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Container
Call Number: RH MS 312
Contains 11 Results:
Bound volume containing seventy-six Civil War letters, written from 1861 to 1865
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Overview
Contains seventy-one letters from Proudfit, primarily to his wife Emelie and sister Julia, during Proudfit's service in the Wisconsin Twelfth Voluntary Infantry Regiment. Included are three letters to Proudfit from his wife, one from his sister Julia, and one from his sister Julia's husband, "D. Worthington." Also included are a printed list of officers, companies, and Company B officers and privates in the Twelfth Regiment, and a handwritten 1862 order concerning Proudfit from Col. George...
"Military Record of James K. Proudfit in the United States Volunteer Army of the Civil War, 1861-1865."
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Biographical sketch and portrait of James K. Proudfit as Surveyor-General of New Mexico, 1872-76
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Biographical sketches and family history of various Proudfit and related Howard family members: Andrew Proudfit (1728- ), the Reverend William Proudfit (1803-1870), and Colonel James Kerr Proudfit (1831-1917)
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"Howards of the Severn."
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"Will of Thomas Cornelius Howard of Anne Arundel County, Maryland," January 20, 1801
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Handwritten 12-page autobiographical sketch by James K. Proudfit, April 10,1877, addressed to Mr. J. W. Hodge, Chicago, Ill
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Completed application for membership to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C, by Eleanor Howard Tavenner, descendant of George Darby, n.d
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"A Sketch of General Sherman's Military Career," by General James K. Proudfit, n.d
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Transcriptions of thirty-nine letters dated May 2, 1861 to March 28, 1863 and April 21, 1865, written to and from James Kerr Proudfit
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