Found 2 collections related to United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military Life

Samuel H. Edwards (1842-1879) was born in New York City on August 20, 1842. He served with the United States Military Telegraphic Corps during the American Civil War and later became the chief telegraph operator of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company in New York. Thomas Edison is said to have described Edwards as "the best manipulator of wires in the United States." Edwards married Mary L. ("Molly") Hulse in 1866. He died on July 3, 1879 at the age of thirty-seven, several weeks after his son, Harry, had died at birth. A coroner declared "paralysis of the brain" as the cause of Edwards' death. less

Correspondence and other papers of the MacCulloch-Miller family of Morristown, New Jersey, including: George P. MacCulloch; his son, Francis L. MacCulloch; his daughter, Mary MacCulloch Miller, and son-in-law Jacob W. Miller; and his sons, Henry W. and Lindley H. Miller. Topics include: business in England, 1800-1806; national affairs (including the gold standard problem), 1848; life in the United States Naval Academy, 1850s; and United States Army life in Louisiana and Mississippi during the Civil War less