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Today, I spent time working in the archives, exploring the McClintock riots.  Beginning with the John McClintock Collection Register, I examined information pertaining to years around 1847.  I looked in John McClintock’s drop file under Miscellaneous Materials, Folder 6 Box … Continue reading →

After using the Dickinson Chronicles as a starting point, I searched Google Books for related materials that was either available online or in our own library.  I began with general searches like “1847 Carlisle Slave Riots”, “Carlisle Slavery”, “Underground Railroad, … Continue reading →

John T. Cuddy’s letters give important insight into camp life and the thoughts and values of a sixteen-year-old Union soldier.  Cuddy’s early letters are notable for his boyish exuberance about enlisting in the army. As he wrote on October 27, … Continue reading →

In order to locate records concerning Thomas Nelson Conrad and Daniel Mountjoy Cloud, I searched the online catalogue of the National Archives Record Administration (NARA), which is located in College Park, MD.  My searches returned no results for Cloud, but … Continue reading →

In order to find pictures of Thomas Nelson Conrad and Daniel Mountjoy Cloud, I searched for them in Dickinson’s House Divided engine.  In doing so, I successfully located sketchings of men. (http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5454, http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5422).   On the Dickinson Chronicles I found an old … Continue reading →

My process began by browsing the Cumberland Civil War website. From prior research, I knew that the Carlisle Fencibles was one of the major volunteer companies from Carlisle. By using the search term “Carlisle Fencibles” on the Cumberland Civil War … Continue reading →

I first went to the college archives catalog and searched for any possible hit on Lincoln Cemetery. The main goal was to find the names of the soldiers buried there so that I could start using those soldiers to formulate … Continue reading →

I went on the Dickinson library catalog to first familiarize myself with black soldiers and how they fought in the civil war. I wanted to know information like when they were first able to join the Union army, what positions … Continue reading →

Post on Newspapers in Databases             When I began using electronic databases to conduct research on Daniel Mountjoy Cloud and Thomas Nelson Conrad, my first step was to search for their names.  Searches for Cloud’s name yielded no results in … Continue reading →

I read Conrad’s 1892 autobiography “A Confederate Spy: A Story of the Civil War,” in order to get a sense of his activities during the Civil War.  It is possible that Conrad may have confabulated or exaggerated certain aspects of … Continue reading →