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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:

Shelby Iron Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1261
Abstract Contains records of the Shelby Iron Company from 1862 to 1930, including correspondence, directors' minutes, stockholder records, manufacturing records (charcoal reports, stable reports, mining, time books, payrolls by department), commissary records, grist mill toll books, furnace record books, and many other records. It also includes records of a subsidiary, Shelby Manufacturing and Improvement Company, 1890-1923. The virtually complete set of manufacturing records also parallels the...
Dates: 1862-1930

Hudson Strode Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1361
Abstract

Hudson Strode (1892-1976) was a literature and creative writing professor at The University of Alabama from 1916-1963, and a writer of more than a dozen nonfiction books. This collection includes correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, artifacts, prints, newspaper clippings, and other materials related to his travels and literary career.

Dates: 1753-1986

To the People of Alabama: anti-secession document signed by Robert Jemison Jr. and thirty-two other members of Alabama's 1861 secession convention

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3788
Abstract

Document to the people of Alabama from thirty-three men at the 1861 secession convention explaining why they did not sign the Ordinance of Secession

Dates: 1861

Ulysses S. Grant to Edward O. C. Ord Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4779
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a letter signed by General Ulysses S. Grant, written in the form of a telegram to Major General Edward O. C. Ord. The document is dated March 19, 1865, and sent from City Point, Virginia, during the final weeks of the American Civil War. In the message, Grant discusses the arrival of two to three thousand African American individuals accompanying General Philip H. Sheridan and issues orders regarding their transfer to Fort Monroe in Virigina for further processing...
Dates: 1965 March 19

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Alabama Division, records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1472
Abstract

This collection contains biographies of thirty-nine prominent Civil War-era figures from Alabama and correspondence to and from Mrs. Annie Daugette, chair of the committee in charge of the project.

Dates: 1938-1957

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Centennial Chapter, papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2401
Abstract

Two scrapbooks, the meeting minutes, and charter application

Dates: 1961-2006

Alonzo Van Vlack papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0166
Abstract

Typed transcripts and one handwritten letter from a Union soldier to his parents while he was a prisoner of war at Cahaba Prison in Dallas County, Alabama, and at a parole camp near Vicksburg, Mississippi. There are also typed transcriptions of manuscripts describing prison life and the explosion of the Steamer Sultana.

Dates: 1864-1865

Wade Hall Collection of Civil War Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4273
Abstract

A variety of materials related to the United States Civil War

Dates: 1861 - 1932

Wade Hall collection of illustrated envelopes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2218
Abstract

The collection contains illustrated envelopes donated by Dr. Wade Hall. The illustrations on the envelopes range from simple to highly ornate.

Dates: 1861-1968

Walter White letter [photocopy], 1863 August 16

 File — Box WSC002: [Barcode: 1006241709], Folder: W0150.02
Scope and Contents

The collection contains a photocopy of a letter from Walter White, a Confederate soldier in General Braxton Bragg's Army of Mississippi (later known as the Army of Tennessee), to a young lady back home. He spends much of the letter asking her to write.

Dates: 1863 August 16

James White, Obadiah White, and Jesse A. Justice letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1547
Abstract

A collection of letters written by James White to his mother and father, describing the fortifications at Tullahoma, Tennessee; others from White's son Obadiah White to his mother, relating clothing needs and rumors of troop movements; and from Jesse A. Justice to his wife, relating camp news, the incidence of sickness, and rumors of movement.

Dates: 1862-1863

William A. Howard Letter on Edwin M. Stanton

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4268
Abstract

William Alanson Howard (1813-1880) was a member of the US House of Representatives between 1855 and 1861. This collection contains one seven-page letter written by Howard in 1870 to Attorney General Ebenezer Hoar refuting suggestions of disloyalty made against politician Edwin M. Stanton in regard to his conduct near the outbreak of the US Civil War.

Dates: 1870 February 7

William K. Bachman ordnance return and muster roll

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0101
Abstract

Monthly return of ordnance and ordnance stores received and expended during the month of November 1864; muster roll of Bachman's company of the German Artillery Regiment of Hampton's Legion, August 31-October 31, 1864.

Dates: 1864

William R. Dougherty Civil War Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4379
Scope and Contents Forty manuscript letters exchanged between Kentucky Infantry Orphan Brigade Confederate soldier William R. Dougherty and his future wife Eliza Anderson. Eliza resided at her home in Mississippi during the Civil War until their marriage in late December 1866. In addition to the letters between the couple, the collection includes another roughly sixty pages of correspondence between them and their relatives, from the late 1860s to the early 1920s. All of the materials were stored in a metal...
Dates: 1862 - 1923

Willie T. White papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1548
Abstract

Contains correspondence, photographs, financial records, and other materials, the majority of which are related to Willie T. White, who resided in Rockford, Birmingham, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Dates: 1860-1970

Woods and Young families papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1576
Abstract This collection contains a miscellany of material, including letters by Thomas Moore Woods, Company K, 16th Alabama Infantry; James M. Springfield, Company L, 24th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers; and G. W. Woods, 9th Alabama Cavalry, Selma. It also includes a collection of biographical abstracts of various Revolutionary soldiers and families; store receipts from Columbus and Caledonia, Mississippi, and Vernon, Alabama; land deeds; and church records from various congregations in...
Dates: 1834 - 1918

Wright, Cotten, and Douglass Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1583
Abstract

This collection contains diaries, correspondence, and other materials related to four generations of this Tennessee/Alabama family.

Dates: 1798 - 1990