Collection #

SC 2638

 

 

elias C. Clements
Civil War correspondence, 1865

Collection Information

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Cataloging Information

 

 

 

Processed by

Chris Harter
29 December 1997
Revised 22 April 2002
Updated 9 March 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
DATES:

Feb.–Oct. 1865

PROVENANCE:

L. G. Merritt, Antiquarian Books, 525 West Elm St., Hoopeston, IN 60942, 11 August 1997

RESTRICTIONS:

None

COPYRIGHT:

 

REPRODUCTION
RIGHTS:

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

ALTERNATE
FORMATS:

None

RELATED
HOLDINGS:

For 145th Indiana Regiment: SC 2358, Oliver Shepherd Papers

ACCESSION
NUMBER:

1997.0630

NOTES:

 

BIOGRAPHiCAL SKETCH

Elias C. Clements (fl. 1865–66) was a resident of Huron, Indiana (Lawrence Co.). During the Civil War, he served with the 145th Indiana Regiment, Company D, from 1 February 1865, to 21 January 1866.  Clements and his wife, Sarah, had three children: John M., Martha, and Theodotia.

On 20 December 1864, the 145th Indiana Regiment was one of eleven regiments formed by the United States Army to serve for one year.  It was recruited from the Third Congressional District and mustered into service in February 1865.  The regiment left Indianapolis on 18 February and arrived in Nashville, Tennessee, on the 21st.  It reported to a General Steadman two days later at Chattanooga.  The 145th proceeded to Dalton, Georgia, where it guarded a railroad for some time before moving on to Marietta. It was ordered to Cuthbert in the fall of 1865 and remained there until being mustered out.

Sources:

Material in the collection.

Adjutant General’s Office. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana. Vol. 3, p. 373–374; Vol. 7, p. 494. Indianapolis: A. H. Connor [etc.] State Printer, 1865–69. General and Reference Collection, E506.2.I39 T4 1865

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This collection consists of nine letters between Elias C. Clements, a soldier in the 145th Indiana Regiment, and his wife, Sarah, and his daughter, Martha.  They were written between February and October 1865; those written by Clements trace his service during the Civil War, from Camp Carrington in Indianapolis to Cuthbert, Georgia.  Clements reports his activities as a soldier, while his wife writes about family matters.

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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