United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Franklin P. Baxter Papers
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-175
Scope and Contents
The Franklin P. Baxter Papers include numerous commercial publications in several different languages, legal documents, correspondence, reports, pamphlets, and a periodical documenting the diverse collecting activities and interests of Franklin Baxter during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In addition to these documents there are several miscellaneous records that were incorporated into the Baxter Collection by the staff of the B. Carroll Reece Museum prior to the...
Dates:
1797-1931
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Franklin P. Baxter Papers
Bowman Family Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-23
Arrangement
The collection is arranged alphabetically by subject or document type.
Dates:
1820 - 1932; Majority of material found within 1854 - 1886
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Bowman Family Collection
Thomas G. Burton-Ambrose N. Manning Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-25
Scope and Contents
The collection resulted from Dr. Burton’s and Mr. Manning’s interests in Appalachian folklore and related teaching, research, and service activities. A central component of the collection consists of reel-to-reel audio recordings, dub sheets, transcripts, and indices created as part of the professors' efforts to gather ballads, instrumental music, stories, superstitions and beliefs, folk remedies, and accounts of everyday life from individuals in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee. ...
Dates:
1899 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1967 - 1971
Charles P. Wofford Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-465
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in five series, as follows: Series 1, Subject Files, 1855-2005 and undated; Series 2, Publications, 1809-1992; and Series 3, Photographs and Photograph Scrapbooks, 1880-1985 and undated; Series 4, Postcards and Tobacco cards, 1907-1967 and undated; and Series 5, Recordings, 1996-2004 and undated.
Dates:
1809 - 2005
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Charles P. Wofford Papers
Civil War Documents Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 500-AppMs 829
Arrangement
The materials are arranged in the order of acquisition.
Dates:
1861-1907, undated
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Civil War Documents Collection
Hiram Fain Diary Transcript
Collection — Box H (Small Collections)
Identifier: AppMs-463
Scope and Contents
The transcript of the diary of Hiram Fain of Rogersville: an East Tennessee secessionist contains Fain's observations between October 21, 1850 and February 28, 1870. In the diary, Hiram Fain relates his day-to-day activities including planting and harvesting at Spring Vale Farm, legal activities such as preparing wills, working at the bank, and caring for livestock. He also describes weather conditions, astronomical events, an earthquake in 1861, the sale of slaves, the illness and death of...
Dates:
1994
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Hiram Fain Diary Transcript
Frederick S. Heiskell Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-22
Arrangement
The papers are arranged into two series: Series 1, Papers of Frederick S. Heiskell, 1810-1882, and Series 2, Scrapbooks, c. 1789-1882.
Dates:
1789 - 1882; Majority of material found within 1832 - 1882
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Frederick S. Heiskell Papers
Charles Gunter Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-69
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of recordings of interviews conducted by Gunter's students in connection with his courses on social geography. The interview subjects are primarily from East Tennessee and often discuss topics of regional interest such as music, farm life, coal mining, and foodways. The collection also includes dub sheets for the first eight tapes, partial transcripts of tapes 2, 5 and 6, and summaries of interviews.
Dates:
1974-1996
Mary Louise Pearre Hamilton Papers
Collection — Box B (Small Collections)
Identifier: AppMs-114
Scope and Contents
The Mary Louise Pearre Hamilton Papers consist of typescripts of her diary, 1863-64, and of letters written to her by her fiance, John Hall Hamilton, 1861-63. Their son, Joshua Pearre Hamilton, transcribed the diary and letters sometime in the early 20th century and added commentary to the diary entries. There is also a family history by J.P. Hamilton, a brief second-hand account of John Hall Hamilton's experience as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War, a photocopy of a handwritten family...
Dates:
1861-1925, undated; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864
Henry M. Slagle Journal
Collection — Box J (Small Collections)
Identifier: AppMs-725
Scope and Contents
The Henry M. Slagle Journal is a single bound volume that reflects aspects of Slagle’s military service during the Civil War and postwar activities. The journal includes rolls of Company B, 8th Tennessee Calvary, consolidated roll of Companies B and G, and personal entries made by Slagle about the company’s activities. The remainder of the journal documents some of Slagle's postwar activities. Included among these pages are accounts of cobbler work that Slagle apparently did for individuals in...
Dates:
1864-1881
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Henry M. Slagle Journal
Jefferson Burleson Civil War Notebook
Collection — Box H (Small Collections)
Identifier: AppMs-451
Scope and Contents
The Jefferson Burleson Papers consist of a photocopy of Jefferson Burleson’s Civil War notebook. The notebook documents Burleson’s military service in the 8th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment of the Union Army up to the time of his discharge on September 7, 1865.
Dates:
circa 1864-1865
John Fain Anderson Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-288
Scope and Contents
The John Fain Anderson Collection consists of 23 scrapbooks created by Anderson. The scrapbooks include newsclippings, brochures, obituaries, correspondence, photographs, postcards, greeting cards and handwritten notes concerning historical events, genealogies of families and biographical information on prominent individuals, political events, and educational institutions in upper East Tennessee. Some subjects covered in the collection include: Washington College Academy, the Civil War, the...
