Book/Printed Material Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress
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Image 1 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of …- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 2 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … limummomft- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 3 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … CIVIL WAR MANUSCRIPTS MANUSCRIPT READING ROW LILY 61 MEM ir 171- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 4 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of …- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
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Image 5 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … MANUSCRIPT READING ROOM CIVIL WAR MANUSCRIPTS LOBRANY Bf CONGRESS la A Guide to Collections in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress Compiled by John R Sellers LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 6 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … Cover Ulysses S Grant Title page Benjamin F Butler Montgomery C Meigs Joseph Hooker and David D Porter Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Library of Congress Manuscript Division Civil War…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 7 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … PREFACE To Abraham Lincoln the Civil War was essentially a peoples contest over the maintenance of a government dedi cated to the elevation of man and the right of every citizen to…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 8 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … Eventually this task was placed in the hands of John R Sellers an expert in 18th and 19th century American military history who personally examined each collection with the following results It…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 9 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … INTRODUCTION On the morning of April 20 1861 a large hydrogen filled balloon drifted serenely over the South Carolina countryside the tranquillity of its noiseless flight belying the boisterous calls to arms…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 10 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … established as a branch of the Armys Department of Topo graphical Engineers are all possible subjects of Civil War research in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astro nautics collection in the…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 11 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … Many documents in the collections of the Manuscript Divi sion highlight the early enthusiasm for war North and South Both military and civilian observers commented on the flood of volunteers the growth…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 12 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … of Gen William T Sherman and Gen Joseph E Johnston sur prised and dismayed the participants some of whom were within easy rifle shot of the women Then there was the abrupt…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 13 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … raiders to coon hunts The exercise appears to have involved little danger and is presented as a welcome intrusion into the camp routine Perhaps another unfounded belief concerns the discipline and prowess…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 14 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … long winter encampments from plowed fields to massive earthworks from coaches to military supply wagons and from loading docks to the decks of northern ships of war Many Union soldiers had never…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 15 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … part of the war will find the papers of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and the papers of John C Babcock who was one of Pinkertons operatives during the Peninsular and Antie…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 16 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of …- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
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Image 17 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE Library of Congress manuscript collections consist largely of the personal papers of prominent Americans as opposed to official government records which are held by the National Archives…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 18 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … Only an individuals war related activities and career are discussed The term Volunteer as applied to regiments and companies is used rather indiscriminately but apparent dis crepancies are usually the result of…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 19 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … Many of the collections listed in the guide came to the Library in the first half of the 20th century roughly between 1900 and 1940 either as purchases or gifts Occasionally a…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 20 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of …- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
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Image 21 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … CIVIL WAR MANUSCRIPTS- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 22 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … Defenses of Washington 1865 Geography and Map Division Library of Congress- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 23 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … 1 Abbe Cleveland 19381916 Meteorologist US Coast Survey Papers 18501916 ca 9500 items Contains four letters to Abbe from Albert S Bickmore 44th Massachusetts Volunteers written while on special duty as a…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 24 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … Includes a copy of the draft of William H Sewards instruc tions to Charles Francis Adams 18071886 May 21 1861 as Minister to the Court of St James and a copy of…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 25 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … 11 Allen Isaac Jackson b 1814 Editor US Consul in China Autobiography 1904 1 item Contains remarks on President Lincoln at Gettysburg Nov 1863 and on an interview with Lincoln in 1864…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 26 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … 16 Alvord Augustus V 18341904 Chaplain 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery Letter 1864 1 item Letter from Alvord to his brother June 25 1864 describ ing the repulse of a Confederate counterattack during…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 27 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … Andersons thesis and proposed organization of the work are explained in a draft introduction Finding aid available 20 Anderson John Emerson Sgt 2d Massachusetts Infantry Memoir 186165 1 item Photocopy Detailed account…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
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Image 28 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … Robert Anderson- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
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Image 29 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … 23 Anglin John S Pvt Iredell Blues 4th North Carolina Regiment CSA Letters 1861 64 17 items In part transcripts Letters from Anglin to his family written from Fort Caswell NC and…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 30 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … 27 Asbill J J Pvt 19th South Carolina Volunteers Correspondence 186162 8 items Letters from Asbill to his wife Dec 29 1861 Aug 11 1862 written from camps in South Carolina Mississippi…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 31 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … 33 Babcock John C b 1836 Secret Service USA Papers 18551913 ca 60 items Letters from Babcock to relatives in Illinois 186164 con cern his work as a confidential agent in the…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 32 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … 36 Bailey Orra B 7th Connecticut Volunteers Invalid Corps Papers 186264 ca 70 items Letters from Bailey to his wife from camps in Florida and South Carolina discussing camp life morale disease…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 33 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … from Washington DC during the war Includes remarks on interviews with President Lincoln a visit to the Freedmens village and the encampment of black troops Mary Todd Lincolns influence over her husband…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 34 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … Nathaniel Prentice Banks- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 35 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … 43 Barbee James Dodson 18321904 and David Rankin 18741958 Papers 17841951 ca 5000 items In part transcripts and photocopies Includes research notes of historian David R Barbee on the capture of Jefferson…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 36 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … campaigns in Kentucky Tennessee Mississippi and Arkansas Also includes a record of Barnes correspondence 47 Barnwell Robert Woodward 18011882 CS Senator South Carolina Letter 1863 1 item Letter from Barnwell to W…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 37 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … 53 Barton Chauncey E Pvt 17th Illinois Volunteers Letter 1864 1 item Letter from Barton to Miss Jennie M Fell Apr 14 1864 describing the abuse of the civilian population after the…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 38 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … 59 Battle of Aquia Creek Va Reports 1861 84 p Transcripts Copies of reports of skirmishes at Aquia Creek May 31 June 2 1861 by Comdr James H Ward USS Thomas Freeborn…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 39 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … ers of war and the treatment of noncombatants at Vidalia La New Orleans La Vicksburg Miss Mobile Ala and Galve ston Tex Also contains details on skirmishes with Gen Wirt Adams CSA…- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
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Image 40 of Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of … Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard- Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1986
About this Item
Title
- Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress
Names
- Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Sellers, John R.
Created / Published
- Washington : Library of Congress : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1986.
Headings
- - Library of Congress.--Manuscript Division--Catalogs
- - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Manuscripts--Catalogs
- - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources--Bibliography--Catalogs
Notes
- - Includes index.
- - LAC aaa 2019-05-09 update (1 card)
Medium
- xvii, 391 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- Z1242 .L48 1986 E468
- Z663.34 .C475 1986 Copy 3.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 81607105
Online Format
- image
- online text