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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Equipment and supplies

 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
Abstract

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

Sergeant Frank E. Nevins' Civil War Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4380
Scope and Contents

Contains two separate Civil War manuscript diaries of Union Orderly Sergeant Frank E. Nevins, including 135 hand-written and illustrated pages detailing descriptions of camp life, troop and officer movements, skirmishes, his musings on life and death, and multi-page accounts of both the Battle of Mount Zion Church and the Battle of Corinth. He also celebrates two birthdays during the time covered in these journals.

Dates: 1861 - 1863

Turner Ashby requisition, 1862 February 22

 File — Box WSC002: [Barcode: 1006241709], Folder: W0150.01
Scope and Contents

This special requisition form signed by C.S.A. Colonel Turner Ashby requests four cavalry horses for new "recruits which it is necessary to mount." Ashby's signature appears twice on the form.

Dates: 1862 February 22