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7th Regiment of US Colored Troops Collection, 1863-1865, comprises 9 documents pertaining to the formation and discharge of the 7th United States Colored Infantry Regiment. Included in the collection are muster rolls, appointments, orders, and signatures of enlisted soldiers. Notably, materials are primarily related to 1st Lieutenant Joseph M. Califf and his appointments, though materials also include Private George Washington, Private Vincent Demby, and William Birney, among others.

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Handwritten transcriptions and newspaper clippings of Civil War poems and song lyrics, with a few items pertaining to the Revolutionary War or to events shortly after the Civil War.

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A collection of 55 manuscript personal letters written by Albert J. Baldwin, mostly dating from the author's Civil War service in Battery D, 1st Michigan Light Artillery.

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A manuscript Civil War diary of Confederate States Army lieutenant Alfred Moore, written as a member of Co. I, 11th Virginia Cavalry. Moore's entries extend from September 1864 to February 1865: events covered include Hampton's cattle raid and Rosser's raid on Beverly, West Virginia.

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The Amelia Bucklin Cornwall Collection comprises twelve letters and three envelopes from Amelia Bucklin Cornwell to her niece, Mary Bucklin Keating. The letters, with varying legibility, take place within the Civil War era and discuss topics such as rebels approaching, movement of friends and loved ones through Chicago, Illinois, and Richmond, Kentucky, communication interruptions, and commentary on life in Louisville during the Civil War.

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A small Civil War manuscript group consisting mostly of personal letters written home to Alabama by civilian medical doctor Leroy Hammond Anderson.

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More than one hundred letters written during the Civil War by two brothers serving in the Confederate army, Sgt. William Lafayette Barrier (1st North Carolina Cavalry) and Col. Rufus Barrier (8th North Carolina Infantry). The letters are mostly directed to the brothers' father, Mathias Barrier, in Mt. Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina.

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Civil War pension documents of private Mathew Burke (Company I 23rd Regiment of New York National Guard); a contract involving Annie J. Cunningham (1893) and an undertaker's bill for the funeral of Mary C. Cunningham (1906); and jubilee cards for Sister Mary Dominic (1913). These persons are likely forebears of Joseph P. Burke, Notre Dame class of 1925.

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A collection consisting primarily of 29 Civil War manuscript letters written by Union private Charles C. Caley, during his service in Co. F, 105th Ohio Infantry.

Scope and Contents A complete set of five profusely illustrated unused envelope covers which use the sport of boxing as a metaphor for the political and military conflict between the United States of America and the rebellious Confederate States of America in 1861. The images on each envelope depict the ultimately victorious President of the United States Abraham Lincoln and the President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis in a boxing match. The envelopes were published by J. H. Tingley, 152...

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Military papers, 1862-1865; passport and letters of reference, 1898; and proceedings of the fourth (Boston, 1871) and fifth (Cleveland, 1872) annual reunions of the Society of the Sixth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac (printed in New York, 1973).

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5 personal letters written between August 1861 and February 1862 by Confederate army lieutenant Christopher C. McKinney, as regimental adjutant, 8th Tennessee infantry.

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A manuscript personal letter written from the defenses of Richmond on 1 December 1864 by Confederate soldier Cicero R. Barker, 8th North Carolina Infantry.

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Dropfiles containing clippings, offprints, newsletters, and ephemera concerning the Civil War, and specifically the Irish Brigade, the Holy Cross Fathers as chaplains during the war, and the Holy Cross Sisters and other nuns and sisters who served as nurses during the war; also books, many of them published in the nineteenth century, and many with illustrations, concerning the Civil War. Also related photographs and objects.

Scope and Contents The bulk of this collection consists of letters created by brothers, Daniel B. and John S. Harris as they each relocated west from their hometown in York, Maine to seek greater economic opportunities during the Civil War era. The Harris brothers held opposing religious and political views, particularly regarding the Abolition Movement, and a portion of their correspondence reflects their views on these issues. John witnessed the outbreak of the Civil War in Missouri in 1861 while...

Scope and Contents This report of the Confederate Brigadier General Daniel Ruggles, dated 22 October 1862, was written one day after the latter had assumed command of District One of the army's Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. Roughly speaking, the district encompassed the eastern half of Mississippi, minus the counties on the Gulf Coast. Before the reorganization of 21 October, Ruggles had been in temporary command of the district encompassing western Mississippi, called the District of the...

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A Civil War manuscript diary kept by David B. Arthur of Grant County, Wisconsin, as 1st sergeant and 2nd lieutenant in Co. I, 20th Wisconsin Infantry. Entries range from October 1862 to June 1863, when the regiment was serving in Missouri and Arkansas.

