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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:

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

 Collection
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

Zoe Posey scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-251
Scope and Contents

Clippings related to Mississippi and Louisiana history, especially Confederate and 20th century, and Louisiana recipes. Posey was the daughter of Confederate captain Benjamin Lane Posey. The scrapbooks are indexed.

Dates: undated

Pridmore family Civil War letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-253
Scope and Contents

Letters of Sgt. F. Pridmore, 41st Regiment, Alabama Volunteers, Co. K., Buckner's Division, describe troop movements, army conditions, etc., in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Virginia. Transcriptions available.

Dates: 1862 - 1865

Mrs. Mary C. Rambo Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-256
Scope and Contents

Bill of sale for enslaved persons, 1 Civil War letter, permit for supplies and statement of purchases, 2 letters from Texas, 1 contract for share-cropping, letters concerning a War of 1812 pension which was cancelled because of sympathy with the Confederacy. Chiefly Tennessee.

Dates: 1843 - 1866

John A. Rawlins papers

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-JAR
Scope and Content The John A. Rawlins papers contains correspondence from Rawlins to his wife in the first year of the American Civil War. It also contains correspondence between Rawlins and his second wife, incoming correspondence and invitations in his capacity of Secretary of War, condolence correspondence following Rawlins's death, and additional family correspondence. The papers also include a clerk copy of a letter from Rawlins to US Grant, at Vcksburg, concerning Grant's drinking. Finally, the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1859 - 1963

M. A. Ryan: Experience of a Confederate Soldier

 Collection — Box Misc. MSS Box 3
Identifier: MSS-261
Scope and Contents

The collection contains a single reminscence by M. A. Ryan entitled “Experience of a Confederate Soldier in Camp and Prison in the Civil War."

Dates: 1861 - 1865

James S. Saggus Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-117
Scope and Contents

Series of 49 articles written in 1965 for Jackson, Mississippi, newspaper, concerning the effects of the Civil War on government and life in Mississippi and concerning Mississippi's leaders during and after the war.

Dates: 1965