Guide to the G.W. Burke paper MSS.1659
Burke, G.W.
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
June 2010
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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English
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G.W. Burke paper
- Unit ID:
MSS.1659
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (1 item, 12 pages - Typescript)
- Dates:
1895 April 27
- Abstract:
A paper by Civil War veteran G. W. Burke describing Sherman's "March to the Sea," September-December 1864.
Scope and Contents note
The collection consists of a photocopy of paper titled "The March to the Sea," read to the George W. Lennard post of the Grand Army of the Republic, New Castle, Indiana, on 27 April 1895, which recounts W.T. Sherman's army's march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia, September-December 1864. Burke, according to a handwritten inscription at the paper's end, was a member of the 46th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. The paper reads more like a newspaper account than the reminiscence of a private soldier.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Donnelly Lancaster/John Beeler, 2005
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
"The March to the Sea," by G.W. Burke, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2004
Biographical/Historical note
Civil War soldier from Pennsylvania.
The March to the Sea Box 6476 Folder 16
Paper by G. W. Burke, describing Sherman's March to the Sea, September-December 1864 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20771