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

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:

Cole Family papers, 1752-1951

 Collection
Identifier: A2007-001
Dates: 1752-1951

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Civil War certificate issued to William Seward, 1870 April 19

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A2019-166-001
Content Description

William Seward served in the Second Light Battery. Certificate was created by the American Bank Note Company.

Dates: 1870 April 19

Confederate States Bond, 1862 April 12

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A1991-016-003
Scope and Contents

Confederate States 10 year $500.00 bond, 8% interest, authorized by the Act of Congress C.S. A. of April 12, 1862. Engraving of battlefield front center of note. Annexed coupons signed by H. Starke. Date of bond, May 1, 1862.

Dates: 1862 April 12

Dan'l O'Connell on Democracy!, 1863

 Item — Box 301
Identifier: GL2004-1484
Scope and Contents

Civil War broadside appealing to Irish workingmen of the North by arguing the case against black slavery in a democratic country. It is written by "A Democratic Workingman"

Dates: 1863

Discharge papers of W. B. Sheldon, 1865

 Item
Identifier: A1990-018

Dispensation, 1862

 Item — Box 475
Identifier: GL2004-10863
Scope and Contents

Dispensation granted by the Grand Lodge of Hew Hampshire authorizing them to form and open a traveling military lodge named "Citizen Soldiers Lodge of F. & A.M." in the 16th regiment of New Hampshire volunteers. It is all manuscript with leather wallet

Dates: 1862

Don't Unchain the Tiger, 1863

 Item — Box 301
Identifier: GL2004-1481
Scope and Contents

Civil War broadside that warns the Northern workingman against secession and criminal activity

Dates: 1863

Don't Unchain the Tiger!, 1863

 Item — Box 301
Identifier: GL2004-1483
Scope and Contents

Civil War broadside entitled "Don't Unchain the Tiger." The title and text of broadside is all in German perhaps to appeal to the German immigrants of the North.

Dates: 1863

Elisha Reese letters, 1861-1864

 Collection — Box 6, Folder: 1
Identifier: A2005-026
Dates: 1861-1864

Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial collection, circa 1993

 Collection — Box 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: A1994-097
Scope and Contents

The collection includes photographs and photocopies of newspaper clippings regarding the Masonic Memorial in Gettysburg, Penn. The photographs show the Masonic Memorial, which shows Captain Henry Bingham of the Union coming to the aid of his Masonic brother, General Lewis A. Armistead of the Confederacy. The sculptor is Ron Tunison of Cairo, New York. The photocopies of newspaper clippings report on the dedication ceremonies by the Masons.

Dates: circa 1993