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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:

Diven family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2231
Abstract

Correspondence, notes, account books, and legal papers of an Elmira family of lawyers and businessmen.

Dates: 1828-1940.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Diven family papers

Edith Flower Wheeler collection

 Collection — Manuscript box 77 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065254215]
Identifier: 374m
Scope and content

Approximately 45 items including manuscript records kept by Simeon Samson of expenses for two general stores, one of them in Preble, New York, from 1830-1833. Also, a photostat copy of a commission given to Simeon Samson (1776); typewritten copy of Capt. Simeon Samson's will (1787); photostats concerning George W. Samson's tavern; and photostat of a certificate of John S. Samson, life member of the Cortland County Agricultural Society.





Dates: 1776-1938-(bulk 1862-1864).
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Edith Flower Wheeler collection

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Edward A. Peterson Civil War correspondence

Elisha Camp papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 696
Abstract

Papers pertaining to the early history of Jefferson County, New York.

Dates: 1756-1879.; Majority of material found within 1800 - 1875
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Elisha Camp papers

Ezra Cornell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1-1-1
Scope and content The earliest papers, 1828-1843, cover the years when Cornell worked in Ithaca and travelled for Barnaby and Mooers plows. They include letters, accounts, and other papers concerning his employment by Jeremiah Beebe, the owner of a flour and plaster mill on Fall Creek in Ithaca, N.Y. and his other business interests in Ithaca. Family letters contain information about his work, plans and opinions; news about his growing family; and reports of events in Ithaca. After 1838, there is...
Dates: 1746 - 1888; Majority of material found within 1844 - 1870
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Ezra Cornell papers

Fordyce family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3646
Abstract

Collection consists of correspondence, account books, notebooks, photographs, deeds, and other material of the Fordyce family of Scipio Center, Cayuga County and Monroe County, New York. Also contains papers of the Ohio branch of the Fordyce family, which included George Lincoln Fordyce, a Cleveland businessman and naturalist.

Dates: 1839-1979.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Fordyce family papers

Frazer family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3968
Scope and content

Includes 29 letters, 1826-1851, 27 of which are to Fitzgerald Frazer, mostly from family members; also 50 letters, 1862-1865, from David E. Ferris to Susie Frazer of Haverstraw, New York, while Ferris was a Union soldier in the Civil War (killed in 1865). Also included are a contract (1781), and a November 6, 1787 copy of a patent belonging to Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dyke, dated July 28, 1688.

Dates: 1781-1868.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Frazer family papers

Frederick A. Ogden papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938297]
Identifier: 122
Scope and content

Account book, diary of army life in the Civil War, and letters of a member of the 109th New York Volunteers.

Dates: 1849-1889.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Frederick A. Ogden papers

Fry family letters

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6010
Abstract

Letter from Richard Fry Sr. to his son Jabez discussing family news; a letter from Jabez's widow, Clary, relating the hardships of her life and asking for assistance from her brother-in-law, Richard Fry Jr.

Dates: 1864.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Fry family letters

George Law Civil War letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 68 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065334496]
Identifier: 6354
Scope and content

Three letters (3 leaves, 12 pages) by George Law, of Woonsocket, R.I., home to his mother, father and brothers, while stationed near New Orleans, Fort Dupont, during 1862. Law describes daily life, deserters, marches, and food shortage.

Dates: 1862.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / George Law Civil War letters

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