Civil War
Found in 1431 Collections and/or Records:
Ludwell H. Estes Letter
Letter from Ludwell H. Estes, postmaster at Columbia, Tennessee, written to brother, W. I. A. Estes, in Corinth, Tennessee, and focusing on the local organization of Confederate troops and the impending vote on Tennessee's secession from the Union.
Evans Family Letters
Three letters from C. H. Evans, James Evans, and Mary J. Evans, of Iowa and Illinois, addressed to their brother, William E. Evans, a soldier in Company B, 6th Wisconsin Infantry during the American Civil War.
Evans Family Letters, 1862-1863 (Ms1993-015)
Everett and Warren Hutchins Papers (Ms2009-014)
John W. Fairfax Letters
The collection includes letters from a New Orleans stock broker, John W. Fairfax, to Confederate General James Longstreet. The first is a request for a recommendation for Lawson L. Davis, a conferate veteran who was applying for a paymastership in the Army. The second letter speaks of personal business matters and mentions Bradstreet's impaired vision and new marriage.
Job Farley Letters
This collection contains 4 letters from Job Farley written to his mother in the later years of the United States Civil War.
H. Feild Letter
Letter from Confederate surgeon H. Feild, written at the general hospital in Petersburg, Virginia, "to my esteemed friend," on January 5, 1865, describing the suffering in the land and the cries of the wounded.
Fenwick Civil War Materials Collection
This Fenwick Civil War Materials Collection is a small collection of American Civil War-related materials, containing the correspondence of John Newton Smith, a private in Company I, 13th Virginia Cavalry and the sketchbook of Charles Gulager, a private in Company A, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry. The materials were collected by Fenwick family members.