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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Harvey Reid Papers #4982-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy (filmed 2005-2006) available.

• Reel 1: Entire collection

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Charles Apfelbaum of Watchung, N.J., in June 1999 (Acc. 98294).

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Processed by: John Foster, February 2001

Encoded by: John Foster, February 2001

Revisions: Finding aid updated in May 2005 by Nancy Kaiser.

Updated by: Laura Hart, June 2021

Funding from the Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc., supported the microfilming of this collection.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Family--Wisconsin--Social life and customs.
• Reid, Harvey, 1842-1910.
• Sherman's March through the Carolinas.
• Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social conditions.
• United States. Army--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military life.
• United States. Army--Military life--History.
• United States. Army. Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, 22nd (1862-1865).
• Wisconsin--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Harvey Reid joined the Union Army at Racine, Wisc., in 1862. He served with the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry through 1865, participating in the campaigns against Morgan's Confederate Cavalry in Kentucky in 1863 and later in Sherman's march through Georgia and the Carolinas.

Some of Reid's letters have been compiled in The View from Headquarters: Civil War Letters of Harvey Reid, Frank L. Byrne, editor (Madison, Wisc.: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1965).

The papers of Harvey Reid consist primarily of letters he wrote to his cousin, Will E. Reid, during Harvey Reid's service with the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. The letters center around military life in camp, the movements of Reid's unit to various positions in Kentucky and Tennessee, and his ruminations on the conduct of the war. The final letter, written at the end of Sherman's march through the Carolinas, gives a critical account of the behavior of Union troops during the campaign. Also included are two letters addressed to Harvey Reid from his sister Sara. These letters discuss everyday activities of Reid's family and friends in Racine, Wisc., during the war.

• Microfilm reel (M-4982/1)