United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 478 Collections and/or Records:
Harry Watts collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1372
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an autographed diary from Harry Watts in the United States ranging from 1861/07/15 -\to 1865/08 regarding history of unit and the American Civil War.
Dates:
1861-1864
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Harry Watts collection
Hawley family papers
Collection
Identifier: L064
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of Hawley family and professional correspondence. Included is correspondence with his family in Bridgeport, Connecticut while elder Ransom Hawley was a student at Auburn Seminary (1825-1828), as well as correspondence of Hawley and his wife in Indiana with their families in Bridgeport (1828-ca. 1880), and letters to his sons Henry and Ransom and daughter Lucy Ing. The collection also contains letters to Hawley from Presbyterian ministers and other church people...
Dates:
1825-1889
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hawley family papers
Heineken family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0626
Scope and Contents
This collection includes several letters from members of the Heineken family, particularly to or from Christian, Samuel and Thomas Heineken, in Ohio, Indiana, and Great Britain ranging from 1810 to 1888 regarding settlement in Indiana and Ohio, family life, travel, weather, cholera epidemics, national politics, and farming. There is also a U.S. Civil War diary kept by Samuel Heineken during 1862-1863 and an 1888 roster of the 3rd Indiana Cavalry.
Dates:
1810-1888
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Heineken family papers
Henderson collection
Collection — Folder S2395
Identifier: S2395
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of correspondence and documents compiled by an individual named Henderson. The bulk of the collection is a 38-page report sent to General Ulysses S. Grant on February 28, 1862 regarding the operations and capture of Fort Donelson. The report was not signed, but from information in the report, it was most likely written by Brig. Gen. John McClernand. Other items related to the U.S. Civil War include a map of the Mississippi River showing communities,...
Dates:
1810-1888
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Henderson collection
Henry B. Carrington collection
Collection — Folder S0229
Identifier: S0229
Scope and Contents
The collection contains one letter Carrington sent to Bryant while Carrington was stationed in Indianapolis at the General Recruiting Service during the second year of the Civil War. Colonel Carrington wrote to tell of his success in filling his regiment with enlistments. The letter also refers to their “mutual affection for one of the noblest in the land,” Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase.
Dates:
1862/11/14
Henry B. Sparks diary
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1225
Scope and Contents
This collection has two folders. Folder one contains a xerox copy of Henry B. Sparks' diary, which he kept from January 1 through November 26, 1864. Folder two has the twenty-page typed copy of the same diary. On January 1, he wrote: This is the beginning of this little memoranda. Oh, may its pure and unsullied pages as now never be stained with a record of evil deeds, but a memoir of brave deeds and actions that I may look over in after times, and try to make my life better every day."...
Dates:
1864
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Henry B. Sparks diary
Henry C. Campbell diaries and papers
Collection — Folder S0210
Identifier: S0210
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of four booklets, typed pages, by Henry Campbell, and one hand-drawn map of the Battle of Mossy Creek.
Dates:
1862-1864
Henry C. Leeson diaries
Collection — Folder 1143
Identifier: S1143
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three diaries from Henry C. Leeson of ranging from 1861 to 1864 regarding his experiences as a Union soldier during the U.S. Civil War.
Dates:
1861-1864
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Henry C. Leeson diaries
Henry C. Marsh collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3380
Scope and Contents
The collection includes Henry C. Marsh's Civil War letters to his father, John Marsh, a Muncie banker. Also included are Marsh's diaries, correspondence, and papers relating to pension claims by him and fellow veterans of the 19th Indiana Regiment.
Dates:
1862-1915
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Henry C. Marsh collection
Henry Clay Loveland collection
Collection — Folder S2503
Identifier: S2503
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies and typed transcriptions of Civil War letters and documents written by and about Henry Clay Loveland and his parents, Ebenezer and Jane. The first item is an 1850 certificate of membership to the American Legal Association for Ebenezer P. Loveland. On April 27, 1862, Clay wrote to his family from Pittsburg Landing, where the Battle of Shiloh had been fought on April 7 and 8. He arrived after the fighting. Their trip from St. Louis took 75 hours. He tells...
Dates:
1850-1970
