Daniel Read Larned papers, 1861-1878.

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  • Typewritten transcripts are available for part of the collection.
Summary: Chiefly letters written by Larned to his sisters and brother-in-law pertaining primarily to General Ambrose Everett Burnside's expedition to North Carolina. Includes descriptions of the battles of Beaufort, Fort Macon, New Bern, and Roanoke Island, N.C. Other subjects include the battles of Antietam, Md., and Cold Harbor, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, and Wilderness, Va.; and the sieges of Petersburg, Va., and Knoxville, Tenn. Larned describes the pursuit of Confederate general John Hunt Morgan in Ohio and Burnside's interactions with Generals H.W. Halleck, George Brinton McClellan, and William S. Rosecrans. Other subjects include military organization, disputes over rank, discipline, morale, African American troops, entertainment, prisoners of war, foraging expeditions, inflation, disease, furloughs, and the effect of the war on noncombatants in the South. Includes a book inscribed by Burnside to Larned and photographs of Larned.
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Chiefly letters written by Larned to his sisters and brother-in-law pertaining primarily to General Ambrose Everett Burnside's expedition to North Carolina. Includes descriptions of the battles of Beaufort, Fort Macon, New Bern, and Roanoke Island, N.C. Other subjects include the battles of Antietam, Md., and Cold Harbor, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, and Wilderness, Va.; and the sieges of Petersburg, Va., and Knoxville, Tenn. Larned describes the pursuit of Confederate general John Hunt Morgan in Ohio and Burnside's interactions with Generals H.W. Halleck, George Brinton McClellan, and William S. Rosecrans. Other subjects include military organization, disputes over rank, discipline, morale, African American troops, entertainment, prisoners of war, foraging expeditions, inflation, disease, furloughs, and the effect of the war on noncombatants in the South. Includes a book inscribed by Burnside to Larned and photographs of Larned.

Typewritten transcripts are available for part of the collection.

Army officer and private secretary to Gen. Ambrose Everett Burnside during the Civil War. Born 1828.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009172

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