Administrative Information

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

Publication Rights/ Restrictions on Use

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred Citation

Samuel H. McNutt Letters, 1861-1865, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information

Purchased: 92 items, 08/20/1997.

Alternative Form

There are typescripts available for twenty of the sixty-six letters.

Scope and Content Information

Sixty-six letters home from Corporal Samuel H. McNutt of Company H, 12th Pennsylvania Reserves from camps in Maryland and Virginia. Includes comments on battles of Mechanicsville, Gaines Mill, Malvern Hill and Gettysburg.

A history of the 12th Regiment Reserves Infantry can be found in Folder 1 of this collection.

Arrangement

Organization

This collection is organized into three series: 1. Introduction, 2. Letters, 3. Typescripts.

Arrangement

Series 2. Letters is arranged by date. Information about the one photograph in this collection can be found between the second and third series.

Index Terms

Subjects:

• Gettysburg (Pa.), Battle of, 1863.
• Malvern Hill (Va.), Battle of, 1862.
• Seven Days' Battles, 1862.
• United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 12th. Company H.

Samuel McNutt Letter Index

List of letters written home from Samuel McNutt of Company H, 12th Pennsylvania Reserves, at camps Maryland and Virginia.