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Civil War

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Use this heading for collections related to the American Civil War, including materials created after 1865 that have significant Civil War content. Also use the LCSH heading: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Found in 1441 Collections and/or Records:

The Last Rally

 Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-032
Scope and Contents

Sayler's Creek, Va. April 6, 1865

Dates: n.d.

The Winds of Winter

 Collection
Identifier: Art-335
Scope and Content

Inscribed and dated November 10, 2000.

Dates: n.d.

Thirty-Third Massachusetts Infantry Regimental History, , 1887

 File — Folder 1
Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains photocopies of the papers of Brigader General Adin B. Underwood. The papers include personal correspondence with transcriptions, Underwood's Union Army pension records, and a detailed history of the 33rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, Union Army, in which Underwood served. Dating 1861 to 1865, the correspondence includes photocopies and transcriptions of letters written to General Underwood in Tennessee and Washington, D.C., by his wife Jane in...
Dates: 1887

Oren Thoits Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-047
Abstract

Letter from Oren Thoits, a farmer living in Fort Fairfield, Maine, during the American Civil War, written May 5, 1861, to aunt and uncle, relaying family news and discussing the recent outbreak of war.

Dates: 1861

Henry Goddard Thomas Letters and Memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1991-073
Abstract Henry Goddard Thomas was born in Maine and entered the American Civil War as a private yet rose to the rank of brigadier general by the war's end. After 1862 he was involved with the recruitment and organization of Black troops in the Union Army. He commissioned several troops, in particular the 79th and 19th U.S. Colored Infantries. He remained in the U. S. Army after the war and retired in 1891. His collection consists of twenty-two letters to Thomas from friends and relatives. Many of the...
Dates: 1868 - 1889