndrew Johnson\u003c/persname\u003e[1808-1875], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c/persname\u003e[1809-1865], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge B. McClellan\u003c/persname\u003e[1825-1885], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eOliver Perry Morton\u003c/persname\u003e[1823-1877], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge H. Pendleton\u003c/persname\u003e[1825-1889], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam T. Sherman\u003c/persname\u003e[1820-1890], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eEdmund Kirby Smith\u003c/persname\u003e[1824-1893], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eDavid Stone Stanley\u003c/persname\u003e[1828-1902], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge H. Thomas\u003c/persname\u003e[1816-1870], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Wright\u003c/persname\u003e[1820-1899] and \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFelix Kirk Zollicoffer\u003c/persname\u003e[1812-1862].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHawxhurst discusses various \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eOhio\u003c/geogname\u003einfantry regiments (the 31st, 38th,\n         64th, 65th) and various military personnel: Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilbur F. Hinman\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e65th Ohio\u003c/corpname\u003e; Colonel \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFrederick W. Lister\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e31st Ohio\u003c/corpname\u003e; \n         \u003cpersname\u003eIra Pool\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCompany A, 38th Ohio\u003c/corpname\u003e; Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph F. Sonnestine\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCompany E, 65th Ohio\u003c/corpname\u003e; Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph H. Wilsey\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e65th Ohio\u003c/corpname\u003e. Places or events discussed or\n         described include contemporary events and issues, military\n         camp life, Lincoln's assassination, and the battles of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eResaca\u003c/geogname\u003e(May 19, 1864), \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNashville\u003c/geogname\u003e(December 19, 1864).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA \"Hawxhurst Miscellaneous\" folders contains nine empty\n         letter envelopes from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam F. Hawxhurst\u003c/persname\u003eto his brother-in-law\n         Reverend \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJ. W. Thompson\u003c/persname\u003e, 1864-1865, and an October\n         30, 1902 letter from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eMary Thompson\u003c/persname\u003e(Hawxhurst's sister), \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCopopa(?), Ohio\u003c/geogname\u003e, to her nephew \n         \u003cpersname\u003eM. M. Hawxhurst\u003c/persname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAnn Arbor, Michigan\u003c/geogname\u003e, scolding him and his\n         father (William) for not writing since their last visit and\n         promising to send M. M. a wartime photograph of his father\n         (see letter January 31, 1866). Also present is a February 16,\n         1907 certificate of Hawxhurst's army discharge with an April\n         29, 1880 copy of the record. It attests he was discharged by\n         Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph F. Sonnestine\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCompany E, 65th Ohio\u003c/corpname\u003e, on March 3, 1866 in\n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVictoria, Texas\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOctober 16, 1862: on patriotic stationery; asks about \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Morrill\u003c/persname\u003e(?); lists discharged and\n         drafted men and those who obtained substitutes; is employed as\n         a telegraph operator. January 25, 1863: complains \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c/persname\u003eis not respected in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVermilion\u003c/geogname\u003e; his employer wants him to\n         study bookkeeping and penmanship; July 15, 1863: still a\n         civilian and discusses wages for a job offer; has just heard\n         of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePort Hudson\u003c/geogname\u003e's (Louisiana) surrender [July\n         8, 1863]; November 19, 1863: describes \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eYoungstown\u003c/geogname\u003eand compares it with \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eRichfield\u003c/geogname\u003e(his sister's residence)\n         December 18, 1863: has \"15 regular correspondents\"; earns\n         $25.00 a month; discusses religion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFebruary 11, 1864: writes from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eChattanooga, Tennessee\u003c/geogname\u003e; is now a soldier\n         employed as a clerk at the headquarters of the District of\n         Etowah; food consists of potatoes \"three times a day,\" beef\n         and pork; April 18, 1864: writes from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNashville\u003c/geogname\u003e; identifies his unit as \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCompany E, 65th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry\u003c/corpname\u003e; encloses a piece of stick from the grave\n         of Confederate General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFelix Kirk Zollicoffer\u003c/persname\u003e; May 4, 1864: hard\n         marching [beginning of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta\u003c/geogname\u003eCampaign]; mentions presence of\n         flocks of \"negroes and white trash\"; describes the weather and\n         countryside of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCleveland, Tennessee\u003c/geogname\u003e; his brigade heading\n         for \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eDalton\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta, Georgia\u003c/geogname\u003e; May 5, 1864: mentions\n         General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles G. Harker\u003c/persname\u003e's orders to the brigade\n         in pursuit of the rebels to \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eDalton\u003c/geogname\u003e; description of a hard luck rebel\n         family; May 5, 1864: in camp at \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCatoosa Springs, Georgia\u003c/geogname\u003e; Gen. Harker\n         expresses confidence in victory; his company has only 18 men;\n         briefly mentions his equipment, including a revolver; May 19,\n         1864: writes from a general field hospital where he has\n         volunteered [as a nurse] and ordered to accompany wounded to \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eChattanooga\u003c/geogname\u003e; mentions the battle of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eResaca\u003c/geogname\u003e[May 13-16, 1864]; May 19, 1864:\n         detailed account of his brigade at the battle of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eResaca\u003c/geogname\u003e; mentions his hospital duties,\n         \"They said I was too good a nurse to go back to the field\";\n         May 27, 1864: weather complaints; anxious to return to his\n         regiment; a \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eChattanooga\u003c/geogname\u003ewoman had been told Yankees\n         had \"horns\" on their heads; promises to send Luella (his\n         niece; see December 26, 1864) \"a nigger to play with\"; May 28,\n         1864: describes a patient and \"fine fellow\" \n         \u003cpersname\u003eIra Pool\u003c/persname\u003e[ \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eEdgerton, Fulton County, Ohio\u003c/geogname\u003e], \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCo A, 38th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry\u003c/corpname\u003e, wounded at the battle