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    Sho otasshi shorui, shodō sensō no keijō, sho nagai ukagai todoke shorui utsushi
    諸御達書類・諸道戰爭之形状・諸願窺届書類・寫 / Catalog Record Only
    Ms. Cover title. Handwritten on stationery of "Ōgaki-ken" [existed Jul.-Nov., 1871]. On double leaves; oriental style binding.
    • Contributor: Japanese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Ōgaki-Han (Japan)
    • Date: 1871
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Civil War correspondence, diaries, and journals at the Massachusetts Historical Society
    Civil War papers Catalog Record Only
    Reproduces the war experiences of 29 men who served with Massachusetts military units during the Civil War. The collection contains more than 30,000 pages of correspondence, diaries, and journals written by young men as they served in the conflict and gives insight into a variety of individual experiences, such as, descriptions of dreary field service, life in military hospitals, the Navy, the United States...
    • Contributor: Massachusetts Historical Society
    • Date: 1986
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Scrap book, Civil War, 1861-1865
    U.S. 1830-1930 clippings of great events by Cassie Moncure | Scrapbook, Civil War, 1861-1865 Catalog Record Only
    The scrapbook includes newspaper clippings, postcards, poetry, and photographs. Annotated throughout by her daughter, also named Cassie Moncure Lyne. Subjects include the Moncure family, the U.S. Civil War, American presidents and heroes, and Memorial Day.
    • Contributor: Lyne, Cassie Moncure
    • Date: 1830
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    Scrapbook of the Confederate veteran, her dead son Catalog Record Only The scrapbook includes newspaper clippings, postcards, poetry, Virginia Treasury notes, and fabric from the dress Moncure wore to the inauguration of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America. Annotated throughout by her daughter, also named Cassie Moncure Lyne. Subjects include the Moncure family, the Confederate States, the Civil War, American heroes, and Memorial Day.
    • Contributor: Lyne, Cassie Moncure
    • Date: 1861
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    Collection of American data, Cassie Moncure, 1845-1934 : daughter of Wm. A. Moncure, state senator & auditor of Virginia, kinsman of General Washington & General Robert E. Lee : subject, National Memorial ... Catalog Record Only The scrapbook includes newspaper clippings and pamphlets. Annotated throughout by Cassie Moncure, the daughter. Subjects include the Moncure family, family connections to significant people of the time, the U.S.Civil War, and Memorial Day.
    • Contributor: Lyne, Cassie Moncure
    • Date: 1850
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    A people at war
    Civil War manuscripts Catalog Record Only
    Reproduces letters, diaries and personal papers of civilians, professionals, camp followers, and ordinary soldiers, providing a written record of the Civil War.
    • Contributor: Sellers, John R. - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
    • Date: 1989
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Papers of Union staff officers, 1861-1865 Catalog Record Only Reproduces letters, orders, telegrams and other papers which chronicle military campaigns, tactics and maneuvers, treatment of prisoners of war, and internal workings of the Union military organization from the viewpoint of Union staff officers.
    • Contributor: University Publications of America (Firm) - Beckwith, Adam L. - United States. Army - Lester, Robert - Farmer, Faith
    • Date: 2004
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Civil War and the Confederacy the business records of Fraser, Trenholm & Company of Liverpool and Charleston, South Carolina, 1860-1877 : from the Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool
    Business records of Fraser, Trenholm & Company of Liverpool and Charleston, South Carolina, 1860-1877 | Civil War & the Confederacy Catalog Record Only
    "The collection consists of over 200 original letters to C.K. Prioleau for the period 1860-1869 from figures such as J.D. Bulloch, agent for the Confederate Navy, Caleb Huse, principal Confederate Army purchasing officer in Europe, and General C.J. McRae, Confederate Treasury Agent in Europe. Subjects include the shelling of Charleston, blockade running, battles, armament supply and the financing of the Southern war effort. A...
    • Contributor: Merseyside Maritime Museum - Adam Matthew Publications
    • Date: 1998
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Diary and daily journal of David Homer Bates. Diary and daily journal written by David Homer Bates from the Alfred Stern Collection at the Library of Congress. Bates worked in the telegraph office during the Lincoln administration. He chronicles the movements of the Civil War as well as noting important events of the day. It also gives a daily account of Bates comings and goings in the Washington, D.C. area.
    • Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Bates, David Homer
    • Date: 1863

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    United States Sanitary Commission records
    U.S. Sanitary Commission records Catalog Record Only
    Filmed from originals held at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Division, the New York Public Library. Accompanied by a printed guide (v, 156 p. ; 28 cm.) Includes indexes. Guide rec'd in SMCD, 09-12-00 vr03.
    • Contributor: New York Public Library. Rare Book Division
    • Date: 1996
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    The Sevierville Hill site : a Civil War Union encampment on the Southern Heights of Knoxville, Tennessee Catalog Record Only Bibliography: p. [143]-147.
    • Contributor: Bentz, Charles - Kim, Yong W.
    • Date: 1993
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    War lecture 1 item. | Holograph lecture by Clara Barton about her service during the Civil War.
    • Contributor: Barton, Clara
    • Date: 1866-01-01
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    Henry Mahman receipt, Catalog Record Only Receipt for shares in captured Union ships, for $750 signed by Edward Bernard, for three shares of the net proceeds of sales of sloops Prima Donna and Laura Dudley and their cargoes.
    • Contributor: Bernard, Edward - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Mahman, Henry
    • Date: 1862
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    Military career of Albert James Myer, who organized and commanded the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1861 20 photographic prints : albumen, gelatin silver ; 22 x 26 cm. or smaller. | 1 drawing : ink wash. | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. | Photographs relating to the military career of Albert James Myer, who organized the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1861. Washington-area subjects include the "Balloon Camp" at Gaines Mill, Virginia (May 1862); Professor T.S.C. Lowe preparing to ascend...
    • Contributor: Myer, Albert James
    • Date: 1860
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    The rube and the ragamuffin D44214 U.S. Copyright Office Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Converted from American Memory Variety Stage pseudomarc LAC nsk 2019-10-21 update (1 card)
    • Contributor: Manuscript Plays Collection (Library of Congress) - Colby, W. E. (Walter Elbridge)
    • Date: 1916

