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Subject • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate. | [X] | • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. |
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| • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. |
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| • | Johnson Island Prison. |
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| • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns. |
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| • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations. |
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| • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. |
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| • | Africa -- Description and travel -- to 1900. |
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| • | Alabama (Confederate cruiser) |
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| • | Alaska -- Description and travel -- 1867-1896. |
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| • | Bell, Alfred E., ca. 1835-1912. |
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| • | Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876. |
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| • | Brazil -- Description and travel. |
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| • | Chickamauga, Battle of, 1863. |
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| • | Confederate States of America -- History, Military -- Sources. |
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| • | Confederate States of America. Army -- Biography. |
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| • | Confederate States of America. Army -- Officers. |
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| • | Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 8th. |
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| • | Consuls -- United States -- Correspondence. |
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| • | Daughters of the American Revolution. |
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| • | Doan family. |
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| • | Europe -- Description and travel -- 1800-1918. |
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| • | Ferguson, Margret S. |
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| • | Generals -- Confederate States of America -- Biography. |
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| • | Generals -- United States -- Biography. |
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| • | Gold mines and mining -- California. |
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| • | Hawaii -- Description and travel -- To 1950. |
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| • | Hodge, Orlando John, 1828-1912. |
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| • | Hodges family. |
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| • | Lookout Montain, Battle of, 1863. |
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| • | Missionary Ridge (Tenn. and Ga.), Battle of, 1863. |
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| • | Morse, Freeman Harlow, 1807-1891. |
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| • | Murfreesboro (Tenn.), Battle of, 1862-1863. |
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| • | Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. |
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| • | Palmer, William Pendleton, 1861-1927. |
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| • | Plantations -- Florida -- History -- Sources. |
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| • | Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- History -- Sources. |
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| • | Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862. |
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| • | Silver mines and mining -- Nevada. |
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| • | Slave trade -- United States -- History -- Sources. |
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| • | Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources. |
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| • | Soldiers -- Georgia -- Correspondence. |
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| • | Soldiers -- Ohio -- Correspondence. |
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| • | Soldiers -- Tennessee -- Correspondence. |
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| • | Soldiers -- United States -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc. |
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| • | Soldiers -- United States -- Diaries. |
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| • | South America -- Description and travel. |
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| • | Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Sources. |
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| • | United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- Great Britain. |
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| • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Afro-Americans. |
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| • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography. |
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| • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care. |
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| • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women. |
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| • | United States -- History -- War with Mexico, 1845-1848 -- Personal narratives. |
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| • | United States -- History -- War with Mexico, 1845-1848 -- Sources. |
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| • | United States. Army -- Biography. |
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| • | Veterans -- United States -- Societies, etc. |
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| • | Women -- Georgia -- Correspondence. |
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | 1 | Title: | Alfred E. Bell Papers
| | | Creator: | Bell, Alfred E. | | | Dates: | 1861-1865 | | | Abstract: | Alfred E. Bell (ca. 1835-1912) was the Captain in the Ninth Tennessee Cavalry during the American Civil War. He was captured in Ohio in 1863 and incarcerated on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie until 1865. Afterwards he returned to Tennessee and entered politics. The collection consists of letters from Bell to his wife and to his sister, Fannie, while he was a prisoner of war on Johnson's Island, also a letter to Bell from a friend and fellow prisoner, George F. Wilson. | | | Call #: | MS 4012 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Bell, Alfred E., ca. 1835-1912. | Johnson Island Prison. | Soldiers -- Tennessee -- Correspondence. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.
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Manuscript Collection | Save | 2 | Title: | Freeman Harlow Morse Papers
| | | Creator: | Morse, Freeman Harlow | | | Dates: | 1848-1888 | | | Abstract: | Freeman Harlow Morse (1807-1891) was a state legislator, United States Representative from Maine, and United States consul in London. The collection consists of correspondence from Charles Francis Adams, John Bigelow, James D. Bulloch, and William Pitt Fessenden; copies of affidavits made by seamen aboard the U. S. S. Kearsarge and the C. S. S. Alabama, June 19, 1864, and a printed letter (1888) from Morse to W. L. Putnam of Portland, Maine, concerning Morse's claim of $38,189 against the United States. | | | Call #: | MS 0823 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Morse, Freeman Harlow, 1807-1891. | Alabama (Confederate cruiser) | Consuls -- United States -- Correspondence. | United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- Great Britain. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.
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Manuscript Collection | Save | 3 | Title: | Margret S. Ferguson Correspondence
| | | Creator: | Ferguson, Margaret S. | | | Dates: | 1846-1861 | | | Abstract: | Margret S. Ferguson was a resident of Ways Station, Bryan County, Georgia. Her son, C.W. Ferguson, served in the 8th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, during the American Civil War, and was stationed at Manassas Junction, Virginia, in 1861. The collection consists of letters received by Mrs. Ferguson, including some from her son, C.W. Ferguson. | | | Call #: | MS 3424 | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Ferguson, Margret S. | Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 8th. | Women -- Georgia -- Correspondence. | Soldiers -- Georgia -- Correspondence. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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Manuscript Collection | Save | 4 | Title: | Braxton Bragg Papers
| | | Creator: | Bragg, Braxton | | | Dates: | 1833-1879 | | | Abstract: | Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) was a Confederate Army officer during the American Civil War, planter, and engineer. The collection consists of letter books, official and personal communications, reports, orders, and memoranda relating to Bragg's Confederate Army campaigns and to his service as adviser to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. A few of the papers relate to the Mexican War, to Bragg's post-Civil War career as a civil and railroad engineer, and to Bragg's funeral. | | | Call #: | MS 2000 | | | Extent: | 2.0 linear feet (4 containers and 5 oversize volumes) | | | Subjects: | Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876. | Confederate States of America. Army -- Officers. | Chickamauga, Battle of, 1863. | Lookout Montain, Battle of, 1863. | Missionary Ridge (Tenn. and Ga.), Battle of, 1863. | Murfreesboro (Tenn.), Battle of, 1862-1863. | Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.
