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

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:

John Oakley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-235
Scope and Content

Thirty-five letters including Civil War letters exchanged between Alex Feemster, an arsenal worker at Selma, Alabama, and his wife Martha A. Feemster of Bigbee Bottom, Mississippi.

Dates: 1862 - 1911

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

Oswalt family collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-318
Scope and Content Collection of the Oswalt family of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, acquired from different sources. Includes Civil War letters between Henry Oswalt of the 27th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company A (Oktibbeha Riflemen) and his wife Pamela (Permelia) A. Oswalt from Tennessee and Atlanta, Georgia, and Oktibbeha County, Mississippi (1861-1863). An 1863 letter of James W. Oswalt, brother of Henry and also of the 27th Mississippi Infantry Company A, from Warington, Florida, informs Permelia of...
Dates: 1856 - 1872

Parker family Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-238
Scope and Contents

Letters of W.O. McCall of the 28th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment; Edward Jones from Lowry Station, Georgia; Philip G. Hilderbrand of the 46th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company E., and others.

Dates: 1863 - 1864

Patterson Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-239
Scope and Contents

Letter from Martha Gamewell of Jackson, Tennessee, informing Lt. Patterson of the death and burial of his brother, 1863; letter describing farming and everyday life.

Dates: 1855 - 1892

Mrs. Dan Pepper Civil War Newspapers

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Identifier: MSS-242
Scope and Contents

Daily Mississippian, Aug. 29, 1863, Meridian, Mississippi, 1 page; Lexington Advertiser, May 4, 1860, Lexington, Mississippi, 1 page; Mobile Evening News, July 22, 1863, Mobile, Alabama, 1 page.

Dates: 1860, 1863

Peyton Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-115
Scope and Content

Photocopies of list of accounts and 11 letters (1768-1818) written by Thomas Jefferson, mostly to Craven Peyton (d. 1837), lawyer and landowner, of Albemarle County, Virginia; and correspondence and documents of the Peyton family of Virginia and Mississippi. Includes offer to sell a slave, Nov 27, 1818.

Dates: 1768 - 1916

Pickens Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-245
Scope and Contents Materials collected and donated by Sue (Fannie Sue) Waller (1880-1968) include scattered documentation of the activities of her uncle, J. O. (John Oliver) Pickens (1814-1886), owner of sugar plantations in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Materials documenting Pickens include two Civil War receipts for money and coupons, accounts concerning assets in Texas (1867, 1885), New Orleans Sanitary and Fertilizing Company stock certificate (1872), patent for a cotton bale tie invented by...
Dates: 1864-1908, 1961 and undated

Albert Quincy Porter Civil War Diary

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Identifier: MSS-351
Scope and Contents

Porter, a regimental fifer with Company D, 22nd Regiment, describes a Confederate hospital in Montgomery, Alabama; battles around Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, and Marietta, Georgia; last months of the war in North Carolina and South Carolina. Copy.

Dates: undated

William Walker Porter Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-707
Scope and Content

Civil war letters, grave marker dedicatory services program, and family reunion materials.

Dates: 1861 - 2012