Norland, Gail, Civil War collection
Scope and Contents
Copies of primary and secondary sources. CDV photos. US veterans and confederates.
Framed photo.
Box 1:
Newspaper and web page photocopies. Units and veterans. Loose papers and unsorted folders.
Box 2:
Two "Vasa Illustrata" books. One in Swedish, one in English. Civil War vet portraits.
Civil War diary photocopies.
Booklet, Souvenir Program, US Government War Exposition, Chicago
Civil War letter copies. Lafayette Grow, 3rd MN Inf., Co G
Dodge, CDV
Civil War Archive presents, The First MN SHarpshooter Co, in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War.
Pensioners on the Roll as of January 1, 1883 (living in Dakota Territory)
Pensioners on the Roll as of January 1, 1883 (living in Minnesota)with Every Name Index
Pen Pictures from the Second Minnesota. Park Genealogical Books.
47th Congress, Minnesota Civil War Pensioners, 1882-83.
Civil War Letters of Billings Sibley, Drummer Boy, 2nd Minnesota Infantry, 1861 thru 1865.
Daniel Bond, 1st Minnesota Infantry, Company F. Handwritten manuscript of prison escape. MNHS.
The First Minnesota Regiment at Gettysburg by Haliber.
Roster, George N Morgan Post No 4, GAR, 1903.
Wright County Minnesota Veterans Census 1890.
Unit History, 68th Armored Infantry Battalion from Port of Embarkation to VE Day.
1890 Veteran's Census, Wabasha County. Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Widows, etc.
1890 Veteran's Census, Mower County. Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Widows, etc.
Charles E. Flandrau. copies of newspaper articles, 1899.
The Kotsego, Wright County Cemetery. 1854 to 1996.
Over The Years, Dakota Co Historical Society newsletter. Sept 1997.
Joel E. Whitney, Catalog of Known Cartes De Visite, Native American and Landscape Views.
Tales of the Tenth Regiment, MN Volunteers 1862-1893, By Two Soldiers
"And What Nobler Purpose" Civil War Veterans and Pipestone County.
The Warr Letters, The Civil War Letters of Joseph and Charles Warr of Fountain, MN.
Letters Home to Minnesota, 2nd Minnesota Volunteers.
Alexander Kinkead.
1st MN Infantry Monument Dedication at Gettysburg, PA.
Van Garren. Black man. Brackett's Battalion. Buried at Sterling Cemetery, Blue Earth County, MN.
Glenville GAR.
Renville County 1890 GAR census.
Cottonwood GAR.
Hecker Post GAR.
Mower County GAR.
Blue Earth City GAR.
A Edwards Welch Post #75.
Stillwater GAR.
Ortonville GAR.
Artilleryman shell jacket.
Misc CDV photos.
Unsorted newspaper clippings and misc.
Box 3, units:
1st Minnesota Infantry Information (sic)
1st Minnesota Regiment
2nd Minnesota Infantry
3rd Minnesota Infantry
4th Minnesota Infantry
5th Minnesota Infantry
6th Minnesota Infantry
7th Minnesota Infantry
8th Minnesota Infantry
10th Minnesota Infantry
11th Minnesota Infantry
Misc Sharpshooters
1st Minnesota Sharpshooters
2nd Minnesota Sharpshooters
Box 4, units, counties, vets:
LeSueur and Nicollet County obituaries
Blue Earth County
LeSueur County
Lincoln Park, Mankato
Nicollet County
Rice County
St Louis County
Waseca County
1st Minnesota Cavalry
2nd Minnesota Cavalry
Brackett's Battalion
Hatch's Cavalry
1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery
1st Minnesota Battery
2nd Minnesota Battery
3rd Minnesota Battery
Wing, Charles and Henry
Winslow, William Edward
Wilcox, John M.
Woodside, Russel
Wright, Abraham
X, Y, Z veterans misc.
Yaber, Washington
Young, John M.
Young, Marion
Young, William H.
Zimmerman, Charles
Box 5, veterans:
A veterans misc.
Andersonville photo
Abend, Lewis
Ackley, Charles
Adams, George R.
Aldrich, Leonard
Aldritt, Edwin "Ned"
Allen, Albert
Allen, John
Allen, Joseph M.
Alling, Dwight H.
Anderson, George W.
Andrews, Theodore
Andrus, Charles H.
Applegarth, R. G. and W. H.
Archibald, David
Asher, John
B veterans misc.
Babcock, John W.
Badger, Samuel M.
Bailey, Wesley F.
Baird, George
Baker, Charles
Baker, Ozias B.
Box 6:
Baptist, Frank, CSA
Barclay, Alexander
Barclay, George
Barnes, Elbridge, Percival, and John
Bassett, E. H.
