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Hattie M. and Merritt Morse papers
Collection
Abstract
Papers document a 19th-century New Hampshire family during the American Civil War. Merritt Morse shared his experiences and perspectives as a U.S. Signal Corpsman in the Union Army in South Carolina, the Sea Islands, and Virginia, as well as an ad hoc minister to formerly enslaved Black communities on the islands, through correspondence home to his wife Hattie. The papers also contain a smaller number of letters to Hattie from her family. Additional materials include carte de visite...
Restrictions on Access
Collection is open for research; a portion is available digitally.
Dates:
1858-1865; Majority of material found within 1863-1865