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Guide to the Miles Beaty Letters

Collection Overview
Date Span:1862-1873
Creator:Beaty, Miles
Extent:2.00 folders.
Collection Number:MSC0003
Repository:University of Iowa Special Collections
Summary:Letters written to Beaty's father, John Beaty, telling of experiences in the 149th Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry.

Letters to his family in Strattonville, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, from Miles Beaty, telling of his experience as a soldier in the 149th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Infantry.

Alternate Extent Statement: Photographs in folder 2

Access: This collection is open for research.

Use: Copyright restrictions may apply; please consult Special Collections staff for further information.

Acquisition: This collection was given to the University of Iowa Libraries by Dorothy Beaty Vasbender in 1960.

Preferred Citation: Miles Beaty Letters, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa.

Repository:University of Iowa Special Collections
Address:Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone:319-335-5921
Curator:Greg Prickman
Email:lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Website:http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/

Browse by Series:
Series 1: GENERAL

  • Series 1: GENERAL
  • Box 1:
  • Correspondence, August 28-February - 1862 1863
  • Correspondence, March-June 19 - 1863 -1863
  • Letters regarding the death of Miles Beaty
  • Letters from Captain George W. Soult to John Beaty (Miles' father) telling of the death of his son, June 21-September 23 - 1863
  • Letters to John Beaty from Robert Beaty, August 28 - 1863
  • n.d. from unknown to unknown
  • Two pictures of Miles Beaty, with negatives