Scope and Content Manuscripts, articles, and letters by and about David Power Conyngham; including a 1914 biographical sketch and a 1988 article about Conyngham; 1932 correspondence between University Archivist Thomas McAvoy, CSC, and various librarians regarding Conyngham and his papers; and a handwritten manuscript and bound transcription of Soldiers of the Cross, Conyngham's history of Union and Confederate Catholic chaplains and sister nurses during the Civil War. All the documents except the...

Scope and Contents The Dennis H. Arnold and Mary E. Arnold Correspondence, 1862-1863, comprise Civil War era letters between Corporal Dennis H. Arnold in Hilton Head, South Carolina and Mary E. Arnold, his wife, in Rockland, Rhode Island. Corporal Arnold’s letters primarily discuss his arrival in Hilton Head, soldiers' generally unfavorable reactions to General Hunter’s emancipation proclamation, efforts to create an African American regiment, a siege train going to Savannah, illness at camp, and food. Mary...

Scope and Contents One of the inescapable duties of the regimental commander was the submission of reports detailing his unit's actions. This example, in clerical hand, was signed by Lt. Col. Edward Bloodgood (c1831-1914) as commanding officer of the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry. The report is dated 10 July 1864, and recounts the regiment's operations from 16 May to 10 July, during the drive on Atlanta. Throughout this period the 22nd was attached to 2nd (Coburn's) Brigade, 3rd Division, 20th Army Corps, in George...

Scope and Content A few letters, writings, and notes of Jolly concerning her movement to erect a national monument to the service of nuns during the Civil War, her gift to Notre Dame of the Immaculate Conception Dogma Medal that she received from Arthur J. Burns, and the life of Mary Seton (d. 1615). Also the ceremonial key to the Nuns of the Battlefield Monument (Washington, D.C.) that she presented to Notre Dame in 1926; and a photograph of Irish poet Mary J. O'Donovan Rossa (1868), with the...

Scope and Contents Of the seven manuscripts in the group, five are letters by Pratt to his mother or father—one written from western Virginia in August of 1861, and four from various locations in the Shenandoah Valley, December 1862 to November 1863. The two remaining documents (March-June 1862) are letters to Pratt from the headquarters of Brig. Gen. Wise, responding to Pratt's own, perhaps repeated entreaties that Wise use his influence to expedite Pratt's exchange. Pratt's initial assignment to Wise's...

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Photographs of General William Tecumseh Sherman's campaign in Tennessee, of Atlanta occupied by Union troops, and of Sherman's march to the sea. We have the set that belonged to General Sherman, and they constitute part of the William T. Sherman Family Papers in our archives.

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A manuscript Civil War diary of Confederate States Army lieutenant George H. Murphy, written as a member of Co. D, 23rd Virginia Cavalry. Entries extend from 1 March to 13 April 1865, and recount the author's movements up and down the Shenandoah Valley.

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A manuscript diary maintained by Confederate States Pvt. H. H. Wiseman, Co. B, 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery, recounting Wiseman's experiences in Union prison camps at Governors Island and Elmira, New York in 1864-1865.

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77 Civil War letters of Harrison E. Randall of Fulton County, Ohio, written from the field as a member of Co. H, 100th Ohio Infantry. Most were written from Kentucky (September 1862 to August 1863), Georgia, during the Atlanta campaign (June to August 1864), Alabama and Tennessee, including letters from the Nashville campaign (October 1864 to January 1865) and North Carolina (March and April 1865).

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A group of 50 personal letters written during the Civil War by Union private Henry H. Maley, Co. K, 84th Illinois Infantry. Most of the letters date from 1864-65, when the regiment was attached to IV Corps, in the Army of the Cumberland.

Scope and Contents Letter from Henry S. Figures, a young Alabama salesman, to his father. Much of the letter's content treats the military plans and aspirations of Figures' acquaintances, as the Confederacy hastened to mold existing state militias and fresh volunteers into a national army. Many of those mentioned would serve with Figures in the 4th Alabama: Clifton Walker, Samuel Moore, and Fielding Bradford all were privates in Company I, and William Fariss, like Figures, served in Company F. The regiment had...

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A group of 5 letters written by naval lieutenant Herbert Benezet Tyson of the U.S.S. Connecticut, during that ship's cruise to and around the Caribbean in winter/spring 1865.

Scope and Content Set of documents (photocopies and microfilm copies of the originals) relating to Indiana history: consisting of letters, diaries, journals, business records, church records, minutes, account books, sermons, speeches, memoirs; including journals of Irish immigrant Rev. John Hamilton (1850), and Methodist circuit rider William S. Hooper (1858-1868); an autobiography of Rev. Thomas Butler; and diaries and letters from the Civil War period. Also privately printed commencement...