Henry C. Hart Correspondence (MS018)

Access and use

Location of collection:
Alexandria Library
Alexandria Library
Local History/Special Collections
717 Queen Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Patricia Walker, Branch Manager
Phone: (703) 746-1719
Phone: (703) 838-4577
Fax: (703) 706-3912
Preferred citation:

[Item used], Henry C. Hart Correspondence, MS018, Alexandria Library, Local History/Special Collections, Alexandria, VA.

Summary

Extent:
.11 Cubic Feet 11 folders
Creator:
Hart, Henry C. and Hart, John C.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Item used], Henry C. Hart Correspondence, MS018, Alexandria Library, Local History/Special Collections, Alexandria, VA.

Background

Scope and content:

Most of these papers are letters from Henry C. Hart to his parents, John and Mary Nixon, who also received two letters from their nephew, John C. Hart. The letters relate to camp life in a number of Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. locations: Soldiers Rest, Alexandria; Camp or Fort Reynolds, D.C.; Fort Sumner, D.C.; Rectortown, Fauquier County; Vienna, Virginia; Flint Hill, Rappahannock County; and Fairfax Station. Henry writes about breaking colts for the army, his health, wounded comrades, and his needs for food, clothes, boots, writing paper and stamps. He describes his delight at seeing Washington for the first time.

There are also letters to the Nixons from Thompson Todd, and a bill for a list of merchandise to John Nixon from A.Y. Montgomery.

Biographical / historical:

Henry (Hank) C. Hart served in Company H, 204th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. His cousin, John C. Hart, was stationed at the Camp of the 100 P.E.E. in Petersburg, Virginia. Henry wrote to his parents who apparently were named John and Mary Nixon and who lived in Ohioville, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. The discrepancy in the last names is unexplained by the letters.

Arrangement:

Henry C. Hart's letters are in chronological order and foldered by location. John C. Hart's, Thompson Todd's, and miscellaneous papers are at the end.

Rules or conventions:
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