Correspondence, 1863 May-July [Folder 8]

49 continuous tone imagesNiles, Michigan, businessman and officer in the Sixth and Nineteenth Michigan Infantry regiments during the Civil War.Letter, 1849, and diary, 1853, of trips to the California gold fields; diary, 1856, of a trip from Council Bluffs, Iowa to Salt Lake City; brief diary, 1859, and letters, 1860, of a trip from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Pikes Peak gold fields; two Civil War diaries; extensive correspondence of Griffin, his wife, and his father Samuel H. Griffin; also letters on Griffin's fatal wounding; letter, 1836, of Isaac Griffin describing life in the Niles area; a letter by his son Edwin C. in which he describes theGrand Army of the Republic convention held in Detroit, 1882; and commissions, resolutions, miscellaneous items, and photographs. Correspondents include: John Bennett, Isaac Griffin, Paschal A. Pullman, Lucius M. Wing, and John Woodruff