Civil War
Subject
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:
Thirty-Third Massachusetts Infantry
Regimental History, , 1887
File — Folder 1
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
This collection contains photocopies of the papers of Brigader General Adin B. Underwood. The papers include personal correspondence with transcriptions, Underwood's Union Army pension records, and a detailed history of the 33rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, Union Army, in which Underwood served. Dating 1861 to 1865, the correspondence includes photocopies and transcriptions of letters written to General Underwood in Tennessee and Washington, D.C., by his wife Jane in...
Dates:
1887
Henry Goddard Thomas Letters and Memoirs
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1991-073
Abstract
Born in Maine; entered the Civil War as a private yet rose to the rank of brigadier general by the war's end. After 1862 he was involved with the recruitment and organization of Negro troops in the Union army. Commissioned several troops, in particular the 79th and 19th U.S. Colored Infantries. He remained in the army after the war and retired in 1891. Collection consists of twenty-two letters to Thomas from friends and relatives. Many of the letters refer to the Freedmen's Bureau and the...
Dates:
1868 - 1889
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
Alfred Thompson Correspondence
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1990-004
Scope and Content
Union soldier in the 49th Pennsylvania Volunteers during the Civil War; wounded in May 1864 and died in November in Martinsburg. Nine letters from Thompson in various camps in Virginia to David May of Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania. Compliments his own poetry and compares himself to Edgar Allen Poe, compares soldiering to prostitution, and describes conditions during McClellan's Peninsular Campaign.
Dates:
1861 - 1863
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
W. W. Thompson Letter
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1989-043
Scope and Content
Union soldier in the Civil War. Letter written August 23, 1862, to his wife from Yorktown, Virginia.
Dates:
1862 - 1862
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
John O. Thornhill Letter
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-068
Abstract
Letter from John O. Thornhill of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry, written apparently while on medical leave at Campbell, Virginia.
Dates:
1865 - 1865
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech