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:
H. D. Cushing Correspondence
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.
Danville, Virginia, Military Pass,
The collection consists of a single military pass for Captain F. C. Fisher to Montgomery White Sulphur Springs (Montgomery County, Va.).
Homer E. Davis Papers,
R. J. Davis Pass,
The collection consists of signed Confederate States of America pass for R. (Robert?) J. Davis, dated May 9, 1862.
John Harper Dawson Book Collection
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).
Otis Dean Diary
Diary of Otis Dean, a private in Company E, 56th Massachusetts Infantry during the Civil War.
F. B. Deane, Jr. Letter,
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.