RIAMCO

Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online

For Participating Institutions

C. Fiske Harris Collection on the Civil War and Slavery Manuscripts (MSS004)

Providence Public Library

150 Empire Street
Providence, RI 02903
Tel: 401-455-8021
Fax: 401-455-8065
email: special_collections@provlib.org

Arrangement

Each folder contains one letter and transcript or envelope if applicable. There is one folder for treasury notes, one for summons notices. The original diary is housed in one folder with a copy in another. The collection is arranged alphabetically by soldier’s last name.

Box 1: Bacon-Barber Diary original

Box 2: Barber-Robins

Box 3: Robins March 31, 1863 – Turner, George M. 1863 Feb. 15

Box 4: Turner, George M.

Box 5: Turner, Henry – Wight

Box 6: Photographs and misc.