Soldiers
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85124554
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Blue Star Salute Foundation Materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4051
Overview
United States Blue Star Service Flag (roughly 8.5" x 14"), membership brochures, and announcements of upcoming events honoring U. S. veterans in the Jefferson and Shelby Counties, Alabama.
Dates:
2014
Carl Elliot Sr., Photographs
Collection — Box 5447: [1006100294]
Identifier: 2009-199
Abstract
Black and white publicity photographs showing Congressman Carl Elliott performing official duties. He is seen posing with group from Demopolis High School on the steps of U.S. Capitol building. Also including one portrait of a young Elliott in soldier's uniform.
Dates:
Circa 1950s
Free Military School for Applicants for Commands of Colored Troops
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4287
Overview
This collection contains a twelve-page pamphlet from the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, in Philadelphia, describing the qualifications required of men applying to be officers of African American Union troops during the US Civil War.
Dates:
1863
Charles B. Safford and Clara Safford Brooke Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4288
Overview
This collection contains letters to and from Illinois soldier Charles B. Safford, who served as a captain in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War, and his wife Clara Safford. Many of the letters date from the time of her second marriage to Thomas S. Brooke.
Dates:
1853-1886 and undated
Sheldon C. Treat Civil War Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4235
Overview
Sheldon C. Treat was a Union soldier in the US Civil War as part of the Fourth Iowa Infantry. This collection includes twenty-one letters he wrote to his family in New England, most of them sent in 1862-1863 during his war service. It also contains a letter from his commanding officer, and a short biographical document.
Dates:
1860-1873, undated
Charles Henry Snedeker diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1301
Abstract
Transcript of a diary created by a Union soldier who served in Company H of the 124th Regiment of the Illinois Infantry and mustered out in 1865.
Dates:
1863-1865
C. L. Townsend letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1419
Abstract
Letters to his wife and family sent from Kentucky and Corinth, Mississippi in 1862. The letters give instructions for handling his business affairs and express discontent with the war.
Dates:
1862
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