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Manuscript Collection | Save | 5 | Title: | Regimental Papers of the Civil War
| | | Creator: | Palmer, William Pendleton | | | Dates: | 1846-1908 | | | Abstract: | William Pendleton Palmer (1861-1927) was President of the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio (1913-1927). The collection consists of American Civil War documents collected by Palmer, including military and personal correspondence, muster rolls, official orders, ordnance and quartermaster reports, casualty lists, memoirs, diaries, descriptions of the engagements in which various regiments took part, and papers dealing with veterans' organizations after the war. Half of the collection relates to Ohio volunteers, but there are papers from Union and Confederate regiments of thirty States. Includes material concerned with Negro regiments enlisted in the Southern States occupied by Union Armies, and a few references to the Mexican War and the 1850s. Collection features the James E. Taylor Sketchbook. | | | Call #: | MS 2152 | | | Extent: | 16.00 linear feet (36 containers and 17 oversize volumes) | | | Subjects: | Palmer, William Pendleton, 1861-1927. | Soldiers -- United States -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc. | Soldiers -- United States -- Diaries. | Veterans -- United States -- Societies, etc. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Afro-Americans. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. | United States -- History -- War with Mexico, 1845-1848 -- Sources.
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Manuscript Collection | Save | 6 | Title: | Orlando John Hodge Papers
| | | Creator: | Hodge, Orlando John | | | Dates: | 1806-1913 | | | Abstract: | Orlando John Hodge (1828-1912) was a soldier, State legislator, and journalist, of Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, reminiscences, pocket diaries, journals describing Mexican War experiences and world travels, speeches, and genealogical notes on the Doan, Hodge, and related families; together with correspondence and journals of Hodge's brother, Alfred A. Hodge; correspondence, accounts, and military papers of Hodge's brother-in-law, David L. Wood; personal correspondence of Wood's wife, Mandana S. (Hodge) Wood; and memoirs of Velorus Hodge, correspondence of Mrs. Orlando J. Hodge, and Cleveland Centennial Commission treasurer's book. | | | Call #: | MS 2823 | | | Extent: | 6.30 linear feet (15 containers) | | | Subjects: | Hodge, Orlando John, 1828-1912. | Hodges family. | Doan family. | Daughters of the American Revolution. | Soldiers -- Ohio -- Correspondence. | Silver mines and mining -- Nevada. | Gold mines and mining -- California. | South America -- Description and travel. | Brazil -- Description and travel. | Africa -- Description and travel -- to 1900. | Europe -- Description and travel -- 1800-1918. | Alaska -- Description and travel -- 1867-1896. | Hawaii -- Description and travel -- To 1950. | United States -- History -- War with Mexico, 1845-1848 -- Personal narratives. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.
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Manuscript Collection | Save | 7 | Title: | William P. Palmer Collection of Civil War Manuscripts
| | | Creator: | Various | | | Dates: | 1761-1977 | | | Abstract: | William Pendleton Palmer (1861-1927) was the President of American Steel and Wire Company, a director of U.S. Steel Corporation, and President of the Western Reserve Historical Society (Cleveland, Ohio) from 1913-1927. Palmer had an intense interest in the American Civil War and acquired an extensive collection of manuscript material related to the war, the memories of that conflict, and slavery. This collection is one of several Palmer collections from the Civil War era owned by the Western Reserve Historical Society. The collection consists of dozens of different types of documents in three distinct categories: civilian, governmental, and military. The document types created by civilians are: academic records, autographs, bills of lading, bills of sale, biographical sketches, circulars, diaries, dissertations, envelopes, essays, financials, funeral records, invitations, letters, manifests, memoirs, minutes, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, petitions, plantation records, obituaries, poetry, postcards, prayers, reminiscences, resumes, rosters, scrapbooks, sermons, ship's papers, slave rolls, song lyrics, speaker's notes, speech texts, unpublished books, and yearbooks. Governmental documents types are: affidavits, certificates, contracts, coroner's reports, court documents, depositions, diplomatic documents, financials, indentures, legislation, letters, licenses, notes, pardons, probate records, proclamations, resolutions, subpoenas, telegrams, and warrants. Military documents types are: battlefield dispatches, charts, code books, commissions, courts martial documents, discharges, drawings, furloughs, inventories, letters, maps, manuals, muster rolls, notes, orders, passes, payroll records, pension records, materials by and related to prisoners of war, reports, service records, shipping documents, telegrams, and vouchers. | | | Call #: | MS 3947 | | | Extent: | 18.40 linear feet (46 containers) | | | Subjects: | Confederate States of America -- History, Military -- Sources. | Confederate States of America. Army -- Biography. | Generals -- Confederate States of America -- Biography. | Generals -- United States -- Biography. | Johnson Island Prison. | Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. | Plantations -- Florida -- History -- Sources. | Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- History -- Sources. | Slave trade -- United States -- History -- Sources. | Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources. | Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Sources. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. | United States. Army -- Biography.
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