United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1206 Collections and/or Records:
Wilhelm Jacob Steubing Correspondence
Confederate soldier in Company B, Debray's Regiment, Texas Cavalry (later the 26th Texas Cavalry), during the Civil War. Probably involved in the Texas Coast Operations of 1863. Collection consists of seven letters written from and to Steubing at camps in Texas and his wife Nancy in their home in Hopkinsville, Texas.
Nixon Stewart Correspondence
Union soldier in Company E, 97th Ohio Regiment, during the Civil War. Two letters written in April 1863 from General Hospital #12 in Louisville, Kentucky, to his sister Maggie in Adamsville, Ohio. Describes woundings and deaths of comrades and states that he would rather stand the hardships of the regiment than be in the hospital. Transcript available.
Stonewall
The holdings include 19 copies which are signed and number and 1 copy that is inscribed and numbered.
Edward L. Stratton Diary,
The Edward L. Stratton Diary was written by a Civil War soldier who was in the 122nd Company of Pennsylvania, and it covers military action, army medicine, battle wounds, and hospital life and work.
Strawn Family Papers
Family of New Virginia and St. Charles, Iowa, and other locations in Colorado, Kansas, and Wyoming. Papers consist of fourteen letters amongst the members of the family and from members of the Bumbarger family. Includes letters written to J.A. Cravens during the Civil War. Also includes a handwritten oral history of the Bumbarger family as told to Ruth Strawn Chapman, in 1934, and the marriage certificate of John Strawn to Nellie Bumbarger (1898).
Charles S. Stringfellow Note
The collection contains a note written by Major Charles S. Stringfellow at Christiansburg, Virginia, to Colonel W. L. Jackson on May 25, 1862.