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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 115 Collections and/or Records:

William R. Hunt letter

 Collection — Folder S2573
Identifier: S2573
Scope and Contents This collection includes a photocopy of a transcription of the original Civil War era letter. Both the transcription and photocopy were created before February 1980. The letter was authored shortly after the Battle of Stones River, early in January 1863. Also photocopied are a photo of William R. Hunt, the author, and brief military personnel notes taken from a reference work at Rushville Public Library. The donor, Georgia Hunt Headlee, includes a brief family genealogy, showing her...
Dates: 1863/01/03

William R. Lowes letters

 Collection — Folder S0856
Identifier: S0856
Scope and Contents There are 26 items in this collection, all letters with the exception of one small envelope addressed to: “Mrs. Rhoda A. Lowes, Acton, Marion County, Ind.” Joe E. Lowes wrote to his brother on September 23, 1861 and said he was gratified to be an uncle of a girl, although his favorite name was Eveline. He tells about a muddy march, but does not say where.D. H. Stoops wrote to Lieutenant Lowes from the City General Hospital in Indianapolis, on July 20, 1864, saying that he and the...
Dates: 1861-1864

William Tasker diary

 Collection — Folder S1283
Identifier: S1283
Scope and Contents This is a xerox copy of the small diary handwritten by William Tasker in 1865, during and after his service in the Civil War. Although someone has numbered the photocopies, they do not go in order of the dates, because page 21 has an entry for November 23, 1864, whereas page 3 has the date January 26, 1865. The page 3 entry states: "Started from Charleston and got to Chatanooga." He does not mention when he heard the war ended in April entries. Most of the entries are about drill, marching,...
Dates: 1865

Willis B. Keith diary

 Collection — Folder S2542
Identifier: S2542
Scope and Contents This collection includes a bound volume containing photocopies of a typed transcript of daily diary entries that Willis B. Keith kept from January 1, 1865 to October 25, 1865 while serving with Company B, 35th Indiana Regiment during the Civil War. Bound with the diary are photocopies of a typewritten transcription of a letter written by Keith on March 6, 1865 and sent from Huntsville, Alabama to his Uncle Willard Keith, typewritten histories regarding the 35th Indiana Regiment and Morgan's...
Dates: 1865, 1964-1965

Zerelda Hood papers

 Collection — Folder S0679
Identifier: S0679
Scope and Contents This collection contains letters predominantly written by James P. Dougherty to his sister, Zerelda Hood, during the Civil War from 1862 to 1865. The collection also contains letters written to Zerelda during the war by her brother William H. Dougherty, her sister, Elizabeth Beckett, Elizabeth's husband, R. T. Beckett, Mary Martha Alford of Greenfield, Indiana, and Dianna Hood. Two additional items within the collection are a writing assignment by Zerelda's daughter, Eliza Hood, from 1869 and...
Dates: 1862-1869, 1905