TY  - GEN
TI  - Tilton family papers,
KW  - Tilton, Albert Murray,
KW  - Tilton, Henry
KW  - Tilton, Henry,
KW  - Tilton, Mary Anna.
KW  - Tilton, Robert Antis,
KW  - Tilton, Susan Alice Gibbs
KW  - Tilton, William Gibbs.
KW  - Tilton, William Gibbs
KW  - Tilton family.
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Illinois Infantry Regiment, 51st (1861-1865)
KW  - New York Artillery
KW  - Independent Battery, 21st (1862-1865)
KW  - New York Light Artillery Regiment, 24th (1862-1865)
KW  - Andersonville Prison
KW  - Alabama
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Georgia
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - North Carolina
KW  - Tennessee
KW  - Prisoners and prisons
KW  - Moscow (N.Y.)
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence, military orders, genealogical material, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to the Civil War service of the four Tilton brothers.  Chiefly letters from Albert Murray Tilton and Robert Antis Tilton who served with the 51st Illinois Infantry Regiment, Henry Tilton, Jr., who served with the 24th New York Light Artillery Regiment, and  William Gibbs Tilton who served with the 21st New York Independent Battery to their parents, Henry Tilton, Sr., and Susan Alice Gibbs Tilton, of Moscow, N.Y., describing camp life, movements of the regiments, and details of skirmishes and battles; Includes descriptions of Albert's service at Corinth, Miss., Chattanooga, Franklin, Missionary Ridge, Nashville, and Stone's River, Tenn., and Atlanta, Chickamauga, and Kennesaw Mountain, Ga.; Henry's service in Newport Barracks, New Bern, and Plymouth, N.C., and his capture and subsequent death at Andersonville prison in 1864; Robert's illness and death of typhoid fever in 1862; and William's service at Morganza, La., and Greenville, Mobile Bay, and Fish River, Ala.  Genealogical material includes photographs, obituaries, a biographical sketch of a sister, Mary Anna Tilton, and historical material about the Moscow, N.Y., area
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms004008
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms004008.3
ER  -