Military life
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 79 Collections and/or Records:
James M. Hart Civil War diary
Collection — Folder S0604
Identifier: S0604
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a 25-page typed manuscript created by Jerry M. Easley in 1974, containing the typed transcript of the James Hart diary dated 1863. The document includes 7 pages of introductory materials with background information on the 7th Indiana Regiment and the battles, campaigns, and military engagements in which the regiment and Hart participated, including Battles of Port Republic, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Bristoe, Wilderness, Laurel Hill and Spotsylvania.
Dates:
1863, 1974
James O. Walton collection
Collection — Folder S1355
Identifier: S1355
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed copies of letters which James O. Walton sent to his wife Mary Ann ranging from February 1864 to January 1865 during the American Civil War, with information about military life, Generals William Sherman and John Bell Hood, the presidential election, and health.
Dates:
1864-1865
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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James O. Walton collection
James S. Fogle Civil War letters
Collection — Folder S2977
Identifier: S2977
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed transcripts of letters from James S. Fogle in the United States to his family ranging from 1861 to 1863 during the American Civil War regarding military life in the Union Army.
Dates:
1861-1863
James W. Daniels diary
Collection — Folder S2601
Identifier: S2601
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typewritten transcription of a diary kept by James W. Daniels when he served with the 4th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry during the U.S. Civil War. Ranging from September 1861 to December 1862, his entries are narratives of the movements and actions of his regiment.
Dates:
1861-1862
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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James W. Daniels diary
Jeffrey Gunter letter
Collection — Folder S2931
Identifier: S2931
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photostat of one letter, dated 1991, from Jeffery Gunter to his mother, Gloria, regarding his time during the Persian Gulf War.
Dates:
1991
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Jeffrey Gunter letter
John B. Elliott diary
Collection — Folder S2385
Identifier: S2385
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a diary kept by John B. Elliott of Harrison County, Indiana while he served with Company K, 59th Regiment, Indiana Infantry. The entries begin on October 4, 1862 during the Battle of Corinth and ends on April 30, 1863 with his regiment near Vicksburg. His diary provides a view of camp life and the labor of war.The collection also includes an undated clipping of an illustration of one of the locomotive engines built by Hinkley and Drury of Boston,...
Dates:
1862-1863
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John B. Elliott diary
John C. Frary papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0486
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a letter to Calvin Frary from an adjutant lieutenant in West Point, New York on April 14, 1855 regarding a reimbursement and an undated map.
There is also John C. Frary's resignation from West Point Military Academy, dated May 14, 1855 (OBC055).
There is also John C. Frary's resignation from West Point Military Academy, dated May 14, 1855 (OBC055).
Dates:
1855
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John C. Frary papers
John H. Long letter
Collection — Folder S2217
Identifier: S2217
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two photostatic copies of a June 24, 1864 letter sent to William Archibald and written by John H. Long while he served at the general hospital at Kingston, Georgia during the Civil War. Long discusses the lodge of the International Order of Good Templars (I.O.G.T.), the movements of his regiment from Camp Nelson, Kentucky to Kingston during the Atlanta campaign, and the establishment of the hospital in buildings the Confederate Army had erected for the same purpose. The...
Dates:
1864/06/24
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John H. Long letter
John M. Godown collection
Collection
Identifier: L098
Scope and Contents
The collection includes John Godown’s Civil War letters to his fiancée, Francis Fairbank of Lowell, Massachusetts, while he was in Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Georgia and letters written from a Confederate prison camp in South Carolina during 1864–1865. Included are reminiscences by Godown of his early life and Civil War years, as well as reminiscences of his daughter Mary Godown McLaughlin, of growing up in Indianapolis.Also included is a field...
Dates:
1861-1951
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John M. Godown collection
John M. Tomey diary and papers
Collection — Folder S3002
Identifier: S3002
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photocopy of a typed transcript of the diary kept by John M. Tomey during his military service from January 1, 1864 through September 15, 1864, during the U.S. Civil War. Also included are photocopies of a map of the 27th Regiment's travels and a typescript poem, "Flags of the Twenty-Seventh" by E. R. Brown.
Dates:
1864
