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

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:

George F. Capps Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-166
Scope and Contents Letters of George F. Capps of Troy, Pike County, Alabama, to his wife Martha O. Capps from Alabama, Mississippi, and Ohio. Topics mentioned in an 1860 letter include his operation of a school for boys in Alabama, literary matters, and friends and family. Capps served in the Confederate Army in Company H, 42 Alabama Volunteer Infantry. His 1862 letters written from Mobile, Alabama, and Columbus and Artesia, Mississippi, concern the war, the surrounding countryside and conditions in Columbus,...
Dates: 1860 - 1869
Found in: Manuscripts / George F. Capps Letters

Carl Schurz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FVW-CSC
Scope and Contents

The Carl Schurz Collection contains documents and materials from his time during the Civil War to his death in 1906. Majority of the collection consists of correspondence from Schurz along with provenance correspondance detailing the collecting of Schurz items from 1999-2001. The contents of this collection range from original 19th century documents, to photocopies of items, and to an original 19th century broadside of one of Schurz's speeches.

Dates: 1857 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1857 - 1906
Found in: The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana / Carl Schurz Collection

Horace A. Derry Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-187
Scope and Contents

Daily record (March 26-October 1, 1862), by a native of Quincy, Massachusetts, in the U.S. Army during Virginia peninsula campaigns. Chiefly routine. Mentions the balloon several times. Also includes a furlough document.

Dates: 1862
Found in: Manuscripts / Horace A. Derry Diary

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
Found in: Manuscripts / Edward D. Edwards Family Papers

Nathan Bedford Forrest - Jackson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-147
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of records held by the Chicago Historical Society concerning the activities of Forrest's Cavalry Corps in Mississippi and Tennessee include dispatches and accounts, 1862-1864. Collected by Charles Jackson.

Dates: 1862 - 1864
Found in: Manuscripts / Nathan Bedford Forrest - Jackson papers

James Z. George and Elizabeth B. George papers

 Collection
Identifier: MPC-JZG
Scope and Contents J. Z. and Elizabeth George papers Scope and Content:This collection is composed of one box of correspondence from 1846 to 1899 with the majority of letters being written between 1892-1894 during which time J. Z. and his wife, Elizabeth Brooks or E. B. George, were in Washington as he served as a United States Senator representing the state of Mississippi. The collection also contains one receipt book and three scrapbooks of family news.The correspondence contained in...
Dates: 1846 - 1899; Majority of material found within 1892 - 1894
Found in: Mississippi Political Collections / James Z. George and Elizabeth B. George papers

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 / Chapman Grant papers

Grant Family collection

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-Fam
Scope and Content Note This collection contains the correspondence, ephemera, photoalbums, and family Bible of various members of the Grant family and extended friends and acquaintances. It includes correspondence from Jesse Root Grant, father of President Ulysess S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., Ulysses S. Grant III, his wife Edith Root Grant, her father Secretary of State Elihu Root, General Horace Porter, W. O. Stoddard, George Sharpe, and a variety of other correspondents.This collection also...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1864 - 1926
Found in: Ulysses S. Grant Collection / Grant Family collection

Frederick Dent Grant and Ida Honore Grant papers

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-FDGIHG
Scope and Content Note The Frederick Dent Grant (FDG) and Ida Honore Grant (IHG) papers is made up of correspondence, speeches, pamphlets, scrapbooks, poems, news clippings, and other items that documents the lives of General Frederick Grant and his wife Ida Honore Grant. The correspondence in this collection comes from a variety of sources including correspondence related to Fred and Ida's time in Austria as Fred served as Minister to Austria-Hungary. it also includes correspondence from family and friends...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1853 - 1923
Found in: Ulysses S. Grant Collection / Frederick Dent Grant and Ida Honore Grant papers

Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Dent Grant papers

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-USGJDG
Scope and Content Note This collection consists of fourteen boxes of correspondence, ephemera, photographs, and scrapbooks related to Ulysses S. Grant, Julia Dent Grant, their acquaintances, and family members. It is arranged in five series: Correspondence and Ephemera; Photographs, Scrapbooks, oversized, and Addition I. The first two series have additional Sub-Series that break the material down into specific types which are then arranged either chronologically or alphabetically by topic. Series V: Addition I...
Dates: 1822 - 2011
Found in: Ulysses S. Grant Collection / Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Dent Grant papers

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