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

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85140261

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Taylor Goodwyn Alabama secession essay and notes

 Collection
Identifier: W-0037
Abstract

Brief narrative and collection of notes related to Alabama secession written by politician Albert Taylor Goodwyn in 1916

Dates: 1916

Alfred Morris diary

 Collection
Identifier: W-0115
Abstract

Diary written by Union soldier Alfred Morris, containing entries written between October 1862 and September 1863.

Dates: 1862 - 1863

Alfred Parmenter papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0153
Abstract

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

Dates: 1861 - 1862

Benton Bell Seat memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: W-0013
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1916, 1939

C. I. B. DeLage letter

 Collection
Identifier: W-0156
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1865

C. S. Phillips letter

 Collection
Identifier: W-0155
Abstract

Letter detailing the movement of Union forces following the surrender of Mobile, Alabama, in April 1865.

Dates: 1865-04-18

Coleman and Truss family letters

 Collection
Identifier: W-0103
Abstract

Contains letters written before, during, and after the Civil War by the Coleman family of St. Clair, Alabama

Dates: 1860 - 1868

Edward Vernon archive of Co. F, Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry

 Collection
Identifier: W-0157
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1883 - 1918

Townsend Heaton letters

 Collection
Identifier: W-0091
Abstract

Letters written by Dr. Townsend Heaton, a member of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War

Dates: 1861-1864