Correspondence of Woodbury and Helen Wheeler Smith, Documents and Miscellaneous

Letters from Woodbury Smith

Letters to parents and wife while serving in the 35th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers near Alexandria, VA; Jacksonville, Fla & Georgetown, S.C. Sees many "contrabands"; sees Helen's brother from the 6th NY Regiment; notes visit of Lincoln (Oct. 24, 1862);

Description of the ravages of war; compares John C. Grement's fall from favor to that of Benedict Arnold's' reports that he will take the place of -- and become an A.A.A. General, thus losing his judgeship (Mar. 18, 1866);

seizure of liquor.

Letters to Woodbury Smith and to Woodbury & Helen Wheeler Smith and others

Conant?, S. (Capt. 3 US Colored Troops & Provost Marshal Genl's) Tallahassee, Fla., Aug. 21, 1865 to Woodbury. [re battle & personal]

Hine, P.E. Vienna, VA, Aug. 39, 1868 [Grant's election, constitutional convention]

Krebs, Harry. Apr. 1, 1866-July 14, 1879. 5 items. Charleston, S.C. [re getting army personnel paid; Company F; rations]; Arrival home to Schuylkill Co, PA, difficulty of resuming civilian life; theme of difficulty in "fitting in" recurs]

Sanders, C.W. Camp Cherry Creek, CO, Oct. 26, 1879. 1 item. Life as surveyor and engineer, with comment about "bad Indians"

Smith, Hattie. Worcester, MA, Nov. 15, 1865-Aug. 22 [n.y.] [ re local politics, etc.] 4 items

[Smith?], Sarah. (sister of Woodbury) New Haven, Apr. 19, 1865-? 2 items. [shock of Lincoln's assassination and many details]; [n.d.] city in which Woodbury is Prov. Marshal (Charleston) is under martial law

Miscellaneous

Photographs: The Raymonds and Helen W. Smith (cyanotype); 3 photos of Harriet F. Smith (daughter of Woodbury & Helen Smith) & her living room

Poems on the deaths of Woodbury Smith and Elisha Smith and Mrs. Capron

Documents

1814, 1847. Revenue collection (very fragile)

1826. Enslaved passengers on a ship from Georgetown to Charleston, S.C. (fragile)

1871. Woodbury Smith as executor of a will.

1852. Sale of an enslaved girl in Florida

[n.d.] Map, hand-colored, printed of Charleston Harbor during Civil War indicating gun emplacements S.C. and Fla., July 7 - May 1, 1866. Field reports and inspection reports (some of which included 35th US Colored Troops). 30 items

supplies, events, such as condition of troops and copies of reports of Maj. Anderson on "abandoning" Fort Moultrie and going to Fort Sumter on the charge for an explanation by J.B. Floyd, Sec'y of War (Dec. 27, 1860);

taking ship with prisoners; payments for various army needs, such as servants (Aug. 3, 1865);

four small documents, including a chit (printed) for 3 cents "Isaac T. Campbell" redeemable at bank and naming of enslaved Black people for "labor on the Coast" (July 20, 1863)

1936. Harriet Smith's estate schedule

Miscellaneous envelopes

Unattached envelopes giving variant titles and addresses of 4 Smith family members