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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:

H. D. Cushing Correspondence

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1988-067
Scope and Content

Soldier in the 15th Maine Infantry Regiment in the Civil War. Letters to his mother and wife from New Orleans, Louisiana; Pensacola, Florida; and a hospital in Readville, Massachusetts.

Dates: 1861 - 1864

Daniel Blain Papers, 1864-1870 (Ms1990-002)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1990-002
Dates: 1864 - 1870

Danville, Virginia, Military Pass,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-036
Abstract

The collection consists of a single military pass for Captain F. C. Fisher to Montgomery White Sulphur Springs (Montgomery County, Va.).

Dates: 1864 - 1864

David Earhart Collection, 1862-1863 (Ms2002-017)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2002-017
Dates: 1862 - 1863

Homer E. Davis Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2001-051
Abstract A collection of photographs resulting from an effort to record the gravesites of Civil War generals. Also represented are the gravesites of other prominent personalities in U. S. military, political, legal, business, entertainment, art and literary history--together with research files on cemeteries and individuals. Materials related to historical organizations (particularly District of Columbia area Civil War roundtables); Civil War printed materials and memorabilia; and personal...
Dates: 1861 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1967 - 1982

R. J. Davis Pass,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-069
Abstract

The collection consists of signed Confederate States of America pass for R. (Robert?) J. Davis, dated May 9, 1862.

Dates: 1862 - 1862

John Harper Dawson Book Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-005
Abstract

Typescript draft of John Harper Dawson's Wildcat Cavalry: a Synoptic History of the Seventeenth Virginia Cavalry Regiment of the Jenkins-McCausland Brigade in the War Between the States (published by Morningside House in 1982).

Dates: [1981?]

Otis Dean Diary

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-010
Abstract

Diary of Otis Dean, a private in Company E, 56th Massachusetts Infantry during the Civil War.

Dates: 1864 - 1865

F. B. Deane, Jr. Letter,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-059
Abstract

The collection includes a letter from F. B. Deane, Jr. of Deane & Son Foundry, Lynchburg, November 23, 1864. The letter requests permission from Brigadier General John Echols to transport pork to Dublin and Abingdon, VA.

Dates: 1864 - 1864

Decisions at Dawn

 Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-045
Dates: n.d.