United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence.
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
Tacitus T. Clay Letters
Edward D. Edwards Family Papers
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.
Eldredge Papers
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.
Gardner (James H.) Collection
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.
Hancock papers
Exchange of letters between family members; 2 other pieces. Mississippi chiefly; also the Confederate Army in Virginia and North Carolina.
Guy Hester family papers
Two Civil War letters (1862) of John M. Wood from Fort Donelson, Tennessee, and Port Hudson, Louisiana, to his wife.
Hill family papers
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.
Mrs. Mary Hutchinson papers
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.
Kincannon (Vann) collection
Letter from Colonel Swepson Taylor, Woodlawn, Mississippi, to C.W. Williams, Rienzi, Mississippi, and letter from William Taylor to his father from Atlanta, Georgia.
Levy Family Papers
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.