United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 204 Collections and/or Records:
George B. McClellan, Civil War Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2967
Overview
A microfilm copy of the McClellan Papers, Vols. 12-14, held by the Library of Congress. There are letters to and from Gen. McClelland and his staff headquartered in Cincinnati. Also there are Confederate letters presumably captured during McClellan's first campaign into western Virginia. The rebel correspondence is between A.J. Wilson at Grafton and his family of Franklin and also orders from Richmond to Col. George Porterfield. Porterfield mentions the difficulty of raising Confederate...
Dates:
1861 May 15-30
George Barnett, Soldier, Civil War Payment Record
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1328
Overview
Mason County Court order to pay George Barnett $30.00 as a volunteer in the service of the United States during the Civil War, Dec. 1, 1862.
Dates:
1862
George Ellis Moore Manuscript
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1764
Overview
Manuscript of BANNER IN THE HILLS by George Ellis Moore, presenting the story of secession and the Civil War in western Virginia and tracing the steps by which West Virginia was created.
Dates:
1963
George Ellis Moore Manuscript
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2203
Overview
Manuscript of BANNER IN THE HILLS by George Ellis Moore, presenting the story of secession and the Civil War in western Virginia and tracing the steps by which West Virginia was created.
Dates:
1963
George K. Campbell, Civil War Journal
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3124
Overview
Private journal of George K. Campbell of Athens County, Ohio, who served as an officer in Company B of the 116th. Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Gettysburg campaign and the summer, fall, and winter of 1863, when he saw service in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Campbell served detached duty as an escort officer for recruits and prisoners during the spring and summer of 1864 and visited New York, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. He joined...
Dates:
1863-1864
George McCandless Porter (1835-1864) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1821
Overview
Letters written by a lawyer and businessman near Shanghai in Berkeley County to his sister Mary, who was residing in their father's home at New Cumberland, Virginia. There are also letters written from: Wellsburg Academy, 1849-1850; Washington College, Washington, Pennsylvania, 1851-1855; Cuba, 1857; New Orleans, 1857; and from Richmond, Virginia, 1858-1860. A diary includes entries from 1 January to 20 March 1864. Porter had business relations with firms in Pittsburgh concerning brick...
Dates:
1849-1864
George S. Patton, Sr. Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4075
Overview
The collection includes letters from George Smith Patton, Sr. (June 26, 1833 - September 25, 1864), who was the grandfather of WWII hero George S. Patton, Jr., and served as a Confederate Colonel during the Civil War. There are letters Patton wrote to his wife, Susan Thornton Glassell Patton (1835-1883), during their courtship and during his military service. There are also letters from Susan and other members of her family, including her brother and Confederate Naval hero William T....
Dates:
1851-1892 and undated
George Seldon Wallace (1871-1963) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1710
Overview
Papers of a Huntington attorney, member of the West Virginia National Guard, 1909-1916, employee of the C&O Railway Company, president of the Union Bank and Trust Company of Huntington, president of the Ben Lomond Company, president of the Blackberry, Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company, attorney for Central City, prosecuting attorney of Cabell County, 1905-1908, chairman of a county Democratic committee, and delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1912. Wallace...
Dates:
1898-1963
George W. Hadley, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2841
Scope and Contents
Contains the papers of George W. Hadley, who served in different Ohio units during the Civil War. His service included his time as a musician in the 55th Ohio Volunteer Infantry from October 1861-August 1862, voluntary member of the “Squirrel Hunters” militia that defended Cincinnati, Ohio, in September 1862, and service in the 11th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry from July 1863-August 12, 1863, upon his death by accidental drowning. According to the family, Hadley rolled off a raft into the Missouri...
Dates:
1862-1895, 1927, 2006-2018
George W. Perrigo Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2062
Overview
Diary kept by Perrigo while he served in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War. He comments on his assignments, particularly on an engagement at Mobile, Alabama, at the close of the war.
Dates:
1863-1865