Collection #
SC 0666

 

WILLIAM CARROLL
CIVIL WAR LETTERS, 1861

 

 

Collection Information
Historical Sketch
Scope and Content Note
Folder and Contents Listing
Cataloging Information

Processed by:
Ellen Swain
14 July 1992
Updated 15 May 2004

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

 

 

Collection INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 folder

COLLECTION DATE: 1861

PROVENANCE: Unknown

RESTRICTIONS: None

COPYRIGHT: Held by Indiana Historical Society

ALTERNATE FORMAT: None

OTHER FINDING AIDS: None

RELATED HOLDINGS: See card catalogue under United States History - Civil War, 1861-1865 and Indiana History - Civil War, 1861-1865

ACCESSION NUMBER: 92.0344x

 

HISTORICAL SKETCH

A resident of Marion, Grant County, Indiana, Second Lieutenant William Carroll was mustered into Company H Twelfth Indiana Infantry on May 15, 1861. On May 19, 1862, he was mustered out as his term had expired.

Source:

Terrell, W.H.H. Report of W.H.H. Terrell Adjutant General, Indiana vol. IV Indianapolis: Samuel M. Douglass, 1866.

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection contains two letters (1861) written by Carroll to his brother Robert Patterson. Writing from Camp Antietam, Sharpsburg, Maryland, Carroll describes a near fatal run in with a "Secesh" and discusses Union soldiers' morale and camp conditions.

 

FOLDER AND CONTENTS LISTING

Folder              Contents

1                      Letters, 1861

 

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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