United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 478 Collections and/or Records:
Oliver P. Morton papers
Collection
Identifier: L113
Scope and Contents
This collection consist primarily of correspondence and papers from Oliver P. Morton’s senatorial career with an emphasis on the 1876 presidential election and Louisiana politics in 1873 and 1874. There is also family correspondence, financial papers, speeches and notes on Republican politics, the U.S. Civil War, secession, and Reconstruction.There are also an oversize folder and a volume, which include extractions and a letter from R.R. Barrow, 1872/08/05 and 1872/09/29; speeches by...
Dates:
1855-1909
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Oliver P. Morton papers
Oliver Smith Rankin collection
Collection — Folder S1093
Identifier: S1093
Scope and Contents
This collection includes handwritten and typed copies of affidavits and sworn statements dating from 1864 through 1949 concerning Oliver Smith Rankin, from the 10th Indiana Volunteer Regiment, who was executed as a spy during the Civil War. Oliver was from Greencastle, Indiana, and resigned his commission in the U.S. Army so he could be on detached service in the Secret Service under the chief of army police, Col. Trussdail, and also under General Rosecrans of the Army of the Cumberland. Oliver...
Dates:
1863-1951
Oscar Rankin letter
Collection — Folder S1735
Identifier: S1735
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed extract from a letter from Oscar Rankin in South Pass City, Washington
Territory, on March 3, 1868 regarding life in the Far West.
Dates:
1868/03/03
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Oscar Rankin letter
Perkins and Vert family papers
Collection — Folder S0795
Identifier: S0795
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an inventory of the personal estate of William Perkins of Lawrence County, Indiana (January 31, 1853); an indenture from James Hall of Indianapolis to John F. Vert of Marion County, Indiana regarding a lease of a sawmill in Lawrence Township in Marion County (June 27, 1853); a discharge paper for William H. Vert after completing his one year service with Company B, 150th Illinois Infantry Regiment (January 16, 1866); and a letter written by Lurania Goodman from Grayson...
Dates:
1853-1895
Peter B. Kellenberger papers
Collection
Identifier: S0763
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an original autographed, signed letter from P. B. Kellenberger in Chattanooga, TN written 1863/11/15 regarding the Civil War.
Dates:
1863/11/15
Peter Keesling papers
Collection
Identifier: S0760
Scope and Contents
This collection includes receipts, advertisements, legal documents, promissory notes and Special Field Orders #58, about the Army of the Potomac from various sources in the United States ranging from 1848 to 1868 regarding Peter Keesling.
Dates:
1848-1868, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Peter Keesling papers
Peter Michels poem
Collection — Folder S2645
Identifier: S2645
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a photocopy of a poem called “Shiloh” by Peter Michels. Written and printed sometime after he moved to New Castle, Indiana (circa 1880s-1920s), Michel’s poem has ten stanzas and relates events that took place during the Battle of Shiloh on April 6 and 7, 1862 as remembered by “one who was in that battle two days and was not 17 years old.”
Dates:
circa 1880s-1920s
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Peter Michels poem
Phelix Adair papers
Collection — Folder S003
Identifier: S0003
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed copies of newspaper articles from Phelix Adair in Madison, Indiana ranging from 1883 to 1910 regarding the Madison band in the Battle of Shiloh, history of industries along the Crooked Creek Valley, and William H. Rahe's service, as a young boy, to Colonel August Willich's German regiment during the American Civil War.
Dates:
1883-1910, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Phelix Adair papers
Pleasant Wheeldon Civil War pension claim
Collection — Folder S1389
Identifier: S1389
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photocopy of Pleasant Wheeldon's documents for his petition for an increase to his U.S. Civil War veteran's pension, in Scipio, Indiana, ranging from 1888 to 1907, due to chronic illnesses resulting from his service during the war.
Dates:
1888-1907
Porter family letters
Collection — Folder S2559
Identifier: S2559
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of typewritten transcriptions of letters written to and from Asa W., Jonah G., and Rice M. Porter and Porter family members while the brothers served in the Civil War. The bulk of the letters were written from July 1861 to March 1862, but there are two letters from Rice written in 1865.
Dates:
1861-1865
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Porter family letters
