Ira Merchant letter
Collection — Box: 59
Identifier: MS-SC1033
Scope and Contents
Letter written to Henry Yates from Fort Henry, Tennessee. Describes traveling per ship to Fort Henry, marching through the mud, witnessing the dead killed by the shelling from their boat and coming into Fort Henry.
Dates
- Created: February 26, 1862
Creator
- Merchant, Ira (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Lieutenant in the 28th Illinois Infantry, Company C. After the war, he becamen a civil engineer in Bloomington, Illinois.
Extent
1 folder (1 folder : .5 linear inches (.042 linear feet)) : 4 pages
Language of Materials
English
Creator
- Merchant, Ira (Person)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Manuscript Collection Repository
Contact:
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Springfield IL 62701 US
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112 North Sixth Street
Springfield IL 62701 US
(217) 558-8923
christopher.schnell@illinois.gov