Lambert Luten letters
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Lambert Luten letters
- Creator
- Luten, Lambert, 1837-1916
- Extent
- 0.02 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Slavery, abolition, and emancipation
- Soldiers -- Correspondence.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence.
- Racism -- United States -- Public opinion
- Military history.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged chronologically.
- Preferred Citation
- 2013ms0469 : Lambert Luten letters, 1861-1865, University of Kentucky Special Collections.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Lambert Luten (1837-1916) was born in Vollenhove, Overijssel, Netherlands to Berteld and Gezinna Luten. In 1847, his family immigrated to the United States on the ship The Albatross, including his brother Hiram, and sister Albatrosia. They arrived in New York City on July 12, 1847 and moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, shortly thereafter.
- Luten served as a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War in Company B of the 1st Regiment, Engineers and Mechanics out of Michigan. He entered the army with the rank of Corporal and left service with the rank of Sergeant. Throughout his time in the military, he fought in the Battle of Stones River in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and was in Georgia during the time of General William Sherman's March. He was in Savannah, Ga., shortly after the Union Army captured the city.
- Luten married Wilhelmina (Minnie) M. Hagens, who was born in Holland, on May 6, 1866, in Grand Rapids, Mich. They had five children: Bretell (b. 1867); Daniel Benjamin (b. 1869); Grace (b. 1873); John (b. 1876); and Alice (b. 1879). He worked as a farmer in Jamestown, Mich.
- Luten died on April 22, 1916, in Grand Rapids of acute cystitis.
- Resources
- Hagens, Mark, "Stamboom Hagens-Bakker-Lambert Luten," genealogieonline, accessed December 9, 2014, http://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/stamboom-hagens-bakker/I909.php
- The Library of Michigan; Michigan Death Records, 1897-1920; Rolls: 1-301; Roll Number: 226; Certificate Number Number: 621, accessed on December 9, 2014, www.ancestry.com
- "Lambert Luten Civil War Letters," Kent County Michigan Genweb Project, accessed December 9, 2014, http://kent.migenweb.net/military/civilwar/CWletterse/lluten.html
- Luten, Lambert, National Park Service Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database, accessed December 9, 2014, http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=787BC2B4-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A
- "Michigan Marriages, 1851-1875," Works Progress Administration Indexes to Michigan County Vital Records, Michigan State Library.
- New York, New York. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, NY, 1820-1897. M237, National Archives, Washington, D.C.,
- Year: 1880; Census Place: Jamestown, Ottawa, Michigan; Roll: 601; Family History Film: 1254601; Page: 563A; Enumeration District: 247; Image: 0327. Accessed on January 6, 2015, www.ancestry.com
- Scope and Content
- The Lambert Luten letters (1861-1865; 0.02 cubic feet, 14 items) comprise correspondence written by Lambert Luten, a Civil War Union solider, to his brother, Hiram, and his parents, Berteld and Gezinna Luten. Lambert Luten sent the letters from Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Georgia, and Washington, D.C., and include Lambert Luten's thoughts on food and supply shortages, repairing railroads, disease and health care, religion, camp life, slavery, and the Emancipation Proclamation. He also describes Civil War troop movements, activities, and officers, such as General Alexander McDowell McCook, the Battle of Stones River (Murfeesboro, Tenn.), General William Sherman's movement through Georgia, and the capture of Savannah, Ga. Two of the letters addressed to his parents are written in Dutch.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Conditions Governing Access Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- Property rights reside with the University of Kentucky. The University of Kentucky holds the copyright for materials created in the course of business by University of Kentucky employees. Copyright for all other materials has not been assigned to the University of Kentucky. For information about permission to reproduce or publish, please contact Special Collections.
Contents of the Collection
To Hiram Luten and Barteld and Gezinna Luten , 1861 November 12
To Hiram Luten, 1862 January 16
To Hiram Luten , 1862 April
To Miney Hagens, 1862 June 19
To Hiram Luten, 1862 September 16
To Hiram Luten, 1862 October 19
To Hiram Luten, 1863 January 13
To Hiram Luten, 1863 February 11
To Hiram Luten, 1864 August 24
To Hiram Luten, 1864 October 27
To Hiram Luten, 1865 May 25
To Barteld and Gezinna Luten, 1865 June 15
- Box MS-27, folder 1
To Barteld and Gezinna Luten , 1865 August 15
- Box MS-27, folder 1
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