Skip to main content

Box 1

 Container

Contains 12 Results:

Noah Swett letters and documents, 1852 - 1865

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

Letters (including from sister Mary E. Hopkins, from Sarah Newell in Montville, Nathan Bowler, John Sproul), John Sproul of Montville document, and application of Noah Swett for insurance (Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company).

Dates: Other: 1852 - 1865

Civil War letters home, 1862 - 1863

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents

Letters written home (sister Abbie, parents, sister Frank, sister Sarah). Includes letters written from Baltimore, Md. (including McKim's Hospital), Rappahannock Station (Virginia), camp near Falmouth (Virginia), camp near Ellis Ford, Warrington (Warrenton, Virginia?), near Frederick City (Maryland), Green Spring (Virginia), Beverly Ford (Virginia), camp near Culpeper (Virginia).

Dates: Other: 1862 - 1863

Civil War letters home, 1864

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents

Letters written home (parents, sisters). Includes letters written from Kelly's Ford (Virginia), in front of Petersburg (Virginia), near Poplar Grove Church (Virginia). One letter is on "U.S. Sanitary Commission" letterhead.

Dates: Other: 1864

Civil War letters home, 1865

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents

Letters written home (sister, parents). Includes letters from Augusta (Maine), Soldier's Rest (Portland), Hampden, near Appomattox (Virginia), near Washington, near Burkesville (Virginia). One letter is on "U.S. Christian Commission" letterhead.

Dates: Other: 1865

Envelopes

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents

Possibly from Henry Swett's Civil War letters (folders 2-4), addressed to Noah Swett (Garland, Me.), Lucinda Preble (Garland, Me.), Miss Sarah C. Swett (Garland, Me.). Some of the envelopes are decorative, and postmarked Baltimore, Bowdoinham, Washington, D.C.

Dates: 1852 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1852 - 1864

Handwritten copies of Henry Swett's Civil War letters

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Content note From the Collection:

Letters, documents, and photographs, as well as photocopies of letters, photographs, certificate. Includes volume (spiral bound) compiled by Elena L. Swett McHerron and Judith Ann McHerron in 2003 of photocopies of the letters by Henry Augustus Swett, and related material.

Dates: 1852 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1852 - 1864

Spiral-bound volume: "Letters home: to his family in Garland, Maine, from Henry Augustus Swett, written during his service in the Civil War, 1862-1865, Twentieth Maine Regiment", 2003

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents

Compiled by Elena L. Swett McHerron (granddaughter of Henry), Poughkeepsie, New York, and Judith Ann McHerron (daughter of Elena), Healdsburg, California. Transcribed by Jack Trotter, Healdsburg, California.

Dates: Other: 2003

Confederate currency and related newspaper clipping

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Content note From the Collection:

Letters, documents, and photographs, as well as photocopies of letters, photographs, certificate. Includes volume (spiral bound) compiled by Elena L. Swett McHerron and Judith Ann McHerron in 2003 of photocopies of the letters by Henry Augustus Swett, and related material.

Dates: 1852 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1852 - 1864

Photographs of Henry Swett and his home in Garland, Me.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Content note From the Collection:

Letters, documents, and photographs, as well as photocopies of letters, photographs, certificate. Includes volume (spiral bound) compiled by Elena L. Swett McHerron and Judith Ann McHerron in 2003 of photocopies of the letters by Henry Augustus Swett, and related material.

Dates: 1852 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1852 - 1864

Copy of Certificate of Record, 1905

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents

Overview of military record compiled by the Soldiers and Sailors Historical Benevolent Society.

Dates: Other: 1905