D. W. Whittle
A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress
Prepared by Harry G. Heiss
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Manuscript Division,
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
2008
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Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division,
2008
Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008124
Title: D. W. Whittle Papers
Span Dates: 1861-1974
Bulk Dates: (bulk 1861-1865) ID No.: MSS77522 Creator:
Whittle, D. W. (Daniel
Webster) Extent: 46 items;
1 container plus 1 oversize;
.2 linear feet Language: Collection material in
English
Repository:
Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress,
Washington, D.C. Abstract: Union army officer,
business manager, songwriter, and evangelist. Correspondence, court records,
diary, maps, and military orders pertaining to Whittle's Civil War
service.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person
or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed
alphabetically therein.
Personal Names Grant,
Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885. Sherman,
William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891. Whittle,
D. W. (Daniel Webster), 1840-1901.
Organizations United
States. Army--History--Civil War,
1861-1865. United
States. Army.
Dept. of the Tennessee. United
States. Army.
Illinois Infantry Regiment, 72nd
(1862-1865)
Subjects Judge advocates--United
States. Reconstruction (U.S.
history, 1865-1877)--Alabama. Reconstruction (U.S.
history, 1865-1877)--Georgia.
Locations Illinois--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. United
States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
Occupations Army
officers. Businessmen. Composers. Evangelists.
Provenance:The papers of D. W. Whittle, Union army officer, business manager, songwriter,
and evangelist, were given to the Library of Congress by Emma Moody Smith in
1989.
Processing History:The papers of D. W. Whittle were arranged and described in 1997. The
finding aid was revised in 2008.
Copyright Status:The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of D. W. Whittle
is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
Preferred Citation:Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the
following information: Container number, D. W. Whittle Papers, Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Daniel Webster Whittle (1840-1901) span the years
1861-1974, with the bulk of the material produced during the period 1861-1865.
They consist of biographical sketches, correspondence, court records, maps,
military orders, a diary, dinner menu, photograph, poem, and tax list.
Whittle was born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, and moved to
Chicago shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. Raising a company of
volunteers at the Chicago Board of Trade, he served as a Union officer in the
Seventy-second Illinois Volunteer Regiment, eventually attaining the rank of
major. He served with General O. O. Howard and was with William T. Sherman on
his March to the Sea. Whittle was wounded at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and was
discharged when the war ended before he had fully recovered. After the war he
was a business manager for the Elgin Watch Company and in 1874, at the
invitation of Dwight Lyman Moody, became a traveling evangelist. Writing under
the pseudonym El Nathan, he was also a prolific writer of gospel songs, the
best known being
Moment by Moment, written in 1893 with his daughter, Mary
Whittle Moody.
The Whittle Papers deal almost exclusively with Whittle's Civil War
military service as an officer assigned to the Headquarters Department of the
Army of the Tennessee. They contain official correspondence, field orders, and
general orders concerning troop movements, complaints from local citizens about
looting by Union soldiers, prisoner exchanges, and routine military matters.
Included in some letters are marginalia by William T. Sherman and Ulysses S.
Grant. The papers also contain material pertaining to cases heard by Whittle as
a military judge advocate and a diary that he kept during the latter months of
the war detailing local conditions in western Georgia and eastern Alabama and
the transition from military to civilian law.
This collection is arranged alphabetically by type of material.
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BOX 1
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Biographical sketches,
1963, 1974
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(2
folders)
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BOX 1
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Correspondence,
1863-1869
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BOX 1
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Court records,
1864
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BOX 1
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Diary,
1865
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BOX 1
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Field orders,
1864
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BOX 1
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General orders,
1865
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BOX 1
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Miscellany,
1863-1864, 1889
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BOX OV 1
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Oversize maps,
circa 1861-1862
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