United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Ames family papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00003
Abstract
Genealogical and biographical materials, correspondence, diaries, artwork, writings, research, photographs, and printed materials. The bulk of the collection pertains to Blanche Ames Ames, suffragist, birth control advocate, artist, and inventor; her father, Adelbert Ames who was a Civil War general and Provisional Governor of Mississippi during the Reconstruction era; her husband, Botanist Oakes Ames; and their daughter Pauline Ames Plimpton. Also included are papers of Benjamin Butler,...
Dates of Materials:
1812-2017
E. A. Hall papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 310183630362506]
Identifier: MRBC-MS-00053
Scope and Contents
Contains the diaries of E. A. Hall, 1863-1865 when he was in the Union Army. Describes camp life in Maryland, guard duty in Washington, D.C., marches in pursuit of Lee after Gettysburg, the second Wilderness campaign, the attack on Petersburg and a week in Libby Prison. Also letters (some fragmentary), including one from Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia (with a Confederate postal stamp) and souvenirs. There is a typescript of the diaries (made by Elizabeth Greene, 1964-1965). In addition...
Dates of Materials:
1863-1900
Found in:
Mortimer Rare Book Collection
Garrison family papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00060
Abstract
The Garrison Family Papers contain thousands of primary sources that document the family's involvement in politics, business, art, literature, religion, education, and most of the major reform movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries. These include abolition, anti-imperialism, anti-vaccination, conservation, free trade and tariff reform, immigration reform, pacifism, race, single tax, and temperance. Extensive correspondence, diaries, clippings, articles, speeches, photographs,...
Dates of Materials:
1694 - 2010
Hubert Perry Young and Elizabeth Johnson Young letters
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MRBC-MS-00058
Abstract
Approximately 60 letters (1861-1864) from Hubert Perry Young to his wife, Elizabeth Johnson Young, written while Hubert was serving in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Dates of Materials:
1855-1864
Found in:
Mortimer Rare Book Collection
Hudson family papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00079
Abstract
Papers relate primarily to physician, abolitionist, and social reformer Erasmus Darwin Hudson. Included are the manuscript and typescript of his journal, "Anti-Slavery Campaign" (1842-43); and his correspondence (1825-65) to and from family and friends includes commentary on anti-slavery and Civil War era events and personalities such as Abigail Kelley Foster, Parker Pillsbury, Wendell Phillips, and Theodore Parker.
Dates of Materials:
1825-1865
Southworth-Dickinson family papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00212
Abstract
This collection includes letters, diaries, autobiographical writings, and financial papers of the Southworth and Dickinson families of Springfield, Massachusetts, as well as the related Shepard, Boltwood, Thurston, Caffee, Deane, and Browne families. The papers document several generations of middle- and upper-class families residing in Massachusetts, Ohio, North Carolina, Maine, New York, and California. The nineteenth century papers discuss such pivotal events in American history as the...
Dates of Materials:
1792-2005
Weston-Allen family papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00185
Abstract
The vast majority of the collection is correspondence, documenting the courtship and marriage of Grace Weston Allen and Walter Allen. The collection includes letters exchanged between Grace and Walter before and after their marriage and from other family members to Allen during his service as paymaster in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War. Also included are a published version of the Weston-Allen letters: Ten Years A-Courting: Letters of Walter Allen and Grace Weston,...
Dates of Materials:
1848-1985; Majority of material found within 1848-1868
- Smith College Special Collections
- Neilson Library, 7 Neilson Drive
- Northampton, Massachusetts, 01063
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- 413-585-2970
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