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Administrative Information
Processing Information
Collection processed by Archives & Special Collections staff. Finding aid encoded by Jason Kovari, 2010.
Additions
No further additions are expected to this collection.
Alternative Formats
Materials from Box 2 are available in the Civil War Archive.
Subject Terms
Formats
Biographical Note
Thomas Reber was born in 1843 in Sandusky (Ohio), Ohio. He enrolled in Ovid Agricultural College in Seneca County, Ovid, New York in 1861 but left to join the Union army, where he held the rank of First Lieutenant, Quartermaster of the 88th Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Afterwards, he spent several years in Cuba working for a Cincinnati-based firm. He them moved to Louisiana, where he was appointed circuit judge of Condordia and Tensas parishes. After marrying his wife, Annie Vernon, he moved to Natchez, MS and became traffic manager of Natchez and Vicksburg Pack Company.
Scope and Content Note
The bulk of the Thomas Reber Collection includes U.S. Army Civil War documents; primarily general orders, lists of requisitions, ration returns, and ordinance reports from the 88th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, stationed at Camp Chase (Ohio) in 1864 and the 196th Ohio Infantry Regiment, stationed at Fort Federal Hill (Maryland) in 1865. In addition to Civil War documents, U.S. Army materials from World War I, dated 1918, are included in the collection. This collection contains personal letters written to Thomas Reber between 1860 and 1864.
User Information
Prefered Citation
Thomas Reber Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi
Access Restrictions
The Thomas Reber Collection is open for research.
Copyright Restrictions
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use", that user may be liable for copyright infringement.
Related Material
Resources at the University of Mississippi
For more Civil War materials housed at the University of Mississippi Archives & Special Collections, see our Civil War subject guide.
For digitally available Civil War materials, see our Civil War Archive, which includes documents from a wide variety of Civil War collections housed at the University of Mississippi Archives & Special Collections.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in 3 series. Correspondence (Series I) is primarily personal in nature. U.S. Army Documents are separated between the Civil War (Series II) & World War I (Series III).
Boxes 3 and 4 are oversized.