Baytien, Charles
Bean, Albert W.
Bean, Jesse S.
Beatty, John R.
Beecher, Henry Ward
Bell, Lucius
Bender, James
Berger, Emil
Bertram, James
Betcher, John G.
Billings, Myron
Bitzer, Baltus
Bishop, Judson W.
Black, Mahlon
Black, Sammuel
Blackstone, Abraham
Blake, George
Blockner, John G.
Boam, Dudley
Bosworth, S. J.
Bowler, James
Braden, W. W.
Branch, Elias
Brandt, William
Bratton, W. H.
Brietkrentz, Johan
Brelsford, Isaac W.
Brewer, Frederick A.
Brighton, Ephraim
Bruce, Robert
Bruner, Elias D.
Bryant, James
Bugbee, John G.
Bull, Chaplain
Bullis, Hiram C.
Burger, Joseph
Burgess, Samuel W.
Box 7:
C veterans misc.
Cemetery info.
Cain, Charles B.
Cain, William Henry
Caldwell, Asa B.
Calvert, Robert and Samuel D.
Campbell, John L.
Cannon, James
Carll, Freeman A.
Case, Gehiel L.
Casey, Edward
Cavanaugh, Dennis
Capper, James
Carpenter, Rives
Carson, Anthony B.
Carter, George A.
Chaney, Josiah B.
Chaffin, Lewis L.
Chamberlain, Fred
Chamberlain, William
Champlin, D. B.
Champlin, Ezra
Charles, Edward
Charlton, Richard
Chase, Alfred H.
Chase, Dudley P.
Cheadle, Solon K.
Box 8:
Cheney, Oscar F.
Chewning, Reuben J.
Churchill, Jonathan
Clapshaw, William
Clarke, George A.
Clayton, Frances/ Williams, Jack
Cobb, William F.
Coleman, Alonzo
Coleman, Wilber M.
Colegrave, Albert
Collins, Dexter E.
Collins, Loren W.
Collins, William
Conant, Freeman C.
Conley, James
Conlon, Patrick
Connor, William
Conrad, W. S.
Cook, David
Cook, W. H.
Cook, William H.
Coon, Northrup
Cooper, Preston
Corning, Edward
Corwin, Albert
Countryman, Charles C.
Couse, Edward H.
Couse, Harrison K.
Coy, William Augustus
Craig, David P.
Crandall, Dennis
Craven, John
Cray, Loren
Crippen, Robert
Box 9:
Misc loose photos.
Cronscioe, Svante
Crull, George and Henry
Cline, Cullen Ewing
Cummings, Dr George W.
Cummings, nathan
D veterans misc.
Dahle, Jens T.
Dallmann, Johan G.
Dana, Napolion J. T.
Dane, Jerome
Darrow, Addison L.
Denny, William
Davis, Charles L.
Davis, John
Dewey, Benjamin Parke
Dicky, Joseph C.
Diehr, Frederick
Box 10, veterans:
Dolson, John O.
Donlon, John O.
Donlon, Thomas
Dorathy, John H.
Doughty, Asa and James E.
Dresbach, Michael R.
Duley, William J.
Dunn, William
Dunsmoor, Irving A.
Dwelle, G. Merrill
E veterans misc.
Eagles, Robert C.
Edson, James
Ellworth, John
Elphee, Caleb
Embery, Carmi H.
Emery, J. M.
Emery, James
Emory, James M.
Evans, George W.
Evans, Owen
F veterans misc.
Faatz, Frank
Fabrick brothers, George, Lewis, and Delos
Fairbanks, Alfred and Caswell
Farrington, S. A.
Felt, Bronson
Box 11:
Felt, Marcus B.
Field, Albert R.
Fitzsimmons, Charles
Flemming, William H.
Flom, Arthur A.
Flower, Mark D.
Flynn, John
Folsom, Henry and Philander E.
Folwell, William Watts
Fowler, John Gloss
Franklin, Benjamin
Frazer, Walter
Frederick, Sylvester
G veterans misc.
Gale, William Henry
Gates, Charles
George, Jacob
Gerry, Edson
George, Col James
Goodrich, Evans
Goodwin, Alfred
Gorman, Gen Willis A.
Gould, Chessman
Gregg, Henry M.
Griest, Elwood
Grimes, John T.
Groves, Alexander D.
Guderian, Christopher S.
Guy, Henry
H veterans misc.
Box 12:
Hacker, I. Goddard
Hall, John S.
Hamblet, Alfred W. and Benjamin O.
Hancock, Samuel
Hanley, James
Harkness, Edwin
Hanks, Gilbert E.
