Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred Citation

Cassimere Churchill Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Acquisition Information

The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 00/00/2008.

Biographical Note

Cassimere Churchill was born on October 20, 1840 in Alexander, Genesee Co., New York to Cullen Dyer and Caroline Brown Churchill.  He enlisted in Company E, 9th Cavalry Regiment New York on December 7, 1861.  He died on September 3, 1862 as result of a wound inflicted in Alexandria, Virginia.  Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Cassimere Churchill">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Cassimere Churchill</a>.

Scope and Contents

Letters from Cassimere Churchill, a member of Company E, 9th Cavalry Regiment, New York, to his family while stationed in New York, Washington, D.C. and Virginia during the Civil War.  A participant in the battles of Yorktown, Va. and Williamsburg, Va. as an artillery guard; descriptions of Yorktown, Va., Manassas, Va. and Washington, D.C.  Includes descriptions of camp life, surrounding area, as well as his opinions of the war and the Union's leadership.

Arrangement of Materials

Chronological.

Index Terms

Genre/Form of Material:

• Correspondence

Geographic Name:

• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Topical Term:

• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Williamsburg (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
• Yorktown (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

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