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

 Subject

Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1206 Collections and/or Records:

Note to General John C. Breckinridge

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-062
Abstract

This collection consists of a note written in 1864 to General John C. Breckinridge asking for permission to ship a carriage to prevent its theft.

Dates: 1864 - 1864

General John C. Breckinridge Note (Distilling),

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-082
Abstract

The collection consists of a note to General John C. Breckinridge for permission to distill rye whiskey for medicinal and pharmaceutical purposes.

Dates: 1864 - 1864

John Brick Book Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-098
Abstract

Typescript manuscript draft of John Brick's Civil War novel, Jubilee (published by Doubleday in 1956).

Dates: ca. 1956

John P. Brock Muster Roll

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1992-023
Scope and Content

Confederate Civil War muster roll, taken June 12, 1861, in Staunton, Virginia, of the Captain John P. Brock Cavalry of the 1st Cavalry Regiment Wise Legion, which was renamed in May 1862 as the 10th Regiment Virginia Cavalry. Muster roll lists volunteers' rank, age, value of horses and horse equipment brought with them, and where, when and how long they joined for duty.

Dates: 1861 - 1861

Charles L. Brown Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-031
Abstract

A single letter and envelope written by Charles L. Brown to his mother, Lydia Brown, in Waltham, Mass., dated 4 January 1862 and sent from Hampton, Va. Brown enlisted with the 16th Massachusetts Infantry on 29 June 1861, Company H, as a corporal. At the time of his death at Gettysburg on July 1863, he held the rank of Sergeant.

Dates: 1862-01-04

Brown Family Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-011
Abstract

The collection consists of receipts, bills, Promissory notes, tax notes, letters, and other various papers created between 1825 and 1912 by members of the Brown, and other related families.

Dates: 1825-1912, 1965

Mima Brown Letter,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-025
Abstract

The collection consists of a letter written by "Mima Brown" from Pulaski, Virginia to her brother Pvt. James H. Farmer on November 8, 1863.

Dates: 1863 - 1863

R. Baxter Brown Diary

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-043
Abstract

Civil War Diary of R. Baxter Brown, lieutenant in Company I, 11th New Hampshire Infantry.

Dates: 1864 - 1864

Washington Brown Papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1989-011
Scope and Content Captain of the 145th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War. Died from wounds inflicted at the Battle of Fredericksburg, (December 1862). Papers include a manuscript copy of a personal memoir about Brown, written in 1869 by Samuel P. Bates, Pennsylvania state historian, and various pieces of correspondence to and from Brown and his family in Erie, Pennsylvania. Also includes letters to and from his father, Conrad Brown, written after Washington's death concerning the funeral...
Dates: 1861 - 1863

R. Buckley Letter

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1989-042
Scope and Content

Captain in the 197th Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment, guarding prisoners at the Rock Island, Illinois, POW camp, in the Civil War. Letter to his wife and mother, October 5, 1864. Writes of illness among his men and transferring the back pay of a dead soldier to the soldier's father.

Dates: 1864 - 1864