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1Title:  Regimental Papers of the Civil War     
 Creator:  Palmer, William Pendleton 
 Dates:  1846-1908 
 Abstract:  William Pendleton Palmer (1861-1927) was President of the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio (1913-1927). The collection consists of American Civil War documents collected by Palmer, including military and personal correspondence, muster rolls, official orders, ordnance and quartermaster reports, casualty lists, memoirs, diaries, descriptions of the engagements in which various regiments took part, and papers dealing with veterans' organizations after the war. Half of the collection relates to Ohio volunteers, but there are papers from Union and Confederate regiments of thirty States. Includes material concerned with Negro regiments enlisted in the Southern States occupied by Union Armies, and a few references to the Mexican War and the 1850s. Collection features the James E. Taylor Sketchbook. 
 Call #:  MS 2152 
 Extent:  16.00 linear feet (36 containers and 17 oversize volumes) 
 Subjects:  Palmer, William Pendleton, 1861-1927. | Soldiers -- United States -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc. | Soldiers -- United States -- Diaries. | Veterans -- United States -- Societies, etc. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Afro-Americans. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. | United States -- History -- War with Mexico, 1845-1848 -- Sources.
 
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2Title:  Civil War Miscellany     
 Creator:  Palmer, William Pendleton 
 Dates:  1812-1912 
 Abstract:  William Pendleton Palmer (1861-1927) was a steel company executive and collector of Civil War materials. He served as president of the Western Reserve Historical Society (1913-1927). The collection consists of letters, telegrams, commissions, discharge papers, general and special orders, circulars, broadsides, maps, drawings, naval papers, and scrapbooks, relating to Union and Confederate armed forces and veteran's organizations and Confederate medical services; and newspaper clippings accumulated by Governor Reynolds of Missouri on politics and the American Civil War, a scrapbook including speeches of Mayor Richardson of Cambridge, Massachusetts, registers of 3 Confederate ships, and papers relating to several military units and battles. 
 Call #:  MS 3194 
 Extent:  3.80 linear feet (10 containers and 15 oversize folders) 
 Subjects:  United States. Army -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. | Confederate States of America -- History, Military. | Confederate States of America -- History, Naval. | Confederate States of America -- Hospitals, charities, etc. | Veterans -- United States -- Societies, etc. | Chickamauga, Battle of, 1863. | Missionary Ridge (Tenn. and Ga.), Battle of, 1863. | Missouri -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865. | Missouri -- Politics and government -- Civil War, 1861-1865. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.
 
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