United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 498 Collections and/or Records:
C. W. Ford, 3rd Indiana Cavalry collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2605
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two folders. The first folder has 2 items: a typed roster of the enlisted men and officers of Company H, 3rd Indiana Cavalry and a ledger from reunion meetings held after the U.S. Civil War for Company H. The ledger contains attendance records (which includes the location of living members and notations when members died), meeting minutes and newspaper clippings about the reunions. The reunions were held annually on September 10th from 1890 until 1933. The...
Dates:
1862-1933
Calvin Stratton Engle papers
Collection — Folder S425
Identifier: S0425
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photocopied pamphlet from Calvin Stratton Engle in Winchester, Indiana ranging from 1864 to 1865 regarding his experiences as a prisoner of war in southern prison camps and a photocopied listing of men with Civil War or World War I military or naval service who have been getting mail from the Union City, Indiana Post Office .
Dates:
1864-1865, 1914-1918
Camden Hill letter and transcript
Collection — Folder OB095
Identifier: OB095
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a letter from Camden Hill, dated May 26, 1862 and written in Algiers, Louisiana to his sister. The letter includes a poem and is fragile. Typescript is included.
Dates:
1862/05/26
Camp Anderson, Paducah, Kentucky, 48th Indiana Volunteers lithograph
Collection — Folder OB136
Identifier: OB136
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a lithograph portraying the 48th Indiana Infantry at Camp Anderson in Paducah, Kentucky circa 1862.
Dates:
circa 1862
Camp Morton inspections and reports
Collection — Folder S1493
Identifier: S1493
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photostatic copies of War Department records regarding Camp Morton at Indianapolis, Indiana. Ranging from 1862 to 1865, the copied records include inspection reports, post general and special orders, and correspondence regarding the prisoners and conditions at the camp. The collection also includes four typewritten pages of annotated notes regarding the copied records. Correspondents include Dr. John S. Bobbs, Joseph B. Brown, Henry C. Carrington, John M. Cuyler, James...
Dates:
1862-1865
Captain Alexander Lawrie Jr. collection
Collection — Folder S0813
Identifier: S0813
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Captain Alexander Lawrie's handwritten list of his 130 portraits of United States generals from the Civil War that were hanging in the library of the Indiana State Soldier's Home at Lafayette, Indiana (now West Lafayette). Lawrie notes that the generals were from both the regular and volunteer service and that 72 were from Indiana. Captain Lawrie also supplied a list of 25 portraits that he had not yet completed when he gave the document to the Indiana State Library on...
Dates:
1916, 2007
Carl A. Zenor Civil War collection
Collection — Folder S1957
Identifier: S1957
Scope and Contents
This collection contains American Civil War documents collected by Carl A. Zenor ranging from 1862 to 1963 and includes an incomplete copy of the Touch the Elbow Songster (1862); a typewritten transcript of a letter sent to Francis M. Busby of Lebanon, Indiana from Edward Reynolds at the headquarters of the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division near Atlanta, Georgia (July 31, 1864); a photocopy of an army pass granted to Busby to travel to Alabama and signed by Governor...
Dates:
1862-1963
Catlett T. Shaw pension and muster roll
Collection — Folder S1169
Identifier: S1169
Scope and Contents
This collection includes copies of Civil War records from Pvt. Catlett Toliver Shaw, 123 Indiana Regiment, Company G, ranging from 1864 to 1880, regarding his military service, disability and pension.
Dates:
1864-1880
Cecil Beeson collection
Collection
Identifier: L566
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed, autographed and photocopied documents from various people, government and private organizations collected by local genealogist and historian Cecil Beeson in Blackford County, Indiana, ranging from 1838 to 1972 regarding family histories, biographies, U.S. Civil War documents, church histories and governmental records.There is an oversize document, "The Early History of the First Baptist Church of Montpelier, Indiana" by Rev. C. H. Kendall, circa 1908...
Dates:
1839-1972, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Cecil Beeson collection
Cecil Beeson collection on Albert Woolson
Collection — Folder S2796
Identifier: S2796
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies primarily on the life and military service of Albert Woolson. There is correspondence from Cecil Beeson in his acquisition of the papers, an article on the life of Albert Woolson, and copies of Woolson's military record, death certificate, and pension documents. The collection was created between 1956 and 1982.
Dates:
1956-1982
