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Civil War

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/n83708154

Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:

Henry De Lamar Clayton Sr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0313
Abstract The personal, legal, military, and administrative papers, of this Alabama politician, Confederate general, and University of Alabama president.
Dates: 1840-1925

Alfred Hoke papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0688
Overview A tax-in-kind form for the estimate and assessment of agricultural products
Dates: 1864-1865

Holliman and Stewart families letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3749
Overview Civil War letters and miscellaneous documents of James Franklin Holliman and William Stewart, to and from their families between 1862-1911.
Dates: 1837-1936

Glenn House papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2292
Overview Materials from the book arts project of Hamilton M. Woodon's 1863 poem Chicamauga.
Dates: 1988

Charles H. Howe Civil War Diary and Map

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4284
Overview Civil War diary, kept by Private Charles H. Howe, written on the verso and margins of a printed Civil War-era map on which he outlined the route he traveled.
Dates: September 1862-September 1863

Jacob Faser letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0506
Overview Letters written from Mobile, Alabama, where Faser was working as a sword maker, to his wife in Macon, Mississippi, dealing mainly with personal news and information on the prices of available goods.
Dates: 1861-1865

James A. Goble diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0574
Overview Civil War diary of a soldier in the First Alabama Infantry who was born in New York and later lived in Auburn, Alabama, before moving to Chelsea, Massachusetts.
Dates: 1862-1863

James Boykin papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0196
Abstract Papers of an important Dallas County, Alabama, planter family, including correspondence, household and plantation records, materials regarding James Boykin’s cavalry unit during the Civil War, and papers of Boykin's descendants down to the mid-twentieth century.
Dates: 1833-1967; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1870

John Horry Dent, Jr., Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0431
Overview Collection contains letters written by John Horry Dent, Jr. (signed J. Horry Dent) of Barbour County, Alabama, from 1861 March 15 to 1864 July 1 to his father, John Horry Dent of Eufaula, Alabama. There are also two letters written by Dent Jr.’s fellow officers to Dent's father detailing information of Dent Jr.’s part aboard the C.S.S. McRae during the battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip and his subsequent capture and internment at Fort Warren in May 1862.
Dates: 1861 - 1864

Porter King papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0820
Overview Contains personal materials of this Civil War veteran. King was a member of the Marion Light Infantry.
Dates: 1860s

Chauncey Leonard Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4148
Overview Letter from an African American U. S. Army chaplain during the Civil War to the father of one of the soldiers at the hospital in Alexandria, Virginia
Dates: 1865 March 24

Letters from Lolie to Sample, 1862-1866

 File — Box 4257.004: [1006214229], Folder: 29
Scope and Contents Ten letters to Sample, a friend and potential suitor who is evidently fighting in the Civil War as a Union soldier ("TSE Co. A 5th __" is written on the outside of one of the letters). The letters discuss news from home, dances and other social engagements, and hopes for his safe return home.
Dates: 1862-1866

Cabot Lull papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0884
Abstract Correspondence, financial records, legal documents and to a lesser extent newspaper clippings, photographs and various miscellaneous material relating to personal, business, political, and official matters of this former blockade runner and Elmore County merchant and probate judge.
Dates: 1816-1935; Majority of material found within 1852 - 1912

Lumsden's Battery battle flag, Alabama Light Artillery, Confederate States Army

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3719
Overview Battle flag of Lumsden's Battery, Company "F", 2nd Light Artillery Battalion.
Dates: between 1861 and 1865

Mobile, Alabama, Confederate newspaper scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0050
Overview Scrapbook of newspaper articles from Confederate newspapers (probably in Mobile, Alabama) documenting Civil War battles including the First Battle of Bull Run, the Siege of Lexington, and the Battle of Leesburg.
Dates: 1861-1862

Monroe F. Cockrell research notes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0330
Abstract Research notes and synopses on Emma Sansom, General Pickett at Gettysburg, "The Bivouac of the Dead," and General Forrest's crossing of the Sipsey River, March 29, 1865.
Dates: 1949-1956

Albert B. Moore papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1013
Overview Moore's Civil War letters, plays, naval chronology, plays, and roundtables; lists of members and board of trustees from multiple universities; notes, booklets, news, and biographies on the subject of the Civil War; etc.
Dates: unknown

Morgan Smith Gilmer papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0571
Overview Correspondence, as well as photocopy and typescript copies of a booklet by Gilmer, containing the last roll and brief history of "Shockley's Independent Escort Company of Alabama Cavalry," a Civil War unit formed by University of Alabama students Branscom Shockley and Henry Burt in March 1864.
Dates: 1954

James H. Mullen letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1029
Overview A letter from Mullen to his family describng his troops' position in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Dates: 1862 November 23

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

Mary Pickens Opie papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1073
Overview Letters from family and friends, recipes, sheet music and handwritten compositions, including "Diary of a Private" - 1914 autobiography of __ Hubbard, private in the 6th Tennessee Cavalry during the U.S. Civil War.
Dates: 1887-1946

William M. Pratt letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1163
Overview Letter dated 22 April 1864, from Head Quarters, Sub-district of the Pamlico, Washington, North Carolina, to Commander Renshaw, warning him of enemy troop movements
Dates: 1864 April 22

Prices of Domestic Produce in Confederate Treasury Notes from 1 January 1861 to 1 January 1865

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0352
Overview Prices of domestic produce in Confederate Treasury Notes from 1 January 1861 to 1 January 1865
Dates: 1861-1865

Prison Bill of Fare Poem Broadside

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4319
Scope and Contents One broadside of a poem written by a Union soldier held at the Confederate Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, on 8 November 1861. The poem describes the food provided and the ways it was prepared at the prison in satirical verse.
Dates: 1861-11-08

