United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Two volumes of family history, poetry, political and opinion pieces, and Schmutz's Civil War memoirs, with Schmutz's original writings as well as material he copied from published sources. Includes a history of the 188th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers during the Civil War copied from History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865 by Samuel P. Bates with additional details and notes by Schmutz.

Three Civil War letters, all written by Hamilton S. Sclater, Company D, 25th Virginia Battalion, to his mother. Letter of 13 August 1862, written from a camp near Gordonsville (Orange County Virginia), describes the aftermath of the Battle of Cedar Mountain. Other letters, dated 6 April 1864 and 4 July 1864 respectively, were written from Camp Chaffin's Farm, an area of fortifications south of Richmond.

Receipts and business documents relating to the business of Charles Scott and Company of Glade Spring Depot, Virginia. Charles Scott and Company ran a salt works outside of Saltville, Virginia and supplied salt for the state of Virginia during the Civil War. One of the receipts is for a retainer for James W. Sheffey in case of impressment of C. Scott and Co.'s property by the state.

Ledger listing men, mostly from Scott County, Virginia, including name, age, occupation and residence. Believed to be list of men to whom the amnesty oath was administered following the Civil War.

Letter, written April 15 and 16, 1865, to Robert Barnett of the Chief Carpenter Shop in Washington, D.C., from Scott in Lower Chanceford Township, York County, PA. Scott writes about a letter she received two weeks before from the President, and how hands are needed at home to work on a canal. Online transcript available (http://spec.lib.vt.edu/cwlove/seeper.html).

Confederate soldier in the Civil War, in Company G, 15th North Carolina Regiment. Letter from Scott in Richmond, Virginia, July 11, 1863, to his sister. Writes of the skirmish at the South Anna River in Virginia, July 4, 1863, in which the bridge was defended by the Confederates from destruction by the Union forces. Transcript available.

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings from unidentified newspapers, collected between 1870 and 1916 (concentrating mostly in the 1870s and 1880s). Topics include the Confederacy, Southern culture, the Confederate view of the Civil War, Confederate soldiers and officers (particularly Robert E. Lee), the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Civil War battles fought in Virginia, and the 1916 silent film The Birth of a Nation.

This is a scrapbook of newspaper clippings concerning secession and the early days of the Civil War dating to 1860-1861.

Civil War Union soldier in Company F, 1st U.S. Cavalry, from Pennsylvania. Ten letters from Secrist and other Union soldiers to his sister, Maria G. Secrist. Letters written from camps in Virginia and Washington, D.C. Secrist mentions a battle at Shiloh, Tennessee, and a brush with the Rebel soldiers at Falling Water, West Virginia.