United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Bowman Family Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-23
Arrangement
The collection is arranged alphabetically by subject or document type.
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Bowman Family Collection
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.
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.
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Civil War Documents Collection
Frank P. Smith Papers
Collection — Other Boxes 1-2
Identifier: AppMs-176
Arrangement
The collection is divided into two series; Series 1, Personal Effects, 1924-1967 and Series 2, East Tennessee State Normal School Publications, 1920-1947. Series 1 contains personal papers and reports documenting Frank Smith's varied activities as college student ETSNS and teacher in the Meigs County Schools between 1924 and 1967. Series 2 contains the East Tennessee State Normal School publications, "Chalkline," "Old Hickory," and "Buccaneer." This series is broken down into two...
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Frank P. Smith Papers
Franklin P. Baxter Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-175
Arrangement
The collection is divided into four series: Series 1. Publications, 1863-1931; Series 2. Legal Documents, 1797-1930; Series 3. Miscellaneous Documents, 1843-1930; and Series 4. Museum Records, 1825-1929.
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Franklin P. Baxter Papers
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.
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.
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...
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Henry M. Slagle Journal
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...
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Hiram Fain Diary Transcript
James W. McKee Collection: Two Confederate Army Soldier Diaries
Collection — Other Box 1
Identifier: 500-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...
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.
John Fain Anderson Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-288
Arrangement
The material contained in the scrapbooks date from 1796 to 1938. The volumes have overlapping dates, but are not arranged chronologically. Volume numbers assigned by Fain have been retained whenever possible, and numbers have been assigned to unmarked volumes. Loose pamphlets, financial documents and written historical sketches have been removed from the volumes and placed in a separate folder with the first volume. Volume descriptions highlight the subjects included within a particular volume...
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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John Fain Anderson Collection
Mary Louise Pearre Hamilton Papers
Collection — Other Folders 1-3 in Box B
Identifier: 500-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...
Miscellaneous Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 500-AppMs 179
Arrangement
The material in this collection is arranged by subject headings, by type of document, or proper name associated with the document into one series.
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Miscellaneous Papers
Nat T. Winston Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-178
Arrangement
The collection is divided into two series: Series 1, Correspondence and Memorabilia, 1781-1967 and Series 2: personal Family Effects, 1796-1903.
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Nat T. Winston Collection
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...
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Theodore A. Honour 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. ...
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.
William Hopper Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 500-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.
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...
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.
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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William Sullivan Ledgers
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