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

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 85 Collections and/or Records:

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

Mabel White Halbert Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-40
Scope and Contents

Revolutionary War pension applications, wills, Bible records, Civil War letters.

Dates: 1845 - 1956
Found in: Manuscripts / Mabel White Halbert Papers

Hammett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-442
Scope and Contents

Legal papers, Confederate commission, record books of Confederate Veterans chapters, historical edition of Fayette Chronicle, 1904.

Dates: 1814 - 1920
Found in: Manuscripts / Hammett Papers

Hancock papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-207
Scope and Contents

Exchange of letters between family members; 2 other pieces. Mississippi chiefly; also the Confederate Army in Virginia and North Carolina.

Dates: 1856 - 1863
Found in: Manuscripts / Hancock papers

Hays-Ray-Webb Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4
Scope and Contents Contents include the papers of Robert Berry Webb and Matilda Ann “Lit” Boyd Webb and their extended family.The collection bulks with family correspondence documenting the activities of various family members. Included are letters of Matilda Webb’s parents, John D. Boyd (1800-1844) and Anna McKee Boyd Green (1804-1886), early settlers of the Standing Pine area, near Carthage, Leake County, Mississippi. John D. Boyd’s letters from Jackson document his service as a Mississippi...
Dates: 1824 - 1959
Found in: Manuscripts / Hays-Ray-Webb Family Papers

Marcus L. Henry Account

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-234
Scope and Contents

An account of facts collected and preserved during the Civil War regarding "Plentitude Invincibles" in battles at Dover, Fort Henry, etc.

Dates: 1861 - 1862
Found in: Manuscripts / Marcus L. Henry Account

Guy Hester family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-64
Scope and Contents

Two Civil War letters (1862) of John M. Wood from Fort Donelson, Tennessee, and Port Hudson, Louisiana, to his wife.

Dates: 1862
Found in: Manuscripts / Guy Hester family papers

Hill family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-383
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1821 - 1927
Found in: Manuscripts / Hill family papers

John Lipscomb Johnson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-6
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1869 - 1890
Found in: Manuscripts / John Lipscomb Johnson Papers

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