United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 514 Collections and/or Records:
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
Orion A. Bartholomew collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0072
Scope and Contents
Collection includes letters mainly written by Orion A. Bartholomew to his family while at Indiana Asbury University, while serving in the Union Army during civil war with the 15th Regiment, United States Colored Troops, and after the civil war.The collection contains additional correspondence from Orion’s brothers Levi Bartholomew, W. F. [William Frank] Bartholomew, and niece Nell Ward Scearce to her mother Laura Bartholomew.Also included are programs from Indiana Asbury...
Dates:
1854-1894
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
Pallas Houser collection
Collection
Identifier: G-091
Scope and Contents
This collection includes genealogical records, photographs and correspondence compiled by Pallas Houser between the years 2005 and 2011. The main focus of the collection is the descendants of Levin Knight, with additional research on other families. A large majority of this collection consists of photocopied materials. Many photographs feature gravestones. Some of the research included has been compiled by others, and much has been transcribed from other sources. Houser concentrated her...
Dates:
1865 - 2011
Found in:
Genealogy
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Pallas Houser collection
Peddle family collection
Collection — Folder S1048
Identifier: S1048
Scope and Contents
The collection includes comprises an unbound volume titled, "Letters of the Peddle Family: Civil War Period," which contains transcribed letters from members of the Peddle family, ranging from 1834 to 1901. The volume includes genealogical charts, background information, and a foreword by the compiler, Juliet Peddle, in Terre Haute, Indiana on February 1, 1947. The letters were found in a trunk belonging to Sarah Peddle Burton (1852-1939). There are also two photographic prints of collages of...
Dates:
1834-1901, 1947
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Peddle family collection
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
