United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 498 Collections and/or Records:
Civil War travel passes
Collection — Folder S2561
Identifier: S2561
Scope and Contents
This collection includes travel passes to various individuals during the Civil War by members of the United States Army from 1861 to 1862.
Dates:
1861-1862
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Civil War travel passes
Civil War, Vicksburg letter
Collection — Folder S2691
Identifier: S2691
Scope and Contents
This collection includes one letter from an unknown soldier in Vicksburg, Mississippi from June 6, 1863 regarding the Siege of Vicksburg from May-June 1863.
Dates:
1863
Clarence R. Rhodes scrapbook
Collection — Folder S1831
Identifier: S1831
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the scrapbook of Clarence R. Rhodes containing material ranging from 1875 to 1942. The numerous mounted newspaper clippings concern the administrations of President Grover Cleveland and President Benjamin Harrison and stories about their families, cabinet members and other political appointees. Histories and stories about a variety of other topics include criminal cases, the U.S. Civil War, and the centennial celebration of President George Washington’s inauguration....
Dates:
1875-1942
Clement R. Strahan collection
Collection — Folder S1853
Identifier: S1853
Scope and Contents
This collection includes pages 225-255 from Clement R. Stahan's copy of the revised edition of Manual of the Civil War and Key to the Grand Army of the Republic and Kindred Societies, a book written by J. Worth Carnahan and published by the U.S. Army and Navy Historical Association in 1899. The collection includes an army discharge certificate filled out by Strahan with information regarding his February 18, 1866 discharge (p.225); an unused honorable discharge...
Dates:
1899-1902
Commemorative wooden nickels and Confederate bill facsimile
Collection — Folder S2228
Identifier: S2228
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three "wooden nickel" certificates created to commemorate the Wabash County, Indiana Centennial (1935) and the Decatur, Indiana Centennial (1936). The collection also contains a facsimile of a five hundred dollar Confederate note memento from the Civil War Centennial Exhibit held at the L.S. Ayres & Company auditorium in Indianapolis from April 11 to April 22, 1961.
Dates:
1935-1961
Company G, 146th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry Soldiers Memorial broadside
Collection — Folder OBC014
Identifier: OBC014
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a Soldiers Memorial to Company G, 146th Regiment of the Indiana Volunteer Infantry. The item lists all the men who served in the company.
Dates:
circa 1865
Corydon P. Pierce collection
Collection — Folder S1062
Identifier: S1062
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises two letters and a hand-drawn map (all of which are laminated) from Corydon P. Pierce in Tennessee in 1863 and Angie Glazier in Crown Point, Indiana, regarding Pierce's service in the Union Army and imprisonment in Libby Prison.The first letter was from Corydon P. Pierce to his wife, Sarah Pierce on March 17, 1863, while camped near LaGrange, Tennessee, describing how he assisted Benjamin Case in digging up his brother Hiram's corpse, and transporting the...
Dates:
1863, undated
Curtis family history
Collection — Folder S3109
Identifier: S3109
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a typescript family history entitled "Curtis Family History." The history begins in the year 1763 with Lottie Relander's great-great grandfather, who lived in Virginia in the early 1770s, and concludes with the 1870 marriage of Mary Gregg, Lottie Relander's mother, to Charles Relander, an immigrant from Sweden living in Danville, Indiana. Prominent family names mentioned in the history are Curtis, Sanders, Kirkendall, Reed, Ross, King, Stapp, and Relander. The family...
Dates:
1949
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Curtis family history
Daniel E. Bruce papers
Collection
Identifier: S0183
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed transcription from Daniel E. Bruce in Indiana ranging from 1862 to 1865 regarding life in the military.
Dates:
1862-1865
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Daniel E. Bruce papers
Daniel F. Griffin collection
Collection
Identifier: L060
Scope and Contents
The collection includes 44 original Civil War letters from Daniel F. Griffin to his wife, Mary Compton, in New Albany, Indiana, and photostat family letters from before the war. The collection also includes typed transcripts of 27 of his Civil War letters to his wife, as well as a notebook containing notes on regimental accounts and several hand drawn maps.
Dates:
1847-1883
