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

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 95 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Dunlap Ledger and Journal

 Collection
Identifier: MS D92
Scope and Content Note Financial records and medical notes of Fort Smith, Arkansas physician and surgeon, pertaining to his war-time service as Confederate States Army surgeon and to his post-war practice. One volume contains weekly "Accounts Current" and monthly financial statements compiled by Dunlap in his capacity as Surgeon-in Charge of the Confederate Army's general hospitals at Monticello, Arkansas, July 23, 1864 to October 7, 1864, and at Washington, Arkansas, October 15, 1864 to May 22, 1865....
Dates: 1861; 1864-1865; 1867-1870
Found in: Special Collections Department / Albert Dunlap Ledger and Journal

Fontaine Richard Earle Military and Other Records

 Collection
Identifier: Microfilm E 605 E23
Scope and Contents

Microfilm reel containing scans of printed program, biographical sketches, lists, military reports, and rosters pertaining to the education of Amanda Buchanan Earle (1858), to the life of Fontaine Richard Earle (1893, 1908), and to his military career as Captain in command of Co. B., Brooks' Regiment of Arkansas Infantry, Army of the Confederate States of America (1863-1864).

Dates: 1858-1864
Found in: Special Collections Department / Fontaine Richard Earle Military and Other Records

Edmonson-Thomas Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1242
Scope and Content Note

The collection includes financial records of the Edmondson/Edmonson family, as well as a discharge certificate for Captain Benjamin Thomas.

Dates: 1854-1919
Found in: Special Collections Department / Edmonson-Thomas Family Papers

Jacob Elder Civil War Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1409
Scope and Content Note The collection includes letters to Margaret Watson Elder from her husband Capt. Jacob Elder, USA, written from camp while he was serving with the 2nd Arkansas Colored Infantry, and a letter from the nurse who attended Capt. Elder at his death in a military hospital in Memphis. Added is a fragment of a biographical note by the Elders' daughter Jane Elizabeth. Genealogical documents were placed in the accession file for the collection, along with a ruined page of Harper's Weekly, January 3,...
Dates: 1863; undated
Found in: Special Collections Department / Jacob Elder Civil War Letters

Engels-Kinnibrugh Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 554
Scope and Content Note

Letters, papers, and photographs pertaining to the Engels-Kinnibrugh families of Farmington, Washington County, Arkansas.

Dates: 1837-1970
Found in: Special Collections Department / Engels-Kinnibrugh Family Papers

Badgett Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 133
Scope and Content Note The material consists primarily of letters to and from members of the Badgett family in Caswell County, North Carolina, and in Jefferson, Texas. The letters pertain to human trafficking of enslaved persons, farming, impressions and observations of Thomas J. Badgett while he was a student at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and at the University of Pennsylvania (events include the execution of John Brown), the Civil War, and conditions and events in Texas following the Civil War. Other papers...
Dates: 1843-1877
Found in: Special Collections Department / Badgett Family Papers

Charles William Fry Notebook

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Identifier: MC 325
Scope and Content Note Notebook, transcribed by Stuart G. Vogt, 1975, of Charles William Fry (1842-1922), containing lists of personnel, military expenditures, inventories of ordinance, and copied quotations. Includes biographical note. Positive photocopy. Positive photocopy of a transcription of a notebook kept by Captain Charles William Fry, Fry's Company of Virginia Light Artillery (Orange Artillery). Captain Fry took part in many fights in Virginia during the war and kept a record of ordinance...
Dates: 1863-1885
Found in: Special Collections Department / Charles William Fry Notebook

John Rison Gibbons Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MS G35
Scope and Content Note

Typewritten transcript of fragment, January 1, 1862 to October 16, 1862, of diary kept by John R. Gibbons of Company I, 1st Rockbridge, Virginia Cavalry. Appended is transcript of a letter, dated Mount Solon, Augusta County, Virginia October 3, 1863, from "Sue" to Gibbons.

