United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Blockade Civil War letter from wife Isabella and her children, Jumain, Miriam, and Rosa to her husband in Cuba
This collection contains a rare letter written by a woman named Isabella, and her children, Jumain, Miriam, and Rosa, to her unnamed husband describing their attempts to sail from Galveston, Texas, to join him in Havana, Cuba. Their passage was on a blockade runner that failed as they could not pass through the Union ships. The back of the letter contains short notes from each of the children addressed to their father.
Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers family papers
Elizabeth Albee Brooks Diary
Ellen Strong Bartlett letters
Sylvenus A. Fay Civil War diary
Hayes, Rutherford, B. letter to Major Davis
One autographed signed letter by Rutherford B. Hayes to Major Davis regarding reports about the American Civil War and Morgan's Raid in Buffington, Ohio, in July 1863.