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This collection consists of folders in 13 manuscript boxes relating to correspondence and papers of Eli Slifer (1818-1888), an active figure in Pennsylvania politics and the Secretary of the Commonwealth under Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin, 1861-1867. Most of the letters were written during the...
Location: MC 2003.4
Subject: Business and Industry, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government
Format: Engravings and Illustrations, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
Collection Inventory: 
mc2003.04.pdf
Collection Inventory: Appendix A - Civil War Units
Collection Inventory: Appendix B - Military Affairs
Collection Inventory: Appendix C- Political Affairs
Collection Inventory: Appendix D - Business Affairs
Collection Inventory: Appendix E - Miscellaneous Affairs
Thomas Orwig writes twelve letters to Eli Slifer, the Secretary of the Commonwealth during the Civil War, regarding Orwig's military and administrative affairs with Battery "E" of 1st Pennsylvania artillery. " My greatest [military] ambition is to crush the rebellion," as Orwig notes....
Location: MC 2003.4, B8, F19
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Members of Company E, 1st Artillery of the Pennsylvania Reserves send a petition to Governor Andrew G. Curtin to request that Lieutenant Thomas Orwig be promoted to Captain. The petition contains a list of names of the enlisted soldiers and officers who endorse Orwig. Transcript included.
Location: MC 2003.4, B8, F19
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
