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Series III: Other materials

Scope and Contents note

This series contains letters, maps, articles and papers that were recieved by the Loyal Legion. Notable items include a paper on the Elmira prison, a piece of fabric from a Rebel spy balloon, and a piece of a submarine cable.

Ballots, Candidates for Membership 1912, 1912

Offsite-Box: 8, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Access Restrictions

Restricted: These items are damaged and not available to general researchers

By-laws and Articles; Report of Meeting (missing first page), 1865, 1897, undated

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

War Papers read before the Kansas Commandery; Kansas Comandery circulars, 1890's

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 2-3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents Note

Paper topics include personal reminiscences of battles and commanders, the Nicaragua Canal, Lincoln, The Hospital Ship in the War with Spain, the Acting Signal Corps, the Campaign Against Wei-Hai-Hai

Civil war manuscripts and memorabilia, 1860's

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Related Archival Materials Note

See also letter and note in Box 6, Folder 1

Wallet and documents belonging to Major H.G. Lockwood, 1853-1871, undated

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Description and photographs of a Confederate cemetery at Elmira, New York, 1906

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Assorted evphemera, 1888, 1890, 1913, 1919

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents Note

Includes printed material of the Loyal Legion, members' business cards, memorial notice, publication notices, and assorted other items

Date book (of unidentified attorney?), 1906

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Brass dies for Loyal Legion Library bookplates

Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Facsimile issued by "The Chicago Herald" on wallpaper of the July 2, 1863 issue of "The Daily Citizen" of Vicksburg, Miss.

Offsite-Box: 11, Box: 10, item: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Map of the Upper Potomac from McCoy's Ferry to Conrad's Ferry (inscribed "used in the last campaign of the Shenendoah Valley 1863-1864 with Major General Sheridan"), 1863

Offsite-Box: 11, Box: 10, item: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photograph of the statue "Peace" erected on Monument Battlefield at Vicksburg by the State of Minnesota., 1907

Offsite-Box: 11, Box: 10, item: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notepad with shorthand, undated

Offsite-Box: 13, Volume: BV Loyal Legion 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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