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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 Janney Papers, 1811-1994 (Ms2001-019)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2001-019
Dates: 1811 - 1994

John P. E. Campbell Letter, 1863 (Ms2011-056)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2011-056
Dates: 1863

John P. Sheffey Papers, 1853-1989 (Ms2001-060)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2001-060
Dates: 1853 - 1989

John R. Cason Papers, 1864-1865 (Ms2008-026)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2008-026
Dates: 1864 - 1865

B. H. Johnson Journal,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-093
Abstract

Journal of a Methodist circuit riding minister of eastern Virginia during the American Civil War. Salient topics include: the effects of war, typhoid outbreaks, and religious practices in eastern Virginia.

Dates: 1863 - 1864

Charles N. Johnson Papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1989-032
Scope and Content

Private in the 15th Iowa Volunteer Regiment, Company C, during the Civil War. Papers include eight letters (1862, n.d.) from St. Louis, Missouri, and Corinth, Tennessee, to his mother; his discharge papers (April 20, 1865); his marriage license (1868); and photographs of himself and his family.

Dates: 1862 - 1868

Edgar W. Johnson Correspondence

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1989-077
Scope and Content Union soldier in the 50th New York Engineers during the Civil War. Collection consists of six letters from Johnson written January to April, 1864, from Elmira, New York, and Rappahannock Station, Virginia, to his father. Also includes three letters from Johnson's friend Thomas A. Blyth, written April to August, 1864, to Johnson's father. Blyth's letters refer to the circumstances involving his friend's illness and subsequent death, and urge the father to inquire after his son's back pay and...
Dates: 1864 - 1864

Hannibal A. Johnson Letters,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-058
Abstract

The collection contains two letters from Hannibal A. Johnson to his friend, Samuel, written from Camp Fessenden, Alexandria, Virginia, in August and September 1861.

Dates: 1861 - 1861

John Burgess Johnson Letter,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-055
Abstract

Letter written by Captain John Burgess Johnson to his family while camped near Yorktown, Virginia. Letter is postmarked January 19. The letter details a march made by the 6th U.S. Colored troops from Glouchester Point to relieve Union calvary troops near the Chickahominy River.

Dates: 1864 - 1864

Martha L. Johnson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2001-065
Scope and Content This collection contains the papers of the family of Martha L. Robinson Johnson, nineteenth-century matriarch of a Carroll County, Virginia family. The collection consists largely of correspondence to Johnson from various family members and friends, providing a chronicle of the life of a Southwest Virginia family during the mid-nineteenth century, mostly from a feminine perspective. The letters focus on childbirth, death, illness, folk medicine, fashion, sewing, knitting, quilting,...
Dates: 1821 - 1882