of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eMissionary Ridge\u003c/geogname\u003e[November 25, 1863];\n         description of the hospital's menu provided by the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Sanitary Commission\u003c/corpname\u003e; May 30, 1864:\n         predicts Union victory and capture of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003eby General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eUlysses S. Grant\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Post June 8, 1864]: \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Christian\n         Commission\u003c/corpname\u003estationery--everyone is for Lincoln and \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAndrew Johnson\u003c/persname\u003e; \n         \u003cpersname\u003eIra Pool\u003c/persname\u003e's father lives in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eEdgerton\u003c/geogname\u003e[pages are missing from this\n         letter]; July 1, 1864: tells his sister \"I have no earthly\n         friend who I care for except you at home, I have no\n         correspondents except you I have not received a letter from\n         any one in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eOhio\u003c/geogname\u003esince I left\"; July 11, 1864: his\n         political and spiritual efforts to convert three rebel\n         patients; expects arrival of 1,000 wounded rebels from General\n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam T. Sherman\u003c/persname\u003e; July 13, 1864: delay\n         of his mail due to movements of his brigade, admits he cries\n         when he does not receive mail; fears his diarrhea will become\n         chronic; promotion of Lieutenant \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilbur F. Hinman\u003c/persname\u003eto captain; tells Luella\n         \"I guess the best plan is to leave the Niggers here\" [see\n         Hawxhurst letter May 27, 1864]; also comments \"I do not feel\n         like coming home till the war is over\"; \n         \u003cpersname\u003eIra Pool\u003c/persname\u003e's rank is second sergeant [see\n         Hawxhurst letter May 28, 1864]; [July 1864]: on \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Christian\n         Commission\u003c/corpname\u003estationery--misses onions; requests a\n         comb [pages missing from this letter]; August 4, 1864: writes\n         from breastworks at \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta\u003c/geogname\u003eand describes them; says \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilbur Hinman\u003c/persname\u003eis the most thoughtful\n         officer in the company; August 10, 1864: weighs 95 pounds; a\n         doctor describes him as no more than a baby; August 11, 1864: \n         \u003cpersname\u003eTom Powell\u003c/persname\u003eoffers to trade 89 acres of\n         land in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eRoyalton, Ohio\u003c/geogname\u003e, for the Hawxhurst house\n         and lot in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBerea\u003c/geogname\u003e; urges his brother to inspect the\n         property first; August 28, 1864: has been sent to the general\n         field hospital at Vining Station [ \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVinings], Georgia\u003c/geogname\u003e, because of his poor\n         health; August 31, 1864: on stationery of \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Military Telegraph\u003c/corpname\u003eHawxhurst reports\n         Democratic nomination of General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge B. McClellan\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge H. Pendleton\u003c/persname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eOhio\u003c/geogname\u003efor president and vice-president;\n         says \"Abe\" (Lincoln) rejoices in their nomination because\n         soldiers will support him; August 31, 1864: capture of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta\u003c/geogname\u003e; tells brother not to worry about\n         the draft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeptember 12, 1864: describes \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta\u003c/geogname\u003e, General Sherman and General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge H. Thomas\u003c/persname\u003e; October 29, 1864:\n         inquires about the soldier's vote for Lincoln in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eSummit County, Ohio\u003c/geogname\u003e; complains the war\n         has \"hanged on like grim death to a dead Nigger\"; December 13,\n         1864: pursuit of Confederate General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Bell Hood's army\u003c/persname\u003e; December 19, 1864:\n         Confederate defeat at the battle of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNashville\u003c/geogname\u003e[December 15-16, 1864]; December\n         26, 1864: asks his niece Luella about her Christmas; December\n         28, 1864: plans to buy land in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCrawford County, Iowa\u003c/geogname\u003e, after the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJanuary 22, 1865: is homesick and asks for news; February\n         1, 1865: detailed as a clerk at the Inspector General's\n         office, headquarters, District of the Etowah; February 23,\n         1865: 100-gun salute at noon in honor of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003e's birthday (February\n         22); March 1, 1865: characterizes \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVermilion, Ohio\u003c/geogname\u003e, as a \"God forsaken\n         hole\"; March 1, 1865: has received a letter from his \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eIowa\u003c/geogname\u003egirl and boasts she \"is a beauty\"\n         unlike those in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eOhio\u003c/geogname\u003e; he misses being away from \"all\n         kinds of womanhood or girlhood\" and is glad to receive a\n         friendly letter from the fair girls up north\"; March 7, 1865:\n         Colonel Lester [ \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFrederick W. Lister\u003c/persname\u003e] of the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry\u003c/corpname\u003eis the new\n         inspector general; March 24, 1865: he and his comrades hand\n         over their rations to a woman (a \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eChattanooga\u003c/geogname\u003eboardinghouse keeper) for\n         proper cooking; April 3, 1865: mentions the capture of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e; earns $100 a month\n         plus rations in the quartermaster department; April 16, 1865:\n         mourns Lincoln's assassination and hopes \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAndrew Johnson\u003c/persname\u003ewill remember his\n         senatorial pledge to hang traitors; encloses a poem calling\n         for vengeance against traitors; soldiers in mourning.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMay 4, 1865: wants a wife after his return then will go\n         into business; has learned to ride on horseback; May 10, 1865:\n         printed General Orders No. 3, Major General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge H. Thomas\u003c/persname\u003e, [Army and] Department\n         of the Cumberland, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNashville\u003c/geogname\u003e, praising the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e4th Army Corps\u003c/corpname\u003e's review of previous day;\n         in a handwritten postscript Hawxhurst tells family he is well;\n         May 18, 1865: \"had some Photos taken please find Three\n         inclosed for yourself\" [not present]; May 31, 1865: General\n         Grant has telegraphed Indiana Governor \n         \u003cpersname\u003eOliver Perry Morton\u003c/persname\u003ethat troops are to be\n         mustered out in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eWashington\u003c/geogname\u003efor final discharge and pay;\n         mentions surrender of Confederate General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eEdmund Kirby Smith\u003c/persname\u003e; wants to settle in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eIowa\u003c/geogname\u003e; in