United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Chapman Grant papers
Collection
Identifier: USGPL-CG
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains photographs, correspondence, clippings, and ephemera from scrapbooks made by Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, Jesse R. Grant, Chapman Grant, and their friends and family. This collection also includes the twenty-three family scrapbooks, with items ranging from the second half of the nineteenth century to the 1970s. Items of interest include military documents, memoranda, and correspondence from Chapman Grant’s service in the United States Army and his professional...
Dates:
1859 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1940
Found in:
Ulysses S. Grant Collection
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Chapman Grant papers
Lloyd Lewis and Bruce Catton research notes collection
Collection
Identifier: USGPL-LLBC
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains the research notes of Lloyd Lewis and Bruce Catton, biographers of Ulysses S. Grant and historians of te Civil War era. Subjects covered include Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, William T. Sherman, the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, the Presidency, West Point, Grant's World Tour. Types of material found in this collection include: hand-written and typed research notes, correspondence, including originals dating back to the 1850s and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1840 - 1967
The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana - Original Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: FVW-MANU
Scope and Content
This collection contains a variety of materials broken down into six series, most of which relates to the Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. The first, Abraham Lincoln Legal Documents, contains documents penned and/or signed in Lincoln’s hand, including legal proceedings, affidavits, and jury notes. The second series, Abraham Lincoln Correspondence, contains letters Lincoln created over the course of his legal career and presidency. Miscellaneous Legal Documents make up the next...
Dates:
1768 - 1992
Carl Schurz collection
Collection
Identifier: FVW-CSZ
Scope and Content
The Carl Schurz collection is organized into three series. The first and most substantial series is a collection of correspondences mostly written by Carl Schurz himself. The collection is comprised mostly of original documents; however, some of the correspondences are also photocopies and have been noted as such in the breakdown. Other authors in the collection include Abraham Lincoln and Gideon Welles. The addressees of the letters are incredibly varied and range from other statesmen like...
Dates:
1857 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1857 - 1906