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 1463 Collections and/or Records:
William A. Revell Papers, 1882, 1912 (Ms1988-063)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1988-063
Dates:
1882, 1912
William E. Hoge Family Papers, 1810-1933 (Ms2003-019)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2003-019
Dates:
1810 - 1933
William F. Graves Collection, 1911-1914 (Ms2010-040)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2010-040
Dates:
1911 - 1914
William F. Testerman Letters, 1864-1865 (Ms1989-099)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1989-099
Dates:
1864 - 1865
William H. and Sarah McDowell Correspondence, 1862, 1865
File — Folder 1
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
This collection contains two 1862 letters from William H. McDowell to his wife, Sarah McDowell, and a February 1865 letter from Sarah to her husband. The letters from William to Sarah were written on October 1 and October 3, 1862, from Fredericksburg, Virginia, while serving in the American Civil War. He describes camp life and food, Confederate and Union pickets sharing news and whiskey, and impending troop movements. The letter from Sarah to her husband dates to February 1865 and contains...
Dates:
1862, 1865
William J. Lacey Diary, 1861-1863 (Ms2011-115)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2011-115
Dates:
1861 - 1863
William J. Pittenger Diary (Ms2001-064)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2001-064_PittengerWilliamJ_Diary_1863
Dates:
1863-01-01/1864-11-26
R. A. Williams Telegraph
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-023
Abstract
This collection contains a telegraph sent from Captain R. A. Williams, A.C.S. [Acting Commissary of Subsistence], in Wytheville, Virginia, to Captain Isaac Shelby in Abingdon asking for advice about an order that required Williams to send four soldiers elsewhere. Williams notes that the order would take "four of my most indispensable men and if persisted in will paralyze my operations".
Dates:
1864