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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

Tacitus T. Clay Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-176
Dates: 1836 - 1968

Edward D. Edwards Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-118
Scope and Contents

Family correspondence, Bible records, property records and documents, concerning the family of Edward D. Edwards (1804-1861) of Choctaw County, Mississippi. Includes two Civil War letters of Knight Edwards (1844-1863), 4th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company E (Stephens Guards) to his mother, 1863, from Vicksburg, enslaved persons lists, and lists of damages to property by General Grierson's forces.

Dates: 1831 - 1950

Eldredge Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-191
Scope and Contents

Diary, 1858; letters to H.A. Magruder of the Madison Light Artillery from his sister at Sharon, Mississippi (1861), and from R.T. Cheek, Madison Light Artillery (1864); J. Montgomery to his father A.V. Montgomery in Madison County, Mississippi, 1864; World War II letter, 1942. Transcriptions available.

Dates: 1858 - 1942

Gardner (James H.) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-38
Scope and Content Note

The James H. Gardner Collection contains business records from various Mississippians. Masonic Letters from the New Hope Lodge. Personal correspondences between several Gardners’. As well as a Civil War letter and a miscellaneous collection of papers, prescriptions, political advertisements and election materials-hand bills. The content is in the form of paper and Photostat.

Dates: 1846 - 1948; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1890

Hancock papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-207
Scope and Contents

Exchange of letters between family members; 2 other pieces. Mississippi chiefly; also the Confederate Army in Virginia and North Carolina.

Dates: 1856 - 1863

Guy Hester family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-64
Scope and Contents

Two Civil War letters (1862) of John M. Wood from Fort Donelson, Tennessee, and Port Hudson, Louisiana, to his wife.

Dates: 1862

Hill family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-383
Scope and Contents

Diary; 5 letters from Charles W. Hill to his sister Abbie; clippings regarding Hill's Civil War experiences; receipt; envelope; photograph; wallet. During the Civil War Hill served in Company A of the 115th Illinois Volunteers.

Dates: 1821 - 1927

Mrs. Mary Hutchinson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-301
Scope and Contents

Roll of Capt. J. C. Curtright' s Company (Civil War); clipping, "Chivalrous Capt. Curtright;" letter to Mrs. Curtright from J. N. Lennard, Oct. 27, 1862, telling of Curtright's wound and death; tax receipts.

Dates: 1847 - 1861

Kincannon (Vann) collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-217
Scope and Contents

Letter from Colonel Swepson Taylor, Woodlawn, Mississippi, to C.W. Williams, Rienzi, Mississippi, and letter from William Taylor to his father from Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1861, 1864

Levy Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-322
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, funeral notices, tax receipts, and poems pertaining to Levy, Holmes, Baptist, Carothers, Hull, and Roby families of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, New York, North Carolina, and Virginia. Subjects include family affairs and the Civil War. Among the Civil War letters is a letter written at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1861.

Dates: 1837 - 1911