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:
Augustus Smith Family Collection,
The Augustus Smith Family Collection consist of two letters--one (1864) from Smith in Greenville, Tennessee, to his mother, and another (1866) to General Alex E. Smith, his father, in Rural Mount, Virginia, from an unknown person, as well as newspaper clippings and genealogy materials.
Smith Family Letters
The collection contains forty-nine Civil War-era letters written by four brothers of Carroll County, Virginia: James R., Stephen Mitchell, William Alexander, and Barton Pierce Smith. All four served in Confederate units from Virginia. The collection also includes a family history and notes by Frederick R. Smith.
Merritt Hager Smith Diary
Civil War diary of Private Merritt Hager Smith of Company G, 97th New York Infantry, serving with the regimental quartermaster.
Riley Smith Letter
Union soldier of the 3rd Michigan Volunteer Regiment during the Civil War. Letter written March 7, 1864, to his cousin. Writes that he likes being a soldier when he is not in danger and how Confederate deserters now come to their lines every day.
James Adger Smyth Memoir,
The collection contains an original typescript memoir of James Adger Smyth (1837-1920) of Charleston, SC, as well as a transcript of the memoir and an introduction/brief biography by a descendant.
Smythe and Wythe Counties, Virginia, Ledger,
Ledger started in Chatham Hill in Smyth County, Virginia, in 1850, discarded and then recommenced in 1862 in Rural Retreat, Virginia. Included in the entries are the labor records of a free black woman, and Washington Steptoe.
Aaron Snavely Poem
Poem by Aaron Snavely, titled "Remember Sarah Jane," lamenting the recent death and burial of Snavely's wife.
John N. Snider Letter
John N. Snider (1834-1897) was a soldier in the 14th Virginia Cavalry, Jenkins Brigade. The letter is from Snider in a Camp near Salem to his sister. He writes about the high price of food and that there is preaching in the camp every Sunday.
Henry Clay Sommerville Letters
Born in Hampshire County, Virginia; surgeon for the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Collection consists of letters, written mostly from January to April, 1864, to Sommerville while in Danville and Lynchburg, Virginia, from friends in Liberty (now Bedford), Virginia. Most of the letters focus on town news and gossip.