a faded pencilled postscript he\n         encloses an attached calotype print of \"a woman from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlanta\u003c/geogname\u003edont know her got it in the\n         Gallery\" [this letter is filed in an oversize folder]; June 9,\n         1865: the Army of the Cumberland's 3rd Division stacked its\n         arms and refused to go to \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTexas\u003c/geogname\u003e; June 17, 1865: \"on board steamer\n         Emma Floyd bound for \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTexas\u003c/geogname\u003e\"; has been detailed as a clerk at\n         division headquarters [2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army\n         Corps] and appointed to the rank of corporal; received pay of\n         $314.60 while at \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNashville\u003c/geogname\u003e; June 22, 1865: \"on board\n         steamer Indiana near \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e\"; compares \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eMississippi\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eOhio\u003c/geogname\u003erivers; saw alligators; increase in\n         desertions now that the war is over; discusses Joe Wilsey of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBerea\u003c/geogname\u003e[Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph H. Wilsey\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e65th Ohio\u003c/corpname\u003e], an abusive brigade\n         adjutant-general who \"I will remember him as long as I live\n         just wait till he and I are both citizens\"; Wilsey assaulted\n         and nearly thrown overboard by angry soldiers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJuly 2, 1865: in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e; unable to write home because\n         \"there is no Sabbath in the Army and especially in Military\n         Office\"; mosquitoes are not a problem, plenty of food,\n         drinking river water; rumors the regiment is to sent to \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eSan Antonio, Texas\u003c/geogname\u003e; July 18, 1865: Letter\n         No. 2--mentions Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilbur F. Hinman\u003c/persname\u003e; July 27, 1865: Letter\n         No. 3--is in western \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTexas\u003c/geogname\u003ebut does not know where; July 30,\n         1865: Letter No. 4--describes area of Placido \n         \u003cgeogname\u003e[Placedo] Creek, Victoria County, Texas\u003c/geogname\u003e;\n         complains eastern troops are being mustered out faster than\n         western troops; August 3, 1865: Letter No. 6--account of daily\n         activities; blames General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eDavid Stone Stanley\u003c/persname\u003efor the 4th Corps'\n         transfer to \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTexas\u003c/geogname\u003e; August 13, 1865: Letter No.\n         7--defends card playing as \"innocent relaxation\"; October 7,\n         1865: provides a brief physical description of himself;\n         October 10, 1865: quotes General Stanley's request to General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHoratio Wright\u003c/persname\u003e, commander of the\n         Department of Texas, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eGalveston\u003c/geogname\u003e, that the 64th and 65th Ohio\n         Infantry regiments be mustered out; October 17, 1865: troops\n         are at work restoring railroad [ \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eSan Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad\u003c/corpname\u003e]\n         between Lavaca [ \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePort Lavaca\u003c/geogname\u003e] and \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVictoria\u003c/geogname\u003e; complains it will be \"turned\n         over to the civil authorities and Rebels will get the benefits\n         of Union Soldiers Labor\"; November 23, 1865: Head Quarters,\n         Central District of Texas, Office Commissary of Musters; has\n         decided to remain \"until all troops are mustered out they need\n         my services in this Office\" December 3, 1865: \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e65th Ohio\u003c/corpname\u003eis on its way home except for\n         Hawxhurst; December 7, 1865: busy mustering out troops; few\n         Union families but many \"Bitter Rebels\" in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTexas\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJanuary 10, 1866: expects to be mustered out in February;\n         hopes to establish a bookstore in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVictoria\u003c/geogname\u003ebecause \"the South's the place\n         for a young man to get a start\"; recounts a dream during which\n         he met and married an acquaintance named \n         \u003cpersname\u003eMaria Garget\u003c/persname\u003e(?); January 31, 1866:\n         decided to remain in the army until March; asked an \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eEau Claire, Wisconsin\u003c/geogname\u003e, friend to address\n         letters to Hawxhurst care of \"Rev. J. W. Thompson, Pittsfield,\n         Lorain County, Ohio\"; would like to flirt with the sister of\n         his \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eIowa\u003c/geogname\u003eyoung lady (whom he has not heard\n         from in some time); encloses photograph [carte-de-visite]\n         taken at \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eC. Marmu Photograph Gallery\u003c/corpname\u003e, 69 Royal\n         Street, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e(\"it looks cross but it wont\n         bit if you dont tease\") showing a somber Hawxhurst in civilian\n         dress [most likely taken while stationed in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e, July 1865]; February 16,\n         1866: expresses appreciation to his sister and brother-in-law\n         for making him \"a better boy\"; will be home in 15 to 20 days;\n         wants to marry a girl named Ella; worries veterans unable to\n         find work [last Hawxhurst letter].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eCharles Plummer Morrill\u003c/persname\u003e's letters\n         (1862-1865, 35 items) were written in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eMaine\u003c/geogname\u003e( \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCamp E. D. Keyes\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAugusta\u003c/geogname\u003e, September-October 1862), \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew York\u003c/geogname\u003e( \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCamp Maine\u003c/geogname\u003eand East New York, October\n         1862-January 1863, December 1863), \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eFort Monroe, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e(January 1863), \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eLouisiana\u003c/geogname\u003e( \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePort Hudson\u003c/geogname\u003e, February and May 1863), and \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eWashington, D.C.\u003c/geogname\u003e(April 14, 1865).\n         Morrill's letters are chiefly to his parents (his father was\n         register of deeds in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eFranklin County, Maine\u003c/geogname\u003e; see letter of\n         December 25, 1862) and occasionally his brother \n         \u003cpersname normal=\"George Morrill\"\u003eGeorge\u003c/persname\u003e. Morrill\n         was employed in his regiment's hospital department and his\n         letters discuss camp news, visits to various site and\n         miscellaneous subjects. There is a gap in his letters from\n         February 25 to May 29, 1863 and May 31 to December 3, 1863.\n         Also present is an incomplete six-page draft pencil manuscript\n         (pages 3-8) of reminiscences and Lincoln's assassination and\n         three ambrotypes including one of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Morrill\u003c/persname\u003e(1863), an unidentified\n         woman and an unidentified man.