NUCMC and the Documentary Heritage of the Civil War - 2012

This Web presentation is part of a five year/five part effort to highlight program cataloging of the last quarter century, along with related visual content, in observance of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War.

Part 2 (2012: "Gone to be a Soldier": Personal Narratives of Members of the Union and Confederate Armed Forces )

Firsthand accounts of Civil War battles/naval engagements of 1862; troop morale; opinions on Lincoln, officers, etc.; training; camp life; casualties; destruction and pillage; hospitals and medical care; prisoners and prisons; religious life; and desertions.

• James K. Edmondson papers, 1856-1898 (Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.)
• Edward M. Galligan diary, 1861-1863 (Montana Historical Society, Library and Archives Dept., Helena, Mont.)
• Nelson L. Wandell, A Civil War record of Company K, 9th Vermont Volunteers, June 4, 1862-June 23, 1865 (Brooks Memorial Library, Brattleboro, Vt.)
• Andrew Powell Civil War correspondence, 1862-1865 (Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Fremont, Ohio)
• William R. Barry correspondence, 1855-1864 (South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, S.C.)
• John E. Bowers Civil War letters, January 2, 1862-August 20, 1864 (Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Fremont, Ohio)
• Edward Porter Alexander letter, 1863 May 11 (Pearce Museum at Navarro College, Corsicana, Tex.)
• Hilary Valentine Harris, Autograph letter signed, July 7, 1863 (Pearce Museum at Navarro College, Corsicana, Tex.)
• Daniel Garrison Brinton papers, 1863-1899 (Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, Pa.)
• William Jonathan Davis papers, 1857-1908 (Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Ky.)
• Granville W. and Mary Caroline Belcher letters, 1862-1864 (University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Miss.)
• John Southworth letters, 1863-1864 (Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, Duxbury, Mass.)
• Andrew Moffett Adger letters, May 21, 1864, and June 8, 1864 (South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, S.C.)
• Lester S. Willson diaries, 1863-1865 (Montana State University--Bozeman Libraries, Bozeman, Mont.)
• Herbert W. Mills collection, 1861-1865 and 20th century (Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester, Mass.)
• Civil War letter of Myron Adams, August 19, 1864 (Pearce Museum at Navarro College, Corsicana, Tex.)
• James W. McColl letters, 1864 (South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, S.C.)
• William Clark Corson papers, 1861-1865 (Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.)
• Edward Hastings Ripley papers, 1840-1915 (Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vt.)
• George B. Sanford manuscript collection, ca. 1893 (Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield, Conn.)

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