United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Found in 95 Collections and/or Records:
Joseph Robinson Rutherford Papers
George M. Sanders Collection
Typed transcript of a 1905 reminiscence of Civil War experiences in Arkansas and elsewhere written by George M. Sanders (1830-1906) and a record book kept by him in the spring of 1865 while he was stationed at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, or at Eastport, Mississippi recording infantry and cavalry equipment issued to Company A. An additional book kept from April 10 to July 12, 1864 records the sick list of men from Company L while the regiment was stationed at Port Hudson, Louisiana.
Sylvester H. Sawyer Correspondence
Materials include two letters from Dr. Sawyer in Helena, Arkansas to the Taylor family in Unionville, Iowa. The letters discuss the death of Malcolm Taylor and contain some comments on the war in general.
Shinn-Munday Family Papers
Family correspondence, Civil War records, and other documents pertaining to the Shinn and Munday families of Pope County, Arkansas.
Raleigh J. Shipley Civil War Diary
The Shipley diary was written in a lined notebook 6 5/8" by 4". It consists of 48 numbered pages, with the day and date written in for each entry. Entries are usually very brief.
Shreve Family Papers
The papers consist of three series--correspondence, family papers, and photographs. Papers include genealogical records, Civil War military records, property records (including a tax valuation of enslaved people), farm produce notebooks, Shreve family photographs and photographs of Washington County subjects.
Emma Eugene Ramsaur Shuford Family Papers
Sarah Jane Smith Papers
Albert P. Stair Diary
This collection consists of a diary written by Albert P. Stair from 1861 to 1884. The first part of the diary pertains to his family, military service during the Civil War, and his life after the war. The second portion of the diary was used as an expense ledger. Markings in pen and pencil at the end of the diary, dated 1946, indicate it was written in after Stairs’ death.
Brigadier General Frederick Steele Papers
George Gordon Stockard Biographical Sketch of D. H. Hill
Biographical sketch, "The Life of General D. H. Hill as an American Citizen," written by George Gordon Stockard.
Nathan Strong Family Papers
Jonas M. Tebbetts Collection
The collection contains three types of materials: a folder of family and secondary writings concerning Jonas Tebbetts, his family, and the Tebbetts Collection; thirty volumes of diaries, memo books, expense and account books, and other miscellaneous notebooks, written by Jonas M. Tebbetts. The volumes span the period 1847-1905.
United States Army Colored Infantry Regiment, 81st Charges and Specifications
Court-martial charges and specifications against First Lieutenant Henry M. Kidder, First Arkansas Cavalry (Union), for conduct unbecoming an officer at Port Hudson, Louisiana, February 10, 1865. Accusations claim Kidder responded to a sentry's challenge with refusals, cursing, and false information.
Waggoner Family Papers
The Waggoner Family Papers contain correspondence, financial and legal papers, miscellaneous family documents, newspaper clippings, photographs, autograph album, and three monographs.
Walker Family Papers
The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, property records, newspaper clippings, and other materials pertaining to Judge David Walker and the Walker family. Included are materials related to the service of David Walker and other family members in the Confederate Army during the U. S. Civil War, as well as materials related to David Walker's judicial and legal career, and to Senator James David Walker's legal and political career.
A. M. Ward Papers
80 items. Affidavits, invoices, military orders, reports, receipts, requisitions, and other documents pertaining, for the most part, to the duties of Captain A. M. Ward, Assistant Commissary of Subsistence, in provisioning Confederate troops in the vicinity of Yellville and Lewisville, Arkansas during the months of October 1862 and August 1864.
George W. Weast Ledger
Ledger listing customers and items sold by Weast in Yellville during 1861; list of soldiers from Company E, 14th Arkansas Infantry "in camp near Saltillo, Mississippi" listing payroll stoppages and items purchased in 1862; list of payments made in 1864 to H.W. Page for "veneering cases."
Julius White Testimonial Letter
R. F. Yager Letters
Letters from Captain R. F. Yager, Shelby's Brigade, Missouri Volunteers, February 29 and March 19, 1864, from Camden (Ouachita County), to his wife, Mattie. Although Yager wrote home just prior to the Camden Expedition undertaken by Union troops from Little Rock (Pulaski County), his letters do not describe any encounters with the enemy in detail.