Collection #

SC 2319

 

 

DAVID REYNOLDS
FAMILY PAPERS, 1863–1932 (BULK 1863)

Collection Information

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Contents

Cataloging Information

 

 

 

Processed by

Charles Latham
25 October 1991

Updated 22 November 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 manuscript folder, 1 visual folder

COLLECTION
DATES:

Inclusive 1863-1932 (bulk 1863)

PROVENANCE:

Sara Hobson, Davis CA, 6 June 1988

RESTRICTIONS:

None

COPYRIGHT:

 

REPRODUCTION
RIGHTS:

Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society.

ALTERNATE
FORMATS:

 

RELATED
HOLDINGS:

 

ACCESSION
NUMBER:

1991.0642x

NOTES:

 

BIOGRAPHiCAL SKETCH

David H. Reynolds (d. 1902) enlisted in 1861 from Rockville, Indiana, in the 43rd Indiana Infantry Regiment, and served for four years, holding the successive grades of private, corporal, sergeant, and second lieutenant.  The regiment served in the Mississippi-Arkansas area.  Its assignments included work with an inland fleet of gunboats and a march with two hundred wagons which resulted in the fall of Little Rock.

David Reynolds and his wife, Sarah B. Reynolds, later moved to Indianapolis.  They had five daughters.  Nell married J. D. Hobson, who sold Service Motor Trucks in Indianapolis.  Eva, who never married, graduated from law school in Chicago in 1896.  Florence, also unmarried, taught for many years at the Institute for the Blind in Indianapolis.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This collection, filling one folder, consists mainly of the Civil War diary of David H. Reynolds for 1 January to 26 September 1863.  During the first part of this period his unit was on duty aboard gunboats.  There is a typed transcript of the diary.

Also included are army discharge and pension papers, a clipping about Eva Reynolds, and a teaching license for Florence Reynolds.  Five family photographs and a postcard of the Institute for the Blind are stored in Visual Collections.

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

CONTAINER

Diary, transcript, other papers

Folder 1

Photographs

Visual Collections:
Photographs, Folder 1

CATALOGING INFORMATION

For additional information on this collection, including a list of subject headings that may lead you to related materials:

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