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 1472 Collections and/or Records:
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. Pittenger Diary (Ms2001-064)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2001-064_PittengerWilliamJ_Diary_1863
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
Wills Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1982-008
Abstract
The collection contains photocopies of American Civil War correspondence to and from members of the Wills family.
Dates:
1860 - 1865