Collection #

SC 2840

 

 

Erastus Pollett
letters, 28 February 1864, 3 july 1865

Collection Information

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Contents

Cataloging Information

 

 

 

Processed by

Paul Brockman
October 2007
David Pfeiffer
January 2008

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:

2 items

COLLECTION
DATES:

28 February 1864; 3 July 1865

PROVENANCE:

Nate D. Sanders, Los Angeles, CA, September 2007; November 2007

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:

2007.0272; 2007.0345

NOTES:

 

BIOGRAPHiCAL SKETCH

Erastus Pollett was born in Ohio around 1846 and enlisted in the Union Army on 10 October 1863 and served as a private in the 1st Indiana Heavy Artillery. In 1880 he was residing in Shannondale, Montgomery County, Indiana. 

 

Sources:

American Civil War Research Database http://www.civilwardata.com/active/index.html; accessed 16 October 2007.

Terrell, W.H.H., Report of the Adjutant General, Indiana. 

Ancestry Library.com http://www.ancestrylibrary.com/; accessed 16 October 2007.

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The letters in this collection were written by E. (Erastus) L. Pollett with the 1st Indiana Heavy Artillery.  The letter from 28 February 1864 is from Pollett stationed at Fort Williams in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to his father.  The letter mainly deals with personal issues but does mention the problem of a drunken soldier.  In the 3 July 1865 letter, he writes to his sister, Laura, from Fort Pickens, Florida.  Pollett and his regiment were assigned to guarding Union soldiers who had committed crimes such as robbery and murder.  He writes of soldiers deserting and of the dangers of sharks in the waters around the fort. 

 

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

CONTAINER

Erastus Pollett Letters,  28 February 1864; 3 July 1865

Folder 1

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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