Dates:
1796-1938
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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John Fain Anderson Scrapbooks
James W. McKee Collection: Two Confederate Army Soldier Diaries
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-148
Scope and Contents
The James W. McKee Collection consists of photocopies of typescripts of the diaries of two Confederate soldiers, Finley Patterson Curtis and Rufus A. Spainhour. Both men served in the Confederate Army with the First and Second North Carolina Regiments in the Virginia theater. Curtis' commanders were General Stephen Dodson Ramseur and Brigadier General (?) Warren. Spainhour's commanders included Generals Jubal A. Early, James B. Gordon, Robert E. Lee, G.H. Stewart and (?) Thurston...
Dates:
1861-1865
Miscellaneous Papers
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-179
Scope and Contents
Included in this series are the following: correspondence, deeds, land grants, court records, diaries, broadsides, foreign currency, bills of sale for slaves, land survey maps, hymn book, newspapers, newsclippings, tax notices, and a history of the Carter County Court House. The dates span from 1770 to 1980. Some of the early historical documents are copies. A number of the documents relate to the early history of East Tennessee. Court records in the series focus on land disputes. The...
Dates:
1770-1980
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Miscellaneous Papers
Frank P. Smith Papers
Collection — Other Boxes 1-2
Identifier: AppMs-176
Scope and Contents
The Frank P. Smith Papers contain personal research notes, reports, photographs, and East Tennessee State Normal School yearbooks and literary publications documenting the personal activities of Frank P. Smith while both a student at East Tennessee State Normal School and a Tennessee educator between 1919 and 1967. The reports and personal research notes describe frontier culture; these were used possibly by Smith for a research project while a student at East Tennessee State Normal School. The...
Dates:
1920-1967, undated
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Frank P. Smith Papers
Theodore A. Honour Collection
Collection — Other Boxes 1-2
Identifier: AppMs-14
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in one series with three subseries: Series 1, Correspondence and Typescript of Projected Book; Subseries 1 Correspondence, 1862-1863; Subseries 2, Correspondence and Papers, 1864-1885; and Subseries 3, Typescript of Honour Letters, Preface, Memoirs, and other Correspondence, 1862-1865.The first two subseries of the Honour collection are facsimiles of the manuscript letters. The third subseries is Honour's typescript copy of the letters, with the preface...
Dates:
1862-1885; 1862-1865
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Theodore A. Honour Collection
William Henley Nelson Family Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-303
Arrangement
The collection is divided into four series: Series 1, Military and Political Records, 1866-1934; Series 2, Personal and Family Correspondence, 1861-1973; Series 3, Newsclippings and Memorabilia, 1875-1910; and Series 4, Family Photographs, c. 1862-1973.
The materials in the addition were added to Series 2, Series 3, and Series 4, while Series 5 was created for the Elinor Farina Papers.
The materials in the addition were added to Series 2, Series 3, and Series 4, while Series 5 was created for the Elinor Farina Papers.
Dates:
1861-1990; 1861-1936
William Hopper Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-368
Scope and Contents
The William Hopper Papers consists of a letter and photocopies of discharge papers documenting some of Hopper's activities during the Civil War. The letter sent by Hopper, while stationed in Helena, Arkansas, to his wife in Iowa reflects the feeling of discontent that Hopper and his colleagues experienced during the Civil War. The letter addresses the issues of the war from the soldier's point of view.
Dates:
1862-1865
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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William Hopper Papers
William Laban Brown and A. R. Brown Family Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-786
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into eleven series, as follows: Series I, William Laban Brown Civil War Letters, 1861-1865, Box 1; Series II, A. R. Brown and Company Records, 1892-1985, Boxes 1-8; Series III, A. R. Brown Political Papers, 1916-1933 and undated, Boxes 8-9 and oversized Folder 1; Series IV, Alberta Brown Papers, 1927-1934 and undated, Boxes 9-11; Series V, Nancy Brown Family Papers, 1858-1912 and undated, Boxes 12-14; Series VI, William Henry Brown Papers, 1883-1900 and undated, Box...
Dates:
1861-1985 and undated
William Sullivan Ledgers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: AppMs-87
Scope and Contents
The collection reflects aspects of William Sullivan's life, family history, and business 1864-1911. Sullivan's letter from a camp near Fredricksburg, Virginia in 1864 describes his attitude towards the Civil War in that year. Copies of pages from his 1879 ledger outline his police duties for that year and detail his genealogy. (Some copies are illegible.) His 1911 ledger lists accounts for the Mitchell Powers Company and reflects church and business construction for the year 1911.
Dates:
1864-1911
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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William Sullivan Ledgers
Nat T. Winston Papers
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-178
Scope and Contents
The Nat T. Winston Papers consist of documents from, by, and about the Taylor and Winston families of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. The papers include correspondence, land deeds, diplomas, receipts, and other memorabilia. There are two documents concerning slaves held by family members.
Dates:
1781-1967
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Nat T. Winston Papers
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