AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, BY COLONEL GILES WALDO SHURTLEFF OF THE 5TH U.S. COLORED TROOPS, CAMP DELAWARE, NOVEMBER 10, 1863, TO FRIEND PROFESSOR EDWARD H. MERRELL OF WISCONSIN: "TWO WEEKS AGO TODAY, I STARTED TO OH ON A VISIT, HAD BEEN HOME TWO DAYS RETURN A DISPATCH CAME ORDERING ME IMMEDIATELY BACK TO CAMP. I CAME AND FOUND THAT WE WERE UNDER ORDERS TO REMOVE TO FORT MONROE. BUT AS WE WERE DELAYED SOME DAYS IN CAMP I GOT LEAVE TO GO TO PAINESVILLE. STAID THIRTY HOURS - WHAT HOURS!" "THINGS IN CAMP ARE AS USUAL. MCCOY HAS JUST RECEIVED APPOINTMENT AS COLONEL. THE OFFICERS ALL WANTED ME AND PETITIONED SEC. OF WAR TO THAT EFFECT, BUT THE GOV. WAS BOUND TO APPOINT A PET. HE WAS TERRIBLY WRATHY WHEN HE HEARD OF THAT PETITION THOUGH IT WAS SIGN

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Two 8" x 10" sheets of unlined paper folded to 5" x 8". [8] pp. Completely in ink manuscript. Includes yellow envelope with canceled 3 cent stamp addressed to "Prof. E.H. Merrell, Ripon, Wisconsin." Minor dustsoiling, old folds, small tear with loss of a few words, a few short closed tears. Very Good. "Camp Delaware remained in use from 1862 to 1864. In 1863, officials expanded the camp, housing white soldiers on the west bank of the Olentangy River and African American troopers on the east bank. The 96th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the 121st Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the 127th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the 5th Regiment United States Colored Troops, and the 27th Regiment United States Colored Troops organized at Camp Delaware" [online Ohio Civil War Central]. Giles Waldo Shurtleff [1831-1904] attended Oberlin College before enlisting as a Captain with Company C, Ohio 7th Infantry, on April 22, 1861. He resigned on March 18, 1863, due to illness, and was later commissioned into Field & Staff, U.S. Colored Troops 5th Infantry on July 29, 1863, with a promotion to Colonel. He was breveted Brigadier General on March 13, 1865. After the war, Shurtleff joined Oberlin College as tutor, associate professor and professor of the Latin language and literature from 1865 to 1887. He was a longtime member of the Prudential Committee and later the college treasurer. ["General Giles W. Shurtleff", The Oberlin Review, Volume XXXI, Number 31, May 19, 1904, pp.664-668.] Reverend Professor Edward Huntington Merrell [1835-1910], a graduate of Oberlin College and Oberlin Theological Seminary, was professor and president of Ripon College. He started at Ripon College in 1862, became the principal of the Preparatory Department and Professor of Languages, and later was the college's second president from 1876-1891. Although retired as president, he remained on the faculty until his death. ["Ripon College Presidents", website of Ripon College, accessed December, 2024.].…

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AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, BY COLONEL GILES WALDO SHURTLEFF OF THE 5TH U.S. COLORED TROOPS, CAMP DELAWARE, NOVEMBER 10, 1863, TO FRIEND PROFESSOR EDWARD H. MERRELL OF WISCONSIN: "TWO WEEKS AGO TODAY, I STARTED TO OH ON A VISIT, HAD BEEN HOME TWO DAYS RETURN A DISPATCH CAME ORDERING ME IMMEDIATELY BACK TO CAMP. I CAME AND FOUND THAT WE WERE UNDER ORDERS TO REMOVE TO FORT MONROE. BUT AS WE WERE DELAYED SOME DAYS IN CAMP I GOT LEAVE TO GO TO PAINESVILLE. STAID THIRTY HOURS - WHAT HOURS!" "THINGS IN CAMP ARE AS USUAL. MCCOY HAS JUST RECEIVED APPOINTMENT AS COLONEL. THE OFFICERS ALL WANTED ME AND PETITIONED SEC. OF WAR TO THAT EFFECT, BUT THE GOV. WAS BOUND TO APPOINT A PET. HE WAS TERRIBLY WRATHY WHEN HE HEARD OF THAT PETITION THOUGH IT WAS SIGN
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