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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Americus Langston Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0382
Content Description

Two small books, both missing one cover



Scope and Contents

The collection consists of two small notebooks. One notebook has a diary of Americus' life in 1862.

Dates: Event: Donated ; 1859-1879

Edwin N. Swinburn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0176
Scope and Contents

This collection has photocopies of Edwin N. Swinburn's autobiography, his Confederate enlistment and discharge papers, newspaper articles about his wife's death, and reminiscences of his 86th, 88th, 90th birthday.

Dates: 1813-1908

Frederick Voigt Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0117
Scope and Contents The collection consists of photocopis and typed transcripts of letters from Voigt to his first wife, written during his service in the Confederate Army. They contain descriptions of camp life including health conditions, food, clothing, and drilling. He also writes about the progress of the war and personal matters relating to family and Nacogdoches friends. Among those persons mentioned frequently are Fritz Hoya, Charles S. Taylor and family, Capt. Henry C. Hancock, William Clark, and W....
Dates: 1862-1863

Henry Parks Garrison Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0057
Scope and Contents Typescripts of correspondence between Garrison and family members during his Confederate military service. Includes material on politics, camp conditions, social life, combat, inflation, and family matters. His letters encompass the years of 1860 to 1863 and relate to his family the details of army life, battles he fought during the Civil War, and the hardships suffered by the Confederate troops. The letters convey his hopes for a quick end to the rebellion and that the...
Dates: 1860-1863

Henry T. Curl Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0013
Scope and Contents

These papers include Civil War letters from Henry Curl to his wife, Julia, and one to her brother, Lawrence S. Taylor. The letter to Lawrence is quite long and gives an extremely detailed and interesting account of Henry's experiences in the war.

Dates: 1832-1931; Event: Donated in 1945

Henry Watson Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0140
Dates: 1861-1864

James Allen Kirkpatrick Diary

 Collection
Identifier: A-0085
Scope and Contents

Typescript of the diary (actually reminiscences) of the Nacogdoches native's experiences in the Civil War and later as a sheep rancher in Laredo, Texas (1841-1908). Genealogical data on the Kirkpatrick family is also included.

Dates: 1908

John C. Birdwell Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0116
Scope and Contents This collection consists of typescript copies of Civil War letters between John C. Birdwell and wife Adaline Birdwell. A farmer, John Birdwell included instructions for running the farm in his absence. Her letters report the progress of crops and livestock. Both recount their hardships during the war as well as news of family and friends. John C. Birdwell describes Confederate camp conditions depicting disease epidemics, food, music, gambling, funerals, weather, and ragged condition of the...
Dates: 1862; Event: Donated in 1960

John Scouller McCulloch Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: A-0056
Scope and Contents

McCulloch's memory of experiences in 1864 as a Union Army chaplain taken prisoner at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, and marched to Camp Ford near Tyler, Texas. Describes battles, wounded men, barracks, amusements, sanitary conditions, punishments, torture, and trading among prisoners and guards.

Dates: 1877

Joseph E. Mayfield Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0088
Scope and Contents

Chiefly the writings of the physician and Civil War veteran of Nacogdoches on various aspects of the early history of Nacogdoches, most of which were published in his column "Nacogdoches Traditions" in the Daily Sentinel.

Dates: 1921-1924

Lelia Berryman Crain Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0276
Dates: 1860-1924; Event: Donated 10/4/2011; Event: Addendum donated 2/19/2020

Orlando T. Hanks Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: A-0052
Scope and Contents

Original handwritten and typescript account of the experiences of Col. B. F. Benton's Company of Hood's Brigade during the Civil War, 1861-1865. Written from memory circa 1914-1915. Includes biographical material on the Hanks family.

Dates: 1861-1865; Donated in 1930

Turner Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0153
Abstract

Smith County, Texas family. Letters, land office document, and poem relating to the Tillman J. Turner family. Several letters concern incidents during the Civil War.

Dates: 1857-1876