The Samuel Adams Papers document a surgeon's perspective on several major battles and events occurring during the United States Civil War.
Scope and Contents:
This collection is divided into four series and includes letters and other papers of the Civil War surgeon Samuel Adams, as well as two CDs containing scans of the letters and transcriptions, and other documentation. The letters were sent to Adams's family and were written from the sites of major battles of the Civil War, including Antietam, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg. One letter mentions Lincoln's assassination. The collection contains medical papers written by Adams, a military pass, and a list of "maxims" written by Adams's body servant, WIlliam. Additionally, genealogical information connecting the collection donor to Samuel Adams, transcriptions of all handwritten documentation, and a copy of Grandfather to Grandson, which is a collection of letters written by the donor's great-grandfather during the Great Depression, are included.
Arrangement:
Collection is arranged into four series.
Series 1: Supplemental Documentation, 1862-1933, undated
Series 2: Civil War Letters, 1862-1865 (bulk 1862-1863)
Series 3: Medical Papers, undated
Series 4: Miscellaneous Documents, 1861 July 16, undated
Biographical / Historical:
Samuel Adams was born in Maine around 1839, and was a surgeon for the Union Army during the United States Civil War. Adams enlisted on April 16, 1862 as an assistant surgeon, and was commissioned into the U.S. Army Medical Staff as part of the regular Army. Adams received two promotions by brevet during the war to Captain and then to Major. He was present during the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg, and died of yellow fever on September 9,1867 in Galveston, Texas.
Provenance:
Collection donated by Robert K. Hollingsworth on September 26, 2013.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Papers document General William Babcock Hazen's military career, primarily through correspondence, photographs, and publications.
Scope and Contents:
The General William Babcock Hazen Collection, 1856-1905, consists of approximately four cubic feet of material. Collection materials include biographical, correspondence (military and family), documents on the Greely Arctic Expedition, photographs, stereographs, and material on General Hazen's book, A Narrative of Military Service.
Arrangement:
This collection is divided into six series.
Series 1, Biographical Materials, 1885-1867
Series 2, Correspondence and Military Forms 1856-1886 and undated
Series 3, Correspondence to General William Babcock Hazen, 1861-1887
Series 4, Correspondence of Hazen Family, 1858-1909
Series 5, Photographs, 1864-1881
Series 6, Publications, 1865-1886
Biographical / Historical:
General William Babcock Hazen was born September 27, 1830 in West Hartford, Vermont. Four years later, the family moved to a farm outside Hiram, Portage County, Ohio where he attended school with James A. Garfield. Hazen's goal was service in the Army, and he wrote his congressman for admission to the United States Military Academy at West Point. Hazen graduated in 1855, twenty-eighth out of a class of thirty-four.
After graduation, General Hazen was assigned as Brevet Second Lieutenant, Company D, Fourth Infantry, Redding, California. After arriving in California, he was ordered to Fort Lane in the Oregon Territory. Lieutenant Hazen was authorized to establish a command at Grand Ronde and build a blockhouse that became the post Fort Yamhill, located west of Portland, Oregon. On April 20, 1857, he was transferred to Fort Jones, California, and then ordered to join the Eighth Infantry, Fort Davis, Texas. Hazen was transferred to Fort Inge, Texas, to protect a road from San Antonio to Eagle Pass. During a chase, Hazen was wounded by a bullet that was not removed. The lingering effect of the bullet wound would cause him frequent pain.
During the period of service in Texas, Hazen reportedly gained leadership experience, practical military knowledge, and considerable confidence in his own abilities. Following twelve months of convalescence, Hazen was nominated assistant instructor of military tactics at West Point on January 28, 1861. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on April 1861 and captain on May 14, 1861. Colonel James A. Garfield influenced the appointment of Hazen as colonel in command of the newly organized forty-first Ohio Volunteer Regiment. Hazen quickly transformed the regiment's inexperienced personnel into a firmly disciplined body. The intensive training paid large dividends later in the war, and he always held the regiment in high regard.
As brigade and division commander, General Hazen led troops in many important battles and campaigns: Shiloh (Place of Peace), Stones River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, Resaca, Picketts Mill, Jonesboro, Fort McAllister, and Bentonville. On December 13, 1864, Hazen was appointed a major general of volunteers in recognition of long and faithful service and the capture of Fort McAllister. It was after the performance of his troops at Fort McAllister that a friendly relationship developed with General William T. Sherman. With the capitulation of the Confederate armies in spring of 1865, Hazen's division and the Army of the Tennessee left North Carolina where they saw their last fighting. The destination was Washington, D.C., site of a two-day grand review of the victorious Union Armies. On May 19, 1865 Hazen was elevated to commander of the Fifteenth Corps. After a thirty day furlough, he held command of the District of Middle Tennessee until the following summer. In July 1866, Hazen returned west.
In August 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant granted Hazen indefinite leave to observe the Franco-Prussian War. He viewed several battles and personally interviewed Otto von Bismarck and General Helmut von Moltke. Observations and research convinced Hazen that the United States Army was mismanaged and lacked tactical and logistical organization.