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters were not written by Morrill. A March 28, 1864\n         letter from \"Cousin Cyrus\" [ \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCyrus Birney\u003c/persname\u003e?--see Morrill's November 17,\n         1862 and February 24, 1863 letters] a member of \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCompany D, 1st District of Columbia\n         Cavalry\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCamp Baker, Washington\u003c/geogname\u003e, probably to\n         Morrill, inquires about his medical studies, discusses the\n         dangerous aftermath of a mounted reconnaissance, mentions\n         regimental chaplain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel H. Merrill\u003c/persname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePortland, Maine\u003c/geogname\u003e, visits to the Capitol,\n         Senate and House of Representatives and characterizes\n         describes \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eWashington\u003c/geogname\u003eas \"a marshy hole.\" An undated\n         November 8 from \"Nell\" to \"Mother Morrill\" [daughter-in-law to\n         her mother-in-law?] discusses family matters, appreciates a\n         toy \"nigger baby\" sent to \"May\" from \"Grandma\" and other\n         presents to family for which \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles P. Morrill\u003c/persname\u003ealso expresses his\n         thanks in a postscript. A June 17, 1865 certificate of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge H. Morrill\u003c/persname\u003e's army discharge, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAugusta, Maine\u003c/geogname\u003e, signed by Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles W. White\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e4th Maine Light Artillery\u003c/corpname\u003e, and a captain\n         of the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e13th United States Infantry\u003c/corpname\u003e, are also\n         present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProminent military officers and civilians mentioned by\n         Morrill include: \n         \u003cpersname\u003eNathaniel P. Banks\u003c/persname\u003e[1816-1894], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Ward Beecher\u003c/persname\u003e[1813-1887], \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAmbrose P. Burnside\u003c/persname\u003e[1824-1881] and \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFranklin S. Nickerson\u003c/persname\u003e[1826-1917]. Other\n         military personnel mentioned by name include \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFrederic R. Esterbrook\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eRoscoe L. Harlow\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAnsel J. Libby\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn C. Manson\u003c/persname\u003e, and \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn A. Moreton\u003c/persname\u003e(surgeons), Chaplain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFrederick A. Hodsdon\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eArthur Deering\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel S. Brown\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHiram C. Vaughan\u003c/persname\u003e(captains), Lieutenant \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn H. True\u003c/persname\u003e, Lieutenant Colonel \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles T. Bean\u003c/persname\u003e(24th Maine), Dr. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSilas C. Thomas\u003c/persname\u003e(21st Maine) and Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles W. White\u003c/persname\u003e( \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e4th Maine Light Artillery\u003c/corpname\u003e). \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eMaine\u003c/geogname\u003emilitary units mentioned are the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e4th Maine Light Artillery\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e21st Maine Infantry\u003c/corpname\u003e, 24th Maine ( \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e24th Maine Volunteer Militia\u003c/corpname\u003e) and \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e28th Maine Infantry\u003c/corpname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeptember 27, 1862: Morrill as a member of \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCompany E, 24th Maine\u003c/corpname\u003e(24th Maine\n         Volunteer Militia); appointed a wardmaster and assigned to\n         Surgeon \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn C. Manson\u003c/persname\u003e; refers to Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHiram C. Vaughan\u003c/persname\u003eof the 24th; October 4,\n         1862: requests clothes; brief mention of his duties; October\n         18, 1862: measles outbreak in the 21st and 28th Maine Infantry\n         regiments; October 28, 1862: witnessed the departure of the\n         21st; promises to \"take care of myself and try and do my\n         duty\"; October 30, 1862: transport of regiment to \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBoston\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNorwich, Connecticut\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew York City\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNovember 2, 1862: describes sightseeing in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew York City\u003c/geogname\u003e; may hear \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Ward Beecher\u003c/persname\u003epreach next Sunday;\n         November 9, 1862: measles continues to spread within 21st and\n         24th Maine Infantry; brief mention of hospital staff; regiment\n         quartered on \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eLong Island\u003c/geogname\u003esoutheast of the city of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBrooklyn\u003c/geogname\u003e; attended a \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew York\u003c/geogname\u003etheater with Lieutenant \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn H. True\u003c/persname\u003eof Company E; describes a\n         Democratic voting hall; November 17, 1862: brief comments on a\n         Beecher sermon; accidental mortal wounding of a sergeant by\n         [Captain Vaughan]; mentions seeing \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCyrus Birney\u003c/persname\u003e; November 30, 1862:\n         describes his daily work routine; December 7, 1862: lameness\n         of Captain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHiram Vaughan\u003c/persname\u003emay lead to his discharge\n         [part of this letter is missing]; December 14, 1862: visited\n         the 28th Maine's hospital; plans to hear Beecher preach;\n         December 20, 1862: account of a Beecher sermon; Morrill\n         describes his devotionals; three new doctors assigned to the\n         regiment ( \n         \u003cpersname\u003eRoscoe L. Harlow\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAnsel J. Libby\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn A. Moreton\u003c/persname\u003e); Dr. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSilas C. Thomas\u003c/persname\u003eappointed the 21st Maine's\n         assistant surgeon and Morrill appointed hospital steward;\n         several officers under arrest for signing a petition calling\n         for Colonel \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge M. Atwood\u003c/persname\u003e's resignation, including\n         captains \n         \u003cpersname\u003eArthur Deering\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel S. Brown\u003c/persname\u003eand Vaughan; December 25,\n         1862: describes and encloses drawing of the barracks housing\n         the 21st, 24th and 28th Maine regiments; refers to his father\n         as register of deeds for \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eFranklin County, Maine\u003c/geogname\u003e; questions the\n         honesty and integrity of public and military officials; doubts\n         General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAmbrose P. Burnside\u003c/persname\u003ewill ever be\n         successful; Surgeon Libby, Colonel Atwood, and Lt. Col. