United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 466 Collections and/or Records:
Ezra G. Hayes personal narrative
Collection — Folder S614
Identifier: S0614
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three typewritten copies of the life story of Ezra G. Hayes that he dictated to Caroline M. Hayes. Hayes' narrative ranges from 1705 to the early 1900s. This collection was made from a copy owned by Mrs. Jacob Bauer of Lawrenceburg, Indiana in 1933 and it includes Mr. Hayes' family history, his many business pursuits, early history of Dearborn County, Indiana, and his viewpoints on the politics and elections during his lifetime. Also included are three copies of a poem...
Dates:
circa 1910
Fannie Howes Campbell letters
Collection — Folder S0209
Identifier: S0209
Scope and Contents
The July 6 letter with no year, written to “My Dear Husband and Mother,” has an addition in pencil by another writer, after Fannie’s message in ink. The other writer mentions that Fannie is getting better, and the doctor thinks she has an “ulceration of the womb.”In another undated letter, Fannie wrote: “I wish you would write to Sam – Memphis, Tenn. – 81st Reg. Illinois. Vol. – Gen. [John A.] Logan’s Division.” Another letter with only Feb. 8 but no year says: “Last night the baby...
Dates:
1852-1897
Fanny Hudelson collection
Collection — Folder S1868
Identifier: S1868
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, documents and receipts of the Hudelson and Hinds families, including a bill of sale between John Jones and Samuel Hinds of Bourbon County, Kentucky for a "negro girl" (December 18, 1795); receipts of Francis and Elizabeth Hinds (1826-1849); a notice of transfer draft payable at the Branch of the Northern Bank of Kentucky at Louisville for $150,000 signed by Treasury Secretary Levi Woodbury (July 20, 1836); letters written by Francis I. Hudelson and sent...
Dates:
1795-1863, 1929
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Fanny Hudelson collection
Fitz John Porter letter
Collection — Folder S1731
Identifier: S1731
Scope and Contents
This collection includes autographed, signed letters from Fitz John Porter in New Jersey on 1892/05/04
regarding an editorial and Holliday's support of Porter.
Dates:
1892/05/04
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Fitz John Porter letter
Florence Emerson Heffley manuscript
Collection — Folder S624
Identifier: S0624
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a draft of the manuscript, "A Little Girl of the Sixties," by Florence Emerson Heffley. The manuscript is 48 typewritten pages and includes handwritten corrections and a few pages of additional notes. Heffley's narrative relates stories and genealogical information about her great-grandparents, Abraham and Sarah Dayton Jacobus, her grandparents Hettie and Luke Allen Emerson, and her mother, Almira Georgiana Herbert, the "Little Girl of the Sixties," from 1818 to 1938. ...
Dates:
1818-1938
Forrest L. Spencer collection
Collection — Folder S1227
Identifier: S1227
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence and papers pertaining to the Nelson, Sturgis, and Bailiff families ranging from 1840 to 1892 in Jennings County, Indiana, Ohio, Maryland, and Kansas. The papers include U.S. Civil War letters and a military discharge from George Nelson (1861-1863), documents relating to Susan Bailey, Martha A. Sturgis, and E. Blanchard (1877-1878), and a wedding invitation (1892).
Dates:
1840-1892
Francis M. and William H. Farrow papers
Collection — Folder S452
Identifier: S0452
Scope and Contents
This collection includes autographed, signed letters from Francis M. Farrow, William H. Farrow, and Capt. R. W. Harrison in Greenville, South Carolina [?] and Tennessee ranging from 1862 to 1864 regarding family matters, war life and official notice of William H. Farrow's death.
Dates:
1862-1864
Francis Marion Leavell diary transcript
Collection — Folder S3250
Identifier: S3250
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a transcription of the Civil War diary of Francis Marion Leavell ranging from 1862 August to 1863 August. The diary consists of short, almost daily entires concerning the activities of Leavell and the 73rd Indiana Regiment.
Dates:
1862-1865
Francis Marion Van Pelt family collection
Collection
Identifier: L168
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Van Pelt family correspondence ranging from 1863 to 1929 and includes letters written by Frank, Madge and their children; letters sent to Frank's mother, Almira Van Pelt Smith, by her children and grandchildren; and letters sent by Madge's relatives in Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. Family documents range from 1879 to 1936 and include Frank's promotion and resignation certificates from the Railway Mail Service; "The Bee-Hive" cover pages from College Temple of...
Dates:
1861-1936
Frank L. Hiatt "We Who Served" manuscript
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1282
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two copies of Frank L. Hiatt's manuscript, "We Who Served", in print and on a CD-R sound disc. Compiled in 2008, the family military history was created to honor and remember those of Hiatt's extended family who served the United States in all the branches of the military during the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Iraq War, and during peace time. Hiatt's manuscript contains copies of certificates, correspondence, military documents, news articles, personal...
Dates:
2008
