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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:

List, Number of Extra Guns and Cartridges in the Companies, undated (Ms1992-003)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1992_003_PrestonRobertT_B1F13_ExtraGuns
Dates: n.d.

List of absence of Co. B 28th Regiment of the VA. Volunteers, March 19, 1862 (Ms1992-003)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1992_003_PrestonRobertT_B1F8_List_1862_0319
Dates: 1862-03-19

Lists of Civil War Soldiers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1991-072
Scope and Content

Five manuscript documents listing Virginia soldiers in the Civil War with their families and dependents. Two of the lists are of destitute and disabled soldiers.

Dates: c.1861-1865

James Longstreet Correspondence

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1993-003
Scope and Content

Confederate general in the Civil War; after the war he was head of an insurance company and held a series of Federal appointments. Author of From Manassas to Appomattox (1896). Correspondence consists of fourteen letters to Longstreet from his sons John, Randolph, and Robert and his daughter Lula, and from C. Herbert Walling, who asked for an autographed copy of Longstreet's book. 

Dates: 1897 - 1903

Daniel A. Lowber Diary

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-015
Abstract

Civil War diary of Captain Daniel A. Lowber, Company A, 37th Wisconsin Infantry, which served in the siege of Petersburg, Virginia.

Dates: 1864 - 1864

Daniel Bedinger Lucas Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1995-012
Abstract

The Daniel Bedinger Lucas papers consist of scrapbooks, correspondence, poems and essays, newspapers, and other materials collected and created by Lucas, including several items created by his daughter, Virginia Lucas, also a poet.

Dates: 1812-1924, n.d.

Fred Lyman Letter

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1991-043
Scope and Content

Union soldier, probably from New York, during the Civil War. Letter written December 8-9, 1861, from Miner's Hill, Virginia, to his brother and sister. Writes about the unusually warm weather they were experiencing, mistaking a hog for a Rebel, and his desire for a lieutenant's position in order to make more money.

Dates: 1861 - 1861

Lynchburg, Virginia, Slave Impressment Document,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-048
Abstract

This collection consists of a receipt for the impressment a slave in Lynchburg, Virginia, for work on the city's fortifications in October 1863.

Dates: October 1, 1863

Thomas A. Mahood Civil War Reminiscences,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1979-002
Abstract

The collection includes memoirs describing Wise Legion, Virginia Artillery involvement in the Battle of Drewry's Bluff (May 1864), and the actions of the commander General Henry A. Wise.

Dates: c.1895

Maj. Gen. P.H. Sheridan

 Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-053
Scope and Contents

stored on shelf due to condition

Dates: n.d.