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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:

McCurdy Letter to "Dear Friend Sara"

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-040
Abstract

The collection consists of a letter signed "McCurdy" written on December 19, 1862 to "Dear Friend Sara." The letter includes detailed descriptions of the fighting around Fredericksburg in December 1862.

Dates: 1862

Martha McDonald Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-029
Abstract

Letter of Martha McDonald to her husband, Lewis McDonald, a soldier in the Confederate Army, written in Rutherford County, North Carolina, on September 15, 1862.

Dates: 1862 - 1862

David Cloyd McGavock Papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1990-032
Scope and Content

Soldier in Company B of the 24th Virginia Regiment in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Died in May 1864. Collection consists of ca. 35 items, including letters written by McGavock to his family while studying at Roanoke College in 1861, and then from camps near Winchester and Petersburg, Virginia, and Goldsboro, North Carolina. Includes sympathy letters to McGavock's sister after his death, and other miscellaneous family papers. 

Dates: 1861-1901, n.d.

Joseph McGill Letter

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1989-105
Scope and Content

Union soldier in the Civil War writing his parents on July 24, 1863, from Wartrace, Tennessee. Writes that the general opinion of the men is that the war will be over soon, and that there is talk of going back to Kentucky.

Dates: 1863 - 1863

John McJellison Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-059
Abstract

This collection contains John McJellison's commission papers to serve as Second Lieutenant in Company K, 27th Regiment, Maine Infantry, as well as a letter to McJellison from his nephew.

Dates: 1861 - 1862

Charles F. McKenna Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-031
Abstract

Diaries, papers, and published materials related to Charles F. McKenna's service in the 155th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, during the Civil War.

Dates: 1861-1913, 1996-1998, n.d.

Meade & Baker Apothecary Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-130
Abstract

Accounts ledger for a pharmaceutical firm in Richmond, Virginia, including customer names, addresses and itemized lists of purchases.

Dates: 1861 - 1870

Meeting of Generals Jackson, J.E. Johnston, and Lee

 Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-140
Scope and Contents

VTF 3102; copyrighted D.H. Anderson; published by C. Klacknet; gift of William M. Thornton, 1993

Dates: n.d.

C. Henry Merrick Letters,

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1994-038
Scope and Content

Collection consists of letters written to Merrick from various people including his brother Spencer Merrick.

Dates: 1862 - 1864

Henry G. Mervine Letters

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1989-046
Scope and Content Soldier in the 17th New York Battery in the Civil War. Two letters to his wife. The first letter (July 24, 1864) was written in the trenches before Petersburg, Virginia, where he took furniture from a nearby house to protect himself in the earthworks. He notes that all the trees in the vicinity were filled with lead from picket firing. In the second letter (April 8, 1865), from Richmond, Virginia, he writes about the suffering of the citizens for lack of luxuries and necessities and that a...
Dates: 1864 - 1865