Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections A-Z: 41 - 50 of 57

Missouri Cavalry and Infantry Descriptive Rolls

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0292
Abstract:

Four bound volumes of descriptive rolls recording the status (as of 1863) of soldiers serving in the following Missouri regiments in the Union Army during the United States Civil War: Missouri Infantry Volunteers, Missouri Cavalry Volunteers, Missouri Infantry and Cavalry Militia.

Dates: 1863

Mrs. E. H. Wright. Letters from Union Generals

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0111
Abstract:

Six letters from Civil War generals of the Union Army in reply to Mrs. E. H. Wright’s request for their photographs; respondents include Generals J. J. Abercrombie, John Gross Barnard, Cyrus Bussey, George W. Cullum, William Hammond, and George Douglas Ramsay.

Dates: 1864

Mrs. Mary J. Bobo Confederate Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0289
Abstract:

The Civil War and Confederate scrapbook of Mrs. Mary J. Bobo contains pasted clippings from the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner on some of the history and battles of the U.S. Civil War dating from 1902-1907. Principally, the battles at Murphreesboro and Chickamauga, Tenn. are noted.

Dates: 1902 - 1907

Neumann Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0241
Abstract

Chiefly letters to Louisa (Neumann) Bering, a resident of Houston, Tex., from her brothers and sisters, including letters from her brother, Emil Neumann, describing his service in the Confederate Army, stationed at Fort Eagle Grove (Fort Moore) and Galveston, Tex.; together with clippings and photos. Includes material relating to land in Texas, Bering family, and Little Rock, AR, during the Civil War.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1856 - 1886; 1850 - 1955

Papers of Jefferson Davis documents and reference collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0638
Abstract This collection includes the wealth of documentation identified from across the United States and beyond and assembled for the purpose of the publication of the Papers of Jefferson Davis, a 14-volume set, funded by the NHPRC, and other activities and persons, beginning in the 1960s and running through 2015. Many of the speeches and letters published in the edition, either in full or summarized, are present in this collection as photocopies or on microfilm. Not every document featured in the...
Dates: 1815-2015, bulk 1850-1880; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1880

Philip H. Broun Family U.S. Civil War papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0177
Abstract:

The Broun Family U.S. Civil War papers provide genealogical and historical information on the Broun and Thruston families and also describe the Broun family's experiences during the U.S. Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. Some items are photocopies of originals still in possession of the Broun family.

Dates: 1854 - 1888

Rhode Island Artillery, 5th Regiment, Company G. Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0253
Abstract:

Records of the Rhode Island Artillery, 5th Regiment, Company G., dated 1863-1865, including general orders, correspondence, invoices of clothing and other equipment, quartermaster store receipts, and muster rolls. Also includes papers related to the career of Capt. John H. Robinson, dating 1861-1880.

Dates: 1861 - 1880

Samuel Storrow U.S. Civil War Journals

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0192
Abstract:

Two journals kept by Samuel Storrow during the U.S. Civil War, the first while Storrow served as a corporal in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 44th Regiment (September 20, 1862-June 18, 1863), and the second while serving in the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 2nd Regiment (September 1864- March 1865), during which time he was promoted to first lieutenant; in his entries Storrow describes movements of equipment and troops, camp life, weather, and military actions.

Dates: 1863 - 1865

Shannon-Scott family of Texas papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0250
Abstract:

The collection, consisting of photocopies of letters, genealogies, military documents, newspaper clippings, and modern reproductions of family photographs, pertains to the Texas families of Alexander May Shannon and William B. Scott, Shannon's father in-law. Highlights of the collection are a number of letters written by Shannon and Scott regarding U.S. Civil War battles (including the battle at Galveston) and daily life and living conditions in the army.

Dates: 1848 - 1942; Majority of material found within 1875 - 1906

Texas Governors Letters collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0142
Abstract:

This collection contains three letters: two from Governor James Allred of Texas to Emil Hurja of the Democratic National Committee in Washington D.C. (1935-36), and one from Gov. Lawrence Sullivan Ross of Texas to General M. Cist of Cincinnati, Ohio (1889). Subjects include thanks for gifts sent and requests for reading materials, and do not relate specifically to Texas politics.

Dates: 1889; 1935 - 1936

Filtered By

  • Subject: American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Correspondence 37
United States 28
Military 20
Records (documents) 13
photographs 10
∨ more
Diaries 8
Texas 8
War 7
Clippings (books, newspapers, etc.) 5
Enslavement 4
Social life and customs 4
Soldiers 4
Texas -- Galveston 4
United States -- Confederate States of America 4
African Americans 3
Albums (books) 3
Manuscripts 3
Maps 3
Politics and government 3
Texas -- Houston 3
Virginia 3
Biographies 2
Business 2
Facsimiles 2
Family histories 2
Governors 2
Health care and medicine 2
Pamphlets 2
Playbills (posters) 2
Real property 2
Speeches 2
Tennessee 2
Women 2
Arkansas 1
Arkansas -- Little Rock 1
Armored vessels 1
Autographs 1
Banks and banking 1
Battle of Bull Run (2nd) (Virginia : 1862) 1
Battle of Chancellorsville (Chancellorsville, Virginia : 1863) 1
Battle of Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, Virginia : 1862) 1
Battle of Gettysburg (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania : 1863) 1
Bills of sale 1
Cemeteries 1
Cotton 1
Courtship 1
Deeds 1
Drawings 1
Fortification 1
Guidebooks 1
Gulf of Mexico -- Matagorda Bay 1
Hawaii 1
Imports 1
Kansas 1
Legal instruments 1
Literature 1
Louisiana 1
Louisiana -- New Orleans 1
Marriage 1
Michigan 1
Military architecture 1
Military pensions 1
Mississippi 1
Money 1
New York (State) 1
New York (State) -- Cairo 1
Novels 1
Personal correspondence 1
Postcards 1
Posters 1
Prisoners and prisons 1
Programs (publications) 1
Railroads 1
Religion 1
Requisitions, Military 1
Sermons 1
Slave trade 1
South Carolina 1
Southern States 1
Texas -- Brazoria County 1
Texas -- Burleson County 1
Texas -- Eagle Pass 1
Texas -- Fort Bend County 1
Texas -- Fort Moore 1
Texas -- Harris County 1
Texas -- Huntsville 1
Texas -- Jefferson County 1
Texas -- Matagorda 1
Universities and colleges 1
Virginia--Richmond 1
Wills 1
+ ∧ less
 
Names
Davis, Jefferson 4
Confederate States of America. Army 3
Cullum, George W. (George Washington) 2
Davis, Varina Howell 2
United States. Army of the Potomac 2
∨ more
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 7th (1861-1864) 2
Unknown 2
Abercrombie, John Joseph 1
Allred, James V. 1
Anglican Church in North America 1
Aulbach, Louis 1
Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller) 1
Autry, James Lockhart, 1830-1862 1
Barnard, J. G. (John Gross) 1
Benjamin, Judah P. 1
Bering family 1
Bering, Louisa Neumann 1
Bobo, Mary J. 1
Brady, Mathew B. 1
Brooker, W. H. 1
Broun family 1
Bussey, Cyrus 1
Campbell, Albert Sherrad 1
Catholic Church. 1
Christ Church Cathedral (Houston, Tex.). 1
Confederate States of America 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Kentucky Infantry Regiment, 6th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Artillery 1
Crosby, John C. 1
Dix, John Adams 1
Douglas, Earle C., Jr. 1
Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold) 1
Dunban family 1
Dunban, John R. 1
Elliott family 1
Elliott, Card G. 1
Elliott, Mary Alice 1
Elliott, Mary Malone 1
Episcopal Church. Diocese of Texas. 1
Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan) 1
Glass, William S. 1
Gracie, Archibald, 1832-1864 1
Gray, Peter William, 1787-1841 1
Green, William Wilkinson 1
Grimes, James F. 1
Halleck, H. W. (Henry Wager), General 1
Hammeken, George Louis, 1811-1881 1
Hammond, William, General 1
Harris, J.B. (June B.) 1
Hobbs, Alexander 1
House, Thomas William 1
Houston, Sam, 1793-1863 1
Hutcheson, John William 1
Hutcheson, Laura Baker "Wille" 1
James Chesnut, 1815-1885 1
Johnson and Grimes 1
Johnson, Charles B. 1
Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston) 1
Jones, Sara A. 1
Libby Prison 1
Louisiana. Governor (1860-1862 : Moore) 1
Lovejoy, James K. 1
MacDonald, Alexander, of Huntsville, TX 1
Maclay, Edgar S. 1
Mallory, Stephen R. (Stephen Russell) 1
Martin, Aaron 1
McAshan , Samuel Maurice 1
McLeod, Betty M. 1
Miller, Bell 1
Miller, James 1
Miller, Robert 1
Miller, Samuel 1
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad 1
Moody, Young Marshall, 1822-1866 1
Moore, Thomas Overton 1
Mosby, John Singleton 1
Muir family 1
Muir, Andrew Forest, 1916-1969 1
Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 1
Myers, Abraham C. 1
Neumann, Emil 1
Oglesby, Thaddeus K. 1
Putnam, J.M. 1
Ramsay, George Douglas, Gen. 1
Reding, James M. 1
Rice University 1
Rice University. Department of History. 1
Rice University. Jefferson Davis Association 1
Rice, William Marsh, 1816-1900 1
Roberts, Charles 1
Robinson, John H. 1
Ross, Lawrence Sullivan 1
Scott, Bettie 1
Scott, William B. 1
Shannon, Alexander May 1
Smith, Cyrus 1
Smith, Louise 1
Smith, Mary Hulbert 1
Storrow, Samuel 1
Storrow, William 1
+ ∧ less