Dates: 1862-1863
Found in: Special Collections Department / John Rison Gibbons Diary

Gregg Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1000
Scope and Content Note Family and legal papers pertaining to the Lafayette Gregg family of Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas. The family papers consist of letters, biographical materials, invitations, diplomas, poetry, tax receipts, deeds, financial papers, and newspaper clippings. Of particular interest in the family letters are those written by Russell Cravens Gregg while serving with the U.S. Army at Camp Pike, Arkansas, and in France during World War One. The legal papers consist of court...
Dates: 1839-1983
Found in: Special Collections Department / Gregg Family Papers

Wilbur G. Hanks Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1270
Scope and Content Note The collection pertains primarily to three generations of the Hanks family: Green P. and Fanny Hanks, Wilbur G. and Martha Hanks, and Ora Joe Hanks of Johnson, Arkansas. Green P. Hanks (1838, Boonsboro, Arkansas-1929) served in the US army during the Civil War and was honorably discharged in 1865. Wilbur G. Hanks (1870-1931) was justice of the peace in Johnson, Arkansas. Ora Joe Hanks graduated from the Fayetteville, Arkansas, High School in 1922 and received the Teachers' Course certificate...
Dates: circa 1864-1950
Found in: Special Collections Department / Wilbur G. Hanks Family Papers

Harper Family Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2277
Scope and Content Note The collection contains materials regarding the Harper family, including a letter from Rachel Harper writing from Montezuma, Indiana, to one of her sons informing him of the death of his brother, Derastus Harper, who fought in the U.S. Civil War's Battle of Marks' Mills (Cleveland County, Arkansas), as well as of the birth of his nephew, William Albert; research notes and a transcription of the letter created by Jeremy Oborny; and genealogical notes on Daniel Harper and other family...
Dates: 1866-2018
Found in: Special Collections Department / Harper Family Materials

Albert Harris Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MC 346
Scope and Content Note Albert Harris, a civilian employee of the Office of Chief Quartermaster, Department of Arkansas, United States Army, wrote to his relations in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, while working in Little Rock (Pulaski County). The letters, which date from August 7, 1864, to May 21, 1866, discuss in detail his activities in organizing laborers, his relationships with civilians, and living conditions in the city. Of particular interest are his comments concerning black workers and soldiers in the area....
Dates: 1864-1866
Found in: Special Collections Department / Albert Harris Letters

James M. Harrison Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2462
Abstract

Microfilm copies of letters from brothers James M. Harrison and Richard P. Harrison during the U. S. Civil War.

Dates: 1861-1865
Found in: Special Collections Department / James M. Harrison Letters

William H. Heath Hours With Grant Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1998
Scope and Contents The collection consists of two copies (a draft and a final version) of William H. Heath's memoirs related to his service in the 33rd Missouri Infanty during the U. S. Civil War and to his experiences with Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, entitled Hours With Grant. Also included is a newspaper clipping related to a reunion of the 33rd Missouri Infantry, and a published booklet regarding Maryland's commemoration of the centennial of the Civil War....
Dates: circa 1890-1964
Found in: Special Collections Department / William H. Heath Hours With Grant Materials

Albert Hemenway Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1544
Scope and Content Note

The letter consists of four pages written in ink on one sheet. When it was purchased it was split along the folds and has been encapsulated in a mylar folder.

In it, Albert Hemenway wrote to his sister on December 24, 1864 from a camp, “White River, Ark.” describing his Christmas dinner of fish, “sody crackers”, and “coffy” and commented “ i tel you itt wount do for soldiers to have to menny good things to onse.”

Dates: 1864
Found in: Special Collections Department / Albert Hemenway Letter

Hudson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2392
Abstract

Materials related to the Hudson family of Arkansas, including copies of a personal memoir and Civil War letter.

Dates: 1865, undated
Found in: Special Collections Department / Hudson Family Papers

James Madison Hudson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1390
Scope and Content Note

The collection contains typescripts of two memoirs by Arkansan James Madison Hudson, one covering his service in the Confederate army, and one covering his experiences of Reconstruction in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

In addition, the collection includes examples of Confederate currency, including Arkansas state treasury warrants, Confederate States of America banknotes, and local scrip.

