New Civil War Collection from Library of Congress

The Library of Congress has announced A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers. It's available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/tcrhtml/ . Tilton C. Reynolds was a member of the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, and this collection contains a variety of his materials, including correspondence and photographs.

Compared to a lot of LOC collections, this one is fairly small (164 library items) so I decided to browse by subjects, from Alexandria (Va.) to Yorktown (Va.) Choosing Military Hospitals brought me four results, all letters. Click on an item and you'll get metadata and a chance to view a page image. Strangely enough I didn't see transcriptions for the letters I looked at. Well, wait. I looked at all four letters in this category and three of them didn't have transcriptions and one did. Transcripts are good; the handwriting isn't too bad but it's a little tough to read.

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