Indiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 134 Collections and/or Records:
Bernard F. Mullen collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2309
Scope and Contents
This collection contains research material compiled by Andrew Mullen, C.P.P.S. of the St. Charles Seminary at Carthagena, Ohio, regarding his great grandfather, Bernard F. Mullen. The research documents include typewritten transcriptions of newspaper articles and military correspondence and orders ranging from 1860 to 1863. A number of the transcribed military documents are noted as coming from the National Archives. A transcription of Bernard Mullen's obituary from the February 12, 1879 ...
Dates:
1860-1976
Blackford County collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1648
Scope and Contents
This collection contains various items related to Blackford County, Indiana, including Cecil Beeson, Sr.’s February 1961 typewritten transcription of the record of indictment against Noah Foreman for the murder of Albert Whitacre in December 1865, his transcription of a July 12, 1915 article from the The Evening News of Hartford City that reprinted a history of Blackford County that was read by John Noonan at the city's Fourth of July celebration in 1876, and...
Dates:
1888-circa 1989, undated
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
Charles H. Davis certificate
Collection — Folder OB080
Identifier: OB080
Scope and Contents
This collection includes Charles H. Davis's certificate of appointment to the rank of sergeant in Company A, 19th Indiana Regiment signed by Col. Solomon Meredith at the head quarters of the regiment at Fort Craig, Virginia on October 14, 1861. The certificate is also signed by Adjutant of the Regiment John P. Wood.
Dates:
1861/10/14
Civil War collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1512
Scope and Contents
This collection includes various badges (ribbons) from regimental reunions and veterans organizations' meetings, such as the Grand Army of the Republic and the Women's Relief Corps (WRC),in Indiana ranging from 1877 to 1921. There is also a postcard to John A. Cottman from William W. Dudley in Richmond, Indiana on June 20, 1873 regarding badges of the "Iron Brigade," which included the 19th Indiana Regiment. "3 bound volumes containing photo-offset copies of original...
Dates:
1873-1921
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Civil War collection
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
Coffey family papers
Collection — Folder S2475
Identifier: S2475
Scope and Contents
This collection contains various papers of the Coffey family, including a December 1, 1851 land grant for property in Owen County, Indiana issued to Joshua Kelly, a private in Captain Miller's Company of the Kentucky Volunteers during the War of 1812; a certificate issued December 31, 1946 by the Indiana Adjutant General's Office certifying Edward R. Bladen's service with Company H, 10th Indiana Regiment during the U.S. Civil War; and a certificate of Joel A. Coffey's appointment as postmaster...
Dates:
1851-circa 1983
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Coffey family papers
Company G, 146th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry Soldiers Memorial broadside
Collection — Folder OBC014
Identifier: OBC014
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a Soldiers Memorial to Company G, 146th Regiment of the Indiana Volunteer Infantry. The item lists all the men who served in the company.
Dates:
circa 1865
Curtis family history
Collection — Folder S3109
Identifier: S3109
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a typescript family history entitled "Curtis Family History." The history begins in the year 1763 with Lottie Relander's great-great grandfather, who lived in Virginia in the early 1770s, and concludes with the 1870 marriage of Mary Gregg, Lottie Relander's mother, to Charles Relander, an immigrant from Sweden living in Danville, Indiana. Prominent family names mentioned in the history are Curtis, Sanders, Kirkendall, Reed, Ross, King, Stapp, and Relander. The family...
Dates:
1949
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Curtis family history
Daniel F. Griffin collection
Collection
Identifier: L060
Scope and Contents
The collection includes 44 original Civil War letters from Daniel F. Griffin to his wife, Mary Compton, in New Albany, Indiana, and photostat family letters from before the war. The collection also includes typed transcripts of 27 of his Civil War letters to his wife, as well as a notebook containing notes on regimental accounts and several hand drawn maps.
Dates:
1847-1883
