Civil War
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Use this heading for collections related to the American Civil War, including materials created after 1865 that have significant Civil War content. Also use the LCSH heading: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.Found in 1309 Collections and/or Records:
Civil War Letters of Andrew Jackson Richardson
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Civil War Letters of Andrew Jackson Richardson
is a bound compilation of correspondence, transcripts, and miscellaneous documents about Andrew Jackson Richarson's Civil War-era letters written to his unnamed wife.
James B. Richmond Poetry Book,
Book of poetry and prose by James B. Richmond (1842-1910), who was a politician, lawyer, judge, and banker from southwest Virginia.
George W. Ringlar Letter
Letter from Vermont native, living with a Virginia farming family during the Civil War, relating his attempt to join the army, unsuccessful due to illness. Also provides a contrasting description between the farms of Vermont and Virginia, instructs his father in handling his affairs during his absence, and denigrates newspapers as "liars by liars."
Joab Roberson Letter,
Photocopy of a letter from Joab Roberson, a private in Company I, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War, written from Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, to his wife, Nan.
Robert E. Lee, Bust
part of Billings collection?
Robert E. Lee Portrait
Sold by the authority of the Lee Foundation for the purpose of erecting a monument at the tomb of Gen. L. Robert Jackson at Washington and Lee, Lexington, Va