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Mobile (Ala.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85086369

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

A. L. Willoughby receipt and letter book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0006
Overview Receipts from grocers, clothing sellers, and other Mobile, Alabama, merchants detailing personal expenditures; also includes seventy-six letters, mostly relating family news.
Dates: 1861-1869

Augusta Evans Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1563
Abstract Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a bound manuscript of the 19th-century author Augusta Evans Wilson of Mobile, Alabama.
Dates: 1859-1909

C. S. Phillips letter

 Collection
Identifier: W-0155
Overview Letter detailing the movement of Union forces following the surrender of Mobile, Alabama, in April 1865.
Dates: 1865-04-18

Esbon C. Lambert Diary and Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3924
Abstract Diary and letters from Lambert, a United States Navy landsman aboard the USS Itasca from 1863-1864, during the Battle of Mobile Bay.
Dates: 1863-1864

William Fulton letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0547
Overview 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.
Dates: 1865 April 12

George S. Smith Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1607
Abstract Civil War diary of George S. Smith, sergeant in Company C of the 48th Ohio Regiment, covering his service in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Texas, 1863-65.
Dates: 1863 - 1865

H. C. Harris letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0639
Overview 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.
Dates: 1862 November 2

Joseph Murrell letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0084
Overview Letterbook containing the correspondence of Mobile cotton broker Joseph Murrell, dated from June to October 1861.
Dates: 1861

Peter Reeder Fortney Civil War Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4266
Overview 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.
Dates: 1860-1865, 1915

Thomas H. Herndon Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0667
Overview This collection contains letters of correspondence.
Dates: 1850 - 1879

"Valor on the Eastern Shore": typescript

 Collection
Identifier: W-0151
Overview Typescript copy of B. L. Roberson's unpublished "Valor on the Eastern Shore."
Dates: 1965

Wallace Marshall manuscripts and research material

 Collection
Identifier: W-0003
Overview Correspondence, research notes, newspaper clippings, and manuscripts related to "Tensas Doctor" and "Noise of Great Waters" by Marshall Wallace
Dates: 1947 - 1948