Correspondence from Sheldon Treat to family before, during, and after the Civil War, 1860-1873

Sheldon C. Treat was a Union soldier in the US Civil War with Company E of the Fourth Iowa Infantry. This file includes twenty-one letters he wrote to his family in New England, most of them sent in 1862-1863 during his war service. It also contains a letter from his commanding officer, and a short...

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Main Author: Treat, Sheldon C. (Correspondent)
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Correspondence from Sheldon Treat to family before, during, and after the Civil War, 1860-1873
Treat, Sheldon C. (Correspondent)
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Soldiers -- Iowa -- Correspondence; Frontier and pioneer life; letters (correspondence)
description Sheldon C. Treat was a Union soldier in the US Civil War with Company E of the Fourth Iowa Infantry. This file includes twenty-one letters he wrote to his family in New England, most of them sent in 1862-1863 during his war service. It also contains a letter from his commanding officer, and a short biographical document. Treat took part in seventeen battles of the US Civil War, including the Battle of Pea Ridge (Arkansas, 1862) and the Battle of Fort Hindman (Arkansas, 1863), and was involved in William Tecumseh Sherman's Savannah Campaign (or March to the Sea) from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia, in 1864.
spelling Correspondence from Sheldon Treat to family before, during, and after the Civil War, 1860-1873Treat, Sheldon C. (Correspondent)Treat family (Addressee)Text1860-1873engelectronic; image/jpeg; 51 p.Sheldon C. Treat was a Union soldier in the US Civil War with Company E of the Fourth Iowa Infantry. This file includes twenty-one letters he wrote to his family in New England, most of them sent in 1862-1863 during his war service. It also contains a letter from his commanding officer, and a short biographical document. Treat took part in seventeen battles of the US Civil War, including the Battle of Pea Ridge (Arkansas, 1862) and the Battle of Fort Hindman (Arkansas, 1863), and was involved in William Tecumseh Sherman's Savannah Campaign (or March to the Sea) from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia, in 1864.Soldiers -- Iowa -- Correspondence; Frontier and pioneer life; letters (correspondence)United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Arkansas; Sherman's March to the SeaThe University of Alabama Libraries Special CollectionsSheldon C. Treat Civil War correspondenceBox SC0108, Folder 4235.01u0003_0004235_0000001http://purl.lib.ua.edu/177049https://archives.lib.ua.edu/repositories/3/resources/4806Images are in the public domain or protected under U.S. copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code), and both types may be used for research and private study. For publication, commercial use, or reproduction, in print or digital format, of all images and/or the accompanying data, users are required to secure prior written permission from the copyright holder and from archives@ua.edu. When permission is granted, please credit the images as Courtesy of The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections. http://cdm17336.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17336coll50/id/1996
title Correspondence from Sheldon Treat to family before, during, and after the Civil War, 1860-1873
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