United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:
Hancock papers
Exchange of letters between family members; 2 other pieces. Mississippi chiefly; also the Confederate Army in Virginia and North Carolina.
Hays-Ray-Webb Family Papers
Marcus L. Henry Account
An account of facts collected and preserved during the Civil War regarding "Plentitude Invincibles" in battles at Dover, Fort Henry, etc.
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.
John Lipscomb Johnson Papers
Letters relating chiefly to Johnson's 1871 book, "The university memorial; biographical sketches of alumni of the University of Virginia who fell in the Confederate War"; and to the Baptist Church, to his cattle, and to the University of Mississippi.
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.
Mrs. Tommie LaCavera collection
Clipping, speech, and other materials concerning Andersonville Prison and Captain Henry Wirz, the prison superintendent who was executed after the Civil War.
Last Volley at Appomattox Court House and the Apple Tree
Typed transcript of a history written by C.W. Babbit of the Ist Regiment, Engineer Troops, Army of Northern Virginia, concerns Lee's surrender at the close of the war. Transcribed by J.P. Sessions, March 22, 1944, recopied by Elizabeth Sessions Power (1960) and Dorothy Sturdivant Cavin (1960).