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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.
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