United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Civil War papers of Capt. John T. Burgess
Collection
Identifier: Mss-1088
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents related to Captain John T. Burgess, a Union officer serving with the 74th New York Infantry Regiment (5th Excelsior), and the formation and his command of Company D from May 1861 until May 1862. The collection contains company muster rolls, circular on framing of [criminal] charges against military personnel, correspondence, instructions on countersign signals, general orders (number 1, 4, and 12), leave passes, meeting minutes with officer election...
Dates:
1860-1914; Majority of material found within (: 1860-1863)
Chapman family correspondence
Collection
Identifier: Mss-1070
Abstract
Bulk of the correspondence consists of 121 letters written by Rufus Chapman, Union soldier with the 8th Maine Infantry Regiment, to his wife Catherine in Acton, Maine.
Dates:
1861-1865
Howard family papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss-459
Scope and Contents
Most of the collection consists of letters written by four brothers, Stanley, Charles, Henry, and Edward Howard, to their sister Ella and/or their parents, Joseph F. and Nancy Minerva (Pelton) Howard, in Leeds, a section of Northampton, Mass., during their service in the Civil War. Corporal Joseph “Stanley” Howard served with Co. G 27th Regt Mass. Vol. from 1861-1865 and wrote from such locations as Camp Hampshire, Newbern and Washington NC; Annapolis and Baltimore MD; York PA;...
Dates:
1860-1910
Joseph B. and William A. Read papers, 1830-1926.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-39
Scope and Contents
Autobiographical account of Joseph B. Read with accounts of teaching, Baptist missionary, and a detailed description of his experiences as a Union soldier in the Massachusetts 58th regiment, where he acted as war correspondent for Bristol County newspapers. The collection also contains the personal papers of his son, William Alfred Read, a lawyer in Washington, D.C. William Read recorded two volumes of family memoirs and he also included miscellaneous comments on court cases as well as...
Dates:
1830-1926
William Pitt Greenwood Hayward papers, 1816-1971.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-41
Scope and Contents
Chiefly correspondence by the family of William Pitt Greenwood Hayward (1848-1922) of Roxbury, MA and Denver, CO and his daughter Gertrude Hayward Mead (1883-1969) of Denver, CO and Greenwich, CT. The papers of William P.G. Hayward includes a diary kept the summer of 1872, when he worked as a cowboy in Kansas. The papers of Henry Clay Moffett (1832-1863), brother of William P.G. Hayward's wife Susan Moffett, includes correspondence and a diary with an account of his trip from San Francisco...
Dates:
1816-1971