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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Confederate States of America, War Department, Nitre and Mining Bureau, District 10 letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0350
Overview Letter dated 4 October 1864, from W.H.C. Price, Superintendent of the C.S.A. War Department's Nitre and Mining District 10, to P.J. Weaver, requesting his urgent cooperation in the manufacturing of nitre.
Dates: 1864 October 4
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Confederate States of America, War Department, Nitre and Mining Bureau, District 10 letter

Marie Giles letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0569
Overview 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 / Marie Giles letter

Mary M. Hallowell letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0612
Overview Letters written to Mary Hallowell from various government officials in Washington, DC, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, regarding her request for help for "refugees" from Tennessee during and immediately after the Civil War. These refugees were Tennessee residents who had remained loyal to the Union and had moved farther north during the War.
Dates: 1864-1865
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Mary M. Hallowell letters