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles T. Bean\u003c/persname\u003eare ill; December 28,\n         1862: Surgeon Libby died of typhoid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJanuary 4, 1863: he and Surgeon Harlow undertook a walking\n         tour of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew York City\u003c/geogname\u003ewhere they purchased coal;\n         complains about regiment's lack of Sabbath observances;\n         January 11, 1863: regiment has received orders to travel on\n         ship Lizzie Southard; offers his brother advice about parents\n         and girls; January 14, 1863: on board Lizzie Southard, sailing\n         for \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e, 700 men aboard; January 19,\n         1863: \"On Board transport Lizzie Southard Off \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eFort Monroe\u003c/geogname\u003e, \" encloses drawing of ship's\n         position; January 25, 1863: \"Ship Lizzie Southard Off \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eFortress Monroe, Hampton Roads\u003c/geogname\u003e, \"\n         describes he and Dr. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFrederic R. Esterbrook\u003c/persname\u003e's visit to the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eHampton Hospital\u003c/corpname\u003e; complains Chaplain \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFrederick A. Hodsdon\u003c/persname\u003eresigned as the\n         Southard was about to leave \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew York\u003c/geogname\u003e; on Friday [January 23] a man\n         hanged for shooting a Negro; visited \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eFort Monroe\u003c/geogname\u003e; steamship Vanderbilt is\n         coaling in preparation to seek out the CSS Alabama; describes\n         presence of two monitors as \"funny looking rafts\"; February\n         13, 1863: has arrived at the \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eMississippi River\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003e; describes voyage, does not\n         like sea travel; regiment assigned to General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFranklin S. Nickerson\u003c/persname\u003e's Third Brigade,\n         part of General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eNathaniel P. Banks\u003c/persname\u003e's \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eRed River\u003c/geogname\u003eCampaign; February 24, 1863:\n         description and drawing of his regiment's camp; death of\n         Assistant Surgeon Esterbrook due to typhoid; mentions \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCyrus (Birney\u003c/persname\u003e?); saw Gen. Banks and \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew Orleans\u003c/geogname\u003esights including statues of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Clay\u003c/persname\u003eand General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAndrew Jackson\u003c/persname\u003e; citizens are unhappy\n         rebels and \"war has laid its devastating hand with very\n         visible effect on this city.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMay 30, 1863: writes from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePort Hudson\u003c/geogname\u003ewith brief mention of the\n         first Union assault against it (May 27); December 31, 1863:\n         writes from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCamp Maine, East New York\u003c/geogname\u003e, that he has\n         received an appointment (but does not say exactly what type);\n         plans to study medicine as a student of Surgeon Harlow's.\n         April 14, 1865: writes to his brother from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eWashington, D.C.\u003c/geogname\u003e, which is celebrating\n         victories over the rebels; saw General Grant; asks how long\n         brother's battery [ \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e4th Maine Light Artillery\u003c/corpname\u003e] will remain at\n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCity Point, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e; adds postscript\n         regarding Lincoln's assassination [final \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles P Morrill\u003c/persname\u003eletter].\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of 144 items, 1862-1866, 1902\n         \u0026 1907, pertaining to Corporal \n          Wilbur F. Hawxhurst [b. 1845], \n          Company E, 65th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry and \n          Charles Plummer Morrill , \n          24th Maine Infantry , describing their\n         experiences during and after the Civil War in \n          Georgia , \n          Louisiana , \n          New York , \n          Tennessee and \n          Texas . Also present are military\n         discharge papers for Hawxhurst and Morrill's brother \n          George Morrill [b. 1847], a member of the \n          4th Maine Light Artillery , a photograph\n         of Hawxhurst (see his letter of January 31, 1866) and three\n         ambrotypes: \n          Charles Morrill (taken in \n          Memphis, Tennessee , 1863), an\n         unidentified woman and an unidentified man. A calotype print\n         of an unidentified young \n          Atlanta woman is attached to Hawxhurst's\n         letter of May 31, 1865. The letters of Hawxhurst and Morrill\n         are described below as two separate groups.","Wilbur F. Hawxhurst 's letters (1862-1866,\n         1902 \u0026 1907, 109 items) were written in \n          Ohio ( \n          Vermilion , \n          Elyria , \n          Youngstown , July 1862-January 1864), \n          Tennessee ( \n          Chattanooga , \n          Nashville , \n          Columbus Hill , \n          Cleveland , February-August,\n         October-December 1864, January-June 1865), \n          Georgia ( \n          Atlanta , \n          Vining Station [Vinings], \n          Catoosa Springs , August-October 1864), \n          New Orleans (July 1865) and \n          Texas ( \n          Placedo Creek , \n          Victoria County and Camp Irwin, July\n         1865-February 1866).","His letters are chiefly to his brother-in-law and sister\n         Reverend \n          John W. and \n          Mary Thompson (\"Bro \u0026 Sister\") of \n          Richfield, Summit County , and \n          Pittsfield, Lorain County, Ohio (see\n         letters of April 16, 1865 and January 31, 1866); there are\n         nine empty letter envelopes addressed to Reverend Thompson\n         from Hawxhurst. Sometimes Hawxhurst wrote more than one letter\n         on the same day; several letters on \"Office Union Line\n         Express,\" \n          United States Christian Commission , \n          U.S. Sanitary Commission , \n          U.S. Military Telegraph , \"Head-Quarters\n         District of the Etowah,\" \"Head Quarters 2d Division 4th Army\n         Corps,\" \"Head Quarters, Central District of Texas\" and \n          Soldier's Home, Nashville , stationery are\n         present. Topics of discussion include family and local news,\n         complaints about lack of letters, derogatory commentary on\n         African-Americans; the \n          Atlanta Campaign (Hawxhurst was more of a\n         witness than participant), his activities as a hospital nurse,\n         patient and detached duty as a company (chief) clerk at \n          Chattanooga and \n          Nashville, Tennessee , \n          Vining Station [Vinings] and \n          Atlanta, Georgia , \n          New Orleans , and occupation duties in \n          Victoria County, Texas . Select letters\n         from July to August 1865 were numbered by Hawxhurst (1 to 13;\n         some are missing); two Hawxhurst letters (post June 8 and July\n         1864) on \n          U.S. Christian Commission stationery are\n         missing pages.","Prominent military officers and civilians mentioned by\n         Hawxhurst include: \n          Ulysses S. Grant [1822-1885], \n          Charles G. Harker [1835-1864], \n          John Bell Hood [1831-1879], \n          Andrew Johnson [1808-1875], \n          Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865], \n          George B. McClellan [1825-1885], \n          Oliver Perry Morton [1823-1877], \n          George H. Pendleton [1825-1889], \n          William T. Sherman [1820-1890], \n          Edmund Kirby Smith [1824-1893], \n          David Stone Stanley [1828-1902], \n          George H. Thomas [1816-1870], \n          Horatio Wright [1820-1899] and \n          Felix Kirk Zollicoffer [1812-1862].","Hawxhurst discusses various \n          Ohio infantry regiments (the 31st, 38th,\n         64th, 65th) and various military personnel: Captain \n          Wilbur F. Hinman , \n          65th Ohio ; Colonel \n          Frederick W. Lister , \n          31st Ohio ; \n          Ira Pool , \n          Company A, 38th Ohio ; Captain \n          Joseph F. Sonnestine , \n          Company E, 65th Ohio ; Captain \n          Joseph H. Wilsey , \n          65th Ohio . Places or events discussed or\n         described include contemporary events and issues, military\n         camp life, Lincoln's assassination, and the battles of \n          Resaca (May 19, 1864), \n          Nashville (December 19, 1864).","A \"Hawxhurst Miscellaneous\" folders contains nine empty\n         letter envelopes from \n          William F. Hawxhurst to his brother-in-law\n         Reverend \n          J. W. Thompson , 1864-1865, and an October\n         30, 1902 letter from \n          Mary Thompson (Hawxhurst's sister), \n          Copopa(?), Ohio , to her nephew \n          M. M. Hawxhurst of \n          Ann Arbor, Michigan , scolding him and his\n         father (William) for not writing since their last visit and\n         promising to send M. M. a wartime photograph of his father\n         (see letter January 31, 1866). Also present is a February 16,\n         1907 certificate of Hawxhurst's army discharge with an April\n         29, 1880 copy of the record. It attests he was discharged by\n         Captain \n          Joseph F. Sonnestine , \n          Company E, 65th Ohio , on March 3, 1866 in\n          Victoria, Texas .","October 16, 1862: on patriotic stationery; asks about \n          George Morrill (?); lists discharged and\n         drafted men and those who obtained substitutes; is employed as\n         a telegraph operator. January 25, 1863: complains \n          Abraham Lincoln is not respected in \n          Vermilion ; his employer wants him to\n         study bookkeeping and penmanship; July 15, 1863: still a\n         civilian and discusses wages for a job offer; has just heard\n         of \n          Port Hudson 's (Louisiana) surrender [July\n         8, 1863]; November 19, 1863: describes \n          Youngstown and compares it with \n          Richfield (his sister's residence)\n         December 18, 1863: has \"15 regular correspondents\"; earns\n         $25.00 a month; discusses religion.","February 11, 1864: writes from \n          Chattanooga, Tennessee ; is now a soldier\n         employed as a clerk at the headquarters of the District of\n         Etowah; food consists of potatoes \"three times a day,\" beef\n         and pork; April 18, 1864: writes from \n          Nashville ; identifies his unit as \n          Company E, 65th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry ; encloses a piece of stick from the grave\n         of Confederate General \n          Felix Kirk Zollicoffer ; May 4, 1864: hard\n         marching [beginning of \n          Atlanta Campaign]; mentions presence of\n         flocks of \"negroes and white trash\"; describes the weather and\n         countryside of \n          Cleveland, Tennessee ; his brigade heading\n         for \n          Dalton and \n          Atlanta, Georgia ; May 5, 1864: mentions\n         General \n          Charles G. Harker 's orders to the brigade\n         in pursuit of the rebels to \n          Dalton ; description of a hard luck rebel\n         family; May 5, 1864: in camp at \n          Catoosa Springs, Georgia ; Gen. Harker\n         expresses confidence in victory; his company has only 18 men;\n         briefly mentions his equipment, including a revolver; May 19,\n         1864: writes from a general field hospital where he has\n         volunteered [as a nurse] and ordered to accompany wounded to \n          Chattanooga ; mentions the battle of \n          Resaca [May 13-16, 1864]; May 19, 1864:\n         detailed account of his brigade at the battle of \n          Resaca ; mentions his hospital duties,\n         \"They said I was too good a nurse to go back to the field\";\n         May 27, 1864: weather complaints; anxious to return to his\n         regiment; a \n          Chattanooga woman had been told Yankees\n         had \"horns\" on their heads; promises to send Luella (his\n         niece; see December 26, 1864) \"a nigger to play with\"; May 28,\n         1864: describes a patient and \"fine fellow\" \n          Ira Pool [ \n          Edgerton, Fulton County, Ohio ], \n          Co A, 38th Ohio Veteran Volunteer\n         Infantry , wounded at the battle of \n          Missionary Ridge [November 25, 1863];\n         description of the hospital's menu provided by the \n          U.S. Sanitary Commission ; May 30, 1864:\n         predicts Union victory and capture of \n          Richmond by General \n          Ulysses S. Grant .","[Post June 8, 1864]: \n          U.S. Christian\n         Commission stationery--everyone is for Lincoln and \n          Andrew Johnson ; \n          Ira Pool 's father lives in \n          Edgerton [pages are missing from this\n         letter]; July 1, 1864: tells his sister \"I have no earthly\n         friend who I care for except you at home, I have no\n         correspondents except you I have not received a letter from\n         any one in \n          Ohio since I left\"; July 11, 1864: his\n         political and spiritual efforts to convert three rebel\n         patients; expects arrival of 1,000 wounded rebels from General\n          William T. Sherman ; July 13, 1864: delay\n         of his mail due to movements of his brigade, admits he cries\n         when he does not receive mail; fears his diarrhea will become\n         chronic; promotion of Lieutenant \n          Wilbur F. Hinman to captain; tells Luella\n         \"I guess the best plan is to leave the Niggers here\" [see\n         Hawxhurst letter May 27, 1864]; also comments \"I do not feel\n         like coming home till the war is over\"; \n          Ira Pool 's rank is second sergeant [see\n         Hawxhurst letter May 28, 1864]; [July 1864]: on \n          U.S. Christian\n         Commission stationery--misses onions; requests a\n         comb [pages missing from this letter]; August 4, 1864: writes\n         from breastworks at \n          Atlanta and describes them; says \n          Wilbur Hinman is the most thoughtful\n         officer in the company; August 10, 1864: weighs 95 pounds; a\n         doctor describes him as no more than a baby; August 11, 1864: \n          Tom Powell offers to trade 89 acres of\n         land in \n          Royalton, Ohio , for the Hawxhurst house\n         and lot in \n          Berea ; urges his brother to inspect the\n         property first; August 28, 1864: has been sent to the general\n         field hospital at Vining Station [ \n          Vinings], Georgia , because of his poor\n         health; August 31, 1864: on stationery of \n          U.S. Military Telegraph Hawxhurst reports\n         Democratic nomination of General \n          George B. McClellan and \n          George H. Pendleton of \n          Ohio for president and vice-president;\n         says \"Abe\" (Lincoln) rejoices in their nomination because\n         soldiers will support him; August 31, 1864: capture of \n          Atlanta ; tells brother not to worry about\n         the draft.","September 12, 1864: describes \n          Atlanta , General Sherman and General \n          George H. Thomas ; October 29, 1864:\n         inquires about the soldier's vote for Lincoln in \n          Summit County, Ohio ; complains the war\n         has \"hanged on like grim death to a dead Nigger\"; December 13,\n         1864: pursuit of Confederate General \n          John Bell Hood's army ; December 19, 1864:\n         Confederate defeat