MSS. Manuscript Collections

Abstract

Muster Roll for the Light Infantry in the Third Regiment, Third Brigade, and First Division of the Pulaski's Guards Militia, commanded by Lieutenant John Caldwell. Roll dates from May 1838.

Abstract

Typed transcript of the Civil War memoir of William Wallace Hensley, Company C, 21st Illinois Infantry.

Abstract

Photocopies of typed transcripts of Civil War letters of Private Henry Helms of Company I, 95th Pennsylvania Infantry, mortally wounded at the Battle of Gaines' Mill.

Abstract

Typed transcript photocopies of the Civil War letters of Horace B. Hooker, lieutenant serving in the Engineer Regiment of the West. Accompanied by photocopied typescript of "Personal Recollections of the Civil War," written by Hooker's wife Susan in 1907.

Abstract Correspondence of members of the Stanford family of Putnam County Georgia. The majority of the collection consists of letter to and from Nehemiah Stanford and his two sons, Lycurgus and Eli. Many of the letters date from Lycurgus and Eli Stanford's time serving in the Civil War. Eli Stanford served as a member of Company A, 37th Georgia Infantry. Lycurgus Stanford served in Company B, 3rd Georgia Calvary; he was captured in the Battle of Resaca and imprisoned at Johnson's Island until July...

Abstract

Letter from Anthony K. Simmons describing health of son Ed, a private in Company A, 28th Virginia Infantry recently wounded in the Battle of Gaines' Mill, and relating war news from Manchester, Virginia.

Abstract

Three post-Civil War letters addressed to former Confederate General Gabriel C. Wharton: one regarding potential locations for a blast furnace, one relating to fees for the use of two horses, and one about a petitition on some property in Blacksburg.

Abstract

Ephemera relating to Montgomery Female College in Christiansburg, Virginia, including programs and certificates.

Scope and Content This collection contains five items relating to Everett and Warren Hutchins, two brothers who served in Massachusetts military units during the Civil War. The collection includes cartes-de-visite of Everett (Company F, 33rd Massachusetts Infantry) and Warren (7th Independent Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery), with Warren appearing in full uniform. Also included are two letters from Everett, addressed to his sister. In a letter written January 3, 1864 at Lookout Valley,...

Abstract

Color photocopies and typed transcripts of letters from Henry Courtenay Selden, a student at Washington College and a private in the 3rd Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War.