Harman, Charles
Harrington, Hiram
Harrison, Gen John E.
Hartford, Elder B.
Hatcher, Frank
Hawes, James C.
Hawkins, Jacob and Charles
Haynes, Alfred V.
Haywood, Frederick L.
Hazen, Benjamin
Hazen, John M.
Heald, Abner O.
Heald, Daniel
Herrmann, Charles
Hershberger, Martin
Hibben, Abe
Hilliard, Joseph L.
Hillis, David Burke
Hippler, Benedict
Hodgkins, Henry H.
Hohenstein, Adam
Holmes, Livilo N.
Houghton, Newell F.
Howe, Abraham
Howe, Edwin
Howe, Henry S.
Howell, William D.
Hubbard, Col Lucious F.
Hughes, James
Hunt, Charles
Hunter, Joseph
I veterans misc
Ingalls, Rosswell
Box 13:
J veterans misc.
Jacoby, Hiram J.
Jackson, Jonathan
Jacobs, Elias M.
Jacobs, Willard
James, George E.
Janicke, John
Jemson, Christopher
Jenkins, (CSA)
Johnson, Martin B.
Johnson, Gustave
Johnson, Richard M.
Jones, Alexander C (CSA)
Jones, Daniel W.
Jones, Edwin E.
Jones, Joel
Jones, John A. N.
Jones, John J.
Jones, Oliver T.
Jones, William
K veterans misc.
Kerr, James, John, and William
King, Abram N.
King, Andrew N.
Kingston, Henry
Knowles, Elwood
Koeke, Gottlieb
Krech, Ambrose and Matthew
Kelly, Benjamin O.
Kern, John
Kerns, William F.
Krueger, Christof
Krummel, Phillip
Kuhl, Christopher A.
Box 14:
L veterans misc.
LaBlanc, Peter
LaFavor, William H.
Lambert, George M. D.
LaMoureux, Thomas
Lang, James
Laudenschlager, John
Lent, Seneca W.
Lesh, William
Lewis, Frank / Larson, Frank
Lieberg, E. P.
Lindsey, Briggs
Lindsley, Charles H.
Little, Albert and Francis
Livingston, Alexander, and John
Lockhart, Lt Jasper Newton
Londrosh, Louis
Louden, Samuel
Luby, Maurice A.
Ludwig, John
Luker, John S.
Lynn, john
Lyon, John
Lyon, William F.
Lyons, Stephen
M veterans misc.
Mack, Henry
Magner, Capt James
Box 15:
Magner, Matthew F.
Magnus, John
Magoon, Harrison C.
Magner, Matthew
Magruder, George (CSA)
Manchester, John
Mansfield, Charles
Marble, George F.
Maricle, Abraham
Martell, Nelson
Marvin, James R.
Mason, William E.
Matteson, James
Matteson, Thomas
Mayden, James
McClelleand, J. W.
McDonald, Francis S.
McDonald, G. A.
McDonnell, Allen
McGaffy, Henry C.
McKellup, George W.
McIntyre, Albert P.
McIntyre, Sgt Malcolm
McLoud, Joseph, scout
McNaughton, John
Mead, George W.
Mellinger, Erastus F.
Mercer, John W.
Merritt, Charles W.
Mayer, Julius H.
Miller, William H.
Millet, James E.
Mills, Lt Henry L.
Mills, William
Mills, William H.
Mills, William T.
Mixter, Horace
Moffatt, Charles
Moffit, Revillo
Moore, Edwin Luther
Moriarty, Eugene
Morse, Lewis and Ezra
Mosher, Isaac H.
Murphy, John H.
N veterans misc.
Naylor, James
Newby, Benjamin
Newman, Charles L.
Newton, Francis H.
Box 16:
Newton brothers
Nigg, Joseph
Norland, William H.
Norris, Charles
Northrup, George
O veterans misc.
Oleson, John
Olson, Bonde
Olson, Stener
O'Neal, Henry
Overbaugh, Joseph
P veterans misc.
Page, Henry C.
Palmer, George
Parker, Edmund F.
Parker, Jeremiah "Jerry"
Parker, John H.
Parker, Lewis
Parmeter, Silas S.
Parsons, S. D.
Patch, Gibbon S.
Paulding, Edmund Elmendorf
Paulson, John
Pearce, George D.
Pearson, Lewis
Peart, Tomlinson
Pederson, Even
Penny, Uriah R.
Perry, William
Peteler, Francis
Box 17:
Peterson, Elias N.
Pettijohn, Dyer B.
Pfeffer, George
Pickard, Daniel O. / Pickett, Daniel O.
Pierce, Joseph H.
