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:
Edward L. Stratton Diary,
The Edward L. Stratton Diary was written by a Civil War soldier who was in the 122nd Company of Pennsylvania, and it covers military action, army medicine, battle wounds, and hospital life and work.
Strawn Family Papers
Family of New Virginia and St. Charles, Iowa, and other locations in Colorado, Kansas, and Wyoming. Papers consist of fourteen letters amongst the members of the family and from members of the Bumbarger family. Includes letters written to J.A. Cravens during the Civil War. Also includes a handwritten oral history of the Bumbarger family as told to Ruth Strawn Chapman, in 1934, and the marriage certificate of John Strawn to Nellie Bumbarger (1898).
Charles S. Stringfellow Note
The collection contains a note written by Major Charles S. Stringfellow at Christiansburg, Virginia, to Colonel W. L. Jackson on May 25, 1862.
Sturtevant Letters
Supplies due to 28th Va Regiment. Signed by C. C. M. Phail, Ordnance Store Keeper, undated (Ms1992-003)
Surgeon's Note for William H. Allison, Saltville, Va., April 12, 1863 (Ms2011-060)
Sutton-Martin-Mason Family Papers
Papers of a Pulaski County, Virginia family, largely consisting of letters received by Rachel Louisa Sutton (later married to David H. Martin) from friends and family during the 1860s. Also contains deeds, family financial records, poetry, photographs and assorted ephemera. A small collection of materials belonging to the Martins' granddaughter, Elinor Mason, completes the collection.
T. J. Jackson, Portrait
Sold by the Authority of the Jackson Memorial Association for the purpose of erecting a monument to J Thomas Jackson at the Virginia Military Institute...
Nathaniel H. Talbot Letter
The collection consists of a letter written by 1st Lt. Nathaniel Henry Talbot, Co. B, 58th Massachusetts Volunteers, near Alexandria, Virginia. Dated May 1965, Talbot's letter home to "Dear Ones" describes a grand review in Washington, DC, after the close of the war.
G. Horace Tarr Letter,
The G. Horace Tarr Letter, written May 4, 1863, gives a detailed eye-witness account of the Battle of Chancellorsville.