at the battle of \n          Nashville [December 15-16, 1864]; December\n         26, 1864: asks his niece Luella about her Christmas; December\n         28, 1864: plans to buy land in \n          Crawford County, Iowa , after the war.","January 22, 1865: is homesick and asks for news; February\n         1, 1865: detailed as a clerk at the Inspector General's\n         office, headquarters, District of the Etowah; February 23,\n         1865: 100-gun salute at noon in honor of \n          George Washington 's birthday (February\n         22); March 1, 1865: characterizes \n          Vermilion, Ohio , as a \"God forsaken\n         hole\"; March 1, 1865: has received a letter from his \n          Iowa girl and boasts she \"is a beauty\"\n         unlike those in \n          Ohio ; he misses being away from \"all\n         kinds of womanhood or girlhood\" and is glad to receive a\n         friendly letter from the fair girls up north\"; March 7, 1865:\n         Colonel Lester [ \n          Frederick W. Lister ] of the \n          31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry is the new\n         inspector general; March 24, 1865: he and his comrades hand\n         over their rations to a woman (a \n          Chattanooga boardinghouse keeper) for\n         proper cooking; April 3, 1865: mentions the capture of \n          Richmond, Virginia ; earns $100 a month\n         plus rations in the quartermaster department; April 16, 1865:\n         mourns Lincoln's assassination and hopes \n          Andrew Johnson will remember his\n         senatorial pledge to hang traitors; encloses a poem calling\n         for vengeance against traitors; soldiers in mourning.","May 4, 1865: wants a wife after his return then will go\n         into business; has learned to ride on horseback; May 10, 1865:\n         printed General Orders No. 3, Major General \n          George H. Thomas , [Army and] Department\n         of the Cumberland, \n          Nashville , praising the \n          4th Army Corps 's review of previous day;\n         in a handwritten postscript Hawxhurst tells family he is well;\n         May 18, 1865: \"had some Photos taken please find Three\n         inclosed for yourself\" [not present]; May 31, 1865: General\n         Grant has telegraphed Indiana Governor \n          Oliver Perry Morton that troops are to be\n         mustered out in \n          Washington for final discharge and pay;\n         mentions surrender of Confederate General \n          Edmund Kirby Smith ; wants to settle in \n          Iowa ; in a faded pencilled postscript he\n         encloses an attached calotype print of \"a woman from \n          Atlanta dont know her got it in the\n         Gallery\" [this letter is filed in an oversize folder]; June 9,\n         1865: the Army of the Cumberland's 3rd Division stacked its\n         arms and refused to go to \n          Texas ; June 17, 1865: \"on board steamer\n         Emma Floyd bound for \n          Texas \"; has been detailed as a clerk at\n         division headquarters [2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army\n         Corps] and appointed to the rank of corporal; received pay of\n         $314.60 while at \n          Nashville ; June 22, 1865: \"on board\n         steamer Indiana near \n          New Orleans \"; compares \n          Mississippi and \n          Ohio rivers; saw alligators; increase in\n         desertions now that the war is over; discusses Joe Wilsey of \n          Berea [Captain \n          Joseph H. Wilsey , \n          65th Ohio ], an abusive brigade\n         adjutant-general who \"I will remember him as long as I live\n         just wait till he and I are both citizens\"; Wilsey assaulted\n         and nearly thrown overboard by angry soldiers.","July 2, 1865: in \n          New Orleans ; unable to write home because\n         \"there is no Sabbath in the Army and especially in Military\n         Office\"; mosquitoes are not a problem, plenty of food,\n         drinking river water; rumors the regiment is to sent to \n          San Antonio, Texas ; July 18, 1865: Letter\n         No. 2--mentions Captain \n          Wilbur F. Hinman ; July 27, 1865: Letter\n         No. 3--is in western \n          Texas but does not know where; July 30,\n         1865: Letter No. 4--describes area of Placido \n          [Placedo] Creek, Victoria County, Texas ;\n         complains eastern troops are being mustered out faster than\n         western troops; August 3, 1865: Letter No. 6--account of daily\n         activities; blames General \n          David Stone Stanley for the 4th Corps'\n         transfer to \n          Texas ; August 13, 1865: Letter No.\n         7--defends card playing as \"innocent relaxation\"; October 7,\n         1865: provides a brief physical description of himself;\n         October 10, 1865: quotes General Stanley's request to General \n          Horatio Wright , commander of the\n         Department of Texas, \n          Galveston , that the 64th and 65th Ohio\n         Infantry regiments be mustered out; October 17, 1865: troops\n         are at work restoring railroad [ \n          San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad ]\n         between Lavaca [ \n          Port Lavaca ] and \n          Victoria ; complains it will be \"turned\n         over to the civil authorities and Rebels will get the benefits\n         of Union Soldiers Labor\"; November 23, 1865: Head Quarters,\n         Central District of Texas, Office Commissary of Musters; has\n         decided to remain \"until all troops are mustered out they need\n         my services in this Office\" December 3, 1865: \n          65th Ohio is on its way home except for\n         Hawxhurst; December 7, 1865: busy mustering out troops; few\n         Union families but many \"Bitter Rebels\" in \n          Texas .","January 10, 1866: expects to be mustered out in February;\n         hopes to establish a bookstore in \n          Victoria because \"the South's the place\n         for a young man to get a start\"; recounts a dream during which\n         he met and married an acquaintance named \n          Maria Garget (?); January 31, 1866:\n         decided to remain in the army until March; asked an \n          Eau Claire, Wisconsin , friend to address\n         letters to Hawxhurst care of \"Rev. J. W. Thompson, Pittsfield,\n         Lorain County, Ohio\"; would like to flirt with the sister of\n         his \n          Iowa young lady (whom he has not heard\n         from in some time); encloses photograph [carte-de-visite]\n         taken at \n          C. Marmu Photograph Gallery , 69 Royal\n         Street, \n          New Orleans (\"it looks cross but it wont\n         bit if you dont tease\") showing a somber Hawxhurst in civilian\n         dress [most likely taken while stationed in \n          New Orleans , July 1865]; February 16,\n         1866: expresses appreciation to his sister and brother-in-law\n         for making him \"a better boy\"; will be home in 15 to 20 days;\n         wants to marry a girl named Ella; worries veterans unable to\n         find work [last Hawxhurst letter].","Charles Plummer Morrill 's letters\n         (1862-1865, 35 items) were written in \n          Maine ( \n          Camp E. D. Keyes and \n          Augusta , September-October 1862), \n          New York ( \n          Camp Maine and East New York, October\n         1862-January 1863, December 1863), \n          Fort Monroe, Virginia (January 1863), \n          Louisiana ( \n          New Orleans and \n          Port Hudson , February and May 1863), and \n          Washington, D.C. (April 14, 1865).\n         Morrill's letters are chiefly to his parents (his father was\n         register of deeds in \n          Franklin County, Maine ; see letter of\n         December 25, 1862) and occasionally his brother \n          George . Morrill\n         was employed in his regiment's hospital department and his\n         letters discuss camp news, visits to various site and\n         miscellaneous subjects. There is a gap in his letters from\n         February 25 to May 29, 1863 and May 31 to December 3, 1863.