United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Burt Green Wilder papers
Collection
Identifier: 14-26-95
Abstract
Diaries; notes and charts pertaining to family genealogy; clippings concerning vivisection; correspondence, photographs, and printed material pertaining to spiders, phrenology, hygiene and education, writing music, Nantucket Island, the Field family, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., temperance, natural history, Wilder's career as a medical cadet and military surgeon during the Civil War; activities of members of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry both...
Dates:
1841-1925.
Dalley family papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064918059]
Identifier: 1777
Scope and content
Letters and other items pertaining to the law practice of Francis Kernan Dalley in Ithaca, New York; pension claim papers of Henry Terry, a black Civil War veteran; family letters from Dalley's brothers, C.J. Dalley of Baldwinsville and E.M. Dalley of Geneva, New York; autograph book of Gretta M. Dalley, 1883; photographs, form letters, and bills.
Dates:
1883-1908.
Edward A. Peterson Civil War correspondence
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924088334812]
Identifier: 8520
Scope and content
15 items inlcluding autograph letters, signed, from Peterson to his parents; one letter written on his behalf, but in someone else's hand; and a letter from his cousin commenting on Edward's death in battle on July 7, 1864. Also, a printed circular letter from February 1864 on the imminent departure of the 20th regiment of United States Colored Troops for the South, with information on obtaining a pass to visit them before their departure; a pass for a Mrs. George W. Degroot to visit a...
Dates:
1864-1879.