United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 503 Collections and/or Records:
Ellis Lawrence personal narrative
Collection — Folder S0811
Identifier: S0811
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a handwritten account by Ellis Lawrence, dated September 13, 1862, describing his experiences during the "Siege of Cincinnati" in the Civil War. Due to his Quaker faith, Lawrence refused to participate in any military activity for the defense of the city. His account describes the beliefs of the Quakers and his arrest, detainment and treatment by the guards during his short confinement during September 10-13, 1862.
Dates:
1862/09/13
Emma C. Ziegler papers
Collection — Folder S1473
Identifier: S1473
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a letter copy from Emma C. Ziegler in Noblesville, Indiana on 1962/08/05 regarding a Civil War record.
Dates:
1962/08/05
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Emma C. Ziegler papers
Erasmus C. Gilbreath, Civil War account
Collection — Folder S2594
Identifier: S2594
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a photocopy of the Civil War account of Erasmus C. Gilbreath dated January 16, 1898.
Dates:
1898/01/16
Erasmus W. Reed letters
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2239
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 60 letters written by Erasmus W. Reed and sent to his family while he served in Company B, 96th Pennsylvania volunteer infantry during the U.S. Civil War. Ranging from October 1861 to July 30, 1864, the letters were written mostly from camps in Maryland and Virginia, but one was written "on the road between Gettysburg and Chambersburg, Pa." Three letters in the collection are undated and three others are undated and incomplete.
Dates:
1861-1864
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Erasmus W. Reed letters
Ezra G. Hayes personal narrative
Collection — Folder S614
Identifier: S0614
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three typewritten copies of the life story of Ezra G. Hayes that he dictated to Caroline M. Hayes. Hayes' narrative ranges from 1705 to the early 1900s. This collection was made from a copy owned by Mrs. Jacob Bauer of Lawrenceburg, Indiana in 1933 and it includes Mr. Hayes' family history, his many business pursuits, early history of Dearborn County, Indiana, and his viewpoints on the politics and elections during his lifetime. Also included are three copies of a poem...
Dates:
circa 1910
Fannie Howes Campbell letters
Collection — Folder S0209
Identifier: S0209
Scope and Contents
The July 6 letter with no year, written to “My Dear Husband and Mother,” has an addition in pencil by another writer, after Fannie’s message in ink. The other writer mentions that Fannie is getting better, and the doctor thinks she has an “ulceration of the womb.”In another undated letter, Fannie wrote: “I wish you would write to Sam – Memphis, Tenn. – 81st Reg. Illinois. Vol. – Gen. [John A.] Logan’s Division.” Another letter with only Feb. 8 but no year says: “Last night the baby...
Dates:
1852-1897
Fanny Hudelson collection
Collection — Folder S1868
Identifier: S1868
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, documents and receipts of the Hudelson and Hinds families, including a bill of sale between John Jones and Samuel Hinds of Bourbon County, Kentucky for a "negro girl" (December 18, 1795); receipts of Francis and Elizabeth Hinds (1826-1849); a notice of transfer draft payable at the Branch of the Northern Bank of Kentucky at Louisville for $150,000 signed by Treasury Secretary Levi Woodbury (July 20, 1836); letters written by Francis I. Hudelson and sent...
Dates:
1795-1863, 1929
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Fanny Hudelson collection
Fitz John Porter letter
Collection — Folder S1731
Identifier: S1731
Scope and Contents
This collection includes autographed, signed letters from Fitz John Porter in New Jersey on 1892/05/04
regarding an editorial and Holliday's support of Porter.
Dates:
1892/05/04
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Fitz John Porter letter
Florence Emerson Heffley manuscript
Collection — Folder S624
Identifier: S0624
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a draft of the manuscript, "A Little Girl of the Sixties," by Florence Emerson Heffley. The manuscript is 48 typewritten pages and includes handwritten corrections and a few pages of additional notes. Heffley's narrative relates stories and genealogical information about her great-grandparents, Abraham and Sarah Dayton Jacobus, her grandparents Hettie and Luke Allen Emerson, and her mother, Almira Georgiana Herbert, the "Little Girl of the Sixties," from 1818 to 1938. ...
Dates:
1818-1938
Forrest L. Spencer collection
Collection — Folder S1227
Identifier: S1227
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence and papers pertaining to the Nelson, Sturgis, and Bailiff families ranging from 1840 to 1892 in Jennings County, Indiana, Ohio, Maryland, and Kansas. The papers include U.S. Civil War letters and a military discharge from George Nelson (1861-1863), documents relating to Susan Bailey, Martha A. Sturgis, and E. Blanchard (1877-1878), and a wedding invitation (1892).
Dates:
1840-1892
