American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 103 Collections and/or Records:
Abraham Lincoln Collection
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0549
Scope and Contents
Collection contains photographs, pamphlets, newspapers, cigar box labels (lithographs), cartes des visites, postcard, etc about Abraham Lincoln.
Dates:
Inclusive 1860-1965
Ailstock, Private, 1894
File — Box 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Article titled "A Confederate Hero," from Blue and Gray, 1984.
Dates:
1894
Alexander Sterrett Paxton Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0372
Scope and Contents
This collection consiste of Alexander Sterrett Paxton's journals in six volumes (484 p.)during the American Civil War. They cover his service as a member of the 4th Virginia Infantry of the Stonewall Brigade, including his role as a Commissary Sergeant of the regiment. Journal entries explore the war experiences of a Confederate foot soldier and include: his insights into motives for war; observations and descriptions of ranking officers, fellow soldiers, friends and family; detailed accounts...
Dates:
Inclusive 1858-1959; Majority of material found within Bulk 1861-1865
American Civil War Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0074
Scope and Contents
This collection contains approximately 90 miscellaneous items connected with the government and people of the Confederate States of America, including correspondence, official orders, almanacs, bonds, paper money, sheet music, memorabilia, and clippings.
Dates:
Inclusive 1861-1865
August Forsberg's Civil War Memoir
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0109
Scope and Contents
This collection is an American Civil War memoir, c.1870?, of August Forsberg, which includes accounts of Confederate fortifications, marches and battles, and his life in a Union prisoner of war camp in Fort Delaware.
Dates:
1870
Battle of Olustee
Item — Box 2: [0000006020], Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
Materials including newspaper clippings, an article by Hart about the battle and correspondence concerning the editing process, an article by Hart titled 'Florida in the War between the States,' transcriptions of the 1860 census, a map of the battle, research notes, and information about a centennial reenactment.
Dates:
1910 - 1965
Blain Family Papers
Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1-7
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0066
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of personal papers of the Blain family of Albemarle County and Williamsburg, Virginia, including the Civil War period diary (1861-63) of school teacher Mary Randolph Blain. The diary, written near the York River in Gloucester County, Va. provides a picture of civilian life both in that area and in Williamsburg, Va. where her parents lived during the period. Also included are two letters written from Randolph Harrison Blain, brother of the diarist and a member of the...
Dates:
Inclusive 1861-1905; Majority of material found within Bulk 1861-1864
Cabinet Cards of Robert E. Lee, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, and other Confederate States of America generals
Collection — Folder 0011: [0000005910]
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0011
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two cabinet card photographs, one of the 1869 painting by Everett B. D. Julio, titled 'The Last Meeting,' of Confederate States of America generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson on their war horses at Chancellorsville, Virginia in 1863 and a highly retouched fictional compilation of the 'President and Generals of the CSA' by photographer D.H. Anderson. The Andrson photograph has Lee on his horse Traveller in the foreground. The images were inscibed and...
Dates:
Unknown
Charles Manson Crutchfield Collection of Memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0088
Scope and Contents
Includes 82 items collected by Charles Manson Crutchfield, including 38 photographs some of which are of Confederate generals and were taken by Michael Miley, postcards and printed materials, most of which concern Washington and Lee University and the surrounding city of Lexington, Virginia during the 1880's
Dates:
Inclusive 1882-1914; Majority of material found within Bulk 1880-1889
Civil War History (Copies)
File — Box 1: [0000007742], Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
This folder contains copies of documents from the Civil War era about members of the Shields family.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1832 - 1990
Washington and Lee Special Collections and Archives
204 West Washington Street
Leyburn Library
Lexington, VA 24450
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