Private Rosser's Colt

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1363
Overview Photocopy of a typescript paper titled "Private Rosser's Colt" on the history of a Colt pistol carried by Henry Preston Rosser in the Civil War as a member of Shockley’s Independent Escort Company, from Alabama.
Dates: unknown

Oliver T. Reilly papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0158
Overview Papers and guidebook covering the Battle of Antietam, created by this childhood witness
Dates: 1906-1930

Reuben Oscar Reynolds Papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0163
Overview Correspondence and records of military service (photocopies) of Reuben O. Reynolds of the Eleventh Mississippi Infantry Regiment.
Dates: 1861-1887

Andrew Jackson Riddle papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0162
Overview Papers and photographs by Civil War photographer Andrew Jackson Riddle.
Dates: 1864-1956

Robert A. Patterson Civil War Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4334
Scope and Contents This collection of six letters to family members was written by Robert A. Patterson, who was traveling with Company F of the 57th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry through Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama between 1862-1864. The letters describe the unit's actions and movements, interactions with locals, and encounters with enslaved persons escaping slaveholders.
Dates: 1862 - 1865

Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0753
Abstract The Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers span the period from 1797 to 1960 and include both the personal and business papers of Robert Jemison Jr., along with papers of Robert Jemison (grandfather), William Jemison (father), Priscilla Jemison (wife), Cherokee Jemison Hargrove (daughter), and Andrew Coleman Hargrove (son-in-law), and Robert Jemison Jr. (IV) of Birmingham (1878-1973). Included are the records of his grist and lumber mills, plantations, stage line, the Tuskaloosa Plank Road, toll bridges,...
Dates: 1797 - 1973

O.M. Roberts reminiscences while a student of the University of Alabama

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1199
Abstract Contains a bound, typewritten recollection of this Texas governor's life as a student of the University of Alabama, 1833-1836. He presented this to the Erosophic Society of the University of Alabama in 1892. The work includes a photograph of a painting of him in approximately 1835.
Dates: 1892

Charles Robinson papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0161
Overview Letters concerning Robinson's request for a commission in the "colored service" of the U.S. Army during the Civil War.
Dates: 1864-1865

Samuel D. Cameron and Maxwell A. Cameron Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0264
Overview Papers, primarily letters, of two Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, brothers, Samuel D. Cameron, 2nd Alabama Cavalry and Maxwell A. Cameron, 18th Alabama Infantry Regiment, to their sister, Sarah, and brother-in-law, Isham Robertson, during the Civil War. Additional materials include financial documents and other family letters.
Dates: 1858-1884; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864

Benton Bell Seat memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: W-0013
Overview 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

David Crockett Stuart memoir

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1364
Abstract A copy of Stuart's 1913 memoir, which discusses his early life, Civil War service in the Fourth Alabama Cavalry Regiment, and his move to Utah in 1872.
Dates: 1913

Letter from Sue to Sallie

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1369
Abstract A letter by an unknown author, to her sister Sallie, discussing war news, known wounded, and attitudes towards the war.
Dates: circa 1863

The Daily Citizen newspaper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3556
Overview The last issue of this Vicksburg, Mississippi, newspaper printed on July 2, 1863.
Dates: 1863 July 2

Thomas Haughey letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0648
Overview Letter written by Thomas Haughey of Alabama, dated December 28, 1868 and written from Washington, DC, to Ben Perley Poone providing a short biographical sketch. Mentions having to live in the north during the Civil War due to his anti-secessionist ideals.
Dates: 1868 December 28

Davis Tillson Battle Report for Second Bull Run

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4009
Overview Report from Tillson to his commander, General Irvin McDowell, through McDowell's chief of staff, Colonel Edmund Schriver, about the Union's artillery in three actions of the second Manassas (Bull Run) campaign in 1862.
Dates: 1862 September 30

Henry Tutwiler papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0081
Overview Contains three notebooks: an account book recording tuition payments at Greensboro Academy; a second account book documenting Henry Tutwiler's personal expenses; and a commonplace book containing book reviews, weather reports, and very brief entries about the Civil War.
Dates: 1862-1884

Paul Turner Vaughn diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1496
Abstract Civil War diary of a soldier from Marengo County, Alabama. It contains entries describing camp life, marching, and fighting in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Georgia; including the Battles of Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and Lookout Mountain.
Dates: 1863-1864

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

 Collection
Identifier: W-0157
Overview 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

Wade Hall collection of illustrated envelopes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2218
Abstract The collection contains illustrated envelopes donated by Dr. Wade Hall. The illustrations on the envelopes range from simple to highly ornate.
Dates: 1861-1968

Adam H. Whetstone diary

 Collection
Identifier: W-0080
Overview Contains the diary of Confederate soldier Adam H. Whetstone of Prattville, Alabama
Dates: 1864-1865

James White, Obadiah White, and Jesse A. Justice letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1547
Overview A collection of letters written by James White to his mother and father, describing the fortifications at Tullahoma, Tennessee; others from White's son Obadiah White to his mother, relating clothing needs and rumors of troop movements; and from Jesse A. Justice to his wife, relating camp news, the incidence of sickness, and rumors of movement.
Dates: 1862-1863

Bell I. Wiley Civil War articles collection

 Collection
Identifier: W-0160
Overview A variety of reprinted and clipped articles from various journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as bibliographical and general notes, discussing the Civil War from many angles, including medical, literary, restitution, and even specific battles and generals.
Dates: 1859-1979

The Year of Secession, 1861 Civil War letter collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0305
Overview Photocopies of sixteen letters written during the first year of the Civil War, and includes letters from William J. Hardee, Joseph E. Johnston, and Robert A. Toombs among others
Dates: 1861