Daniel Read Larned papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1100
Subjects: Prisoners and prisons; African American Participation; Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862; Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864,; New Bern, Battle of, New Bern, N.C., 1862; Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862; Cold Harbor, Battle of, Va., 1864; Siege, 1862; Campaigns; United States; Psychological aspects; Medical care; Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864; United States. Army; Economic aspects; History
Description: Chiefly letters written by Larned to his brothers and sisters relating to campaigns in North Carolina and Virginia and Burnside's interactions with Generals H. W. Halleck, George Brinton McClellan, and William S. Rosecrans.  Includes descriptions of the battles of Roanoke Island, New Bern, Beaufort, and Fort Macon, N.C., and mentions the Antietam, Fredericksburg, Knoxville, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg campaigns and the pursuits of Confederate general John Hunt Morgan in Ohio.  Other topics include military organization, disputes over rank, discipline, morale, African American troops, entertainment, prisoners of war, foraging expeditions, inflation, disease, furloughs,  and the effect of the war on noncombatants in the South.
Notes: Open to research.

Typewritten transcripts are available for part of the collection.

Purchase, 1936.

Gift, Daniel Larned, 2000.

Army officer and private secretary to Gen. Ambrose Everett Burnside during the Civil War.  Born 1828.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009172