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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:

The Last Meeting

 Collection
Identifier: Art-336
Dates: 1994 - 1994

The Last Rally

 Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-032
Scope and Contents

Sayler's Creek, Va. April 6, 1865

Dates: n.d.

The Winds of Winter

 Collection
Identifier: Art-335
Scope and Content

Inscribed and dated November 10, 2000.

Dates: n.d.

Henry Goddard Thomas Letters and Memoirs

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1991-073
Abstract Born in Maine; entered the Civil War as a private yet rose to the rank of brigadier general by the war's end. After 1862 he was involved with the recruitment and organization of Negro troops in the Union army. Commissioned several troops, in particular the 79th and 19th U.S. Colored Infantries. He remained in the army after the war and retired in 1891. Collection consists of twenty-two letters to Thomas from friends and relatives. Many of the letters refer to the Freedmen's Bureau and the...
Dates: 1868 - 1889

Thomas J. Jackson

 Collection
Identifier: Art-339
Dates: n.d.

Thomas R. Martin Letter, 1861 (Ms2012-011)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2012-011
Dates: 1861

Alfred Thompson Correspondence

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1990-004
Scope and Content

Union soldier in the 49th Pennsylvania Volunteers during the Civil War; wounded in May 1864 and died in November in Martinsburg. Nine letters from Thompson in various camps in Virginia to David May of Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania. Compliments his own poetry and compares himself to Edgar Allen Poe, compares soldiering to prostitution, and describes conditions during McClellan's Peninsular Campaign.

Dates: 1861 - 1863

W. W. Thompson Letter

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1989-043
Scope and Content

Union soldier in the Civil War. Letter written August 23, 1862, to his wife from Yorktown, Virginia.

Dates: 1862 - 1862

John O. Thornhill Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-068
Abstract

Letter from John O. Thornhill of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry, written apparently while on medical leave at Campbell, Virginia.

Dates: 1865 - 1865

Thurman Family Letters

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-2009-134
Abstract

Civil War-era letters (all photocopies, with one exception) of the Thurman family of Chesterfield and Fluvanna counties, Virginia, including letters from Meredith Branch Thurman (14th Virginia Infantry) and Robert H. Thurman (41st Virginia Infantry) to Jane Rosser Humphrey Thurman, their wife and sister-in-law respectively.

Dates: 1860 - 1871