Carnahan was a student at Wabash College, Crawfordsville (Montgomery County), Indiana (1860–62); an officer in the 86th Indiana Regiment (1862–65); Tippecanoe County, Ind., prosecutor (1867–71); commander, district of Indiana, Grand Army of the Republic (1882–83); and commissioner from Indiana, Chickamauga National Military Park (1894–ca. 1905).
The papers include Carnahan's military correspondence relating to the movements of the 86th Indiana Regiment, primarily in Tennessee and Georgia (1862–65); his war journals (1864); his reminiscence of the Battle of Chickamauga; postwar speeches and writings, most relating to the Civil War; and his essays written while a student at Wabash College.
1 box.
Description taken from Eric Pumroy and Paul Brockman, A Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Indiana Historical Society and Indiana State Library. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1986 (entry A-56).
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6 November 2004