\n         Also present is an incomplete six-page draft pencil manuscript\n         (pages 3-8) of reminiscences and Lincoln's assassination and\n         three ambrotypes including one of \n          Charles Morrill (1863), an unidentified\n         woman and an unidentified man.","Two letters were not written by Morrill. A March 28, 1864\n         letter from \"Cousin Cyrus\" [ \n          Cyrus Birney ?--see Morrill's November 17,\n         1862 and February 24, 1863 letters] a member of \n          Company D, 1st District of Columbia\n         Cavalry , \n          Camp Baker, Washington , probably to\n         Morrill, inquires about his medical studies, discusses the\n         dangerous aftermath of a mounted reconnaissance, mentions\n         regimental chaplain \n          Samuel H. Merrill of \n          Portland, Maine , visits to the Capitol,\n         Senate and House of Representatives and characterizes\n         describes \n          Washington as \"a marshy hole.\" An undated\n         November 8 from \"Nell\" to \"Mother Morrill\" [daughter-in-law to\n         her mother-in-law?] discusses family matters, appreciates a\n         toy \"nigger baby\" sent to \"May\" from \"Grandma\" and other\n         presents to family for which \n          Charles P. Morrill also expresses his\n         thanks in a postscript. A June 17, 1865 certificate of \n          George H. Morrill 's army discharge, \n          Augusta, Maine , signed by Captain \n          Charles W. White , \n          4th Maine Light Artillery , and a captain\n         of the \n          13th United States Infantry , are also\n         present.","Prominent military officers and civilians mentioned by\n         Morrill include: \n          Nathaniel P. Banks [1816-1894], \n          Henry Ward Beecher [1813-1887], \n          Ambrose P. Burnside [1824-1881] and \n          Franklin S. Nickerson [1826-1917]. Other\n         military personnel mentioned by name include \n          Frederic R. Esterbrook , \n          Roscoe L. Harlow , \n          Ansel J. Libby , \n          John C. Manson , and \n          John A. Moreton (surgeons), Chaplain \n          Frederick A. Hodsdon , \n          Arthur Deering , \n          Samuel S. Brown and \n          Hiram C. Vaughan (captains), Lieutenant \n          John H. True , Lieutenant Colonel \n          Charles T. Bean (24th Maine), Dr. \n          Silas C. Thomas (21st Maine) and Captain \n          Charles W. White ( \n          4th Maine Light Artillery ). \n          Maine military units mentioned are the \n          4th Maine Light Artillery , \n          21st Maine Infantry , 24th Maine ( \n          24th Maine Volunteer Militia ) and \n          28th Maine Infantry .","September 27, 1862: Morrill as a member of \n          Company E, 24th Maine (24th Maine\n         Volunteer Militia); appointed a wardmaster and assigned to\n         Surgeon \n          John C. Manson ; refers to Captain \n          Hiram C. Vaughan of the 24th; October 4,\n         1862: requests clothes; brief mention of his duties; October\n         18, 1862: measles outbreak in the 21st and 28th Maine Infantry\n         regiments; October 28, 1862: witnessed the departure of the\n         21st; promises to \"take care of myself and try and do my\n         duty\"; October 30, 1862: transport of regiment to \n          Boston , \n          Norwich, Connecticut , and \n          New York City .","November 2, 1862: describes sightseeing in \n          New York City ; may hear \n          Henry Ward Beecher preach next Sunday;\n         November 9, 1862: measles continues to spread within 21st and\n         24th Maine Infantry; brief mention of hospital staff; regiment\n         quartered on \n          Long Island southeast of the city of \n          Brooklyn ; attended a \n          New York theater with Lieutenant \n          John H. True of Company E; describes a\n         Democratic voting hall; November 17, 1862: brief comments on a\n         Beecher sermon; accidental mortal wounding of a sergeant by\n         [Captain Vaughan]; mentions seeing \n          Cyrus Birney ; November 30, 1862:\n         describes his daily work routine; December 7, 1862: lameness\n         of Captain \n          Hiram Vaughan may lead to his discharge\n         [part of this letter is missing]; December 14, 1862: visited\n         the 28th Maine's hospital; plans to hear Beecher preach;\n         December 20, 1862: account of a Beecher sermon; Morrill\n         describes his devotionals; three new doctors assigned to the\n         regiment ( \n          Roscoe L. Harlow , \n          Ansel J. Libby and \n          John A. Moreton ); Dr. \n          Silas C. Thomas appointed the 21st Maine's\n         assistant surgeon and Morrill appointed hospital steward;\n         several officers under arrest for signing a petition calling\n         for Colonel \n          George M. Atwood 's resignation, including\n         captains \n          Arthur Deering , \n          Samuel S. Brown and Vaughan; December 25,\n         1862: describes and encloses drawing of the barracks housing\n         the 21st, 24th and 28th Maine regiments; refers to his father\n         as register of deeds for \n          Franklin County, Maine ; questions the\n         honesty and integrity of public and military officials; doubts\n         General \n          Ambrose P. Burnside will ever be\n         successful; Surgeon Libby, Colonel Atwood, and Lt. Col. \n          Charles T. Bean are ill; December 28,\n         1862: Surgeon Libby died of typhoid.","January 4, 1863: he and Surgeon Harlow undertook a walking\n         tour of \n          New York City where they purchased coal;\n         complains about regiment's lack of Sabbath observances;\n         January 11, 1863: regiment has received orders to travel on\n         ship Lizzie Southard; offers his brother advice about parents\n         and girls; January 14, 1863: on board Lizzie Southard, sailing\n         for \n          New Orleans , 700 men aboard; January 19,\n         1863: \"On Board transport Lizzie Southard Off \n          Fort Monroe , \" encloses drawing of ship's\n         position; January 25, 1863: \"Ship Lizzie Southard Off \n          Fortress Monroe, Hampton Roads , \"\n         describes he and Dr. \n          Frederic R. Esterbrook 's visit to the \n          Hampton Hospital ; complains Chaplain \n          Frederick A. Hodsdon resigned as the\n         Southard was about to leave \n          New York ; on Friday [January 23] a man\n         hanged for shooting a Negro; visited \n          Fort Monroe ; steamship Vanderbilt is\n         coaling in preparation to seek out the CSS Alabama; describes\n         presence of two monitors as \"funny looking rafts\"; February\n         13, 1863: has arrived at the \n          Mississippi River and \n          New Orleans ; describes voyage, does not\n         like sea travel; regiment assigned to General \n          Franklin S. Nickerson 's Third Brigade,\n         part of General \n          Nathaniel P. Banks 's \n          Red River Campaign; February 24, 1863:\n         description and drawing of his regiment's camp; death of\n         Assistant Surgeon Esterbrook due to typhoid; mentions \n          Cyrus (Birney ?); saw Gen. Banks and \n          New Orleans sights including statues of \n          Henry Clay and General \n          Andrew Jackson ; citizens are unhappy\n         rebels and \"war has laid its devastating hand with very\n         visible effect on this city.\"","May 30, 1863: writes from \n          Port Hudson with brief mention of the\n         first Union assault against it (May 27); December 31, 1863:\n         writes from \n          Camp Maine, East New York , that he has\n         received an appointment (but does not say exactly what type);\n         plans to study medicine as a student of Surgeon Harlow's.\n         April 14, 1865: writes to his brother from \n          Washington, D.C. , which is celebrating\n         victories over the rebels; saw General Grant; asks how long\n         brother's battery [ \n          4th Maine Light Artillery ] will remain at\n          City Point, Virginia ; adds postscript\n         regarding Lincoln's assassination [final \n          Charles P Morrill letter]."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc/\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":[""],"names_ssim":["University of Virginia. 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