Reminiscing
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:
Addison Sleeth reminiscences
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2065
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the handwritten "Reminiscences of Army Life" by Addison Sleeth. His 173-page memoir begins with his enlistment in Company G, 52 Indiana Volunteer Regiment on October 28, 1861 and continues through to his mustering out on September 10, 1865 at Montgomery, Alabama and his trip home. The memoir is undated, but there is a handwritten entry added to the last page that notes Sleeth's death on September 18, 1912 at 7:30 p.m. The collection also includes a set of photocopies of...
Dates:
1877 and undated
Alexander Abernathy memoir
Collection — Folder S002
Identifier: S0002
Scope and Contents
The collection consists a two-page, typewritten photocopy of Alexander Abernathy's Civil War memoir and the history of the 9th Indiana Cavalry, 121st Indiana Regiment.
Dates:
1861-1865
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Alexander Abernathy memoir
Alfred Gude collection
Collection — Folder S0556
Identifier: S0556
Scope and Contents
This typed paper of Alfred Gude’s Civil War experiences tells of the awful conditions as a Union prisoner, of his three attempted escapes, and his final successful escape from Confederate captivity.
After two years of hard fighting, Alfred was captured on May 3, 1863, near Rome, Georgia, by General Nathan Bedford Forrest and General Rody. As prisoners, the Union soldiers were sent to Atlanta, and then shipped to Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. In Libby, they were closely guarded for a...
Dates:
1949
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Alfred Gude collection
B. J. Warden Battle of Gettysburg personal narrative
Collection — Folder S1361
Identifier: S1361
Scope and Contents
The collection contains one document on three full sheets and one half sheet of green paper detailing B. J. Warden’s experience at the Battle of Gettysburg during the U.S. Civil War, July 1-4, 1863.July 1, 1863 B. J. Warden was in the 4th Brigade under John R. Brook, 1st Division, 2nd Corps. The men came from Centerville across the Potomac River. He was not in the first day’s fighting, on July 1, because they stopped for muster so payrolls could be made out. They arrived in...
Dates:
1863/07/01-1863/07/04
Charlotte Jones Dunn, Contemporary Club of Indianapolis reminiscences
Collection — Folder S2418
Identifier: S2418
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the reminiscences of Charlotte Jones Dunn regarding the early days of the Contemporary Club of Indianapolis. Dunn's circa 1940 recollections were handwritten on five pages of her personal stationary. The collection also includes a few brief recollections about the club typewritten by Dr. Christopher B. Coleman in December 1940.
Dates:
1940
Clement R. Strahan collection
Collection — Folder S1853
Identifier: S1853
Scope and Contents
This collection includes pages 225-255 from Clement R. Stahan's copy of the revised edition of Manual of the Civil War and Key to the Grand Army of the Republic and Kindred Societies, a book written by J. Worth Carnahan and published by the U.S. Army and Navy Historical Association in 1899. The collection includes an army discharge certificate filled out by Strahan with information regarding his February 18, 1866 discharge (p.225); an unused honorable discharge...
Dates:
1899-1902
Denkichi Shindo collection
Collection — Folder S3255
Identifier: S3255
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of photographs taken circa 1909 at the Staughton A. Fletcher home in Southport, Indiana. Most of the photographs are of Juanita and Vivian Lee and were taken in various outdoor locations on the Fletcher property. Denkichi Shindo stands with the Lee sisters in one of the photographs. The collection also includes "Blind Old Horse Ruben", a reminiscence written by Shindo in 1946 about his time at the Fletcher home from 1908 to 1909, most notably his memories of...
Dates:
circa 1909, 1946
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Denkichi Shindo collection
Dyar Cobb reminiscences
Collection — Volume V036
Identifier: V036
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a scrapbook containing a twenty-two page typewritten copy of the reminiscences of Dyar Cobb. Written circa 1880s, Cobb shares his recollections of growing up in Decatur County, Indiana and how early settlers lived and worked. He describes how his family made clothing from flax, raw cotton, deer skins and sheep's wool and notes the destruction of the corn crop in 1822 by an "army of squirrels." He also shares a number of personal stories, including trying to shoot a...
Dates:
circa 1880s
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Dyar Cobb reminiscences
E. S. Guilbert collection
Collection — Folder S0557
Identifier: S0557
Scope and Contents
In March 1830, Abraham Lincoln journeyed from southern Indiana to Illinois with his parents. When they went through Vincennes, legend has it that Abraham toured the Western Sun and General Advertiser newspaper office, where he saw his first printing press, and talked to Editor Stout. Mr. Guilbert wrote to Roy H. Garrigus, editor of the Vincennes Sun-Commercial to verify this story, which Mr. Garrigus could not do.Abraham often went to Rockport and borrowed books from Judge John...
Dates:
1828-1830
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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E. S. Guilbert collection
Elias Kizer collection
Collection — Folder S1433
Identifier: S1433
Scope and Contents
This two-page, typed manuscript was written by Elias Kizer in Indiana on June 9, 1866, the year before he died. He recounted his early life in a log cabin in Indiana and the hardships he endured. He stated that the hardest times were when the children were small. He raised flax for his wife to spin and weave in order to make their clothing. They did not have much time to go to church, because he went hunting on Sunday. Elias wrote: "with all those hardships we kept in good spirits."
Dates:
1800-1866
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Elias Kizer collection
