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Clarke, Samuel W.   Civil War Letter, 1864., Date acquired: 10/27/2000, bulk 1864 1.00 folders

 
Clarke, Samuel W.
Letter, August 15, 1864, Captain Samuel W. Clarke, Company E, 2nd Maine Cavalry Volunteers, Camp [of] 2nd Maine Cavalry, Pensacola, Florida to Major George B. Drake, Fort Barrancas, tendering his resignation as Captain, citing insulting behaviour toward him by Colonel E. W. Woodman in the presence of other units.  4 pp. (1 leaf, folded); evidence o tri-fold filing system, p. 4.   &nnsp; Countersigned (p. 4) by Colonel Commanding G. W. Woodman, August 15, 1864 who disapproved of the resignation and forwarded to Brigadier General Alexander Asboth.  Asboth has signed it, August 28, 1864 as Commander, Hadquarters of West Florida at Barrancas, also disapproving the resignaton.  It is countersigned by Major General Banks' Adjutant Thomas H. Nolan, for Banks, at the Command Headquarters, Department of the Gulf, September 13, 1864, also endorsing Asboth's decision to not approve the resignation.   &nnsp; Clarke (pp. 1-3) claimed that officers of the 2nd Maine had engaged in a friendly evening drinking meeting but the next day had been called out in the presence of assembled companies where Woodman ordered whiskey rations for all the men, disparaging the officers and has done other 'petty tyrannies.'  Woodman states the information is not correct and such resignation would not be a benefit to the Army.  Banks noted the resignation is 'not sufficient' and that there had been large numbers of such resignation requests.
  1. UWF University Archives and West Florida History Center

Collins, Lem, Letter, 1863, Date acquired: 05/01/2006 1.00 items

 
Collins, Lem

Photocopy of letter of Lem Collins, Pensacola Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida, January 1, 1863, to wife, discussing outfitting of Union ships with ballast, use of U.S.S. Potomac as mail ship and news of General Burnside's defeat. Note: Burnside was defeated at Fredericksburg, Virginia in December 1862 and submitted his request to President Lincoln to resign. Date of letter coincidentally is date of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation which affected Pensacola but was not yet known by the troops in Pensacola.

  1. UWF University Archives and West Florida History Center

Harris, Naomi, Papers, Date acquired: 10/00/1981 77.00 items

 
Harris, Naomi

Personal papers, consisting of manuscript letters of the Clifford family in Pensacola (1846-1863), photographs, and photocopies of genealogical research (1946-1978) on the Clifford and Fell families of Pensacola as well as related area families and the Cliffords of Edgecomb, Maine. Includes research on the Pensacola Light House (1824-1978) and lighthouse keeper George T. Clifford.

  1. UWF University Archives and West Florida History Center

United States Naval Hospital (Pensacola, Fla.) Records, 1826-1911, Date acquired: 11/20/1990 3.00 items

 
United States Naval Hospital

Records, 1826-1911, includes appointment certificate as Surgeon for Isaac Hulse (1826); daily watch journal for the Naval Hospital, 1910-1911; and correspondence log, 1864-1865, covering hospital operations, patients, employees, nurses, and deaths of Federal naval servicemen at the hospital. Correspondents include M. S. Geist, William Seaman, Samuel L. Southard, and John Quincy Adams.

  1. UWF University Archives and West Florida History Center

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