Letters from Robert Allen, Company A 13th Ohio

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Letters from Robert Allen, Company A 13th Ohio

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Title: Letters from Robert Allen, Company A 13th Ohio

Creator: Allen, Robert

Contributors: Burdick, Ronald

Subject: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865, Personal narratives; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 13th (1861-1865). Company; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Documents

Description: Eleven letters written during the Civil War by union soldier Robert Allen to his family in Massillon, Ohio, and an additional letter (April 4, 1862) by his brother A. Allen. The letters give details of various battles such as Murfreesboro, Battle of Shiloh, Nashville, Mount Pleasant and Sutton, Virginia. Robert Allen served with company A of the 13th Ohio Infantry Regiment. The letters were transcribed in 2011 by Cleveland Public Library staff members Ronald Burdick and Elizabeth Bardossy.

Date: 1861-1863

Type: Text

Original Format: Correspondence

Format Note: 12 letters 29 cm by 26 cm

Digital Format: image/jp2

Language: English

Location: Massillon (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio); Ohio

Location of Original: Cleveland Public Library. Fine Arts and Special Collections Department.

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Rights: This work is free of known copyright. For more information, please go to: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Rights License: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Data Provider: Cleveland Public Library

Identifier: Sp Coll E601.A44 1861; ocm50181394

Repository: Cleveland Public Library Digital Gallery

Source: From: Letters from Robert Allen, Company A 13th Ohio

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