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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:

Copybook, Milton S. Koontz, 1863 (Ms1984-172)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1984-172_Copybook_1863
Dates: 1863

S. Wellford Corbin Letter

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1989-063
Scope and Content Lieutenant in the Confederate States Navy during the Civil War. Captured by the Union forces in June 1864, during the Petersburg Assaults, and sent to the Officer's Prison at Fort Delaware, Delaware. Paroled in February 1865. Resident of Virginia; after the war he taught at the Virginia Military Institute and was a Virginia state senator. Letter written, January 29, 1865, to Mrs. Emily S. Brune of Baltimore, Maryland, from Corbin as a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware. Thanks her for the...
Dates: 1865 - 1865

Correspondence, , 1861 - 1865

 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: 1861 - 1865

M. M. Cottingim Diary,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-033
Abstract

The collection consists of a diary written by M.M. Cottingim between April and October of 1862.

Dates: 1862 - 1862

Council of War,

 Collection
Identifier: Art-341
Dates: 1985 - 1985

Aileen B. Cowardin Friendship Book,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-104
Abstract

The collection consists of a friendship book collected and maintained by Aileen B. Cowardin. The book includes leaf and plant samples, most of which are labeled as to the location where they were found.

Dates: 1863 - 1870

Isaac Cox Letter,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-071
Abstract

The collection includes a letter from Isaac Cox, 29th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, dated June 29, 1862. A private, and later corporal, Cox writes to his wife about recent regiment activities and travels. The letter was written on paper decorated with cut out designs.

Dates: 1862 - 1862

Craft Family Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-092
Abstract

The Craft Family Collection includes correspondence to and from Jacob Craft during the Civil War, and also includes correspondences written to his daughter Blanche from various soldiers during World War I.

Dates: 1861-1919, n.d.

Poems Written for Lewis G. Creasy,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-005
Abstract

This collection includes poems were written for Creasy by someone else whose identity is unknown. There are two poems, "The Virginia Girls Song" and the companion piece, "The Volunteers Reply." A note at the bottom of the second page indicates the poems were "written by a true friend for Mr. L. Creasy" in December 1863.

Dates: December 27, 1863

Samuel A. Creelman Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1984-178
Abstract

This collection contains a number of letters written by Samuel A. Creelman to family and friends during the Civil War. It also contains obituaries about Creelman, a copy of his publication Collections of a Coffee Cooler, and an essay written by Creelman to be read at his funeral.

Dates: 1861 - 1906