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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:

Cochran Family Letters,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1992-032
Abstract

The Cochran family letters consist of fourteen letters written in 1860 and 1861 by brothers John H. and Benjamin Franklin ("Frank") Cochran of Augusta County, Virginia.

Dates: 1860 - 1861

Miles Washington Coe Papers,

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1996-009
Scope and Content

Union soldier in Co. C, 42nd Regiment of the Indiana Infantry. Collection consists of Coe's marriage certificate to Mary Webb, correspondence between Coe and his family during his military service, and papers concerning Coe's civil war pension.

Dates: 1859 - 1920; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1865

Edwin R. Coghill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-058
Abstract

Civil War memoir of Sergeant Edwin R. Coghill of Company E ("Caroline Greys"), 30th Virginia Infantry, together with a post-war company roster, and a 1970 booklet commemorating a memorial service for General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson at Bethel Baptist Church and containing a transcript of Coghill's memoir.

Dates: ca.1864-1970

Jacob Cohn Diary

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-002
Abstract

Civil War diary of Jacob Cohn, a soldier in Company A, 54th Pennsylvania Infantry

Dates: 1863 - 1864

Richard Colburn Diary,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-010
Abstract

The collection consists of the Civil War diary of Richard Colburn, an enlisted soldier of the 12th Infantry of the Army of the Potomac. The diary details camp life, daily activities, battles, and Colburn's captivity as a POW beginning in July 1862.

Dates: 1861 - 1863

Adelaide Colcock Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-020
Abstract Letters written to Adelaide Colcock from 1863 through c.1870. Collection includes three letters from her father, William F. Colcock, a prominent lawyer and member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, two letters from her sister Minnie, and one from her cousin Charles Colcock. The first letter from Bubber Charlie states, The Yankees are a very bad people and won't let us alone. Adelaide Colcock was born September 3, 1858 and died August...
Dates: 1863-c.1870

Beverley Coleman Videotape

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1987-051
Scope and Content

Videotape of Admiral Beverly Coleman giving a lecture on Col. John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916), his grandfather, a Confederate ranger, born in Powhatten County, Virginia. Mosby enlisted in the cavalry for the Confederacy in the Civil War, and participated in the Bull Run campaign. Later practiced law in Warrenton, Virginia. Published Mosby's War Reminiscences, and Stuart's Cavalry Campaigns (1887). Unprocessed.

Dates: n.d.

Mary Coley Letters

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1991-065
Scope and Content

Collection consists of twenty-four letters to Mary Coley of New Haven, Connecticut, from family and friends. The majority of the letters are from her mother Sarah M. Everitt of New Haven, and her sister Isabelle of New York City. Many of the letters written during the Civil War years refer to war-related events (return of the volunteers, the Battle of Gettysburg) but the letters mostly concentrate on children, family matters, illness, and deaths.

Dates: 1851 - 1876

Thomas W. Colley Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2003-017
Abstract

The Thomas W. Colley Collection contains correspondence, financial documents, such as ledgers, receipts, and deeds, temperance society sermons, electoral cards, a Veteran's Meeting minute book, Civil War reminiscences, and a roll for the First Virginia Company D Volunteer Cavalry's wounded and dead for 1861. The majority of the collection dates from 1860 to 1920.

Dates: 1845-1947, 1986

Colonel John F. Mosey

 Collection
Identifier: Art-210
Scope and Contents

Crayon Portrait; Presented to Mr. William J. McGee of Washington, D.C. by him

Dates: n.d.