Before returning to the Sixth Infantry command, Hazen married Mildred McLean, the twenty-one year-old daughter of prominent Cincinnati Enquirer owner Washington McLean. A son John was born in 1876, but died at the age of twenty-two in 1898.
In June 1877, Hazen was appointed military attaché to the United States Legation in Vienna, Austria, and assigned as military observer of the Russo-Turkish War that had started in April 1877.
In 1878 Colonel Stanley accused Colonel Hazen of perjury and cowardice in the Civil War and requested a court-martial. Colonel Hazen retaliated by formally requesting that Stanley be arraigned by a court-martial on charges of publishing and circulating libelous material against him. On March 19, 1879, General Sherman reluctantly recommended that both generals be arraigned by the same court-martial. The New York Tribune reported "inasmuch as by the decisions of the court-martial Hazen has secured a substantial vindication." Hazen returned to Fort Buford.
While on detached service in Washington, D.C., Hazen actively campaigned for James A. Garfield for president. On August 24, 1880, General Albert James Myer, Chief of the Army Signal Corps, died, opening up a staff position subject to presidential appointment. President Rutherford B. Hayes, after consulting with President-elect Garfield, announced the promotion of Hazen to the rank of brigadier general and appointment as chief signal officer. One of Hazen's lasting legacies in this new role was advancing the development of meteorological science in the Army Signal Corps.
In May 1880, Lady Franklin Bay in northern Canada was chosen as the site for a signal service polar station, one of several conducted by eleven nations for the first International Polar Year (1882-1883). The initial two-year expedition set out in 1881 under the command of Regular Army First Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely, a Civil War veteran from Massachusetts. The twenty-five man party did not get relief from the long winter in 1882, and a second rescue attempt was disrupted by ice. In September 1883, Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln, decided it was too late to send another relief party and they were left to spend a third winter in the Arctic. The demoralized party was forced to march south in search of supplies and landed at Cape Sabine, spending the next eight months in desperate circumstances. In June 1884, rescuers finally reached them and found only Greely and seven others alive. The remaining expedition members froze or starved to death.
Hazen never forgave Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln for his inaction with the Greely Arctic Expedition, and in 1884 Lincoln censured Hazen for his criticism. Hazen replied to Lincoln by letter, which was returned with a warning to keep the matter private. Hazen went to the press and stated in a published account that he wrote such a letter. He immediately found himself ordered before another court-martial, resulting in a reprimand by President Chester A. Arthur for "unwarranted and captious criticism." Greely supported Hazen's position. In 1885, Hazen produced A Narrative of Military Service, a report devoted to the defense of his Civil War record and personal reputation.
Health problems-diabetes and recurring pain from his bullet wound-forced Hazen to obtain a 12-month leave of absence from his military service. On January 13, 1887, he attended a White House reception where he caught a cold. He died on January 16, 1887, at the age of fifty-six.
Provenance:
In 1985, the Smithsonian received from the Estate of Fredrick McLean Bugher, grandnephew of General Hazen's wife Mildred McLean Hazen, manuscripts and letters concerning General Hazen. Part of the collection was rescued by a private individual from a Lorton, Virginia land fill and sold to the Smithsonian in 1987 in two sections. The first section contained material about the career of General William Babcock Hazen as chief signal officer of the United States Army. The second section contained manuscript materials related to Hazen's duties on the frontier and Indian tribes covering the period of 1855 to 1860, and from 1866 to 1880. Also included are family letters and land holdings in the Midwest.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Rights situation uncertain, but most of the collection is probably in the public domain due to its age.
Topic:
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- 1880-1890 Search this
Old Abe Lincoln -- Battle of Bull Run -- Battle cry of freedom -- The twenty-third -- Marching along -- Bonnie Eloise -- Tramp, tramp, tramp -- Virginia's bloody soil -- Benny Havens, O! -- We go marching on -- Dixie -- Pretty little miss -- The bonnie blue flag -- Goober peas -- Lorena -- Red, white and red -- Vicksburg bluff -- The rose of Alabama -- In 1861 -- The old rebel soldier
Track Information:
101 Old Abe Lincoln / Guitar.
102 The Battle of Bull Run / Guitar.
103 The Battle Cry of Freedom / Guitar.
104 The Twenty-Third / Guitar.
105 Marching Along / Guitar.
106 Bonnie Eliose / Guitar.
107 Tramp, Tramp, Tramp / Guitar.
108 Virginia's Bloody Soil / Guitar.
109 Benny Havens, Oh / Guitar.
110 Marching On / Guitar.
201 Dixie / Guitar.
202 Pretty Little Miss / Guitar.
203 The Bonnie Blue Flag / Guitar.
204 Goober Peas / Guitar.
205 Lorena / Guitar.
206 The Red, White and Red / Guitar.
207 The Life on the Vicksburg Bluff / Guitar.
208 The Rose of Alabama / Guitar.
209 In Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One / Guitar.
210 The Old Rebel Soldier / Guitar.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-LP-0582
Prestige/International.12012
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
Prestige International Bergenfield, NJ 196x
General:
Civil war songs; sung by Frank Warner, with Jeff and Gerret Warner.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Marine Corps Band --Invocation / George M. Docherty -- Welcome / Rep. Fred Schwengel --Greetings from the Congress / House Speaker Sam Rayburn --Address / Carl Sandburg --Reenactment --Benediction --Marine Corp Band.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-LP-0853
Gold Star.6051
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
Gold Star 1961
General:
"The one hundredth anniversary reenactment of Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration on the fourth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and sixty one"--Container. Cast: Narrated by Roger Mudd.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
A. Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois --A house divided against itself --The man in the White House --The first inaugural address --The message to congress --Backdrop for Gettysburg --The Gettysburg address --The letter to Mrs. Bixby --Whitman's portrait.
Track Information:
101 Sandburg, Carl; "A Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois.
201 Sandburg, Carl; A House Divided Against Itself.
301 Sandburg, Carl; The Man in the White House.
401 Sandburg, Carl; Gettysburg and the river of War.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-LP-2280
Caedmon.2015
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
New York Caedmon 1957
General:
"Readings by Carl Sandburg from his studies Abraham Lincoln: The prairie years and The war years." Recorded in New York City, May 25, 1957.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Letter from Walt Whitman to Lewis K. Brown--Lecture on death of Lincoln--When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd--There was a child went forth--A Boston ballad--Europe: thee 72nd and 73rd years of these states--Geer discusses the Folk scene in 1940s in New York
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-0531
General:
CDR copy; sound file exists in the DAMS system
Will Geer Reads Walt Whitman and one of his own fantastical yarns about the U.S. folk scene of the 1940s.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Lincoln and liberty--We're ready for Teddy again--Keep cool and keep Coolidge--High hopes
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-1556
General:
Folkways 37260
CDR copy
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Abraham Lincoln's Fits Inaugural Address--Gettysburg Address--Emancipation Proclamation--Second Inaugural Address
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-3056
General:
CDR copy
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Lead Belly acetates-- Get your basket-- House of the Rising Sun--Christmas is coming--Noted rider--Borrow love and go--Get your basket--4,5 and 9; Woody Guthrie-- Warden in the sky; On the Swing Time Radio Show includes tour of Disc Studio with Moses Asch, Stella Brooks)--Please play it in ragtime--West End blues--Little piece of leather; We're gonna rock--Song about Abraham Lincoln--Will you miss me?--Jazz--Almanacs-Plow under; Woody Guthrie- The Ballad Gazette Radio Show-- This land is your land--What did the deep sea say--Blow ye winds--Trouble on the waters--Blow the man down
Track Information:
101 Get Your Basket (ACT-259) / Lead Belly. Guitar.
102 House of the Rising Sun (ACT-259) / Lead Belly. Guitar.
103 Christmas is Coming (Chicken Crowing for Midnight)(ACT-259) / Lead Belly. Guitar.
104 Noted Rider (ACT-280) / Lead Belly. Guitar.
105 Big Fat Woman (ACT-280) / Lead Belly. Guitar.
106 Borrow Love and Go (ACT-280) / Lead Belly. Guitar.
107 Get Your Basket (ACT-286) / Lead Belly, Sonny Terry, Champion Jack Dupree, Brownie McGhee. Guitar,Piano,Harmonica.
108 4, 5 and 9 (ACT-293) / Lead Belly, Sonny Terry, Champion Jack Dupree, Brownie McGhee. Guitar,Piano,Harmonica.
109 Warden in the Sky (ACT-311) / Woody Guthrie. Guitar.
110 I'll Never Be the Same (ACT-321) / Stella Brooks.
112 On the Swing Time Radio Show (features tour of Disc Studios) (ACT-359) / Stella Brooks, Moses Asch, Sidney Bechet.
112 Please Play it in Ragtime (ACT-359) / Stella Brooks.
112 West End Blues (ACT-359) / Stella Brooks.
112 Little Piece of Leather (ACT-359) / Stella Brooks.
116 We're Gonna Rock (ACT-359).
118 Song About Abraham Lincoln (ACT-359).
120 Will You Miss Me? (ACT-362) / Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie. Guitar.
121 Misc. Jazz (ACT-362).
123 Misc. Jazz (ACT-362).
122 Please Don't Leave Me All Alone (ACT-362) / Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee. Guitar,Harmonica.
125 Plow Under / Almanac Singers, Pete Seeger. Guitar.
126 This Land is Your Land (ACT) / Woody Guthrie. Guitar.
127 What Did the Deep Sea Say? (ACT-734) / Woody Guthrie. Guitar.
128 Blow Ye Winds (ACT-734) / Woody Guthrie. Guitar.
129 Trouble on the Waters (ACT-734) / Woody Guthrie. Guitar.
130 Blow the Man Down (ACT-734) / Woody Guthrie. Guitar.
Local Numbers:
FP-CDR-0041
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
