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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:

Henry E. Herbert Letter

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1991-071
Scope and Content

Union soldier in the Civil War writing on June 22, 1863, from an unknown place to his brother. Writes about a fight that occurred the day before involving four thousand cavalry and two or three batteries of Union troops. Transcript available.

Dates: 1863 - 1863

Hickman Family Newsletters and Papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1998-007
Scope and Content

Family newsletters written by H. William Gabriel of Florence, Montana, about his research into the history of the Hickman family of Back Creek, Bath County, Virginia. Includes extensive information about William P. Hickman (1810-64), a Presbyterian preacher who ministered to congregations in Wythe, Pulaski, and Montgomery counties, Virginia, until his death in May 1864, fighting with the Confederate forces at the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain during the Civil War.

Dates: 1995 - 1998

Hicks House (Appomattox Courthouse) Advertisement

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-036
Abstract

An advertisement for "Hicks House" summer tourist resort in the town of Appomattox Courthouse created by proprietor, E.G. Hix, c.1865-1892.

Dates: c.1865-1892

Henry H. Hill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1980-003
Scope and Content The Henry H. Hill collection consists of historical and genealogical research compiled by Hill during his lifetime in southwest Virginia. Research includes Hill biographical information (1941-50), Blacksburg history and Montgomery County (1798-1951, n.d.), VPI (1891, n.d.), Civil War history (1863-1963, n.d.), and genealogical information and biographical sketches (1821-1950, n.d.). The collection is comprised almost exclusively of photocopies and typescripts, so the dates...
Dates: 1908-1963, n.d.

Miner Hinman Letter

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1990-040
Scope and Content

Soldier in Co. D of the 171st Pennsylvania Regiment during the Civil War. Letter written December 2, 1862, to his brother in Pennsylvania, from the Steamer John Warner, near Washington, D.C.

Dates: 1862 - 1862

Hiram Matthew Papers, 1863-1865 (Ms1988-090)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1988-090
Dates: 1863 - 1865

H.O. Bacock Diary, 1864 (Ms2003-014)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2003-014_BabcockHO_Diary_1864
Dates: 1864

William E. Hoge Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2003-019
Scope and Content Information The Hoge Family papers consists of 164 letters and 65 deeds, along with financial papers, postcards, and extensive genealogical research. The letters detail the lives of the Hoge family, specifically the children, from the 1830s through the 1880s. Several of the letters in the collection are written by Ollie Hoge, spanning from the time when she was a young girl enrolled in the Wytheville Female College to her later days as a wife and mother living in Richmond.Prevalent in the...
Dates: 1810 - 1933

Horace Holcomb Letter,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-042
Abstract

Letter from soldier in 10th New Hampshire Infantry during the Civil War.

Dates: 1865 - 1865

John Holliday Diaries and Photographs,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-028
Abstract

The collection consists of two diaries written by John Holliday between May 1864 and July 1865, and five undated photographs (four believed to be of Holliday and one of his wife).

Dates: 1864-1865, undated