United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Found in 86 Collections and/or Records:
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).
Lenoir Plantation records
Levy Family Papers
Includes correspondence, funeral notices, tax receipts, and poems pertaining to Levy, Holmes, Baptist, Carothers, Hull, and Roby families of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, New York, North Carolina, and Virginia. Subjects include family affairs and the Civil War. Among the Civil War letters is a letter written at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1861.
Lloyd Lewis and Bruce Catton research notes collection
James D. Lynch Papers
Collection contains correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, poetry, newspaper clippings and other material documenting the life and work of James D. Lynch. Also includes correspondence and other materials documenting the life and activities of Pauline Lynch Evans Creighton, daughter of James D. Lynch and Hettie M. Cochran, a suffragist and public health advocate and activist in Austin, TX in the early 20th century, and an manuuscript copy of the memoir of Lightning Ellsworth.
John H. Marshall Civil War letters
Twenty-three letters of John H. Marshall, 1862-1865, of the 41st Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company L (Okolona Guards) to his wife, Ellen Jane Sanders Marshall, living near Nettleton (Monroe County), Mississippi describing campaigns in Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama. Photoprints and transcriptions available.
Sallie B. McRae diary
Typed copy of McRae’s diary, January-June 1862, edited by James W. Webb.