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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:

Louis Kaiser, collector miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 34 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065246856]
Identifier: 1248
Scope and content

Includes twelve miscellaneous envelopes with elaborate designs, including nine Civil War covers; and two copies of the Philadelphia newspaper THE BOTANICAL SENTINEL AND LITERARY GAZETTE, 1836.

Dates: 1836-1901.

Luke Tuttle Merrill diary

 Collection — Manuscript box 24 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065244679]
Identifier: 478
Scope and content Merrill records that he left Elmira, New York, on January 2 to go to Tennessee as a member of a wartime railroad construction crew of about 400 men; he describes his train journey via New Jersey, Philadelphia, Washington, and Alexandria, Virginia. He describes his work on the railroad, where the crew burned wrecks of cars, salvaged iron and wheels, repaired tracks between Manassas and the Bull Run Bridge, loaded lumber and wire cable, and performed other kinds of work; also described are...
Dates: 1864.

Mary Jane Church letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 50 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065251245]
Identifier: 2559
Scope and content

Letters of Mary J. Church to her brother from New York City, where she was attending Rutgers' Female College, concerning family and friends, school work, notable places in the city, impressions of Henry Ward Beecher, comments on the Civil War, and the reaction to Lincoln's assassination.

Dates: 1864-1865.

New York State Militia Cortland County enrollment book

 Collection — Manuscript box 2 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239539]
Identifier: 227
Scope and content

Lists of names, residence, age, and classification of men eligible for military duty; Samuel M. Kinney, enrolling officer; regiment and company uncertain, but Towns of Cortlandville, Freetown, Homer, and Virgil are included; a number of men whose names appear, later became members of the 185th Regiment, New York Volunteers, mustered September 1864.

Dates: 1864.

New York State Militia enrollment book

 Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239349]
Identifier: 149
Scope and content

List of names of men liable for military duty in the state militia, giving age, class, and physical defects; Jacob S. Greene, enrolling officer; filed in clerk's office, Lansing, Tompkins County N.Y..

Dates: 1864.

New York Volunteers, 108th Regiment records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064924115]
Identifier: 493
Scope and content

Quarterly ordnance and ordnance stores returns, invoices, muster rolls, and miscellany of Company A, Volunteer Infantry, of which Dwight H. Ostrander was lieutenant and later captain; also, a muster roll and clothing receipt for Company B.

Dates: 1863-1864.

North family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1226
Scope and content Correspondence, deeds, indentures, miscellaneous pamphlets, commemorative booklets, and other papers. Includes papers (1752-1800) of Joshua Pine, Platt Townsend, Gerard Walton, and William Walton concerning land divisions at Hempstead, New York; material relating to the organization of Walton, New York, and to the first settlers there; Civil War letters written by Joshua Pine and Daniel Patrick, 38th Regiment, New York Volunteers (1861-1862); papers concerning Arthur North, lawyer,...
Dates: 1752-1943.

Ostrander family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1826
Scope and content Ten letters (1831-47) from John Ostrander, Kennedyville (now Kanona), to his wife, Eveline, giving an account of his travels by stage, packet, foot, or raft in lower New York State, where he was selling lumber and cattle; inventory of John Ostrander's effects (1865); three papers relating to Mrs. Ostrander's suspension (1835) from the Second Presbyterian Church of Bath for embracing the doctrine of Universalism; Civil War papers (1863-65) of Clinton N. and Dwight H. Ostrander, sons of...
Dates: 1827-1865.

Pratt family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 223
Abstract Letters received by Horace L. Edgar Pratt, a Protestant Episcopal rector on Staten Island, New York; also, a Civil War draft exemption certificate issued to John A Kernochan, Sept. 10, 1863; Queens County documents including a four year indenture apprenticing Joseph Lawrence to Effingham Lawrence; a bill of sale selling Joseph, a Negro boy; a receipt for a twelve pound bounty for William Aitken for New York militia service during the Revolutionary War; and a proclamation of Governor George...
Dates: 1758-1903

Raymond family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064918349]
Identifier: 741
Scope and content Correspondence includes letters between Aaron Weeks Raymond and business associates, friends, his son Charles H. Raymond, and other relatives concerning the oil industry and the Raymond oil wells; Raymond investments and the value of family holdings; the bankruptcy of Culver, Penn and Company, in which Aaron Raymond had invested; proposals from Jay Cook for the purchase of land; the construction of a railroad to Oil City, Pennsylvania; the anthracite industry in Raymilton, Pennsylvania;...
Dates: 1823-1889.