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lot of 24 items, including three photographs of General Harnden, one a cabinet card of an oil painting of Harnden wearing his Civil War Brigadier General uniform with imprint of Van Block, Madison, Wis.; two 8" x 10" photographs on original card stock mounts of an elderly Harnden wearing a GAR ribbon with imprint of E.D. Bangs, Milwaukee, Wis.; three cabinet card-sized photographs of Henry Harnden, Jr. wearing his Spanish American War and WWI army uniforms. This archive also includes 4 manuscript pieces, including one war date letter from Gen. Harnden headed Camp near Macon Georgia, May 1st 1865 Dear Wife..., being two-page half letter sheet and only half of the letter, but with his account of being shot in the leg, but due to his pocket being full of stuff, the bullet only gave him a bad bruise. This letter was written nine days before Harnden helped in the capture of C.S.A. President Jefferson Davis on May 10, at Irwinsville, Georgia. The archive also includes a manuscript account written be Lt. Baterman entitled History of Company L, 1st Regt. Wisconsin Cavalry Vols., with handwritten note at end reading The above is as I believe a diary kept by Lieut Baterman but how I came by it I do not recollect. Henry Harnden. This account by Thomas Baterman who was serving as an orderly with the company, while brief, is packed with details, including all the battles and skirmishes in Missouri, Arkansas., Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, and ends with his promotion to 1st Lt. in Georgia on March 1st, 1863. Another manuscript 2pp account appears to have been written by Harnden, labeled pages 2 and 3. This starts early and talks of the young horses provided to the regiment and how they needed much work to suit them to the task and the fact the Regt. was supplied with poor old weapons that would have been only appropriate for old time soldiers, instead of cavalry, we had Belgium Rifles and [illegible] revolvers the privates had great clumsy things called Savage revolvers and heavy Austrian sabers. As the officers bought and furnished their own, they of course had good Sabers and Colt revolvers. Henry was not overly impressed with the commander of the Regiment, a Col. Daniels stating that this seemed the most foolish move that I ever saw during my military experience when Col. Daniels marched the regiment off and left all the equipment in a camp to which they never returned. The account ends with a description of a skirmish with a force of rebels who were advancing upon the regiment's camp. Harnden and other officers with four privates were checking on the pickets and ran into this force, seeing them before they saw him. This small force captured some of the rebels, and by surprising the force, stopped the planned attack. The third manuscript letter is on Department of the Interior Pension Office letterhead and addressed Dear Father, dated April 25, 1882, from Henry's daughter who was working for that department. The fourth manuscript letter is postmarked Chicago 1917 and addressed to Mr. H. Harnden Noble, Jr., and is an ornamental cover with matching letter sheet on hand made Japanese paper with hand-colored photograph entitled Pagoda front Sarusawa Pond' Nara with 4pp manuscript text, signed Adias. The documents with this archive include two Federal Army appointments on vellum, both with printed Johnson and Stanton signatures appointing Harnden Col. and Brig. Gen., dated 1866 and 1869, both 14.5" x 20"; two 13.5" x 17" Wisconsin state appointments for Harnden, appointing him Major and Lt. Col. and signed by Governor James T. Lewis, dated 1864 and 1865; a 8.5" x 14.5" partially printed appointment of Gen. Harnden to represent the State of Wisconsin as Commissioner of the Wisconsin troops at Chickamauga in 1894 and signed by the Governor Wm. H. Upham; a partially printed appointment of Harnden as Commander of Department of Wisconsin Grand Army of the Republic, dated 1899, 16" x 20"; and Harnden's 19" x 24" Military Order of The Loyal Legio