| Box 1, Folder 1 |
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Guild, Emmons Dexter to Allen Dexter Guild and Abby Tabor Guild
Contents Note: Training and drilling at Camp Arnold, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Rumors of move to Washington, D.C. Urgent personal needs.
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1861 Dec 15-1862 Mar 6 |
| Box 1, Folder 2 |
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Guild, Emmons Dexter to Allen Dexter Guild
Contents Note: Telegram about departure delayed.
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1862 Mar 10 |
| Box 1, Folder 3 |
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Guild, Emmons Dexter to Allen Dexter Guild and Abby Tabor Guild
Contents Note: Journey to Washington, D.C. Received mounts. Visit to Capitol. Assignments to General Banks Division. Rumors of march to Winchester, Virginia.
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1862 Mar 16-1862 Apr |
| Box 1, Folder 4 |
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Guild, Emmons Dexter to Allen Dexter Guild and Abby Tabor Guild
Contents Note: Care of sick horses. Pay. Regiment at Warrenton, Virginia. Hard fighting at Yorktown.
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1862 Apr 15-1862 Apr 25 |
| Box 1, Folder 5 |
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Guild, Emmons Dexter to Allen Dexter Guild and Abby Tabor Guild
Contents Note: Journey to Warrenton Junction, Virginia. Lost horses, search, treatment of population by Union troops. Illness of troops. Members of G troop taken prisoner. Mentions General James Ricketts.
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1862 May 4-1862 Jun 13 |
| Box 1, Folder 6 |
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Sherman, William C[hauncy] to Abby Tabor Guild
Contents Note: A youth without a mother and "bosom friend" to Emmons wishing someone to write.
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1862 May 28 |
| Box 1, Folder 7 |
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Guild, Emmons Dexter to Allen Dexter Guild and Abby Tabor Guild
Contents Note: Near Manassas, Virginia. Visit from Rhode Island's Governor Sprague. Officers' resignation over appointment of Colonel Duffie. Now in General Pope's division. Mentions Gen. Irvin McDowell, Chauncy Sherman ill, mustered out.
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1862 Jun 20-Jul 29 |
| Box 1, Folder 8 |
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Guild, Emmons Dexter to Allen Dexter Guild, Abby Tabor Guild, Edgar Guild.
Contents Note: Near Culpepper Courthouse, Virginia. Living off the land. Battle of Cedar Mountain. Near Alexandria, Virginia. John S. Brown and other friends taken prisoner. Mentions Generals Pope, Banks, Burnside, McDowell and Chauncy Sherman.
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1862 Aug 8-Sep 13 |
| Box 1, Folder 9 |
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Guild, Emmons Dexter to Allen Dexter Guild and Abby Tabor Guild
Contents Note: Enthusiasm for battle. Needs for winter. Raid on Leesburg, Virginia. Mentions John S. Brown and Chauncy Sherman.
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1862 Sep 21-Nov 27 |
| Box 1, Folder 10 |
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Guild, Emmons Dexter to Allen Dexter Guild and Abby Tabor Guild
Contents Note: Near Falmouth, Virginia. Winter. Fighting at Fredericksburg. Charge on Warrenton. Jeb Stuart in area. Mentions Gen. William W. Averell, Joseph Hooker and J.S. Brown.
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1862 Dec 10-1863 Jan 16 |
| Box 1, Folder 11 |
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Guild, Emmons Dexter to Allen Dexter Guild and Abby Tabor Guild
Contents Note: Near Potomac Creek, Virginia. Pay. Wants a pocket watch. Skirmish on picket. Mentions Col. Alfred N. Duffie.
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1863 Jan 24-Mar 8 |
| Box 1, Folder 12 |
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Guild, Emmons Dexter to Allen Dexter Guild and Abby Tabor Guild
Contents Note: Near Potomac Creek. Battle of Kelly's Ford [March 17, 1863]. Review of troops by General Hooker and President Lincoln. Guild's attitude towards the draft. Mentions Lt. Simeon A. Brown and Gen. Joseph Hooker.
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1863 Mar 15-Apr 8 |
| Box 1, Folder 13 |
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Guild, Emmons Dexter to Allen Dexter Guild and Abby Tabor Guild
Contents Note: Near Potomac Creek. Chancellorsville. Defeat "as usual" (emphasis Guild's). Mentions Frank Allen.
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1863 Apr 12-May 24 |
| Box 1, Folder 14 |
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Guild, Emmons Dexter to Allen Dexter Guild and Abby Tabor Guild
Contents Note: Mosby's cavalry. Battle of Middleburg. Encounter with Jeb Stuart, regiment taken prisoner. Guild's escape. Fears John S. Brown captured again.
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1863 Jun 19-Jul 18 |
| Box 1, Folder 15 |
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Guild, Emmons Dexter to Abby Tabor Guild
Contents Note: Attached to headquarters. Mentions Gen. Warren.
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1863 Aug 23-Sep 30 |
| Box 1, Folder 16 |
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Guild, Emmons Dexter to Allen Dexter Guild, Abby Tabor Guild, and Malzena Guild
Contents Note: Detached at 6th Corps Headquarters. Prices of goods and food. Execution of a deserter from the 12th New York. From Laundry Prison, Richmond, Virginia informing parents of capture. Mentions Frank Allen.
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1863 Oct 1-25 |
| Box 1, Folder 17 |
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Parker, Charles to Mrs. A. Guild
Contents Note: From Camp Parole, Annapolis, Maryland. Reply to a request for information about her son.
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1864 May 14 |
| Box 1, Folder 18 |
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Guild, Emmons Dexter to Abby Tabor Guild
Contents Note: From Camp Parole, Annapolis. Brief report of sickness and captivity in Andersonville Prison. Deaths of acquaintances.
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1865 Mar 9 |
| Box 1, Folder 19 |
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Crowell, A.B. printed form letter.
Contents Note: Manufacture of war relics from Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia.
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1890 Feb 10 |
| Box 1, Folder 20 |
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Grand Army of the Republic, Detroit, Michigan, General Orders No. 15 and 16
Contents Note: Printed letters (2), General Orders No. 15 and 16. Statue of General Sheridan in Washington, D.C. List of "Aides-de-camp" for reunion in Boston.
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1890 Jun 27-28 |
