United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 478 Collections and/or Records:
85th Indiana Infantry Regiment veterans roster
Collection — Folder S2440
Identifier: S2440
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of a roster of the 85th Indiana Infantry Regiment veterans who were living in Terre Haute, Indiana and the surrounding counties in 1892. The roster records the soldier's name, company and post office address. The list was compiled by Captain George Grimes, Jr. of Company I and the copy was made from the original that was in the possession of Grimes's granddaughter Helen Louise (Finch) Smith in 1968.
Dates:
1892
101st Indiana Volunteer Regiment muster roll
Collection — Folder S2612
Identifier: S2612
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a muster roll for Company C, 101st Indiana Regiment dated September 6, 1862, with information about each soldier in the company and bounty pay.
Dates:
1862/09/06
Abel D. Streight collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1266
Scope and Contents
This collection includes certificates regarding Abel D. Streight's service in the U.S. Civil War, including as a brigadier general (1861-1871), a portrait of Streight, and a photocopied article from the Columbus, Indiana Evening Republican, dated January 2, 1880, entitled "Ringing Letter from Colonel Streight, What He Thinks of the Exodus," and was reprinted from the Logansport Journal regarding his thoughts on formerly...
Dates:
1861-1880
Abraham Browning, United States government petition
Collection — Folder S3464
Identifier: S3464
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a copy of the petition created by Abraham Browning and members of the New Jersey clergy sent to the United States government to demand that the clergy remain free from conscription. Inside the petition is a letter from Browning instructing members to sign the petition. The document was created May 26, 1864 on New Jersey and the interior letter written July 1, 1864.
Dates:
1864/05/26
Abram W. Hendricks papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0634
Scope and Contents
The collection includes Abram Hendricks’ correspondence on Indiana politics (1859-1870); minutes of the Indianapolis Committee of Safety during the 1877 railroad strike; letters of Heinrich Schliemann to Hendricks and Hord regarding his property in Indianapolis (1870-1871); Hendricks’ receipts and invoices for personal expenses, particularly clothing, in Madison (1851-1866); a chart of the organization of the Union Army at Vicksburg (1863); papers of the Indianapolis Insurance Company (1868);...
Dates:
1816-1939
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Abram W. Hendricks papers
Absalom Elliott and Jesse Shields Elliott papers
Collection — Folder S0418
Identifier: S0418
Scope and Contents
This collection includes autographed, signed letters from Absalom Elliott and Jesse Shields Elliott in an undetermined location and Toledo, Washington ranging from 1860 to 1908 regarding the Civil War and genealogy.
Dates:
1860-1908
Adams Lee Ogg collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1028
Scope and Contents
The collection is mainly contains the correspondence of the Ogg and Longnaker Families. The
majority of the letters are between Ogg and his wife while he was serving in the Civil War, and
those with her family in Greenfield and Iowa. Also included are diaries and an expenditure list
of Mary E. Ogg and clippings from the Indianapolis Star column the “Hoosier Listening Post.”
Dates:
1836-1936
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Adams Lee Ogg collection
Addison Sleeth reminiscences
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2065
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the handwritten "Reminiscences of Army Life" by Addison Sleeth. His 173-page memoir begins with his enlistment in Company G, 52 Indiana Volunteer Regiment on October 28, 1861 and continues through to his mustering out on September 10, 1865 at Montgomery, Alabama and his trip home. The memoir is undated, but there is a handwritten entry added to the last page that notes Sleeth's death on September 18, 1912 at 7:30 p.m. The collection also includes a set of photocopies of...
Dates:
1877 and undated
Adonijah P. Hulings diary
Collection — Folder S2244
Identifier: S2244
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of Adonijah P. Hulings's 1863 pocket diary. A note he entered at the beginning of the diary states that he purchased it on December 17, 1862 in Memphis, Tennessee during the time he was serving with the 69th Indiana Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. He began his December 1862 entries in the memoranda section and then filled out the daily entries throughout 1863. The first page of the photocopies also includes the notation that the diary pages were sent...
Dates:
1862-1863, 1965
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Adonijah P. Hulings diary
Albert Allen collection
Collection — Folder S3245
Identifier: S3245
Scope and Contents
This collection contains papers that relate to Albert Allen's service in the 55th and 133rd regiments of the Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the U.S. Civil War ranging from 1864 to 1913, including a discharge certificate (1864), a handwritten testimony of Allen's discharge, and three pension documents from 1912 to 1913. There are also two unidentified portrait photographs.
Dates:
1864-1913
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Albert Allen collection
