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Civil War Collection

Description

These materials all date from the American Civil War era. They were selected for digitization because they relate to the people and history of Oneida County, New York in which Hamilton College is located. A large portion of them relate to the 117th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment mustered in on August 8, 1862 at Oneida county.

Inventory

These manuscript materials include 3,953 pages.

Transcription

Every page of these letters and diaries has been transcribed and encoded in TEI to facilitate reading searching.

We use TEI

Credits

Digitization of this collection was made possible by grants from the New York State Regional Bibliographic Databases and Interlibrary Resources Sharing Program through CLRC (Central New York Library Resources Council).

Contact

Katherine Collett, Archivist
E-mail: askarch@hamilton.edu
Telephone: (315) 859-4471

 

Hamilton College Archives
Burke Library
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323

(Reviewed: September 27, 2013)

 

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Oneida County Regiments

Civil War Letters (website)

97th NY Regt
117th NY Regt
123rd NY Regt

Other New York Regiments

116th NY Regt
126th NY Regt
Unidentified
NY Regts

Other

Miscellaneous
CW Documents