ms_1782.xml Finding Aid to the Joseph Crandon, Jr. letter, 1865 Written by Elizabeth Delmage Encoding funded by a 2008 Archives-Basic Projects grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Georgia Historical Society.
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 Encoded by Elizabeth Delmage, December 2008 Description is in English Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard June 2011 Item-level collection inventory added to this electronic finding aid by Lynette Stoudt to accomodate future digitzation of collection as part of a 2012 NHPRC Digitizing Historical Documents grant if funded. MS 1782 Joseph Crandon, Jr. letter 1865 1 folder (.05 cubic feet) Crandon, Joseph, b. ca. 1844 Collection materials are in English. Georgia Historical Society
, Savannah, Georgia.
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 Subject headings

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Crandon, Joseph, b. ca. 1844. Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891. Beaufort County (S.C.)--Description and travel. Savannah (Ga.)--History--19th century. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans. Letters (correspondence) Biographical information

Joseph Crandon, Jr. was born circa 1844 in Columbia Falls, Maine and served in the Union forces during the Civil War (1861-1865).

Scope and content note

This collection consists of a letter from Joseph Crandon, Jr. to his brother, Henry A. Crandon in Columbia, Maine on 1 February 1865. Crandon wrote from the steamship Mariposa in New York, New York and related to his brother his recent voyage from New York to Savannah, Georgia and return trip through Beaufort and Hilton Head, South Carolina. In this letter, Crandon included his observations of life in Savannah as a result of the Civil War, the leadership of Union General William T. Sherman, and the plight of the newly freed African Americans.

 Collection Inventory Item 1: Joseph Crandon, Jr. letter, 1865.