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:
List, Number of Extra Guns and Cartridges in the Companies, undated (Ms1992-003)
List of absence of Co. B 28th Regiment of the VA. Volunteers, March 19, 1862 (Ms1992-003)
Lists of Civil War Soldiers
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.
James Longstreet Correspondence
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.
Daniel A. Lowber Diary
Civil War diary of Captain Daniel A. Lowber, Company A, 37th Wisconsin Infantry, which served in the siege of Petersburg, Virginia.
Daniel Bedinger Lucas Papers
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.
Fred Lyman Letter
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.
Lynchburg, Virginia, Slave Impressment Document,
This collection consists of a receipt for the impressment a slave in Lynchburg, Virginia, for work on the city's fortifications in October 1863.
Thomas A. Mahood Civil War Reminiscences,
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.
Maj. Gen. P.H. Sheridan
stored on shelf due to condition