Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Bailey Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4297
Scope and Contents
The Bailey Family Papers include letters created and received by multiple generations of family members. The bulk of the letters contains Reconstruction-era content, but there are also other later letters of interest written from Texas and Japan. Samuel Bailey wrote ten letters to his son George from 1865-1869. Although Samuel wrote most of the letters while in Macon, Georgia, he was in South Charlestown, New Hampshire, when he wrote the earliest one on June 10, 1865. The letters were addressed...
Dates:
1859-1905
Berry Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4239
Overview
The Berrys were a plantation- and slave-owning family from Coweta County, Georgia. This collection contains correspondence and other materials related to several Berry family members, particularly Judge Andrew J. Berry (1798-1883) and his sons William, Thomas, and Joel Berry. Materials document the family’s economic situation both before and after the US Civil War (1861-1865).
Dates:
1820-1882
Maria E. Chandler and H. R. Garner Cotton Claims Documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4128
Overview
Handwritten and typescript documents - correspondence, affidavits, etc. - relating to two southern clients of the New York lawyer Quinton Corwine, dealing with compensation due them for cotton seized by federal agents during the Reconstruction period
Dates:
1864-1898
Dallas Iron Works letterbook
Collection
Identifier: W-0097
Overview
Contains the Reconstruction-era letterbook of the Dallas Iron Works in Selma, Alabama.
Dates:
1866-1879
C. I. B. DeLage letter
Collection
Identifier: W-0156
Overview
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:
after 1865
Emma Marie Cutter Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4230
Overview
Emma Marie Cutter (1853-1937) was born in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, and attended the State Normal School at Bridgewater, Massachesetts, from 1871-1875. Cutter began teaching at the Peabody (also known as State) Normal School in Nashville, Tennessee, immediately after her graduation until 1881. This diary, which she kept from 1876-1878, discusses her life as a teacher, her travels to the Northeast to visit her family in the summer, and the people she encountered in the post-Civil War South.
Dates:
1876 - 1878
Elisha Wolsey Peck papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1120
Overview
Correspondence and financial papers of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, attorney, as well as material relating to the Alabama Constitutional Convention of 1867, of which Peck was chairman.
Dates:
1837-1887
Robert H. Smith legal notebook
Collection
Identifier: W-0016
Overview
Handwritten definitions and summaries of legal cases tried between 1869 and 1877, relating primarily to railroad interests and personal property law.
Dates:
circa 1870
Travel Diary by Witness of Jefferson Davis Bail Hearing
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4238
Dates:
1867 - 1871