Box 1
Container
Contains 164 Results:
Anderson, Robert, Brigadier General, USA, to John A. McAllister, 10 Dec 1861
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 2
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents
Writing from Philadelphia, Anderson thanks McAllister for the "beautiful photographs." [Anderson was the commander at Fort Sumter when it was fired upon by the Confederates in April 1861.]
Dates:
10 Dec 1861
Garrard, Kenner, Brevet Major General, to Spence & Thomson, 14 Apr 1867
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, item: 1
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents
Garrard, Kenner, Brevet Major General, 146th New York Infantry, USA, to Spence and Thomson of New York. Garrard writes to tailors, asking them to make a vest and pair of pants and send them to his Cincinnati address. [See research file for further information- Garrard participated in the Rappahannock and Pennsylvania campaigns, commanded a cavalry division for the Army of the Cumberland, fought in operations around Chattanooga, TN and Mobile, AL, and led in the capture of Fort Blakely,...
Dates:
14 Apr 1867
Bell, John to John Clayton, 19 Apr 1849
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 3
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents
Marked "private." Bell suggests that Franklin Gorin of south Kentucky be given a political appointment to the courts of South America due to his being the brother-in-law of Judge Underwood of the Senate, rather than a Major Word who is also seeking the job. [Bell was at various times Speaker of the House of Representatives, Secretary of War, a United States Senator, and a Presidential candidate.]
Dates:
19 Apr 1849
Buckel, Joseph, 16 Jun 1864
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 4
Identifier: 4
Scope and Contents
Exemption from Union military duty due to being over age. Printed on Office of the Surgeon General of Kentucky stationery.
Dates:
16 Jun 1864
Gentry, Watson Meredith, 17th Tennessee Volunteer Regiment, CSA, 16 Mar 1914
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, item: 2
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents
Gentry, Watson Meredith, Surgeon, 17th Tennessee Volunteer Regiment, CSA. This document is a War Records of Tennesseans form filled out by the subject's daughter. Gentry was a Confederate surgeon of note; his appointment by Governor Isham Harris to Major of Cavalry in 1861 was confirmed by Jefferson Davis. He was with Gen. Felix Zollicoffer's campaign into Kentucky and participated as Medical Staff Officer of the division in the battles of Rock Castle, Fishing Creek (where Zollicoffer was...
Dates:
16 Mar 1914
Photographs, 1861-1912
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Civil War Collection (1861-1865) is an artificial collection of correspondence, documents and printed material relating to the American Civil War. The Collection is comprised of a variety of items donated or purchased primarily because of their relationship to the war; some of the material predates, or postdates, the Civil War. The reason for their collection had mainly to do with the war or to a person closely associated with the war. Rather than create a number of small collections,...
Dates:
1861-1912
Bragg, Braxton, Gen., CSA
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, item: 1
Identifier: 26
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Civil War Collection (1861-1865) is an artificial collection of correspondence, documents and printed material relating to the American Civil War. The Collection is comprised of a variety of items donated or purchased primarily because of their relationship to the war; some of the material predates, or postdates, the Civil War. The reason for their collection had mainly to do with the war or to a person closely associated with the war. Rather than create a number of small collections,...
Dates:
1861-1912
Breckinridge, John C., Gen., CSA
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, item: 2
Identifier: 27
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Civil War Collection (1861-1865) is an artificial collection of correspondence, documents and printed material relating to the American Civil War. The Collection is comprised of a variety of items donated or purchased primarily because of their relationship to the war; some of the material predates, or postdates, the Civil War. The reason for their collection had mainly to do with the war or to a person closely associated with the war. Rather than create a number of small collections,...
Dates:
1861-1912
Breckinridge, John C., Gen., CSA
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, item: 3
Identifier: 28
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Civil War Collection (1861-1865) is an artificial collection of correspondence, documents and printed material relating to the American Civil War. The Collection is comprised of a variety of items donated or purchased primarily because of their relationship to the war; some of the material predates, or postdates, the Civil War. The reason for their collection had mainly to do with the war or to a person closely associated with the war. Rather than create a number of small collections,...
Dates:
1861-1912
Bugle of the Kentucky Orphan Brigade
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, item: 4
Identifier: 29
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Civil War Collection (1861-1865) is an artificial collection of correspondence, documents and printed material relating to the American Civil War. The Collection is comprised of a variety of items donated or purchased primarily because of their relationship to the war; some of the material predates, or postdates, the Civil War. The reason for their collection had mainly to do with the war or to a person closely associated with the war. Rather than create a number of small collections,...
Dates:
1861-1912