H. E. Norton Letter

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], H. E. Norton Letter, Ms2009-074, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder
Creator:
Norton, H. E., 1828?-1911?
Abstract:
The collection contains a letter from H. E. Norton, a soldier in a Michigan brigade headquartered at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas just after the American Civil War, describing a journey from Washington and complaining that the brigade had been "sold" by the Michigan governor for political purposes.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], H. E. Norton Letter, Ms2009-074, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of a letter from H. E. Norton, a soldier in a Michigan brigade just after the close of the American Civil War. Writing from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas to friends Erastus and Viola Terry in June 1865, Norton briefly describes the brigade's journey westward. He then complains that veteran members of his regiment were supposed to have been mustered out in May but that the regiment was instead ordered westward, seemingly with the acquiescence of Michigan's governor. ("[I]t is Generally Believed that the Michigan Brigade was Basely sold by the Governor of the State of Michigan for we could never have been transfered to this Dept. if he had not consented to it," he writes.) Norton pledges to remain with his regiment and discusses the camp rumor that the regiment will soon be assigned to guarding a government train to Nebraska Territory.

Biographical / historical:

H. E. Norton was a soldier in a Michigan brigade during and following the American Civil War. He may have been Hylon E. Norton (1828-1911), a sergeant in Company I of the 6th Michigan Cavalry.

Acquisition information:
The H. E. Norton Letter was purchased by Special Collections in 1993.
Processing information:

The processing and description of the H. E. Norton Letter commenced and was completed in May 2009.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard