Civ. Civil War
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Identifier: Civ
This topic covers individuals and families active during the American Civil War, 1861-1865. It includes letters, diaries, and photographs created at the time.
Found in 79 Collections and/or Records:
William T. Foster Letters
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Foster
Abstract
Union soldier who served in Company F, Illinois 84th Volunteer Infantry. Seven letters, dated between Oct. 7, 1862 and Dec. 26, 1863, from Foster to his uncle and possibly his father ("Dear Sir"), describing military life as Foster moves from Louisville, Kentucky to Camp Silver Springs, Tenn., to the hospital in Quincy, Ill., and back to Whiteside Station, Tenn., 20 miles outside of Chattanooga.
Dates:
1862-1863
Woods Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Woods
Abstract
Correspondence, writings, documents, genealogical research notes and photographs relating to the Woods family, descendants of Henry Ruiter (originally Hendrick de Ruyter) of Canada. Collected and preserved by Frank H. Woods, Jr. of Illinois, to be used for a complete (unfinished) family history, most of the material concerns Frank H. Woods's great-grandmother, Fanny M. Woods, his grandfather Frederick Moffatt Woods, and his father, Frank H. Woods. Included is a large group of Fanny Woods's...
Dates:
approximately 1775-1975; Majority of material found within 1820 - 1975
Woolson family papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Woolson
Abstract
Letters, scrapbooks, photographs, diaries, clippings, and genealogical materials concerning the Woolson family of New Hampshire, Ohio, and Chicago.
Dates:
1856-1950; Majority of material found within 1889 - 1910
Z. Payson Shumway letters
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Shumway
Abstract
Civil War letters of Z. Payson Shumway, a lawyer from Taylorville, Illinois, to his cousin Sallie Shumway and friend David Truax Moore written between 1861 and 1864.
Dates:
1861-1864