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    The George Gordon Meade collection, 1793-1896 Catalog Record Only Reproduces Meade's personal and official correspondence, reports of operations, statements of losses, plans of campaigns, field reports from Gettysburg, and official Army of the Potomac correspondence.
    • Contributor: Meade, George Gordon
    • Date: 1998
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    A catalog of the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC nsk 2019-06-26 update (1 card)
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division - Stern, Alfred Whital
    • Date: 1960

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    An interpretation of the Florida ex-slaves' memories of slavery and the civil war, Catalog Record Only Thesis (M.A.)--Western Kentucky University, 1976. Bibliography: p. 149-155. Typescript (photocopy) Purchase; 1979.
    • Contributor: Zacharias, Dianna
    • Date: 1976
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    American Dialect Society collection,
    Hanley collection, Catalog Record Only
    Sound recordings made between 1931-1937 to document American English dialects, mostly from New England and eastern Canada, for a proposed Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada. Most informants were elderly New Englanders, and included whalers, fisherman, farmers, and housewives. Among the well-known people who were recorded are Alistair Cooke, Charles H. Grandgent, John A. Lomax, Alan Lomax, Edward Sapir, and B. F....
    • Contributor: Hill, Archibald A. - Lomax, Alan - Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - Brooks, Sarah Ashton - Boyd, Phoebe - Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic) - Ashton, Sally - American Dialect Society - Quarterman, Wallace - Grandgent, C. H. (Charles Hall) ... Hill, Archibald A. - Lomax, Alan - Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - Brooks, Sarah Ashton - Boyd, Phoebe - Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic) - Ashton, Sally - American Dialect Society - Quarterman, Wallace - Grandgent, C. H. (Charles Hall) - Cooke, Alistair - Quall, Susan A. - Sapir, Edward - Polite, Samuel - Chapallaz, Marguerite - Turner, Lorenzo Dow - Lowman, Guy Sumner - Bloch, Bernard - Thompson, Susanna Rebecca Wright - Hanley, Miles L.
    • Date: 1931
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    Anne and Frank Warner collection, Catalog Record Only Field recordings and photographs made by Anne and Frank Warner documenting folk music and storytelling during trips to Illinois (1941), Massachusetts (1941), New Hampshire (1940-41), New York (1939-41, 1946, 1949-52, 1961, 1969), North Carolina (1938-41, 1944, 1951, 1959), Missouri (1941), Vermont (1940), Virginia (1940), and to some unspecified locations in the Midwest. The songs were collected from descendents of English and Scots-Irish immigrants and...
    • Contributor: Sandburg, Carl - Proffitt, Frank - Ives, Burl - Solomon, Louis - Warner, Frank - Hicks, Ray - Warner, Anne
    • Date: 1938
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    North Carolina State Archives interviews with elderly residents of North Carolina,
    North Carolina Department of Archives and History duplication project | North Carolina Office of Archives and History duplication project Catalog Record Only
    Audio recordings of oral histories with elderly white, African American, Cherokee, and Lumbee residents of North Carolina, including interviews with Dillard Bellamy (age 81) ; Frederick Penny's (age 108) daughter, Miss Edith Penny; Elvira T. White (age 101); J. W. Hudler (age 102); John B. Smathers (age 100); Narcissa Rickman (age 103); Margaret Tucker's (age 107) daughter, Mrs. J. L Gilbert; Harriet Parker (age...
    • Contributor: Larson, Norman - North Carolina. Office of Archives and History
    • Date: 1958
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    Ila B. Prine Alabama Writers' Project collection. Catalog Record Only Collection of manuscripts generated and compiled by Ila B. Prine during her employment as an editor and professional writer for the Federal Writers' Project no. 694, District 6, in Mobile, Alabama from about 1937-1940. Includes a brief biography of Ila B. Prine written by her FWP supervisor François Ludgére Diard, and Mrs. Prine's handwritten and typed notes with citations compiled for various potential publications...
    • Contributor: Prine, Ila B. - Alabama Writers' Project
    • Date: 1937
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    The Cumberland's crew [textual and melodic transcriptions with notes].
    Sinking of the Cumberland | The Cumberland crew | Comrades, come listen, and join in my ditty
    Nine textual and two melodic song transcriptions sung variously by George Vinton Graham, Warde Ford, and Elizabeth W. Ford, with handwritten notes inscribed by Sidney Robertson Cowell. In English.
    • Contributor: Ford, Warde H. - Graham, George Vinton - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Asmussen, Ella - Ford, Elizabeth W.
    • Date: 1938-01-01

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    The Last fierce charge [textual and melodic transcriptions].
    Beat the drum lowly, play the fife slowly | Twas just before the last fearful charge
    Civil War song. Two textual and three melodic song transcriptions with notes inscribed by Sidney Robertson Cowell. In English.
    • Contributor: Walker, Robert - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Rice, Ben - Walker, Robert W. - Ford, Warde H.
    • Date: 1936-01-01

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    A versatile musical drama, burlesque, and spectacular and transformation ... entitled The world's champion American boy
    World's champion American boy
    30028 U.S. Copyright Office Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Converted from American Memory Variety Stage pseudomarc
    • Contributor: Manuscript Plays Collection (Library of Congress) - Hassall, Frank
    • Date: 1896

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