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

 Subject
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Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:

Howe family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6373
Abstract

Correspondence from Almon A. Jaynes to Grace Howe. WWI letters to Grace Howe from a number of soldiers. Twenty-six daily diaries of Grace Howe, 1905-1935. Photographs of Grace Howe, her sister Josephine Howe, A. A. Jaynes, among others.

Dates: 1861-1935.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Howe family papers

Hoyt family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1812
Abstract Scrapbooks, diaries, account books, address books, and other notebooks (40 volumes); correspondence, typescripts, notes, photographs and albums, diplomas and commissions, bills and receipts, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers of Charles S. Hoyt of Potter, his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Burroughs Smith of New York City, Clinton, and Utica, New York, and letters and scrapbooks of his other children, Charles S. Hoyt, Jr. and Agnes Barnum Hoyt; the correspondence,...
Dates: 1828-1956.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Hoyt family papers

J. Roy Dodge papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4044
Scope and content

Records of the Town of LaFayette and the LaFayette Board of Education, including Civil War materials. Also, papers of Joel Olcott, 1863-1865, and Abraham Prettie, 1856-1901; and papers and genealogical materials on the Prettie, Hart, Hering, and Olcott families. Correspondents include Clara, Nellie and Florence Olcott; Clinton Sheldon and Jennie Hart; and Louis (including Civil War letters) and William F. Hering.

Dates: 1812-1969.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / J. Roy Dodge papers

James I. Clarke speakeasy cards and Civil War covers

 Collection — Manuscript box 35 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065247151]
Identifier: 1351
Scope and content

Speakeasy membership cards and envelopes printed with Civil War slogans and prints.

Dates: [ca.1861]-1933.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / James I. Clarke speakeasy cards and Civil War covers

James V. Scaife Civil War items

 Collection — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924093386344]
Identifier: 2030
Abstract

Civil War items collected by James V. Scaife. Items include lithographed Civil War covers; letters to Scaife concerning Civil War research; photographs of battle fields; scrapbooks of newspaper clippings concerning the Civil War and other events in American history; roster of attendance of the Wilder's Brigade reunion at Chattanooga in 1913; obituaries and other clippings pertaining to Civil War veterans; and other printed items.

Dates: 1861-1915,-1911-1915 (bulk).
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / James V. Scaife Civil War items

Jesse Gwynn Civil War letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754761]
Identifier: 6963
Scope and content Letters from Jesse Gwynn stationed in various camps with the Union Army to his father John Gwynn back home in Carmichaels, Pennsylvania. There are a few letters from 1862 and 1863, but most of the letters date from 1864 and 1865, beginning in Georgia in August and September; moving to Chattanooga, October-December, to Greenville in April, 1865; and to Nashville in May and June, 1865. The letters comment on the process of war, the 1864 election, the assassination of Lincoln, Andrew Johnson...
Dates: 1862-1865.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Jesse Gwynn Civil War letters

Jesse Segoine letters and accounts

 Collection — Manuscript box 72 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070744184]
Identifier: 6929m
Scope and content

Two letters, April 22, 1861 and May 3, 1861, Weedsport, N.Y. from Solomon Giles to Jesse Segoine and one page of accounts.

Dates: 1861.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Jesse Segoine letters and accounts

John James Ingraham's Civil War letters,1862-65

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065191458]
Identifier: 4253
Dates: 1986.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / John James Ingraham's Civil War letters,1862-65

John L. Ryno Civil War diaries

 Collection — Manuscript box 60 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065257440]
Identifier: 3722
Scope and content

Diaries, circa 100 photocopied sheets, recording daily activities during the Civil War.

Dates: 1862-1864.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / John L. Ryno Civil War diaries

John Magagna Collection of Civil War letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065183729]
Identifier: 3863
Scope and content

Letters concerning the Civil War; names included are J. Wesley Bates, Cora Wentworth, Esther Tompkins, Walter A. Hamilton, and Harry Norton.

Dates: 1864-1865.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / John Magagna Collection of Civil War letters

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