Collection Dates: 1862 -- 1864
2 file folders
(Shares a box with MsC 9 -- 18)
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University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
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Posted to Internet: March 2000
Acquisition
Note: This collection was given to the University of Iowa
Libraries by Mrs. Glen Chandler in 1955.
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Photographs: Folder 2
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Charles Cady
was born in Brooklin, Connecticut. On October 21, 1861, at the age of
thirty-two he enlisted in Company E of the 15th Regiment of the Iowa Volunteer
Infantry. He served as a sergeant in that company until his discharge
on November 3, 1864.
Scope
and Content
The papers of Charles Cady consist of eleven items relating to his service during the Civil War. Included are the letters he wrote to his parents, brother, and sister living at home in Danville, Des Moines County, Iowa. He discussed army life, talked of casualties and illnesses in the regiment, and deplored Copperhead politics. His promotion papers and army discharge are included, as is an engraving plate of Cady. These papers were donated to the University of Iowa Libraries in 1955 by Mrs. Glenn Chandler. They are open to research by students and scholars.
Item Inventory
Civil War letters, August 17, 1862 -- July 11, 1864.
Picture of Grandmother's home.
Engraved plate of Cady.
Promotion papers, June 5, 1863.
Discharge papers, November 13, 1864.