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COLLECTION INFORMATION FORM

PRELIM 1. Catalog No. S3113

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NORTHEAST MINNESOTA HISTORICAL CENTER

3. COLLECTION TITLE: Byers, Benton. Papers

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ABSTRACT SUMMARY OF COLLECTION

Lieut. Joseph K. Byers [Benton Byers uncle]

Regimental Quartermaster Company H, 15 Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps

Camp Douglass, Chicago, Illinois

He kept a journal in which there are entries from September-December 1863.

There are no letters.

Frederick W. Byers [father of Benton, older brother of Joseph K.]

assistant surgeon, 96th Illinois Infantry

began service at Franlin, Tennessee May 14, 1863

no letters