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William H. Cone diary

00-1921-41-0

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Identifier: 00-1921-41-0
Scope and Contents The William H. Cone diary (1921-41-0) contains entries by William H. Cone of Litchfield County, Connecticut in 1863 and 1864 while serving in the Connecticut Volunteers 5th Regiment Infantry, Company E during the American Civil War. He dedicates a fair amount of time to describing his daily activities in the field such as being on picket, drilling, participating in dressparades, and company inspections. Of particular interest are his entries that detail the 5th Regiment's involvement in the...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1863-1864; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1920

Confederate States of America bond purchase receipt

00-2010-285-0

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Identifier: 00-2010-285-0
Scope and Contents

Receipt for $100 paid by Augustus Palmer on March 21, 1864. On the back it indicates that Palmer signed the bond over to Thomas Towel on February 21, 1865 who then used it to pay Confederate State taxes the same day. Augustus Palmer may be Samuel Augustus Palmer (1827-1918) who resided in and around Tallahassee and fought for the Confederacy.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1864 Mar 21; Other: Date acquired: 11/09/2011

Confederate States of America call certificate

00-2010-360-0

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Identifier: 00-2010-360-0
Scope and Contents

Call certificate authorized by an act of Congress, Mar. 23, 1863, no. 2018, $100,000 deposited in the treasury at Columbia, S.C.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1863 Oct 1; Other: Date acquired: 06/09/2012

Confederate States of America note

00-1922-02-0

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Identifier: 00-1922-02-0
Scope and Contents

One $5 note.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1864 Feb 17; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1921

Confederate States of America note (half)

00-c1930-04-0

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Identifier: 00-c1930-04-0
Scope and Contents

One-half of a $10 Confederate States of America note mounted on a card that explains that the note was carried by a Union soldier while held at Libby Prison in Virginia during the Civil War. Upon release, he gave one half of the note to two Sanitation Commission women who had nursed him to health in a New York hospital.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1864 Feb 17; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1929

Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution collection

00-1992-43-0

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Identifier: 00-1992-43-0
Scope and Contents

Letter written by Elizabeth C. Barney Buel, State Regent, 1922; scrapbook regarding Register of Revolutionary Soldiers and Patriots Buried in Litchfield County by Joyce Mackenzie Cropsey, 1976; letter written by Mabel S. Haley, 1981.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1922-1981; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1992

Connecticut. Militia. Regiment, 1st, Company 4th

00-2010-51-0

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Identifier: 00-2010-51-0
Scope and Contents

Enlistment in the Fourth Co. of the First Regiment of Infantry of the Military Corps formed for the defense of the State of Connecticut. Signatures of 7 subscribers enlisting. Colonel Timothy Shepard was the commander of the Regiment, and Samuel Waugh was Captain. The men listed in the Company served from Aug. 3, 1813 to Sept. 16, 1813.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1813

State of Connecticut note to Hercules Wessells

00-1939-21-1

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Identifier: 00-1939-21-1
Scope and Contents

Note issued by the State of Connecticut Treasury Office to Hercules Wessells in the amount of 10 pounds 4 shillings 2 pence for his service in the Continental Army.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1780 Jun 1

Constitutional History of Connecticut

00-2010-114-0

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Identifier: 00-2010-114-0
Scope and Contents

Manuscript draft with corrections of a constitutional history of Connecticut by Samuel Church.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: undated

Joyce Mackenzie Cropsey papers

00-2010-170-0

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Identifier: 00-2010-170-0
Scope and Contents

Page signatures and photographs from "Register of Revolutionary Soldiers and Patriots buried in Litchfield County," compiled by Joyce Mackenzie Cropsey, 1976.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1976

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