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MILES BEATY LETTERS

Collection Dates: 1862 -- 1873
(Bulk Dates: 1862 -- 1863)
2 file folders

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Posted to Internet: January 2003

Acquisition Note: This collection was given to the University of Iowa Libraries by Dorothy Beaty Vasbender in 1960.

Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research.

Photographs: Folder 2

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Scope and Content

Letters to his family in Strattonville, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, from Miles Beaty, telling of his experience as a soldier in the 149th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Infantry.

Inventory

FOLDER 1

---. Correspondence

------. August 28, 1862 to February 1863

FOLDER 2

------. March 1863 to June 19, 1863

---. Letters regarding the death of Miles Beatty

------. June 21 and September 23, 1863: letters from Captain George W. Soult to John Beaty (Miles' father) telling of the death of his son.

------. August 28, 1863 letters to John Beaty from Robert Beaty

------. n.d. from unknown to unknown

---. Two pictures of Miles Beaty, with negatives