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

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:

Committee of Fulton and Volney records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 545
Scope and content

Papers concerned with the activities of a committee appointed by the citizens of Fulton and Volney, New York, relating to the recruitment of men for the Companies of Captains Taylor and Jenning, 24th Regiment, New York Volunteers; also, accounts of assessments and contributions, of rations and lodgings furnished to recruits, and of relief furnished to their families; correspondence between committee members, officers, privates, and their families.

Dates: 1861-1863.

Conrad Breininger papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 80 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065254488]
Identifier: 1693
Scope and content

Naturalization certificate, papers relating to service in the 46th New York Volunteers, cigar maker's papers, and other items.

Dates: 1839-1906.

Elizabeth Gorham papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 63 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065256780]
Identifier: 4019
Scope and content

Letter from E.D. Phillips to his parents and Spencer Webb, 1874, in which Phillips, an evangelist, descibes the religious situation in Nebraska. Also, three letters from George S. Webb to John S. Webb, 1865, regarding the Civil War; and a recipe book, 1843, including cures and remedies.

Dates: 1843-1874.

Eugene K. Holton letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065228656]
Identifier: 3721
Scope and content

Letters from Eugene K. Holton, a Civil War soldier, to his younger sister.

Dates: 1862-1865.

Fowler and Wells families papers

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 97
Abstract Correspondence, articles, lectures, photos, printed matter, and other papers relating to the practice of phrenology by various members of the Fowler and Wells families, including Orson and Lorenzo N. Fowler, Samuel Roberts Wells, and Charlotte Fowler Wells. Includes material relating to "The Phrenological Journal" and "The Practical Phrenologist," periodicals with which the family was associated. Also includes a small number of Civil War letters. Also, originals and transcribed copies of the...
Dates: 1807 - 1968; Majority of material found within 1836 - 1901

Francis W. Squires diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1638
Scope and content

Diaries are concerned with family affairs, farm work, rural social life, politics, genealogy, the author's service in the Union Army during the Civil War, and his duties as a Justice of the Peace; include daily notations on temperature, humidity, rainfall and other changes in the weather.

Dates: 1840-1897.

Franklin Fayette Pratt papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064921616]
Identifier: 3820
Scope and content

Family letters regarding the Civil War and family life in Homer, New York. Also, "Pratt-Brayton: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Joshua Pratt... Also a Later Genealogy of the Thomas Brayton Family Whose Daughter Married Franklin Fayette Pratt of Homer N.Y." compiled 1978 by Fred S. Hollenbeck and Elizabeth Pratt Goodwin, revised 1993 by Elizabeth Pratt Goodwin, Margaret Lear Terrell, and Donald Leon Terrell.

Dates: 1846-1898.

Gail and Stephen Rudin Civil War collection

 Collection
Identifier: 4696
Abstract

Civil War era letters

Dates: 1861-1865.

George Bancroft papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1262
Abstract

Family and personal papers include correspondence of George Bancroft.

Dates: 1811-1901.

George Chapman Caldwell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-8-271
Scope and content

Diaries, lecture notes, personal accounts, a thesis, photographs, and pamphlets. Includes diaries of Caldwell and his wife, and of George W. Chamberlain, his son-in-law who was a professor of architecture at Cornell; notes kept by Caldwell on Louis Agassiz's lectures; family photographs, clippings, and letters, and an elaborate set of financial accounts kept by Caldwell. Typescript of a vacation journal, 1855.



Dates: 1853-1903.