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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Destruction and pillage

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85140229

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas P. Clinton letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0319
Abstract

Letters about the burning of the University of Alabama, April 1865, which Clinton witnessed as a young boy.

Dates: Unknown
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Marie Giles letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0569
Abstract

Letter dated 8 August 1864 to her cousin, a soldier in the Confederate Army, discussing interruptions in railroad service, provisions for the army, and poor people at home.

Dates: 1864 August 8
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Joseph Jermain Slocum Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4295
Abstract

Five letters written by this Union officer serving in Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee, and Huntsville, Alabama.

Dates: March 26 - June 1, 1862
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections