50 continuous tone imagesRegent of University of Michigan and chief justice of Michigan Supreme Court.Diary, 1862-1865, written while serving in Co. D, 20th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War, recounting daily activities and the sieges of Knoxville and Petersburg; correspondence, mainly with his mother and wife, while a student at University of Michigan and during the Civil War; letter, Dec. 6, 1880, to William H. Pettee concerning the establishment of a school of mines at the University; letter, Sept. 18, 1905, to Harry B. Hutchins discussing the relative merits of the Michigan Union and AlumniMemorial building projects; paper, Oct. 18, 1899, on the Battle of Horse Shoe Bend, in Kentucky, during the Civil War; and miscellaneous deeds; also...