| Summary: | Letters from and about General Hiram G. Berry, a native of Rockland, Maine, who during the US Civil war served as colonel of the Fourth Maine Infantry and later, as brigadier general, commanded the Third Brigade, Hamilton's Division (later Kearny's) of the Third Corps in the Army of the Potomac. He was then promoted to major general, commanding the Second Division of the Third Corps. Before the Civil War, he served several terms as a Republican member of the Maine state legislature, where he became political allies with Hannibal Hamlin, another Republican member of the legislature, who would serve one term as vice president under Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865).
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