United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 514 Collections and/or Records:
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
Porter-Griffin family papers
Collection
Identifier: L535
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises correspondence, papers, accounts, school and organizational papers, pamphlets, periodicals, publications, broadsides, ephemera, and business records from the Porter and Griffin families, as well as their business enterprises, in Corydon, Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1813 to 1983, regarding their lives and businesses, as well as related family and friends, and the history of Harrison County and Indiana. The collection is organized in eight...
Dates:
1813-1983
Pratt family collection
Collection — Folder S1075
Identifier: S1075
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a few items from the Pratt family in Indiana, ranging from 1833 to 1937 and undated, which include: a letter from Mary Pratt to Esther, possibly Esther McNutt, a librarian at the Indiana State Library dated December 5, 1937; transcriptions of two advertisements concerning runaway slaves from 1833 and undated on the back of an institutional advertisingn requisition form from 1937; an undated memoir from Sarah S. Pratt entitled, "Why Doctor Grimes Whispered" concerning...
Dates:
1833, 1937, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Pratt family collection
Press J. O' Bannon letter
Collection — Folder S3048
Identifier: S3048
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a letter sent to James Lemmons from Press O'Bannon at Camp Morton in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 15, 1861 tendering his resignation as justice of the peace of Ohio Township.
Dates:
1861/06/15
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Press J. O' Bannon letter
Preston Kiser letters
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3018
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photocopies of U.S. Civil War letters from Preston Kiser to his wife and children, ranging from 1861 to 1862, with miscellaneous additional materials. Kiser’s letters describe military life in camp, illnesses, and home activities. Each copied letter is accompanied by a typed transcription created by Frances Alma Newkirk Reber, Kiser's great-granddaughter between 1982 and 1984. The materials have been left as Reber organized them, so there is not strict...
Dates:
1861-1872, 1982-1984
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Preston Kiser letters
Promissory notes
Collection — Folder S3346
Identifier: S3346
Scope and Contents
This collection includes promissory notes ranging from circa 1842 to 1864 regarding several states, including Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee.
Dates:
circa 1842-1864
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Promissory notes
Randolph County, Indiana Civil War collection
Collection — Folder S3205
Identifier: S3205
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopied correspondence and clippings ranging from from 1862 to 1971, relating to the involvement of residents of Randolph County, Indiana, in the CU.S. ivil War. The owners of the original documents are noted on some photocopies.
Dates:
1862-1971
Ransom T. Young letters
Collection — Folder S1477
Identifier: S1477
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence from members of the Young family of Indiana, including Ransom T. Young, his wife Emma, and his brothers, James M. and John C. Young, to their sister, Mary E. (Young) Jones between 1864 and 1875. There are also other Civil War letters from Hoosier soldiers and their relatives, including letters sent to James and Mary (Johnson) Briggs of Utica, Indiana from their brothers and friends, as well as two letters from J.W. Lakin to his siblings from 1861 to 1865....
Dates:
1861-1875
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Ransom T. Young letters
Rebecca Columbia Radspinner diary
Collection — Folder S1094
Identifier: S1094
Scope and Contents
This collection is a photocopy of a handwritten diary for the year 1863. On Thursday, July 9, Rebecca wrote: "Today I received a letter from George and one from Mrs. Edmonton. Morgan [Confederate General John Hunt Morgan] sent troops into Indiana and took possession of Corydon." The next day, she wrote: "Today our men left for Seymour at the call of the Govenor. Sad day." Her entry on July 13 was: "This morning near twenty gunboats and transports passed here and some of the troops stopped and...
Dates:
1863
