Search Manuscripts/Mixed Material

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    Sidney Morris Davis memoirs,
    Sidney Morris Davis papers Catalog Record Only
    Holograph manuscript by Davis recounting his Civil War service as a Union cavalryman in Company F of the Sixth Cavalry from 1861 to 1864. Topics include camp life; military engagements in Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania; and Davis's incarceration in the Confederate prison on Belle Isle in the James River at Richmond, Va.
    • Contributor: Davis, Sidney Morris
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    Simon Smith diary and account book,
    Simon Smith papers Catalog Record Only
    Diary kept by Smith, during his service in the 153rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, describing troop movements in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, and the Battle of Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville, Va. Smith also describes being wounded in battle, taken prisoner, and transported to Libby Prison, Richmond, Va. Diary and account book contain personal accounts, 1879-1914.
    • Contributor: Smith, Simon
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    Clarence E. Bailey correspondence,
    Clarence E. Bailey papers Catalog Record Only
    Chiefly correspondence of Bailey addressed to his family during his service with the 129th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army. Bailey notes movements of the regiment; details of skirmishes and battles in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia; camp life; clothing, rations, and other supplies; medical care; and family affairs. He describes the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Md., 1862, and makes mention of military...
    • Contributor: Bailey, Clarence E. - Foss, Stuart M.
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    Hezron George Day papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoir, genealogical information, receipts, and photographs relating chiefly to Day's service as a private in the 16th Vermont Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army, during the Civil War. In correspondence addressed to his parents in Tyson Furnace, Vermont, Day describes camp life, provisions, regimental quarters, the surrounding area, weather, and opinions of the officers. Other subjects include Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Pennsylvania campaign, the...
    • Contributor: Day, Hezron George
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    George Washington Hall diary,
    George Washington Hall papers Catalog Record Only
    Diary kept by Hall while serving with the 14th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America Army, describing the Peninsular Campaign, 1862, and the battles of Antietam, Md. (1862), Chancellorsville, Va. (1863), Gettysburg, Pa. (1863), the Wilderness, Va. (1864), and Spotsylvania Court House, Va. (1864), as well as operations along the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers in the fall of 1863. Includes information pertaining to...
    • Contributor: Elsesser, Jacob L. - Hall, George Washington
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    John Brown journal and orderly book,
    John Brown papers Catalog Record Only
    Orderly and memorandum book kept by Brown while serving with the First North Carolina Regiment, U.S. Continental Army, consisting of general and regimental orders issued on the march from Halifax, North Carolina, through Maryland and Virginia to New Jersey and Pennsylvania (1777 May 21-1778 January 3). Subjects include the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1777; winter at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777-1778; and camp...
    • Contributor: Brown, John
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    W.W. Corcoran papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, letterpress books, financial records, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Corcoran's business and banking interests and philanthropic efforts. Documents his involvement with the brokerage and banking firms, Corcoran & Riggs, Washington, D.C.; Riggs and Co, New York, N.Y.; Bank of America; and Wilson, Colston & Co., Baltimore, Md. Also documents his investment ventures in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad...
    • Contributor: Corcoran, W. W. (William Wilson) - Corcoran, Thomas
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    Samuel E. Allen correspondence,
    Samuel E. Allen papers Catalog Record Only
    Letters (Annapolis, Md.; 1862 July 19 and 29) from Allen while serving with Company E, 36th Pennsyvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army, to his cousin, Sallie J. Rettew, in Springfield, Pa. Allen describes the Battle of Beaver Dam Creek, Va. Also discusses hospital care at Jamestown and Fort Monroe, Va., and Annapolis, Md.
    • Contributor: Allen, Samuel E.
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    James Jenkins Gillette papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, military papers, receipts, court records, and other papers relating primarily to Gillette's Civil War service with the 4th Maryland Infantry Regiment and the 71st New York Militia Regiment and to his activities as U.S. Commissioner of Claims for Mobile, Ala. Subjects include the battles of Antietam, First Bull Run, Second Bull Run, and Chancellorville; the Atlanta, Gettysburg, and Shenandoah Valley campaigns; and Gillette's...
    • Contributor: Gillette, James Jenkins
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    Gist family papers, Catalog Record Only Includes letters (1776-1778) of John McClure and William Sterett to Mordecai Gist relating to the Revolution in Maryland; letters (1847-1853) of W. W. H. Gist while serving in the Mexican War in New Mexico and while in California; and letters from various family members who served in the 6th Maryland Infantry and the 17th Kentucky Infantry during the Civil War relating to action in...
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    Genealogy collection. Catalog Record Only Correspondence, copies of wills, Bible and tombstone records, genealogical notes, biographical sketches, memorandum books, and printed matter. Correspondence relates primarily to genealogical research on the Goff, Gray, Hewitt, Johnston, Porter, and allied families of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
    • Contributor: Porter, Eunice R.
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    Shelby family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, legal and financial records, military records, genealogical data, and other papers relating primarily to Evan Shelby, soldier and frontiersman, and to his son, Isaac Shelby, soldier and political leader, providing a record of frontier life and political and economic developments in Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. The papers of Isaac Shelby document his activities during the Indian wars, Revolutionary...
    • Contributor: Shelby, Evan - Shelby, Isaac
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    Allen Landis and Aaron J. Landis correspondence,
    Allen Landis and Aaron J. Landis papers | Allen Landis correspondence | Aaron J. Landis correspondence Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence of Allen Landis and Aaron J. Landis while serving in the 116th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army. Chiefly letters from Allen to his family concerning the Battle of Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862; Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Va., 1864; siege of Petersburg, Va., 1865; and skirmishes in northern Virginia and West Virginia. Subjects include the draft, troop...
