US Colored Troops Clothing Account Books Collection

Title: US Colored Troops in the Civil War clothing account books collection, 1861-1865 Description: 429 items Notes: Ledgers containing the names of Afro-American soldiers enlisted during the Civil War, with financial information about clothing and equipment allotted to each. These account books which detail the debits and credits of black soldiers, as well as the name of enlistees, places of enlistment, ranks, signatures (usually his mark, x ), type of death, prisoner status, and discharge record. Also includes Regimental Consolidated Morning Reports, representing daily company statistics on the number of enlisted men and officers on duty, sick, arrested or otherwise confined, and the number of transfers and reenlistments. Subjects: Account books. lcsh Afro-American soldiers -- Registers. United States. Army -- Afro-American troops. United States. Army -- Equipment. United States. Army -- Uniforms. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Afro-American. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Equipment and supplies. Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.149 NUCMC #: DCLV96-A73

MS – 213: Papers of Edmund F. Churchill

This collection includes numerous letters, in a single box, in good condition written by Edmund Churchill to members of his family at home, chiefly his father and sister, Charlotte. There are fifty-two letters to Charlotte, twenty-one to his father, and four to his brother. There is one letter from Edmund’s father, as well as two letters from his brother Theodore to their father. Also included are several pages of Churchill’s “diary”, which he entitled Memoranda, which cover major events on a monthly basis. Several pages of background are included, provided by the previous owner. The location given for each letter was derived from information provided on the envelopes. Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on our website https://www.gettysburg.edu/special-collections/collections/.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/findingaidsall/1210/thumbnail.jp

List of Subject Headings

This document contains all the LC subject headings used to classify each item in the Harvey Letters Collection. These headings address the authorship, military context, and major themes both within each letter and across the corpus of the collection. To search the collection for items assigned subject headings from the list, enter the heading bracketed in quotes in the All Fields facet on the Advanced Search page

UA37/44 Faculty Personal Papers Gordon Wilson

Personal papers of Gordon Wilson

\u3cem\u3eThe Kohn-Hennig Library: A Catalog\u3c/em\u3e

August Kohn and his daughter Helen Kohn Hennig were two of South Carolina\u27s greatest book collectors. The object of their collecting was South Caroliniana, in all its variety. Their combined library of more than four thousand titles, now a part of the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina, includes novels, short stories, and poetry; biographies, sermons, and military histories; pamphlets, maps, and periodicals; and much more. The collection includes both the exceedingly rare and the too easily overlooked (a rich collection of pamphlets, promotional material, and business histories). No corner of the state is excluded, and no subject ignored. The library is particularly rich in Jewish material, a topic especially dear to both collectors. But the wide range of titles catalogued in The Kohn-Hennig Library will inspire, intrigue, and fascinate readers, researchers, and collectors everywhere. In addition to identifying all the titles in that collection, this publication pays tribute to Kohn and Hennig, to book collectors everywhere, and to the joys of book collecting. The volume includes essays by Allen H. Stokes, executive director of the South Caroliniana Library, and Belinda Gergel, a retired history professor and former president of the Historic Columbia Foundation. Excerpted from USC Press

MS-199: Mary Metcalf Barrett Letters

This collection is comprised of seventeen Civil War era letters from Mary Metcalf Barrett to her sister, Elvira Metcalf Aplin between 1859 and 1872. She discusses her feelings about the Civil War, her worry over her son and nephews away fighting, her experiences of life on the home front in Manchester, New Hampshire during the war when foodstuffs are expensive and sometimes hard to find. She repeatedly mentions the mills and industries in town limiting hours or closing altogether, affecting all the employees and making the town destitute. She talks about her income from making and mending clothing but also her expenses and how her family and the Lord send money when she needs it. She frequently includes her religious beliefs and her desire for her nephews and son to make peace with God before something might happen during the Civil War. Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on our website http://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/collections/.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/findingaidsall/1157/thumbnail.jp