Collection #:
SC 0464

ISRAEL PHALIN
CIVIL WAR LETTER, 1861

Collection Information

Historical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Cataloging Information

Processed by:
Ellen Swain
13 July 1992
Updated 8 July 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: Holman Hamilton, Ft. Wayne, IN, June 1946

RESTRICTIONS: None

COPYRIGHT: Held by Indiana Historical Society

ALTERNATE FORMAT: None

OTHER FINDING AIDS: None

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

ACCESSION NUMBER: 1946.0602

HISTORICAL SKETCH

A grocer in Aurora, Dearborn County, Indiana, Israel Phalin was mustered into the Sixteenth Indiana Infantry on May 14, 1861 as a Second Lieutenant. After the one year term expired, he reentered the service in a six month position as Captain of Company H Ninety first Indiana regiment on August 24, 1863. Phalin was mustered out at the end of this term.

Source: History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana. (Chicago: F.E. Weakley Co., 1885)
Terrell, W.H.H. Report of W.H.H. Terrell Adjutant General, Indiana. vol. II and III (Indianapolis: W.R. Holloway, 1865)

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection consists of one letter written by Phalin to O.P. Cobb, a grocer in Aurora, Indiana. Phalin informs Cobb of his regiment's departure to Virginia and complains about the lack of financial support he has received from his friends.

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