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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:

John Patrick Callaghan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-065
Abstract

The collection contains two volumes of Harper's Weekly publications from 1863 and 1864, including several Winslow Homer woodcuts and Thomas Nast cartoons.

Dates: 1863 - 1864

Camp of the 11th New York Battery Letter

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1991-068
Scope and Content

Letter from an unknown Civil War soldier writing from the camp of the 11th New York Battery on February 9, 1864, to "Dear Hattie." The soldier, a lieutenant, must have placed an advertisement in a lonely hearts section of a magazine or newspaper, and this letter is his response to Hattie's reply. Admits that he embellished his description in the advertisement to attract an answer. Transcript available.

Dates: 1864 - 1864

Campbell County, Virginia, C. S. A., 1864 (reproduction),

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0435
Scope and Contents

1864 map of Campbell County created by the Confederate Engineers Bureau (1982 reproduction from the Virginia Historical Society).

Dates: 1982 - 1982

John P. E. Campbell Letter,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-056
Abstract

Letter from John P. E. Campbell (50th Regiment, Virginia Infantry) to his wife, April 13, 1863.

Dates: 1863 - 1863

L. Campbell Letter

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1991-061
Scope and Content

Resident of Keene, New Hampshire. Letter to Mrs. Corbitt from Campbell, written March 31, 1867, where he notes that he just came from seeing Mrs. Corbitt's brother's grave, who possibly died in the Civil War.

Dates: 1867 - 1867

William Latham Candler Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1997-007
Abstract

The collection consists of fourteen letters, dating from September 8, 1861, to February 15, 1863, from Candler to his uncle Charles [probably maternal uncle Charles Henry Wheelwright]and his brother, John W. Candler of Boston. Candler's letters were written from camps in Maryland and Virginia.

Dates: 1861 - 1863

Caperton Family Papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1991-034
Scope and Content Collection consists of transcripts of letters written by Mary Elizabeth Henderson Caperton of Nelson County, Virginia, to her husband George Henry Caperton, a soldier in the 1st Virginia Regiment of Mounted Volunteers (also known as the 30th Virginia Volunteers Mounted) in the Civil War. Mary Caperton wrote most of the letters from White Thorn, in Blacksburg, Virginia, while staying with Sarah Ann Caperton Preston, her husband's sister, while her husband served in the Confederate Army. She...
Dates: 1861 - 1862

Capture of Fort Fisher

 Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-020
Scope and Contents

VTF 3723

Dates: 1890 - 1890

John S. Carbone Manuscript Thesis

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1999-002
Scope and Content

Resident of Bristol, Tennessee. Collection consists of a photocopy of "Early Coastal Operations in North Carolina During the Civil War: A Study of Lost Opportunities," Carbone's 1984 senior thesis written in partial fulfillment of a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in History from the College of William and Mary. 

Dates: 1984 - 1984

Card, Birthday Note to J. [Joe?] H. Hoge from Clara and Harry, February 28, 1945 (Ms1988-047)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1988_047_EllettFamily_birthdaycard_1945_0228
Dates: 1865 - 1961