United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Comer family Civil War letter
Collection
Identifier: MS-0410
Scope and Contents
One letter from Mrs. Comer to her husband, Alexander T. C. Comer, Assistant Surgeon. The letter was written at Winchester, Virginia. The letter contains personal and family news, including mention of a ball given by Gen. Chapman's staff, a wedding, and a sleigh ride.
Comer family Civil War letter, 1865 [digital]
Digital Collection
Identifier: http://digitalcollections.vmi.edu/digital/collection/p15821coll11/id/3379
Found in:
Virginia Military Institute Archives
Henry H. Dedrick papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0332
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of Confederate soldier Henry H. Dedrick, a private in the 52nd Virginia Infantry Regiment. Bulk consists of letters to and from his wife, Mary E.A. Dedrick ("Lissa" or "Lizza"). Subjects include camp life, regimental activities, family and personal news, hardships endured by civilians. Letter of May 10-11, 1863 mentions wounding and death of Gen. Stonewall Jackson.
James W. A. Ford letter
Item
Identifier: MS-0271
Scope and Contents
One letter (September 20, 1863) from James W. A. Ford of Lewisburg WV to his cousin Caroline. He discusses the death from the effects of childbirth of his sister Lizzie Burdett. He also mentions that he has raised a company of cavalry.
Richard H. Adams, Jr. papers, 1862-1866
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-0358
Scope and Contents
Civil War papers (ca. 80 items) of Captain Richard H. Adams, Jr. Consist of manuscript diary kept while serving with the 5th Alabama Regiment in Virginia, April-June 1862, with accompanying typewritten transcription. Transcriptions only of two additional diary volumes (Sept. 1862-March 1863; and prison diary, 1864-1865); 47 original letters (Nov. 1863-Sept. 1866) to Lottie Putnam Adams, most written before their marriage while he was a prisoner of war; 23 original letters from Lottie to...
Samuel S. Brooke Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0221
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of five letters, 1862-1864, to and from family members, largely concerned with personal family matters, but with some references to the war and civilian life in Fredericksburg and Richmond, Virginia. Other topics include the 47th Virginia Infantry Regiment, including comments about camp life. In addition to the correspondence, the papers contain commissions, orders, certificates, and miscellaneous official documents dating from Brooke's Civil War service and later...
Sara Henderson Smith collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0536
Scope and Contents
The collection contains three manuscript notebooks containing verse letters, poetry, notes, and a few newspaper clippings, bulk 1861-1865. One of the volumes is titled "Order Book, 9th Regiment Va. Volunteers, Craney Island"; on the endsheets of this book are glued original manuscript signatures of VMI faculty and others , apparently clipped from letters. The pages of this volume contain Sara's writings. A folder that contains Sara's writings on loose pages within the "Order Book" is also part...
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