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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Cornelius J. Madden Papers, #3307-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Paul North Jr. of Bexley, Ohio, September 1957.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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• Chattanooga (Tenn.)--Social life and customs.
• Columbus (Ohio)--Social life and customs.
• Family-owned business enterprises--Ohio--History--19th century.
• Madden, Cornelius J., d. 1903.
• Madden, James.
• Military hospitals--United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Photography--Business methods--History--19th century.
• Shelby (Ohio)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
• Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Hospitals.
• United States. Army--Military life--History.

• See also Cornelius J. Madden papers, 1863-1903 Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.

Cornelius J. Madden (died 1903) of Shelby, Ohio, served in the United States Army in Kentucky and Tennessee, 1862-1863, and Columbus, Ohio, 1864-1865. After the Civil War, Madden was stationed in Chattanooga, Tenn., doing clerical work for the army.

The collection includes correspondence of Cornelius J. Madden while he was a federal soldier, including letters written by him from Ohio and Tennessee during the Civil War and from Chattanooga, Tenn., 1865-1866; letters from friends in the army; and letters from his father, James Madden, working in army hospitals in Ohio, Indiana, and Tennessee; and letters from other family members. Cornelius Madden's letters, 1862-1866, deal largely with his living arrangements in Columbus, Ohio, and in Chattanooga, Tenn., camp life, his reactions to war news and controversial issues, his reading, residents of locations where he was stationed, and the family photography business in Shelby.