Blanchard, Ira (b. 1835) Collection of Ira Blanchard, H company, 20th regiment, Illinois, infantry [Decimalized .01-.26]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03523.31 Author/Creator: Blanchard, Ira (b. 1835) Place Written: [various places] Type: Header Record Date: 1861-1927 Pagination: 29 items Order a Copy
This collection consists chiefly of correspondence from Ira Blanchard, Lieutenant, Company H, 29th Illinois Infantry, to Mary (Wright) Kellogg. These letters document Blanchard's service at Forts Henry and Donelson, Tennessee; Vicksburg, Mississippi; and other areas throughout Missouri, Tennessee and Louisiana from 1861-1863. Sometime after August 1863, Mary (Wright) Kellogg married Captain Henry Kellogg, and the letters from Blanchard ceased. In addition to the correspondence from Blanchard, this collection also includes a letter from Jason D. Wright to his niece Mary (Wright) Kellogg (1864), two obituaries for Mary (Wright) Kellogg (ca. 1912), a newspaper article mentioning Mary Kellogg's daughter, Mrs. L. E. Dodson (ca. 1927), and a collateral envelope.
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