Dates: 1861-1907
Found in: Special Collections Department / James Madison Hudson Papers

Hughes-McDonald Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 641
Scope and Content Note The Hughes-McDonald Family Papers consist of letters, promissory notes, legal documents, and photographs pertaining to the Hughes-McDonald families of Franklin County, Arkansas. Most of the letters in the collection were written by geographically distant relatives of the Hughes-McDonald families. A substantial number are from the Bledsoe family of Alabama. Cousins to Polly Ann McDonald, the Bledsoes wrote to her and her father throughout the years prior to the Civil War and...
Dates: 1820-1912
Found in: Special Collections Department / Hughes-McDonald Family Papers

Michael A. Hughes Research Information on Arkansas Troops in the Civil War

 Collection
Identifier: MC 591
Scope and Content Note

Typed and photocopied histories of Arkansas Union regiments; statistical study of enlistment places, birthplaces, occupations, and ages of Arkansas Union solders (2 versions).

Dates: 1984
Found in: Special Collections Department / Michael A. Hughes Research Information on Arkansas Troops in the Civil War

Roy G. Hutcheson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 295
Abstract

Diary fragment of a woman traveling from New York to Illinois in 1837 and Civil War-era letters.

Dates: 1837, 1845, 1864-1865
Found in: Special Collections Department / Roy G. Hutcheson Collection

Sidney D. Jackman Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: MC 613
Scope and Content Note

Typescript copy of Sidney D. Jackman's Civil War experiences including the battle of Lone Jack, Missouri.

Dates: 1862-1864
Found in: Special Collections Department / Sidney D. Jackman Reminiscences

Charles B. Johnson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS J63
Scope and Content Note Letters, receipts, invoices, military orders and other documents pertaining to the work of Charles B. Johnson and his partner, Marshall Grimes, contractors with the Confederate States Army for provisioning Reserve Indians and troops; to the transport and supply functions of the Trans Mississippi Department, C. S. A., in Arkansas, Texas, and the Indian Territory; and to relations between the Confederate States of America and the several Indian nations in the area. Correspondents and persons...
Dates: 1859-1865
Found in: Special Collections Department / Charles B. Johnson Papers

Dudley Emerson Jones Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1305
Scope and Content Note

Papers of Dudley Emerson Jones and some of his descendants. The collection includes many handwritten or typed accounts of incidents in Dudley E. Jones's life, particularly the gold rush and the Civil War. Included also are letters and photographs.

Dates: 1849-1976
Found in: Special Collections Department / Dudley Emerson Jones Papers

Joseph Hubbard Jones Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 322
Scope and Content Note Materials relating to the family of Joseph Hubbard Jones of Desha County, Arkansas. The bulk of the collection consists of family photographs, and includes images from a 1916 flood in Watson, Arkansas. Also included is a positive photocopy of reminiscences entitled "Sketch of My Army Life from 1861 to 1865," by Corporal Joseph Hubbard Jones, Company D, First Arkansas Infantry. Apparently written in the late nineteenth century, this autobiographical essay by Jones is a thumbnail sketch of his...
Dates: circa 1849-1997
Found in: Special Collections Department / Joseph Hubbard Jones Family Papers

Lighton Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 779
Scope and Content Note The papers pertain primarily to William Rheem Lighton (1866- 1923), his wife Laura McMaken Lighton (1869-1948) and their children, Dorothy (1893-1967), Louis Duryea (1895-1963), Suzanne Chalfant (1905-1978), and Betty (b. 1912). Most of the papers were collected and saved by daughters Suzanne and Betty. Included are materials pertaining to their extended family, in particular, Dorothy Lighton's children and grandchildren and Laura McMaken's father, Andrew Campbell McMaken. These...
Dates: 1828-1987
Found in: Special Collections Department / Lighton Family Papers

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