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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:

R. E. Carpenter letter

 Collection
Identifier: c-00121
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a letter from R.E. Carpenter of Oskaloosa, Iowa (1861). In this letter Carpenter expresses his anger at the secessionists and his eagerness to join the Union forces. This letter has been transcribed, scanned and placed online at http://civilwar.archives.msu.edu/collection/7-1C-1D/carpenter/.

Dates: 1861

Ralph and Kate Lickley papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.434
Scope and Contents Lickley's work and inventions were directed toward the improvement of railroad locomotives. Included in the papers are blueprints, U.S. Patent Office papers and related correspondence, and interoffice correspondence and machine specifications from the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company.The collection also includes a mimeographed history of Wright Township, Hillsdale County, Michigan, written by Lickley in 1935; a mimeographed letter (May 12, 1938) describing the...
Dates: circa 1860s-1939, Undated

Republican Party Campaign materials

 Collection
Identifier: 00033
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of Republican materials from Michigan and National campaigns from 1864 to the present.

Dates: 1864 - 1964

Robert Mueller collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00690
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of three letters dated January 25, February 4, and August 18, 1862.

Dates: 1862

Roger D. Baker collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00604
Scope and Contents The Roger D. Baker collection contains photographs of prominent individuals from the Civil War such as Abraham Lincoln, William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Sheridan, David Farragut, Jefferson Davis, and John Wilkes Booth. Also, the collection contains postcards displaying the Michigan state senators and legislature from 1909 to 1912. The civil war related images have been scanned and put online at ...
Dates: 1860 - 1912

Roger Noble papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00122
Scope and Contents This collection consists of three Civil War letters from Roger Noble of the 7th Michigan Infantry to his family in Michigan. He describes daily war life and tells of looting Robert E. Lee's plantation. The collection also contains a newspaper photo of Noble printed in 1961.These letters have been transcribed, scanned and placed online at ...
Dates: 1861

Rufus B. Cole letter

 Collection
Identifier: c-00264
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a letter from Rufus B. Cole, stationed with a Michigan civil War regiment in Louisville, Kentucky. The letter is primarily concerned with religious concerns and Cole's desire to be home again. This letter has been transcribed, scanned and placed online at http://civilwar.archives.msu.edu/collection/7-1C-1E/cole/.

Dates: 1863

Samuel H. Abbott papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00308
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence addressed primarily to Samuel H. Abbott of Cedar Dale, Sanilac County, Michigan, from members of his family. The letters include a remedy for small pox, references to the draft and techniques of dodging it during the Civil War, concern over sale prices of farm products, especially wheat, and one letter concerning the great fires of October 1871 and the damage done by them in Sanilac County and in Ontario, Canada.Also included is a diary...
Dates: 1853 - 1903

Samuel Johnson papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.120
Scope and Contents The early correspondence gives a description of Civil War fighting in Virginia and comments on the controversy following McClellan’s removal by Lincoln. The correspondence from the 1870s recounts Johnson’s efforts as Professor of Agriculture and deal with animal sales and purchases, grain tests, and other topics. Also included are lectures read by Johnson and Ray Stannard Baker’s student notebook of lectures given by Johnson.The second portion of the collection contains the...
Dates: 1824 - 1944

Simeon A. Howe letters

 Collection
Identifier: c-00427
Scope and Contents This collection contains photocopies of handwritten transcriptions by the donor of eighty-nine Civil War letters (1863-1865) from Simeon A. Howe to his wife Cindonia Endocia Pratt Howe.The letters relate the activities of Howe's regiment, Simeon's cooking, and give a descriptive view of army life in general. Near the end of Simeon's service, a few letters deal with the death of their young son, Owen. Also included are a photocopy of an army pension document issued to Howe...
Dates: 1863 - 1890