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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:

Root family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3894
Abstract

Civil War letters and daily journals of William Harrison Root, a lieutenant in Company B, 75th Regiment, New York Volunteers. Also a notebook of Root's, clippings, and his account book of Company B, 1861. Also, letters and reminiscences, between Helen Isabel Root and her parents. Additional material includes account books, clippings, correspondence and transcripts, pamphlets, genealogical charts, deeds and other legal documents, and photographs of the Shepard and Osborn families.

Dates: 1828-1970.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Root family papers

Samuel North papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 11 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241394]
Identifier: 1852
Scope and content Letters (1864) to Thomas G. North from his father, Colonel Samuel North, from G.B. Scofield, an associate of Colonel North in The New York State Agency, and from another friend concerning Samuel North's imprisonment and trial in Washington for allegedly using his position in that agency to defraud soldiers of their votes; letter to the Colonel (1865) from a committee in Unadilla congratulating him on his acquittal, and the Colonel's reply; printed transcript of the case, U.S. vs. Samuel...
Dates: 1864-1894.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Samuel North papers

Sarah Palmer papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938362]
Identifier: 191
Scope and content

Business and family letters and papers; subjects include the Battle of Bull Run (1861), real estate, a July 4th celebration, State Senate nominations, the annexation of new states to the union, and Cornell University.

Dates: 1813-1897.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Sarah Palmer papers

Sarah Patterson letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239471]
Identifier: 202
Scope and content

Letters to Sarah A. Patterson mainly from Harley Patterson, also from Mary A. Ireland, and C. I. Chapin; former concern work and travels in search of work; latter concern the Civil War.

Dates: 1851-1862.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Sarah Patterson letters

Seth Warner Burchard, collector, diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065191367]
Identifier: 4239
Scope and content

Original and typescript "Diary of Lucinda Pamelia Warner Taber, 1870-1875" and typescript copy of "Diary and Letters of Sergeant Seth D. Warner, Co. E, 21st New York Volunteer Cavalry, 1865-1866." Also, bound typescript, "A Glossary of Woodworking Plane Names," by Seth W. Burchard.

Dates: 1865-1873.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Seth Warner Burchard, collector, diaries

Sherman and his Generals, 1865

 Item — Box V-13: [Barcode: 31924092777253]
Dates: 1865
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 8043, Stephan Loewentheil photograph collection / Series V. Mathew Brady and the Civil War / Civil War Photographs / Photographs Attributed to Brady

Starrett family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 142
Abstract

Personal and business papers and letters, including patent rights, wills, notes, bills and receipts, land deed, school lists, land surveys, Civil War and War of 1812 material, indentures, account books, almanac, newspapers, broadsides, maps, material on local Democratic politics, items on estate management, recipes, and formulas.

Dates: 1790-1933.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Starrett family papers

Tappan collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065229340]
Identifier: 521
Scope and content Account book of an unknown farmer, probably from Tioga County, N.Y. includes a record of all transactions, a farm inventory, and home remedies; an undated scrapbook compiled in Mark Twain's Autobiography and First Romance, with song lyrics, stories, and a few handwritten poems; Civil War furlough permit for Charles S. Gryan, New York Volunteers, 24th Regiment; and a 1903 letter from J. S. Kingsley, Principal, Newark Valley High School to R. W. Richardson, Owego, N.Y., thanking him for a...
Dates: 1862-1903.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Tappan collection

Theodore Harter papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064940673]
Identifier: 2527
Scope and content Harter's Civil War diaries (2 volumes, 1863, 1865) depicting life in military camps and containing a description of the vistorious march of the Union Army into Richmond (1865) as well as accounts and lists of mail and clothing sent or received; muster roll of Company I, 81st New York Volunteers and other items pertaining to First Lieutenant Harter's service with that group; Grand Army of the Republic printed items; and a notebook listing soldiers of various American wars buried in Mohawk,...
Dates: 1862-1921.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Theodore Harter papers

Tried by war: Lincoln as commander in chief

 Collection — Manuscript box 44 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113240075]
Identifier: 13-17-3777m
Scope and content

Copy of typescript lecture, presented on October 20, 2009, with poster and invitation for the event.

Dates: 2009.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Tried by war: Lincoln as commander in chief

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