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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:

Richard B. Dickenson Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-043
Abstract

The collection is composed of materials related to Dickenson's research on Southwest Virginia African Americans from the Civil War until the present.

Dates: 1931-2004; Majority of material found within 1964 - 2000

August Dietz Civil War Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-069
Abstract

The August Dietz Civil War Collection contains materials originally collected by August Dietz, Richmond, VA, philatelist and printer. The collection contains single editions of Civil War-era newspapers, photographs, a woodcut and prints, quartermaster records, playing cards, a handwritten memoir, correspondence, and reproductions of stamps from the Civil War.

Dates: 1862-1909

Letters to Camilla Diffenderfer,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-004
Abstract

The collection includes two pieces of correspondence to Camilla Diffenderfer from 1863 and 1865. One is an invitation from Gen. George Henry Chapman and the other is a letter from A.H. Yeagel.

Dates: 1863 - 1865

Joseph G. Dill Letter to Daniel C. E. Brady

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-044
Abstract

The collection consists of a letter from Joseph G. Dill to Daniel C. E. Brady, written from Richmond, Virginia, on May 30, 1862. Dill writes Brady on a variety of topics including recent war news, the challenges of sending mail through conflict zones, a recent fishing party, the warther, and the price of goods.

Dates: 1863

Discharge of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin Wilkes Jr., undated (Ms1992-003)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1992_003_PrestonRobertT_B1F13_LeutDischargd
Dates: n.d.

John A. Dorroh Letter

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1991-069
Scope and Content

Soldier in Co. G, 3rd South Carolina Infantry; killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Letter written April 11, 1862, while recuperating on a plantation near Charlottesville, Virginia. Transcript available.

Dates: 1862 - 1862

George F. Doyle Scrapbook

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1989-096
Scope and Content Patriotic scrapbook compiled by a Charleston, Massachusetts, resident in the first year of the Civil War. Scrapbook contains Union songsheets, mourning cards, patriotic covers, and cartoons. Much of the information relates to Colonel Ephram E. Ellsworth whose death in May 1861 caused a great upswell in patriotic sentiment in the North. Images available on Imagebase (...
Dates: n.d.

L. S. Durham Letter

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1988-070
Scope and Content

Confederate soldier in Company B of the 34th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Letter to his wife from Camp Randolph, September 7, administrator. Received B.S. at Manhattan Co 1863, with references to the strength of the enemy and the horrors of war.

Dates: 1863 - 1863

J. K. Dustin Letter

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1988-087
Scope and Content

Union soldier in the Civil War. Letter written from Hammond U. S. General Hospital in Beaufort, North Carolina, April 26, 1864. Writes about reaction to the ship battle at Plymouth, North Carolina, April 20, 1864. Transcript available.

Dates: 1864 - 1864

G. Lyman Dwight Correspondence

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1989-101
Scope and Content

Sergeant, then Captain, in the Battery A, 1st Rhode Island Artillery during the Civil War. Three letters written from camps in Maryland and Virginia to Saint Helena, or Sarah Helen Whitman, of Providence, Rhode Island. Writes that the autumnal coloring in the South is very disappointing compared to that in the North and that he was in command of the battery while the captain was in Providence.

Dates: 1861 - 1863