Unionists (United States Civil War)

Scope and Content Papers of William Starling (1839-1900), Union soldier and engineer for Mississippi River levee systems. Content includes: diaries containing descriptions of Starling's activities as a planter and engineer and of a tour of Holland; manuscript of a chapter of a novel, draft of a book on the U.S. Government, and index to literature and literary and historic figures; notebooks pertaining to Starling's student days at New York University and presenting observations on the Mississippi River and a...