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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:

Benjamin W. Martin Pardon

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1208
Scope and Content Note

Pardon for Benjamin W. Martin, of Bradley County, Arkansas, for his role as a tax collector for the Confederate States of America. Signed by President Andrew Johnson and his Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Original is in two pieces.

Dates: 1865
Found in: Special Collections Department / Benjamin W. Martin Pardon

Albert O. McCollom Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS M13L
Scope and Content Note

Collection consists of a folklore report composed by Joy R. Stewart for the Arkansas Folklore class of Mary Celestia Parler at the University of Arkansas. Materials were transcribed from MS M13f McCollom Family Papers.

Dates: 1861-1864
Found in: Special Collections Department / Albert O. McCollom Letters

Ben McCulloch Letter

 Collection — Box LOC L34: [Barcode: 35129218291652]
Identifier: MS L34 McCulloch
Scope and Content Note

Letter dated at Headquarters, Camp Jackson, Arkansas September 25, 1861, from McCulloch, Brigadier General, to Henry Massey Rector, Governor of Arkansas, regarding difficulty encountered in recruiting and arming five regiments.

Dates: 1861
Found in: Special Collections Department / Ben McCulloch Letter

McIlroy Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 790
Scope and Content Note

The papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and business records and have been grouped into four series; Powell-Rhea, Rhea-McIlroy, Lincoln land records, and Photographs.

Dates: 1846-1979
Found in: Special Collections Department / McIlroy Family Papers

McLendon, Isaac C. P. Oath of Allegiance, 1861

 Collection
Identifier: MS C68
Scope and Content Note

Oath sworn by McLendon, of Sevier County, Arkansas, upon enlistment in Confederate States Army at Camp Barton, Highland County, Virginia, July 29, 1861, with certifying endorsement by W. G. Wright, Surgeon, 3rd Arkansas Regiment.

Dates: 1861
Found in: Special Collections Department / McLendon, Isaac C. P. Oath of Allegiance, 1861

Minos Miller Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS M58
Scope and Content Note

Correspondence exchanged between Major Minos Miller and members of his family during the time he was on military duty in Arkansas and elsewhere with the 54th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment, which was made up largely of Arkansas troops. All letters are from Minos Miller to his mother, Martha Hornaday of Eddyville, Iowa, unless otherwise noted.

Dates: 1860-1866
Found in: Special Collections Department / Minos Miller Letters

James S. Moose, Jr., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1031
Scope and Content Note

Contained are the professional papers pertaining to James S. Moose's career as a diplomat to Greece, France, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Sudan between 1928 and 1962; appointment books containing diary entries, 1942-1984; personal papers generated as a result of his research during his teaching career and his interest in early Arkansas history and the Civil War era; genealogy material; and photographs.

Dates: 1928-1984
Found in: Special Collections Department / James S. Moose, Jr., Papers

May Hope Moose Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 721
Scope and Content Note The papers include photocopied genealogies and memoirs by May Hope Moose and Florence Cazort Byrd (first cousin to May Cazort McClurkin); a photocopy of the memoirs of May Cazort McClurkin constitutes part of the collection as well, as do photocopies of familial correspondence. Clippings, pamphlets, and programs related to Conway County churches and the Morrilton centennial are also present in the May Hope Moose Papers, as is a series of photographs. May Hope Moose, who retained the...
Dates: 1879-1962
Found in: Special Collections Department / May Hope Moose Papers

Muster-Out Roll, Captain Francis Marion Ward's Company G, First Arkansas Cavalry (USA)

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1421
Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of a Muster-Out Roll (ca 52" x 52") detailing individual soldiers' name; rank; age; date, place, and duration of recruitment; payment schedule; remarks column with information about promotions, deaths, and desertions; and other data.

Dates: 1865
Found in: Special Collections Department / Muster-Out Roll, Captain Francis Marion Ward's Company G, First Arkansas Cavalry (USA)

Muster-out Rolls

 Collection
Identifier: MC 547
Scope and Content Note Muster-out rolls (discharges) for Private Madison A. Randolph, Company B, Second Arkansas Cavalry; Private Thomas B. Smith, Company C, Second Arkansas Infantry; and Corporal Thomas A. Campbell, Company F, Second Arkansas Infantry; all May 1865. Official Union army muster out rolls for three soldiers, dated May 1865. Pay accounts, clothing allowances, original enlistment locations, and other information are itemized for: Private Madison A. Randolph, Company B, Second Arkansas...
Dates: 1865
Found in: Special Collections Department / Muster-out Rolls

J.E. Nagle Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1950
Scope and Content Note Materials include correspondence, mostly summons from various Confederate States Army commanders, generals, and sergeants. This collection includes correspondence from William J. Hardee (3), T.H. Bradley (1), H.T. Hodnett (1), D.G. White (3), ...
Dates: 1861-1863
Found in: Special Collections Department / J.E. Nagle Materials

Anton Neis Oath

 Collection
Identifier: MS N31
Scope and Content Note

Oath of allegiance issued to Anton Neis, a resident of Sebastian County, by Captain C. O. Judson, assistant provost marshal, Fort Smith (Sebastian County), on December 19, 1862.

Dates: 1862
Found in: Special Collections Department / Anton Neis Oath

Molsie A. R. Osborne Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 574
Scope and Content Note Autograph books, letters, and photographs pertaining to the Sledge-Ammons-Riddick family, including Civil War letters and autograph book belonging to Molsie Wright Ammons, preparatory class, Arkansas Industrial University, 1886. The collection apparently originated with Rebecca Maisie Sledge (died January 1867, El Dorado, Arkansas), who married [?] Ammons. Their daughter, Molsie Wright Ammons (born 4 July 1866, El Dorado, Arkansas) married Walter M. Riddick, and added to the...
Dates: circa 1855-1899
Found in: Special Collections Department / Molsie A. R. Osborne Collection

John M. Page Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1708
Scope and Contents The collection consists of 36 letters written by John M. Page to his mother and to his sister, Maria, while Page was serving in the Union Army (first with the Long Island 3rd Detachment, Company B, and later with the 7th Massachusetts Battery, in the corps of Captain Newman W. Storer) from 1863-1865 during the U.S. Civil War. Topics include discussions of his experiences at camp and in battle at Mobile, Alabama; finances; family, particularly an Uncle Smith; and requests for items to be sent...
Dates: 1863-1865
Found in: Special Collections Department / John M. Page Correspondence

John Wilson Peel Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 927
Scope and Content Note

Letters and genealogy notes pertaining to the John Wilson Peel family of Benton County, Arkansas.

Dates: 1862-1875
Found in: Special Collections Department / John Wilson Peel Papers

Peters Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 917
Scope and Content Note The papers pertain primarily to Arthur Nelson Peters (Jay Hale's grandfather) and his business, the Ball and Peters Railroad and General Contractors Company of Little Rock. The papers consist of three series--family papers, property records, and business records. Series 1, Family Papers, includes Peters family histories, an eyewitness account of the Battle of Shiloh during the Civil War, correspondence during World War I, military records, poems from the 1850's and 1860's, and...
Dates: 1854-1972
Found in: Special Collections Department / Peters Family Papers

Prairie Grove Battle Account

 Collection
Identifier: MC 673
Scope and Content Note

Typewritten eyewitness account pertaining to the disposition of the dead and wounded following the battle of Prairie Grove (Washington County), December 7, 1862, by Samuel Pinckney Pittman, 1st Sergeant, Company K, 34th Arkansas Infantry. This account was first published in the December 5, 1896 issue of the Mountain City Gazette, Fayetteville (Washington County), Arkansas.

Dates: circa 1896
Found in: Special Collections Department / Prairie Grove Battle Account

Richard Howell Purdue Research Files

 Collection
Identifier: MS P972r
Scope and Content Note Correspondence, familial, legal, and military records; biographical sketches; literary manuscripts; diary excerpts; notes; maps; and other published and unpublished material, principally in photocopy or transcript, received or collected by historian Richard Howell Purdue and his wife and co-author, Elizabeth Scales Purdue, in course of research for their Pat Cleburne, Confederate General: A Definitive Biography (Hillsboro, Tex., Hill Jr. College Press,...
Dates: 1823-1973; Majority of material found within 1861-1970
Found in: Special Collections Department / Richard Howell Purdue Research Files

Pyeatt Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1628
Scope and Content Note The Pyeatt Family Papers primarily contains correspondence between Jesse H. Pyeatt, who served with the Confederate army during the Civil War, and his wife Matilda Woodruff Pyeatt. While the correspondence provides little historical or genealogical information concerning these families, it offers significant insight into the wartime experiences of these families. Also included are letters between far-flung members of these families that elucidate hardships brought about by the war....
Dates: 1855-1891
Found in: Special Collections Department / Pyeatt Family Papers

William Minor Quesenbury Receipt and Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS Qu3
Scope and Content Note

Receipt given by Quesenbury, at Bonham, Texas, December 6, 1864, to Brigadier General Douglas H. Cooper, acknowledging payment of $910 "...in full of claim I held against said...Cooper in the case of a payment made to Captain Abraham Foster, and about which I knew nothing on God's earth..."; together with letter, dated at Bonham February 26, 1865, from Quesenbury to Charles B. Johnson, boasting of the birth of son and dealing with other personal matters.

Dates: 1864-1865
Found in: Special Collections Department / William Minor Quesenbury Receipt and Letter

William Remmel Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 597
Scope and Content Note Letters and papers pertaining to William Remmel. Several different types of material are included among the papers: thirteen letters concern attempts on the part of William Remmel's family to ascertain his fate after the war; seven letters and documents describe his family's efforts to obtain his back pay; six letters and documents pertain to his mother's attempts to be awarded a pension as the dependent mother of a Civil War casualty; six items relate to William Remmel's days as...
Dates: 1862-1924; Majority of material found within 1862-1864
Found in: Special Collections Department / William Remmel Papers

Alphes Reynard Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS R29
Scope and Content Note Typescript copy of five original letters, four of which are from Private Alphes Reynard, Company E, Tenth Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry, written to his family while he was on duty with the Army of the Potomac in 1862. His letters describe the battlefield at Manassas Junction, Virginia; his experiences while serving during McClellan's Peninsula Campaign in Virginia; and the preparation of defensive works in Washington, D. C. The final letter is from Private James C. Temple, likely of Company...
Dates: 1862
Found in: Special Collections Department / Alphes Reynard Letters

Daniel Harris Reynolds Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS R32
Abstract

Correspondence, diary, biographical sketch, reports, lists, and other material relating to aspects of the life and work of the Arkansas soldier, lawyer, and legislator, Daniel Harris Reynolds, especially as regards his military career during the Civil War, from captain in command of the Chicot Rangers of Co. A, 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles, 1861, to brigadier general in command of a Confederate brigade, 1864.

Dates: 1861-1892
Found in: Special Collections Department / Daniel Harris Reynolds Papers

Roots Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS R679 348
Scope and Content Note Copies of correspondence, diaries, certificates, lists, map, military, genealogical, business and legal records, photographs, and other published and unpublished materials created, received, or collected by Logan Holt Roots (1841-1893), Philander Keep Roots (1838-1921), or members of their families. Material pertains to: the military, business, political, personal, familial, and other activities and interests of soldier, planter, political leader, banker, and railroad developer L.H. Roots,...
Dates: 1842-1907
Found in: Special Collections Department / Roots Family Papers

Uriah Milton Rose Correspondence and Literary Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MS R72
Scope and Content Note Correspondence of the Arkansas lawyer, jurist, scholar and diplomat, and of his law partner, George B. Rose, pertaining to their practice of law, to the former's recollection of delegates to the Arkansas constitutional convention of 1836, and to his appointment in 1906 as a member of The Hague Peace Tribunal, together with a photo duplicate of the original revised manuscript of his reminiscence, "An Episode During the Civil War, by U. M. Rose." Correspondents include Burrill Bun Battle,...
Dates: 1881-1910; undated
Found in: Special Collections Department / Uriah Milton Rose Correspondence and Literary Manuscript

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