United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Taylor Goodwyn Alabama secession essay and notes
Brief narrative and collection of notes related to Alabama secession written by politician Albert Taylor Goodwyn in 1916
Alfred Morris diary
Diary written by Union soldier Alfred Morris, containing entries written between October 1862 and September 1863.
Alfred Parmenter papers
Letters written by Alfred A. Parmenter, a member of the Twenty-sixth Massachusetts Infantry, describing battles and camp life in the South to his parents
Jonathon A. B. Allison letter
A letter dated 6 March 1862, from "Camp Alabama, near Dumfries, Virginia," to "Dear Uncle," with news of friends and the war.
William Pitt Ballinger diary
Diary covering the 1865 negotiations with General E. R.S. Canby and others over the cessation of hostilities between the U.S. and the state of Texas, other legal cases legal and business, as well as personal and family affairs.
Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick Letters
Letters from seven former students while prisoners of war in northern prison camps, requesting food, clothing, books, tobacco, and money.
James C. Bennett papers
A miscellaneous collection of Civil War material of this Union soldier from Indiana, including enlistment lists, muster roles, war songs, writings, drawings, a diary, genealogical information, and clippings. All materials are photocopies of originals.
Benton Bell Seat memoirs
This collection contains a typed copy of Benton Bell Seat's autobiography, which is approximately 200 pages long. Seat wrote the manuscript in 1916, and it was typed and produced in 1939 by the Arkansas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
C. I. B. DeLage letter
A letter from C. I. B. DeLage, a Mobile, Alabama, commission agent, to Carl G. Schneider detailing the financial history of Mobile during the Civil War.
C. S. Phillips letter
Letter detailing the movement of Union forces following the surrender of Mobile, Alabama, in April 1865.
Captain William McMicken Diary
Coleman and Truss family letters
Contains letters written before, during, and after the Civil War by the Coleman family of St. Clair, Alabama
David Holmes Papers
Collection of two diaries, two sketchbooks, six letters, and other items created by Sergeant David Holmes (1841-1864) of the 20th Michigan Infantry. The materials provide insight into the rigors of daily life for an Civil War soldier
Edward Vernon archive of Co. F, Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Papers documenting the history of Co. F of the Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, including Company demographics and rosters, obituaries, and hand-drawn maps of the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1863.
Ellsworth Hults diary
The diary of the paymaster's clerk aboard the USS Galena from February through November 1864. There is also a transcription of the diary and a photograph of Admiral James Forsyth "the tallest man in the American Navy, 6 ft 6."
William Fulton letter
Typescript copy of a letter dated 12 April 1865, written by Fulton to his sister, Mrs. Theodora Fulton Pettus, describing the surrender of Mobile, Alabama, to Union forces.
H. C. Harris letter
Letter dated 2 November 1862, from Camp Forney, near Mobile, to his sister in Livingston, Alabama, discussing going into winter quarters, decrying the army and the plight of the common soldier, and vehemently expressing his wish for a substitute to take his place in the army during the Civil War.
Townsend Heaton letters
Letters written by Dr. Townsend Heaton, a member of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War
James Chamberlin letters
Letters written to his mother and brother while serving with the 52nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Peninsular Campaign and the Charleston Expedition
James Neff Civil War Diary
Diary of Union soldier during the final year of the Civil War.
Mary Pickens Opie papers
Letters from family and friends, recipes, sheet music and handwritten compositions, including "Diary of a Private" - 1914 autobiography of __ Hubbard, private in the 6th Tennessee Cavalry during the U.S. Civil War.
Peter Reeder Fortney Civil War Diaries
Peter Reeder Fortney (1843-1919) was a Union soldier from Ohio who fought in the US Civil War between 1862-1865. This collection contains two diaries he kept during 1864-1865, when his company served in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama.
Samuel D. Risley Papers
Papers documenting the military service of Samuel D. Risley and his brother John Risley in the 20th Iowa Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.
S. R. Norton letters
Letters of a Union soldier in the 18th Michigan Infantry to his wife, written from Decatur, Stevenson, and Huntsville, Alabama and Nashville, Tennessee, during the Civil War.
The Year of Secession, 1861 Civil War letter collection
Photocopies of sixteen letters written during the first year of the Civil War, and includes letters from William J. Hardee, Joseph E. Johnston, and Robert A. Toombs among others