COLL/455 Guide to the Civil War Collection Civil War Collection

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Guide to the Civil War Collection 1858/2007 Heritage Hall, Hekman Library Overview of the Collection Civil War Collection 1858-2007 COLL/455 1.00 Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
Hekman Library 1855 Knollcrest Circle SE Grand Rapids, MI, URL: http://archives.calvin.edu Email: crcarchives@calvin.edu Phone: 616-526-6913 Fax: 616-526-7689
Subject collection of works on the Civil War. The collection includes letters, i.e. Stillwell, Roorda, Weener, Roon, Slotman, Van Bree, Holland, Todd, Bouma, Ledeboer; a booklet, in Dutch, about the responses of the Dutch immigrant community in Michigan regarding  this war by Willemien M. Schenkeveld, 1989; a diary, 1863, by Cephas Andrus, a Union Soldier from Canton, Pennsylvania; a tract, 1861, written for the armed forces by G. Duffield of Detroit, Michigan entitled “Friendly Council”; “Daily Diary of Andrew McDonald”; and references. [See also Coll. 456 Driscoll and the Campus Titles Database.]
Arrangement of Materials:

Folder level description

Detailed List of Contents id21697 id21698 1 id21699 1 1 Andrus, Cephas: Diary 1862 Scope and Contents

(with transcription, [undated])

id21700 1 2 Bouma, Douwe R.: Letter 1863 Scope and Contents

(photocopy, transcription, translation, [undated])

id21701 1 3 Holland, Joseph: Correspondence re: Civil War and the use of the term "Dutch" 1984 id21702 1 4 id21703 1 4 Ledeboer, William G.: Correspondence 1862-1863 Scope and Contents

(with summary notes, [undated])

id21704 1 4 Tract, "Friendly Counsel,"G. Duffield 1861
id21705 1 5 Roon, Jacob: Correspondence 1863 Scope and Contents

(photocopy, transcription, translation, [undated])

id21706 1 6 Roon, Willem: Correspondence 1863 Scope and Contents

(photocopy, transcription, translation, [undated])

id21707 1 7 Roorda, Henry Epke: Correspondence 1862 Scope and Contents

(transcribed photocopy, [undated])

id21708 1 8 Slotman, Gerrit H.: Correspondence 1863 Scope and Contents

(photocopy, transcription, translation1966)

id21709 1 9-13 Stillwell: Correspondence 1858-1864 id21710 1 14 Todd, Andrew: Correspondence [undated] Scope and Contents

(photocopy)

id21711 1 15 Van Bree, Gerrit: Correspondence 1863 Scope and Contents

(photocopy)

id21712 1 16 id21713 1 16 Weener, Wolter: Correspondence 1862; Scope and Contents

(photocopy, transcription, translation, M. Douma, 2007)

id21717 1 16 Paper, "Walter Weener: Young Civil War Soldier" Undated
id21714 1 17 Schenkeveld, Willemien M., En Er Werd een Groote Storm van Wind: Reacties uit de Nederlandse Immigrantenkolonie in Michigan op de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog (1861-1865) 1989 Scope and Contents

(in Dutch about the responses of the Dutch immigrant community in Michigan concerning the Civil War) [HERH E514 .S454 1989]

id21715 1 18 Daily Diary of Andrew McDonald during Civil War Years, Niels T. Andersen, editor 1987 id21716 1 19 References