Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Advertising receipt issued by the Richmond Examiner to the State Department, C.S.A.
Collection — Box BW 29, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16523
Scope and Contents
Advertising receipt acknowledging payment for inclusion of a printed version of President Jefferson Davis's December 23, 1862 proclamation ordering that "All commissioned officers in the command of said Benjamin F. Butler be declared not entitled to be considered as soldiers engaged in honourable warfare, but as common robbers and criminals deserving death." Partly printed receipt headed "Richmond Examiner," completed in manuscript and signed by Examiner manager R.F. Walker, Dec. 23, 1862,...
Dates:
1862, December 23
Amherst County Virginia subscription list
Collection — Box BW 23, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16475
Content Description
This collection consists of five pages of names and amounts of money to pledge support for the Confederate Army in the early stages of the Civil War. The title page says, "The undersigned promise and bind themselves to pay on demand to T.W. Dillard, Henry Loving, Samuel Richeson, John B. Wheeler, William Kent and John D. Davis the sums severally annexed to their respective names to be expended under the direction of Amherst County Court in equipping the volunteers from the said county under...
Dates:
13 August 1861
Mathew Brady Studio: Union Civil War Camp photograph of African Americans
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762384]
Identifier: MSS 16833
Content Description
This collection contains an albumen photograph of a Union wagon camp in Virginia during the Civil War from the Washington D.C. studio of Mathew Brady. Brady was one of the earliest and most famous photographers in American history. He is best known for his scenes of the Civil War. He often photographed Black soldiers and laborers during the war, mostly in Union or contraband camps. The present image documents for posterity a number of Black soldiers and laborers working towards a Union...
Dates:
c.1864
Private Riley Carpenter letters
Collection — Box BW 59: [Barcode: X031674512], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16891
Content Description
This collection contains six letters written by Private Riley Carpenter, a Union soldier in the 150th Pennsylvania "Bucktails" unit. The letters are from camps in Rappahanock, Warrington, and Culpeper, Virginia. The letters' content discusses battles, waiting periods at various camps, fellow soldiers, and Riley's longing to be home...
Dates:
1862-1864
Dunn Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16099
Scope and Contents
This collection of letters written mostly during the Civil War consists of about 60 letters, one half-size legal document box, 0.25 cubic feet and contains correspondence (with transcriptions) between Elizabeth ("Betsy") Bruce Dunn with her sons, Leroy E. Dunn, and Henry "Marshall" Dunn, as well as cousins and friends from 1851; 1860 to 1862. The correspondence describes the horrors of the war, camp conditions, food, illness, including, the Battle of Bull Run and Civil War period envelopes....
Dates:
1851; 1860-1862
Vice Admiral Farragut public reception invitation
Collection — Box BW 44, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16682
Content Description
This collection consists of one printed invitation to Lieut. M. L. Rouse for a public reception of Vice-Admiral Farragut given by the Citizens of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia on March 31, 1865. The invitation reads "You are respectfully invited to attend a Public Reception of Vice-Admiral Farragut, to be given by the Citizens of Norfolk, and Portsmouth and vicinity, on the evening of Monday, the 3rd inst., at Mechanics' Hall, commencing at 7 1/2 o'clock" The invitee's name is printed in...
Dates:
March 31, 1865
James Thomas Watt Hairston Civil War prison ledger
Collection — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X006178827]
Identifier: MSS 16919
Content Description
This collection contains the ledger from Liggon's Prison, the first Confederate prison for Union prisoners of war, kept by the prison's commander, Lieutenant James Thomas Watt Hairston. Although the ledger contains 272 pages of text, the pages are stamped 1–288 due to skipped numbers. The book includes a 257-page roster of 3,159 Union POWs confined from September 1861 to March 1862. Each entry gives the prisoner's name, rank, company, and regiment, and their ultimate disposition,...
Dates:
September 1861 - March 1862
Charles Irving Harvie expense book
Collection — Box BW 49, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16768
Content Description
This collection contains the ledger of Charles Irving Harvie, a first year at the University of Virginia on the eve of the Civil War. Six pages record payments for matriculation, transportation, personal items, and memberships to groups like the Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty, were one of two confederate military companies formed at the University.
Dates:
1860 - 1861
John B. Minor papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-79-8
Scope and Contents
The collection includes lectures and other teaching materials, correspondence, clippings and other printed matter, legal documents, an appraisal of enslaved people, a commonplace book, and a recipe for making indelible ink.
Dates:
1845 - 1893
John G. Staysa Civil War Diary
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: ViU-2023-0026
Julia Chase diary
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2020-0048
Monthly report of amnesty oaths administered at Scottsville, Virginia
Item — Box BW 20, Folder: 1 [X031750311]
Identifier: MSS 16432
Scope and Content Note
The Monthly report of amnesty oaths administered at Scottsville, Virginia (1865; 0.04 cubic feet) documents President Andrew Johnson's national pardon of Confederates as implemented in one small Virginia town. The document contains the county of residence, occupation, and names of 42 mostly Albemarle County residents and one page with a transmittal message. The report was prepared by Captain Beers, who was with Company H, 11th Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Dates:
1865
John William "John Billy" Peyton diaries and account books
Collection
Identifier: MSS 4944
Content Description
Peyton's diaries cover the Civil War and Reconstruction periods and frequently mention conflicts, specifically the Yankees and how many people were killed on both sides of battlefields. His diary entries describe the Yankees being at his home and near his neighbors in Rapidan, Virginia. Many southern generals are mentioned including General (Stonewall Thomas) Jackson, General (J.E.B.) Stuart, and General (Richard S.) Ewell. There are also references to President (Andrew) Johnson. ...
Dates:
1862 - 1911
Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur families of Somerset County, Maryland, and Accomack and Northampton Counties, Virginia Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2338
Scope and Contents
The larger collection consists of the original materials and 7 additions including the most recent one represented in this finding aid. In this addition, ViU-2017-0179, are six Elizabeth Upshur Teackle letters with transcriptions. Five letters are written by Mrs. Teackle, and one is addressed to Mrs. Teackle from William Wirt, esquire. In the letters Mrs. Teackle mainly discusses the hardships of her family after her...
Dates:
1713-1977
Thomas Reynolds Citizenship Certificates
Collection — Box BW 55, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16790
Summerfield Smith autograph album
Collection — Box BW 59: [Barcode: X031674512], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16879
Content Description
This collection contains the autograph album of Summerfield Smith (1836-1864), compiled while he was a student at the University of Virginia. Smith collected fifty-eight autographs of peers and professors at the University between 1856 and 1858. The red leather-bound autograph book contains entries that list a student’s name, the date of entry, their location, where they lived away from the University, the “session” (i.e. 1857-58), and a personal note to Summerfield (referred to as...
Dates:
1856 - 1858
John G. Staysa Civil War Diary
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X031579410]
Identifier: MSS 16812
Wickham family papers
File
Identifier: MSS 15753
Scope and Contents
The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and “Hickory Hill” plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with...
Dates:
1704-circa 1950