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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:

Charles N. Johnson Papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1989-032
Scope and Content

Private in the 15th Iowa Volunteer Regiment, Company C, during the Civil War. Papers include eight letters (1862, n.d.) from St. Louis, Missouri, and Corinth, Tennessee, to his mother; his discharge papers (April 20, 1865); his marriage license (1868); and photographs of himself and his family.

Dates: 1862 - 1868

Edgar W. Johnson Correspondence

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1989-077
Scope and Content Union soldier in the 50th New York Engineers during the Civil War. Collection consists of six letters from Johnson written January to April, 1864, from Elmira, New York, and Rappahannock Station, Virginia, to his father. Also includes three letters from Johnson's friend Thomas A. Blyth, written April to August, 1864, to Johnson's father. Blyth's letters refer to the circumstances involving his friend's illness and subsequent death, and urge the father to inquire after his son's back pay and...
Dates: 1864 - 1864

Hannibal A. Johnson Letters,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-058
Abstract

The collection contains two letters from Hannibal A. Johnson to his friend, Samuel, written from Camp Fessenden, Alexandria, Virginia, in August and September 1861.

Dates: 1861 - 1861

John Burgess Johnson Letter,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-055
Abstract

Letter written by Captain John Burgess Johnson to his family while camped near Yorktown, Virginia. Letter is postmarked January 19. The letter details a march made by the 6th U.S. Colored troops from Glouchester Point to relieve Union calvary troops near the Chickahominy River.

Dates: 1864 - 1864

Martha L. Johnson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2001-065
Scope and Content This collection contains the papers of the family of Martha L. Robinson Johnson, nineteenth-century matriarch of a Carroll County, Virginia family. The collection consists largely of correspondence to Johnson from various family members and friends, providing a chronicle of the life of a Southwest Virginia family during the mid-nineteenth century, mostly from a feminine perspective. The letters focus on childbirth, death, illness, folk medicine, fashion, sewing, knitting, quilting,...
Dates: 1821 - 1882

Elliott Johnston Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2016-017
Abstract

The Elliott Johnston Correspondence includes three letters from Sergeant Elliott Johnston to Col. John S. Mosby on the topic of relaying information from General Lee to General Early during the Civil War, some 30+ years prior.

Dates: 1897, n.d.

J. Ambler Johnston Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1974-012
Scope and Content

The J. Ambler Johnston Papers include materials relating to his many activities, with a particular emphasis on Civil War Round Tables and Virginia Tech. Materials consist of correspondence, publications and ephemera, organizational and committee reports, and photographs.

Dates: 1900 - 1974

George Kauffmann Cassette Tape and Slides

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Ms-1988-093
Scope and Content Collection consists of cassette tapes of Civil War Round Table meeting lectures, 1980-84, n.d., on topics including Meade's Left Flank at the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln and Religion, the Battles of Bull Run, and Culp's Hill. Speakers include James Kegel, Tony Brogan, and James Robertson, Jr. Collection also includes slides of Civil War battles and other scenes, and various battlefields and monuments as they are today. Topics of slides include Gettysburg, Shiloh, Antietam, and Vicksburg...
Dates: 1960-1984, n.d.

Dollie P. F. Keen Letter,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-023
Abstract

The collection consists of a letter written by Dollie P. F. Keen to her unnamed brother sometime during the Civil War.

Dates: c. 1861-1865

Mary Kelly Letter,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-023
Abstract

Letter written to Mary Kelly by an unidentified Union soldier. Soldier was a member of the 10th Iowa infantry. Letter describes an ambush by Confederate soldiers that killed five men and wounded eight.

Dates: 1862 - 1862