George Trenchard Ingham letter

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

George Trenchard Ingham letter, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Summary

Extent:
0.2 Linear Feet One letter, in one folder
Creator:
Ingham, George Trenchard
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

George Trenchard Ingham letter, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

Letter from a Union soldier stationed in Rappahannock Station, VA in 1864 as part of the 11th US Infantry. He wrote to his aunt about his visit North. Ingham describes his intent to visit his aunt in Schenectady and how he opted to visit his brother at Yale instead. The letter describes individuals such as a Douglas Campbell and an Alex and Clara Pennington. The letter goes on to descibe how he sat with the Pennington couple for a carte and stereoscopic picture. The leter mentions General George Sykes, whom Ingham describes as sending his regards.

Biographical / historical:

First Lieutenant George Trenchard Ingham was born in 1839 in Salem County, New Jersey. His parents were Jonathan and Harriet Howell Sinnickson Ingham, and had three siblings, Sarah Ann, William Henry, and Mary Rebekah Ingham. George attended Union College in Schenectady, New York and graduated in 1860. On April 25, 1861, George was commissioned as First Lieutenant of Company I of the 4th New Jersey Militia. On June 1st, 1861 he was discharged and commissioned as First Lieutenant of the 11th United States Regular Infantry, where he served throughout the American Civil War until he resigned on August 9, 1864. He married Ann Thorpe Ingham and had five children, Alice Winslow Williams, Margaret Morgan Ingham, Augusta Thorpe Evans, Helen Howell Rea, and Winslow Brewster Ingham. George died at age 60 in 1899 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and was interred at Saint John's Episcopal Churchyard in Salem County, New Jersey.

Arrangement:

Collection consists of a single letter

Physical description:
Good
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard