Edward W. Allen Papers Inventory (#3737-z)

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Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
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Processed by:
Linda Sellars
Date Completed:
July 1998
Encoded by:
Linda Sellars
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Descriptive Summary Including Abstract

Title
Edward W. Allen Papers (#3737-z) 1862-1866
Creator
Allen, Edward W., fl. 1864-1865.
Extent
About 100 Items.
Repository
Southern Historical Collection
Abstract
Edward W. Allen of Eau Claire, Wis., was a sergeant and then second lieutenant in Company H of the 16th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, during the Civil War. He was the son of James and Emily Allen. He had several siblings, including James F. (Fred) Allen who served in Company K, 36th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. Correspondence, diary entries, and other papers of Edward W. Allen during the Civil War. Most of the letters are from Allen to his parents in 1864 and 1865. Also included are letters he wrote to friends and letters his parents wrote to him, as well as some pages of diary entries, which Allen apparently sent to his parents. Letters discuss camp life, supplies, health, troop movements, and battles. Some letters also discuss the army service, disappearance, imprisonment, probable death, and return home of Edward Allen's brother, Fred Allen, who served in the 36th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. Edward W. Allen was at Camp Randall in Wisconsin, February 1863-February 1864; at Vicksburg, Miss., March 1864; at Pulaski, Tenn., May 1864; near Atlanta, Ga., June-September, 1864; in Savannah, Ga., December 1864; Columbia, S.C., February 1865; in Goldsboro, N.C., March-April 1865; in Virginia, May 1865; in Louisville, Ky., June-July 1865; and back in Wisconsin, July-August 1865.
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Administrative Information

Access
No restrictions.
Usage Restrictions
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Provenance
Purchased from Charles Hamilton Autographs, Inc., of New York, N.Y., in April 1966 and from Charles Apfelbaum Rare Manuscripts and Archives of Wachtung, N.J., in March 1998 (Acc. 98066).
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Online Catalog Terms

Allen, Edward W., fl. 1864-1865.
Allen family.
Allen, James F., fl. 1864-1865.
Atlanta Campaign, 1864.
Georgia-History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Mississippi-History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Sherman's March through the Carolinas.
Sherman's March to the Sea.
South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States. Army--Military life--Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
United States. Army--Officers--Diaries.
United States. Army. Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, 16th (1862-1865).
United States--History-Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Wisconsin--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Biographical Note

Edward W. Allen of Eau Claire, Wis., was a sergeant and then second lieutenant in Company H of the 16th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, during the Civil War. He was the son of James and Emily Allen. He had several siblings, including James F. (Fred) Allen who served in Company K, the 36th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers.

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Collection Overview

Correspondence, diary entries, and other papers of Edward W. Allen during the Civil War. Most of the letters are from Allen to his parents in 1864 and 1865. Also included are letters he wrote to friends and letters his parents wrote to him, as well as some pages of diary entries, which Allen apparently sent to his parents. Letters discuss camp life, supplies, health, troop movements, and battles. Some letters also discuss the army service, disappearance, imprisonment, probable death, and return home of Edward Allen's brother, Fred Allen, who served in the 36th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. Edward W. Allen was at Camp Randall in Wisconsin, February 1863-February 1864; at Vicksburg, Miss., March 1864; at Pulaski, Tenn., May 1864; near Atlanta, Ga., June-September, 1864; in Savannah, Ga., December 1864; Columbia, S.C., February 1865; in Goldsboro, N.C., March-April 1865; in Virginia, May 1865; in Louisville, Ky., June-July 1865; and back in Wisconsin, July-August 1865.

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Description

Papers, 1862-1866.
About 100 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Correspondence, diary entries, and other papers of Edward W. Allen during the Civil War. Most of the letters are from Allen to his parents in 1864 and 1865. Also included are letters he wrote to friends and letters his parents wrote to him, as well as some pages of diary entries, which Allen apparently sent to his parents, and other papers. Letters discuss camp life, supplies, health, troop movements, and battles. Some letters also discuss the army service, disappearance, imprisonment, probable death, and return home of Edward Allen's brother, Fred Allen, who served in the 36th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. Edward W. Allen was at Camp Randall in Wisconsin, February 1863-February 1864; at Vicksburg, Miss., March 1864; at Pulaski, Tenn., May 1864; near Atlanta, Ga., June-September, 1864; in Savannah, Ga., December 1864; Columbia, S.C., February 1865; in Goldsboro, N.C., March-April 1865; in Virginia, May 1865; in Louisville, Ky., June-July 1865; and back in Wisconsin, July-August 1865.
The earliest and the latest letters are from Edward Allen's friend, George W. Hyde, who wrote in 1862 and 1863 from Arkansas and Missouri where he was apparently serving with a Wisconsin regiment and in 1866 from Elmira, N.Y., where he was apparently still in the army.
Edward W. Allen of Eau Claire, Wis., was a sergeant and then second lieutenant in Company H of the 16th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, during the Civil War. He was the son of James and Emily Allen. He had several siblings, including James F. (Fred) Allen , who served in Company K, 36th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers.
   Folder 1
June 1862-April 1864
   Folder 2
May-August 1864
   Folder 3
September-December 1864
   Folder 4
1865-1866 and undated

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