    • Contributor: Landis, Allen - Landis, Aaron J.
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    Shortelle family papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly correspondence of Robert E. Shortelle written to family members during his service in the 6th Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps (35th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army) in various army encampments near Washington, D.C., and in Maryland and Virginia between 1861 and 1863. Topics include camp life, regimental activities, generals who led the Army of the Potomac, expected military activity, family news, and later, reactions...
    • Contributor: Shortelle, James Edward - Shortelle, Robert E.
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    Anderson family papers,
    Moler family papers Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence (1854-1895) of the Anderson and Moler families of Anderson County, Kans., and Ohio, relating to the Civil War, farming, and family matters. Correspondence of Cornelia "Nelia" Emily Moler of Columbus, Ohio, and relatives in Anderson County, Kans. contains remarks on enlistments, training camps, and acquaintances in the Union Army. Includes correspondence (1915-1931) of Cora Anderson DuLaney and Homer C. Eiler concerning the genealogy...
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    Feamster family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, essays, notes and notebooks, financial and legal records, circulars, genealogical material, newspaper clippings, and other papers of the allied Feamster (Feemster), Alderson, Cary (Carey), and Mathews (Matthews) families. Subjects include farming, law, medicine, military, politics, and religion, as well as geography, economic and social conditions, and education in areas and states in which members of the family visited or resided including Arkansas,...
    • Contributor: Feamster, Claudius Newman - Feamster, Samuel William Newman - Feamster, Felix Claudius - Feamster, Thomas L. - Feamster, Robert Cantrell - Cary, Charles William - Feamster, Martha Alderson
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    John Hamilton and William Hamilton correspondence,
    John Hamilton and William Hamilton papers | John Hamilton correspondence | William Hamilton correspondence Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence of the Hamilton family, primarily of brothers, John Hamilton and William Hamilton. Letters (1838-1855) of John Hamilton, addressed to his mother, Rosanna Boyd Hamilton, and other family members from his home in Zavala, Texas. Subjects include family matters, the difficulties of life in Texas, relations with the Indians, African Americans and slavery in Texas, political affairs of Texas and the United States, his...
    • Contributor: Hamilton, William
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    Samuel Vaughan diary,
    Samuel Vaughan papers Catalog Record Only
    Diary (1787 June 18-September 4) kept by Vaughan on a trip through Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania to Fort Pitt. The volume (44 pages) also includes maps, later notes on the diary entries, and list compiled by his son, Benjamin Vaughan, giving information on Samuel Vaughan's children.
    • Contributor: Vaughan, Samuel
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    John Leeds Bozman family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, writings, notebooks, family papers, scrapbooks, and other papers primarily of John Leeds Bozman, John Bozman Kerr, John Leeds Kerr, and other members of the allied Bozman, Goldsborough, Kerr, Leeds, and Richardson families. Documents political, legal, and financial developments in the early history of Maryland, particularly the Eastern Shore. Includes John Leeds Bozman's poetry, political notebooks and a scrapbook of John Leeds Kerr, John...
    • Contributor: Richardson, Ruth - Kerr, John Leeds - Bozman, John Leeds - Richardson, Daniel - Kerr, John Bozman
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    James Kennedy papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly letters received by Kennedy from merchants in Baltimore, Maryland; Charleston, South Carolina; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Richmond, Virginia. Correspondents include Robert Lenox, Charles McKenna, John Read Jr., Francis Wainwright, and John Wickham. Includes billbook.
    • Contributor: Kennedy, James
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    Journal of a French traveler in the colonies, Catalog Record Only Journal (79 pages; 1764 December 4-1765 September 7) by an unidentified Frenchman traveling through Jamaica, Cuba, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Philadelphia and New York. Of particular note are the author's observations on Patrick Henry and the debate in the Virginia House of Burgesses over the Stamp Act.
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    Charlotte Browne journal,
    Charlotte Browne papers Catalog Record Only
    Journal (1754 Nov. 17-1757 Aug. 4) of a voyage from London to Virginia, pertaining to incidents at Hampton and Fort Cumberland, Va., Frederick Town, Md., Philadelphia, Pa., and New York State during the French and Indian War.
    • Contributor: Browne, Charlotte
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    Marsena Rudolph Patrick journals,
    Marsena Rudolph Patrick papers Catalog Record Only
    Journals kept by Patrick while serving in the Union Army. Documents his role in the 2nd Battle of Bull Run, Va., (1862); the Maryland Campaign (1862); the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., (1863); operations along the Rapidan River, Va., (1863); Battle of Cold Harbor, Va., (1864); seige of Petersburg, Va., (1864-1865); and the entry of Union troops into Richmond, Va. Discusses the operations of the...
    • Contributor: Patrick, Marsena Rudolph
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    John Thompson Ford papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, play scripts and other writings, subject files, playbooks, playbills, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Ford's life and work as a theater manager in the last half of the nineteenth century. Documents his interaction with major theatrical figures of the period; the productions featured at his theaters in Baltimore, Md., Philadelphia, Pa.; Charleston, S.C., Alexandria, Va., Richmond, Va., and Washington, D.C.; the assassination...
    • Contributor: Ford, Lizzie - Ford, Annie - Ford, John Thompson
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    George Montfort Gilchrist family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, school records, literary and commencement programs, poetry, and Gilpin family genealogical material. Much of the correspondence is between Gilchrist, who served with the 3rd Indiana Cavalry Regiment in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., during the Civil War, and his wife, Mollie Gilpin Gilchrist; other letters are between Mollie and her brothers, Samuel J.V.B. Gilpin, of the 1st Indiana Cavalry Regiment, and E.N....
    • Contributor: Gilchrist, George Montfort