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Harrison E. Randall Letters
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).
Commonweal Records
Grand Army of the Republic. Notre Dame Post 569 (Notre Dame, Ind.) Records
Minutes, 1897-1915; correspondence, 1897-1931; clippings, 1897-1915; and a medal and certificate from a GAR reunion held in 1900; with material on Peter Paul Cooney, William Corby, and James A. McLain.
Joshua Giddings Correspondence
Correspondence of Joshua Giddings with family members and acquaintances, including William LLoyd Garrison, regarding reconstruction policy; also correspondence of George W. Julian (1817-1899), Member of Congress from Indiana, and others, including the American Abolition Society, Charles Francis Adams, and Salmon P. Chase; concerning the Republican Party, slavery, the 1856 Republican convention, and political strategy.
Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Kentucky Records
William T. Sherman Family Papers
Correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, diaries, legal and financial papers, drafts and copies of articles, speeches and military orders, and explanatory notes; originals, photostats, microfilm, typewritten copies and handwritten copies; also books from the Sherman family library and photographs, including many by George Barnard taken during the Civil War.
Available on microfilm from the Archives of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556.
John E. and Elizabeth Savage Brownlee Family Papers
Around 80 manuscripts retained by John E. and Elizabeth Savage Brownlee in the decades following their emigration from Ireland to the United States in 1851. The greater number are personal letters written by family members.
Sister M. Mildred Letters received
Photostats of letters Sister Mildred received from various Catholic diocesan and institutional archives in response to her requests for information about the territorial and administrative histories of the dioceses in the old Northwest before the Civil War.
Robert S. Edwards Papers
Around 60 items, mostly manuscripts, with a bearing on the Civil War service of Lt. Robert S. Edwards of the 48th New York Infantry. Among the 45 personal letters are 14 written by Edwards and 22 directed to him by his brother and sister-in-law, Ogden and Nellie Edwards, then living in the Philippines. There are also a number of items relating to Robert Edwards's death (at Fort Wagner in Charleston Harbor) and post-mortem arrangements.
Mary Crowell Letter
A four-page folio-sized manuscript letter written on 28-29 April 1862 by Mary Crowell of Nora, Illinois. Much of the letter is given over to news of members of Co. E, 15th Illinois Infantry, recently engaged at the battle of Shiloh.
Mississippi Estate and Business Records
About two-thirds of this collection consists of Hinds County, Mississippi probate records from the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras, pertaining to the settlement of 12 local estates. The remainder includes miscellaneous 19th-century court and business records from elsewhere in Mississippi, and from Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee.
Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis Collection
Morris C. Foote Collection
Personal and military documents of Lt. Morris Cooper Foote, 9th Infantry, United States Army, along with related Congressional documents. Included in the collection is a manuscript diary recording Foote's experiences from 1866 to 1869 in Alaska (its first 19 months as a U.S. territory) and from 1869 to 1871 in the Department of the Platte.
Helen Angela Hurley Papers
California-Oregon Trail Diary
An 1850 overland diary recording an emigrant's passage from Dubuque, Iowa to the Salt Lake Cutoff.
William Cline Diary
A volume including manuscript diary entries dated from August 1863 to October 1864 written by Civil War soldier William Cline, as a member of Co. B, 73rd Ohio Infantry. The book also includes a 53-page memoir chronicling Cline's service from 1861-1863.
J.J. O'Kelly (Sceilg) Collection
James Farnham Edwards Papers
John and Sarah McMahon Journals
A group of seven manuscript volumes, mostly personal journals, kept by Methodist Episcopal clergyman John T. McMahon and his wife Sarah Douglas McMahon. Much of the content dates from the couple's years working at the Church's North India Mission, 1871-1897.
Joseph C. Carrier Papers
Ostrom Stephen Lont Diary
A manuscript diary for 1860 kept by a doctor named Ostrom Stephen Lont, from Mazeppa, Wabasha County, Minnesota. Accompanying the diary are around 40 unidentified carte-de-visite portrait photographs and two Lont family bibles.
Joseph C. Audenried Journal
A manuscript journal of some 60,000 words kept by Col. Joseph C. Audenried of the U. S. Army during Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's 10-month tour of Europe and the Middle East in 1871-1872.
Thomas F. Mahony Papers
Ku Klux Klan and Notre Dame Collection
Material concerning the 1924 riot in South Bend, Indiana, between Notre Dame students and the Ku Klux Klan specifically; and the Ku Klux Klan and Notre Dame, in Indiana and in the USA more generally.
President 1905-1919: J.W. Cavanaugh
Houghton Family Correspondence
A group of 76 letters written by or to members of the William and Marilla Clay Houghton family of Vermont, Massachusetts, Alabama, and elsewhere, 1832-1850. Included are 43 letters directed to printer/publisher Henry Oscar Houghton, when the latter was in his teens and 20s.
Wicker Buydden Family Papers
Henry H. Maley Letters
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.
George Colin McKee Papers
Personal, professional, and political correspondence and other papers of the Mississippi lawyer, planter, and politician George Colin McKee (1837-1890). McKee was a "carpetbagger" and moderate Republican who represented the Vicksburg district in Congress during Reconstruction. Most of the material dates from the 20 years following the Civil War, though there are McKee family papers extending into the 20th century.