Plants, David
Pope, Gen Edmund Mann
Miner, Porter
Puolsen, Niels
Powers, James M.
Pray, Ephriam Howard
Prescott, Lawrence
Pressnell, Thomas
Pride, Christopher C. and William
Priest, Daniel H.
Q veterans misc.
Quayle, Thomas G.
Quist, Magnus L.
R veterans misc.
Rahn, Barnet G.
Ramer, James
Rand, Julian
Raymond, J. M.
Raymond, John M.
Read, George
Rees, Charles, Thomas, and Samuel B.
Rees, Thomas and William
Reeves, Thomas and Richard
Box 18:
Reynolds, William M.
Rew, Noel Weston
Rice, Capt Benjamin F.
Rich, Watson
Risedorph, John
Rogers, Levanson
Rose, Robert H.
Rosenmeyer, George
Rosser, J. Travis (CSA)
Runnels/Ranales, Peter. 18th Colored Infantry
Russell, Henry C.
Russell, William F.
S veterans misc.
Sandborn, Gen. John B.
Sampare, Edmund
Sampson, Henry W.
Sanders, Enos Cook
Sargent, Capt Martin Wheeler
Sarver, William
Schaeffer, Francis M.
Schmall, Stephen
Schmidt, Hillarius
Schnepf, Reinhardt C.
Scott, Andrew
Scott, Thomas G.
Scoville, Everett
Seamons, William H.
Selfridge, Horatio H. and Harrison H.
Seward, Watson
Sexton, William
Sheppard, Ira
Box 19:
Sheppard, Morris F.
Sherman, Isaac
Shock, Will
Shook, Norman
Sibley, Billings
Skaro, Asgrim
Skinner, George
Slaughter, Robert
Slayton, Lorenzo
Slocum, George F.
Smith, Almon P. and Anson
Smith, Clark Watson
Smith, John, 10th MN
Smith, Nelson
Spencer, Joseph H.
Stacy, William H.
Stafford, John D.
Stasson, Henry
Stedman, Benson F.
Steward, Jackson
Stork, William E.
Storrs, Francis and Orin D.
Strong, Robert J.
Stubbs, Milton
Sturtevant, Thomas F.
Box 20:
Swain, Allen
Swartout, Eugene M.
Swartout, Loren
Swartout, M. R.
Swartout, N. B.
Sweet, William W.
Sycks, David C.
T veterans misc.
Tanner, Lumon O.
Taylor, Isaac
Taylor, S. L.
Templeton, James S.
Terlott, Henry
Thoeny, Mathias
Thomas, John
Thomas, William
Thompson, Terrance
Thornton, James J.
Titus, Flavius and Kirby
Tonner, George
Tourtellotte, John
Tower, Byron L.
Town, Ezra
Townsend, Nicholas
Tucker, Truman
Tuttle, Moses
Twiggs, David
Twitchell, Refine W.
Tyner, Harmon Hill
U veterans misc.
Uline, Calvin S.
Underwood, A. J.
Urban, Wilhelm
V soldiers misc.
VanBuren, Hiram
Van Epps, J. Sanford
Van Spense, Allison
Veeder, John T.
Box 21:
W soldiers mosc.
Women soldiers
Wakazoo, Joseph
Wales, James D.
Walker, J. Thomas
Walker, Joseph
Walter, Corp. Ranson
Warr, Joseph
Weaver, Simeon
Webb, William
Webb, Zach
Webber, Frank
Webster, Solon
Wedel, Henry
Welch, Jesse
Wells, Rufus
Wentworth, John
Wheaton, Willard
Wheeler, Mortimer M.
Whipple, Alfred H.
Whitcomb, Edwin R.
White, Alvin C.
White, Elihu
White, Jacob
Whittemore, James A.
Widstrand, Charles T.
Wikoff, William Henry
Wildes, Frank A.
Wildes, Lyman P.
Williamson, Andrew
Willis, Thomas
Wilson, Alpheus A.
Wilson, Frank
Wilson, George T.
Wilson, John Q.
Wines, John
Filed in Collections Dept: Artillery shell jacket, 11 riker mounts of MN GAR badges.
Filed in Collections Dept or Library: 28 military history books.
Dates
- Creation: 1861-1865
- Event: Donated by Gail Norland on 26 Aug 2025. Accession 2025.111
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Biographical / Historical
Gail Norland, collector, historian.
Extent
12 Linear Feet (21 standard banker's boxes.)
Language of Materials
English
Temporal
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Daniel Ewer, Archivist
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Minnesota Military & Veterans Museum Repository
Minnesota Military and Veterans Museum
Camp Ripley
15000 Highway 115
Little Falls MN 56345 United States
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