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Dorence Atwater papers (RG069:177)
Major Edward V. Preston papers (RG069:064)
Oliver and Theodore Blackman papers (RG069:131)
Richard (McGee) Magee diaries (RG069:163)
Archives finding aid.
Overview Richard (McGee) Magee was a volunteer soldier in Company K of the 17th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. The collection includes five day-to-day diaries and an article describing his heroic actions at the siege of Fort Wagner and Sumter.
Dates: 1863-1869
Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion

Daughters of the Union Northern Women Fight The Civil War by Nina Silber
Call Number: Stacks E628 .S55 2005

ISBN: 0674043626

Publication Date: 2009

CSL catalog: "This book casts a spotlight on some of the most overlooked and least understood participants in the American Civil War: the women of the North. Unlike their Confederate counterparts, who were often caught in the midst of the conflict, most Northern women remained far from the dangers of battle. Nonetheless, they enlisted in the Union cause on their home ground, and the experience transformed their lives."

Other Institutions

Civil War Diary of Arminius Bill (CTDA)
Connecticut Digital Archive (CTDA) Bill Memorial Library: "Diary written by Arminius Bill, who served as a physician for the Union Army in the Civil War from 1861 to 1865."
Sarah Edmonds (NPS)
National Park Service (NPS): "The man known as Franklin Flint Thompson to his fellow soldiers was really a woman - Sarah Emma Edmonds - one of the few females known to have served during the Civil War."
Previous versions archived in WayBack Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://www.nps.gov/people/sarah-edmonds.htm?utm_source=person&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=experience_more
"Dear friends at home ...": The letters and diary of Thomas James Owen, Fiftieth New York Volunteer Engineer Regiment, during the Civil War
Civil War Images: Depictions of African Americans in the War Effort (LOC)
Library of Congress (LOC)

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