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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 103 Collections and/or Records:

Life of Lincoln publication

 Collection
Identifier: c-00062
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of an illustrated life of Abraham Lincoln by Clifton M. Nichols, published in 1896. The publication contains a biography, Lincoln anecdotes, and eulogies of Lincoln by various people.

Dates: 1896
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Lyman family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00128
Scope and Contents The Lyman family papers include correspondence, diaries, property deeds, newspapers, photographs, and other materials for the family of Liberty Lyman and Lucinda Sikes Lyman covering the years 1812-1910.The bulk of the family correspondence consists of letters to Lucinda Lyman from her sons and daughters, as well as letters from friends and relatives in Massachusetts. Especially interesting are the letters of the Lyman sons in California. Many vivid details are given on life in California...
Dates: 1812 - 1910
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mallison family collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00675
Scope and Contents The collection consists of materials from the Mallison family including the Civil War letters of Simeon Mallison and George Hewes, an article (1928) about Bertha Mallison and her chicken dinners, a Mallison Farm Chicken Dinners card, a photo postcard of the Hesperian House where Bertha Mallison cooked, a photograph of Mallison family exhibit, a photograph of farm house, a photograph of Todd Mallison (great great nephew of Simeon Mallison) with Post 294 GAR flag, a Homestead Certificate from...
Dates: 1861-1873, 1928, 1958, 2013, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Manuel McCormick diary

 Collection
Identifier: c-00489
Scope and Contents

The collection includes the diary of Manuel McCormick of Lenawee County, Michigan. The entries describe his experiences, troop movements, and battles through the southern United States, particularly Tennessee, while a soldier during the American Civil War, from January 1863 through July 1864.

Dates: 1836 - 1886
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mary Taylor Hale correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: c-00330
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the correspondence was written by friends and relatives in Michigan and California in the period 1864-1880 to Mary Taylor, later Mrs. Richard Hale, a school teacher residing in Milford, Michigan

In addition to education and the problems of teaching, such topics as the Civil War, the draft, election politics, and farming activities are discussed.

Also included are the courtship letters (1842) of John Taylor of Milford and Jane Wark of New York City.

Dates: 1835 - 1880
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mayo family papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-28.1
Scope and Contents Over fifty Civil War letters of Perry Mayo, written to his family in Calhoun County, Michigan, from June 1861 to May 1864, constitute the bulk of this collection. They include vivid descriptions of battles, marches, military personnel and camp life, together with observations on the conduct of the war. Also in this collection are numerous and fragmentary attempts at genealogy, with related correspondence which, in addition to Mayo, include such family names as Angell, Bryant,...
Dates: 1861 - 1966
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Michigan Infantry, 5th Regiment, Company G records

 Collection
Identifier: c-00411
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a photocopy of a Civil War muster roll of Company G, 5th Regiment, Michigan Volunteers.

Dates: undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Michigan Infantry, 7th Regiment, Company F records

 Collection
Identifier: c-00309
Scope and Contents This collection consists of one volume of records of Company F of the 7th Michigan Infantry, mustered in Monroe in 1861. The regiment fought in the eastern theater and took part in the battles of the Peninsula Campaign, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and Appomattox Court House. The company records include lists of officers and enlisted men, recording enlistment's, desertions, transfers, discharges and deaths. This voume has been transcribed, scanned and placed online at ...
Dates: 1861 - 1864
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Monroe family papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00705
Content Description

This collection consists of photocopies of Monroe family military documents including Norton M. Monroe's discharge papers (December 1863), a pension form for Norton M. Monroe from November 1918, a claim for settlement of unused leave form for Maurice F. Monroe, circa 1946. There is also a copy of a handwritten land tax form for Hiram Hardy from 1867.

Dates: 1863, 1868, 1918, 1920, 1924, circa 1946
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mrs. Earl Tooker collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00332
Scope and Contents This collection consists of one letter, dated July 14, 1863, written by a Confederate soldier, John Flood, Company H, 47th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, to his mother in Woodstock, Georgia. He discusses the fall of Vicksburg and Grant's siege of Jackson, Mississippi. A photocopy of the letter is also included.The letter has been transcribed, scanned and placed online at ...
Dates: 1863
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections