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Call Number: V1981.004
Extent: 0.2 Linear feet, in one folder.
The 67th New York Infantry Regiment portrait album dates from circa 1862 to 1865 and contains 80 items. The album consists of cartes-de-visite and tintypes showing officers of the 67th New York Infantry Regiment as well as other Union Army officers during the Civil War era. Individuals are identified in the album, and a name index is enclosed.
The 67th New York Infantry Regiment, also known as the First Long Island Regiment and Beecher’s Regiment, was active during the Civil War. The regiment was largely composed of Brooklyn residents.
Names:
- United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 67th (1861-1864)
Places:
- New York (State) — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Regimental histories
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
Subjects:
- Veterans — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
- Photograph albums
- Portraits
- Tintypes (prints)
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Call Number: 2009.012
Extent: 0.25 Linear feet, in one manuscript box
This collection contains twenty-nine letters written by members of the Bennett, Tandy, and Van Winkle families between the years of 1832-1909. Twenty-two of the letters are written to or by soldiers while they served in the American Civil War. The content of the letters relates to the lives of Union soldiers regarding naval battles, camp life, and family matters. Other topics include the secession of the South, Lincoln’s candidacy, and family businesses. Some letters refer to New York’s 84th Regiment from Brooklyn, also known as the 14th Militia. Most of the letters were written to or by Winant Bennett while he served for the Union during the Civil War. Several of the letters are on various forms of letterhead and some envelopes are included. Transcriptions of the letters, though incomplete at points, are available. Also included in the collection is a United States Treasury form, a certificate of membership to the Order of American Firemen for Abram Van Winkle Tandy, and a picture postcard of a bungalow at Laurel, Long Island.
Names:
- Bennett family
- Bennett, Harman, b. 1840
- Bennett, Winant, b. 1829
- Tandy family
- Tandy, Abram Van Winkle
- Tandy, Catharine M. Bennett, 1835-1892
- Van Winkle, Frank
- United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 84th (1861-1864)
Places:
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Health aspects
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Hospitals
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Social aspects
Subjects:
- Secession — Southern States
- Soldiers
- Soldiers — Family relationships — United States
- Soldiers — United States — Correspondence
Types of material:
- Correspondence
- Forms (documents)
- Letters
- Postcards
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Call Number: 1985.475
Extent: 1.67 Linear feet, in one oversize box.
A page from the October 10, 1863 issue of the New York Daily Tribune containing an article on the New York City draft riots on the front and back.
Places:
- New York (N.Y.)
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
Subjects:
- New York herald tribune
- Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863
- Draft — New York (State) — New York
Types of material:
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Call Number: 1980.010
Extent: 0.1 items, in one folder
A collection of typewritten copies of letters written by Daniel I. Underhill, a Civil War soldier, to his family on Long Island. The letters are dated 1862 to 1863. Original copies of the letters were owned by R.J. Cooke of Oceanside, NY, who donated the typewritten copies to the Long Island Historical Society (later known as the Brooklyn Historical Society).
Names:
Places:
- Long Island (N.Y.)
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
Subjects:
- Military life
- Soldiers — United States — Correspondence
Types of material:
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Call Number: 2011.011
Extent: 1.0 Linear feet, in one oversize phase box.
One bound commemorative volume containing handwritten sketches of the war service records of members of the Grand Army of the Republic, Gen. James B. McPherson Post No. 614, as well as sketches of the post itself. Approximately 50 sketches are included. The volume dates from 1897.
Names:
- Grand Army of the Republic. Gen. James B. McPherson Post No. 614 (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- McPherson, James Birdseye, 1828-1864
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Veterans
Subjects:
- Military biography
- Veterans — New York (State) — Kings County — Societies, etc.
Types of material:
- Biographies
- Volumes (documents by form)
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Call Number: 1977.543
Extent: 0.01 Linear feet, in one folder.
Certificate stating that Thomas Cavanagh of Brooklyn, N.Y. is exempt from the Civil War draft because he found an acceptable substitute to serve in his place. The certificate is issued from the New York State Board of Enrollment, 2nd District, and is signed by Samuel I. Maddox, Provost. It is dated September 24, 1863.
Names:
- New York (State). Board of Enrollment. 2nd District
- Cavanagh, Thomas
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- New York (State) — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
Subjects:
Types of material:
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Call Number: 1977.394
Extent: 0.01 Linear feet, in one folder.
This collection includes a document appointing Alexander C. Tompkins as a Private in the Westchester County-based 17th Regiment of the New York State Militia, dated 1864, and a certificate recognizing Tompkins as a contributor to the erection of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., circa 1880.
Names:
- Tompkins, Alexander C.
- New York (State). Militia. Regiment, 17th
Places:
- New York (State) — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
- Westchester County (N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.)
Types of material:
- Certificates
- Military commissions
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Call Number: ARC.208
Extent: 0.05 Linear feet, in three folders.
This collection consists mostly of the correspondence of Brooklyn lawyer Sidney V. Lowell. Of particular interest are two letters from Judge William J. Gaynor and one from McKim, Mead & White, architects. Also included are historical notes on the military career of Josiah Marshall Farrell; a letter from Samuel H. Cox to his children, dated 1862; a typewritten reminiscence in which Lowell recalls seeing Abraham Lincoln in Brooklyn during the Civil War; and a biographical sketch of Lowell’s life and career by an unknown author, written circa 1920.
Sidney V. Lowell (1844-1931) was a Brooklyn lawyer who specialized in prosecuting taxation cases, and also served as Assistant Corporation Counsel of Brooklyn. He was also a lifelong member of the Long Island Historical Society (now the Brooklyn Historical Society), as well as the First Unitarian Church in Brooklyn, located at Monroe Place and Pierrepont Street. He married Josephine Champney in 1869.
Names:
- Cox, Samuel H., 1793-1880
- Farrell, Josiah Marshall
- Gaynor, William J., 1849-1913
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Lowell, Sidney V., 1844-1931
- McKim, Mead & White
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — History
- New York (State) — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
Subjects:
- Lawyers — New York (State) — Kings County
- Presidents — United States
Types of material:
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Call Number: ARC.154
Extent: 1.26 Linear feet, in three manuscript boxes.
Charles Stuart Booth (1804-1862) was a night watchman who lived and raised his family in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg and worked in lower Manhattan. He and his wife, Lavinia Lyon Booth, had four children: Horace, Eliza (Lila, 1836-1900), Thomas (Tom), and Phoebe (1830-1912). The Charles Stuart Booth family papers and photographs span the period circa 1828 to 1906 and contain journals written by Charles Stuart Booth, in which he recorded events that transpired during his posts as a watchman, as well as family letters to and from Horace Booth while he served in the Union Army during the Civil War. The collection also contains two photograph albums and several loose photographs depicting members of the Booth family, as well as several members of families related to the Booths by marriage, including the Lockwood, Carrington, Seward, Shepard, Slauter, King, Mott, and Squires families.
Charles Stuart Booth (1804-1862) worked as a night watchman in lower Manhattan from 1828 to 1862. Booth was a resident of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburgh, which had been a separate city until it was annexed by the City of Brooklyn in 1855. Booth and his wife, Lavinia Lyon Booth, had four children: Horace, Thomas (Tom), Eliza (Lila, 1836-1900), and Phoebe (1830-1912). Horace Booth served in the Civil War from 1861 to 1863 as an engineer in the Union Army’s 8th Regiment, and was posted in Annapolis and Washington, D.C. throughout his service. Tom Booth worked in a store in Williamsburgh and was also a night watchman in the early 1860s, a position he found through the help of his father. Phoebe Booth married Hiram K. Lockwood (1820-1870) in 1851, and her sister Lila married Samuel S. Carrington in 1857.
Names:
- Booth family
- Booth, Charles Stuart, 1804-1862
- Booth, Horace
- Booth, Lavinia Lyon
- Booth, Thomas
- Carrington family
- Carrington, Eliza J. Booth, 1836-1900
- Carrington, Samuel S.
- King family
- Lockwood family
- Lockwood, Hiram K., 1820-1870
- Lockwood, Phoebe Booth, 1830-1912
- Mott family
- Seward family
- Shepard family
- Slauter family
- Squires family
- Squires, Harry B., d. 1963
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
- Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Families — New York (State) — Kings County
- Family life
- Genealogy
- Soldiers — Family relationships — New York (State) — Kings County
- Watchmen — New York (State) — New York
Types of material:
- Cabinet photographs
- Correspondence
- Family papers
- Journals (accounts)
- Photographs
- Picture postcards
- Visiting cards
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Call Number: 1977.173
Extent: 2.68 Linear feet, in two oversize boxes.
Two oversize scrapbooks compiled by Frederick Aldridge of Brooklyn, N.Y. The scrapbooks contain various items pertaining to American popular culture and history, including trade cards, greeting and calling cards, illustrations and drawings, copy photographs, playbills and theater programs, and other printed ephemera. Bills of Confederate States of America currency are also included. While some items do relate to Brooklyn, the scrapbooks do not have any particular geographic focus. Items date from 1861 to 1893.
Names:
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Confederate States of America
- United States — History
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States — Intellectual life — 19th century
- United States — Social life and customs — 19th century
Subjects:
Types of material:
- Drawings (visual works)
- Greeting cards
- Illustrations (layout features)
- Paper money
- Playbills
- Printed ephemera
- Scrapbooks
- Trade cards (advertising)
- Visiting cards
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