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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 130 Collections and/or Records:

Aaron Howell Pierson Sr. to Robert E. Lee, 1866-05-15

 Item — Box 7A, Folder: 60
Scope and Contents

This letter by Aaron Howell Pierson Sr. is addressed to Robert E. Lee. Pierson wishes to send his son to Washington College but does not know the requirements. Pierson worries that because of his son's service in the American Civil War, he may be too far behind his studies to attend.

Dates: 1866-05-15

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

Alexander Gardner to Robert E. Lee, 1866-04-10

 Item — Box 7A, Folder: 53
Scope and Contents

Phtographer Alexander Gardner plans to send Lee photographs that are on hand in his studio at that include his company's imprint. He also plans to print and mount one-hundred photographs without his imprint, per Lee's request.

Dates: 1866-04-10

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...
Dates: Inclusive 1858-1959; Majority of material found within Bulk 1861-1865

Alexander Tedford "Ted" Barclay correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0002
Scope and Contents This collection includes original letters and typescript copies of letters Ted Barclay sent to his family in Lexington, Virginia during the American Civil War. Subjects include information about the activities of the Liberty Hall Volunteers of the Stonewall Brigade in major battles within Virginia; accounts of life in Confederate camp; information about food, clothing, diseases, religious services, attractive women, and deaths of friends while serving with the Volunteers; and accounts of...
Dates: 1861-1864

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

Augustus Machim Garber to Robert E. Lee, 1866-05-17

 Item — Box 7A, Folder: 60
Scope and Contents

This letter by Augustus Machim Garber is addressed to Robert E. Lee. He writes that he has sent catalogues of Washington College to his uncle. However, his uncle would like information on fees and payment to the school. Garber also mentions sculptor William Rudolph O'Donovan and shares that the scultpor, with approval from Lee, will continue workingon a bust of Stonwall Jackson.

Originally included with this letter was a photograph of O'Donovan's bust of Stonewall Jackson.

Dates: 1866-05-17

Battle of Olustee

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 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: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 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: [Barcode: 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: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: Unknown

Charles B. Richardson to Robert E. Lee, 1866-05-05

 Item — Box 7A, Folder: 58
Scope and Contents

This letter by Charles B. Richardson is addressed to Robert E. Lee. Enclosed with this letter was a map of the Army of the Potomac that Lee requested, as well as John Beauchamp Jones' "A Rebel War Clerk's Diary". Along with this package, Richardson updates Lee on the publishing of Henry Lee III's memoirs. Richardson also tells Lee that he is facing financial setbacks but they shouldn't hinder his business.

Dates: 1866-05-05

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: [Barcode: 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

Civil War History (Copies)

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000007669], Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

This folder contains copied materials relating to the American Civil War, specifially the Confederate States of America and information about its army.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1832 - 1990

Civil War Material

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 0000006001], Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Material about Civil War commemorative events, a map of Stonewall Jackson's movements, a summary of the Battle of Antietam, a copy of A House Divided: The Civil War Letters of a Virginia Family, by W.G. Bean, a piece about Jefferson Davis, and an extract from 'The Congressional Globe' from January 21, 1861 about seccesion.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

Copy of an ambrotype photograph of George Lewis Dull

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0110
Content Description

Two modern print copies of an ambrotype of George Lewis Dull in his Confederate uniform. The original photograph was taken by Richmond, Va. photographer Charles Rees

Dates: Majority of material found within Creation of the ambrotype

Cornelia Peake McDonald Diary

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0264
Scope and Contents

This collection is a handwritten copy by Cornelia Peake McDonald of her 'A diary with reminiscences of the war', from March 1861-1865.

Dates: Inclusive 1861-1865

Correspondences, 1864

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000008049], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

This folder contains two letters from the American Civil War era, written by the Shields family.

Dates: 1864

David Ballenger Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0531
Scope and Contents

Typescripts of letters from and to Ballenger.

Dates: Inclusive 1858-1888

David Flavel Jamison papers

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1-10
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0056
Scope and Contents

This collection includes correspondence while Jamison was Secretary of War of South Carolina, 1861; scattered letters and papers pertaining to the South Carolina Secession Convention of which he was president, and papers related to his tenure as presiding judge of the military court of Gen. Beauregard's Corps, 1862-1864. Robert Woodward Barnwell and Lawrence Massillon Keitt are among the correspondents.

Dates: Inclusive 1860-1864

David Lawrence Hopkins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0279
Scope and Contents

The papers of Captain David L. Hopkins, include 12 letters to his wife, Lou, all but one from his post in Lynchburg, Virginia, concerning their Lexington, Virginia farm, food supplies, mutual acquaintances, and occasionally the war, in particular the Battle of Lynchburg as well as several other family letters and Confederate money.

Dates: Inclusive 1861-1865

Davidson Family Papers

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1-19
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0113
Scope and Contents This collection consists of papers of Lexington, Virginia lawyer James D. Davidson and his daughter Mary Davidson and includes some correspondence, manuscript and printed poems of James D.Davidson, clippings, and some miscellaneaous papers from the family. James Davidson's printed and handwritten writings in the collection were compiled for his book "A Curiosity in the Chancery and Rhyme and Prose," (N.D., but likely 1876-81). The collection contains detailed genealogy of the Davidson,...
Dates: 1830 - 1915

Dr. Wesley Emmett Gatwood to Robert E. Lee, 1866-05-17

 Item — Box 7A, Folder: 60
Scope and Contents

This letter by Dr. Wesley Emmett Gatewood is addressed to Robert E. Lee. Gatewood would like information on attending Washington College and a piece of clothing Lee wore during the American Civil War.

Dates: 1866-05-17