United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 478 Collections and/or Records:
Andrew Bush papers
Collection — Folder S198
Identifier: S0198
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed copies from Andrew Bush in Indiana ranging from 1862-1865 regarding family matters and life as a Civil War soldier.
Dates:
1862/01/18-1865/06/05
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Andrew Bush papers
Andrew C. Ranard poem
Collection — Folder S2652
Identifier: S2652
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a copy of the published narrative poem "A War Ballad" by Andrew C. Ranard. The undated poem is 19 stanzas and relates the events of the Battle of Resaca during the U.S. Civil War. It should be noted that Ranard's name is spelled Rinard in the citation at the end of the poem: "This is the ballad of A.C. Rinard, Co. I, 22nd Regt. Ind Vet. Vols."
Dates:
circa 1865-1900
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Andrew C. Ranard poem
Andrew Hickenlooper correspondence
Collection — Folder S0648
Identifier: S0648
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two letters from James C. Veatch and Daniel Macauley to Andrew Hickenlooper in Evansville and Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1879 regarding reports of the Army of Tennessee.
Dates:
1879
Andrew J. Johnson diary
Collection — Folder S0722
Identifier: S0722
Scope and Contents
The collection contains three copies of the typed transcript of Andrew J. Johnson's diaries, ranging form 1862 to 1865, transcribed by Ralph W. and Inez Jones Johnson from Greenwood, Indiana in 1961. The transcripts include a foreword with family history, a roster of Company I, 70th Indiana Regiment, and where the regiment served.
Dates:
1862-1865, 1961
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Andrew J. Johnson diary
Anna W. Wright collection
Collection
Identifier: L550
Scope and Contents
The collection includes letters to Governor Oliver P. Morton regarding the recruitment of Black troops for Indiana regiments during the U.S. Civil War (1861-1864) and letters from Oliver P. Morton to Jacob Wright concerning the 1868 Republican National Convention from 1866 to 1868. Also included are several family letters to Jacob Wright and correspondence from a variety of national politicians to Louis T. Michener responding to his requests for them to speak in Indiana during the 1890...
Dates:
1860-1911
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Anna W. Wright collection
Arthur White account statement
Collection — Folder S2231
Identifier: S2231
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an account statement for pay and rations from the United States Army to assistant surgeon, Arthur White dated 1861/10/07.
Dates:
1861/10/07
August Leich collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2209
Scope and Contents
This collection contains news clippings from Columbus, Evansville and Rockport, Indiana newspapers ranging from 1917 to 1929 regarding U.S. Civil War veterans and the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.).
The collection also contains three volumes created by August Leich regarding the G.A.R. and Company F, 24th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Volume 1 comprises registration records from the Department of the Indiana G.A.R. annual encampment at Evansville, Indiana in May, 1916 and...
Dates:
1877-1931
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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August Leich collection
Aurelius M. Willoughby collection
Collection
Identifier: L303
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Aurelius Willoughby's Civil War diaries ranging from 1861 to 1865. Also included are discharge papers, memorabilia, and personal business papers dating from 1864 to 1917 and a manuscript history of Company H. 39th Indiana with photographs, circa 1910. The collection also includes 2 tintypes of Aurelius Willoughby, 32 cartes-de-visite depicting landmarks in Washington D.C., Georgia, and Niagra Falls, in addition to two portraits of Confederate General T. R. R. Cobb and...
Dates:
1861-1950
Austin H. Brown papers
Collection
Identifier: L019
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Austin H. Brown’s personal and business correspondence, as well as documents of political appointments, indentures, checks, receipts, clippings, and compositions, programs and other ephemera from social and political activities such as membership to the Democratic Party and Masons organizations. The correspondence includes letters from his father, William J. Brown, his brother, George, and cousin, John Ferguson.There are also a Independent Relief Fire Co.,...
Dates:
1830-1901
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Austin H. Brown papers
Auten Women's Relief Corps, No. 14 collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3275
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a report from Lucile Meisel in South Bend, Indiana in 1932 regarding that year's work of the organization and a scrapbook of newspaper articles ranging from 1932 to 1939 regarding the work of the organization and the lives and deaths of the Civil War veterans living locally.
Dates:
1932-1939
