Tintype of an unidentified woman from Monroe County, Kentucky, whose family fought for the Confederate Army
View Full ItemTintype of an unidentified woman in antebellum dress with a white bow in her hair. The woman is from Monroe County, Kentucky. Her family members reportedly fought for the 4th Kentucky, USA.
in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesIssue of Republican Extra newspaper, including a report on the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, August 14, 1861
View Full ItemContains report on the Battle of Wilson's Creek.
in Missouri History MuseumBook titled History of the Soldiers’ Aid Society of Ann Arbor, Michigan
View Full Item in University of MichiganReceipt for socks donated to the Confederate Army, September 17, 1861
Bond, George WView Full ItemReceipt certifying that Mrs. J. W. Rice gave six pairs of woollen socks for the use of the Confederate army. Signed by Mobile County Judge of Probate George W. Bond, 1861. Local identification number…
in Mississippi State University. LibrariesLetter from Harriet E. Powe to Sallie Fair describing the hardships of the first Christmas of the war, December 27, 1861
Powe, Harriet E., 1843-1921View Full ItemLetter from school friend Hattie [Harriet Powe] to Sallie Fair discussing the first Christmas of the war. "We all have our trials, and this year has been an eventful one for us all. Many hearts have b…
in University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana LibraryBroadside about the lives of women during the war titled “Ladies of Richmond,” 1861
View Full ItemPrinted on white paper with black ink. First line "Fold away all your bright tinted dresses".
in Wake Forest UniversityIllustration of Union loyalist Christopher Haun of Tennessee parting from his family before his 1861 execution for blowing up a Confederate railroad bridge
View Full ItemWilliam G. Brownlow, Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession; with a Narrative of Personal Adventures Among the Rebels (Philadelphia: George W. Childs, Applegate & Co., 1862), p. 312
in Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State UniversityAmbrotype portrait of a woman wearing a Union officer’s belt buckle
View Full ItemAmbrotype of an unidentified woman in antebellum dress wearing a military belt buckle. The woman is from Monroe County, Kentucky. Her family members reportedly fought for the 4th Kentucky, USA.
in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesLetter from Maud Fentress to her son David about life at home in wartime, February 3, 1862
Fentress, Maud CView Full ItemTranscript of a letter from Maud Fentress to her son, David Fentress telling him about day to day life. In her letter, she discusses the rising cost of goods and crops, and she also comments on the de…
in UNT Libraries Special CollectionsBroadside titled “Confederate Soldier’s Wife Parting from Her Husband,” 1862
View Full ItemPrinted on yellow paper with black print, text within double line border. Illustrations of soldiers at either side of title. Imprint date from Crandall. First line "Here is thy trusty blade"!
in Wake Forest UniversityDaguerreotype of an unknown Confederate soldier and his wife
View Full ItemCased, brass-matted daguerreotype of an unidentified Confederate soldier and a woman thought to be his wife. Both are seated, and pose with their hands in their laps. Young man wears a uniform jacket…
in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesProgram for an evening of “Patriotic Entertainment” to benefit the Soldiers’ Aid Society, Indiana, June 1862
View Full ImageA night of music to benefit the Soldiers' Aid Society. This Civil War Home Front collection was funded by LSTA.
in Indiana Historical SocietyLetter from an unknown woman to her husband about recent events in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, published in the Raleigh Standard, January 1863
View Full ItemIn January 1863 William Holden, editor of the Raleigh Standard, published a letter from an unidentified woman to her husband. The letter, written over several days, detailed events in Elizabeth City,…
in North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural ResourcesDiary of Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of southern politican James Chesnut, chronicling her experiences of the war from Columbia, South Carolina
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller, 1823-1886View Full ItemBEIN Za C4255 905D: Autograph of Madeleine Forrest and bookseller's label of International Bookfinders.
in University of MichiganTintype portrait of an unidentified African American woman
View Full ItemHandcolored ambrotype of unidentified African-American female. She is shown with her hands folded and wears a wedding ring.
in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesLetter from the women involved in the Salisbury Bread Riots to North Carolina governor Zebulon Vance explaining their actions, March 21, 1863
Moore, Mary C., North Carolina Governor (1862-1865 : Vance), Office of the GovernorView Full ItemA letter from the women involved in the Salisbury Bread Riots to Governor Vance explaining their actions. This item was scanned as part of the American Civil War Sesquicentennial commemoration at the…
in North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural ResourcesMay 2, 1863 issue of the New South newspaper from Port Royal, South Carolina with news of the war
View Full ItemVol. 1 no. 35, Printed in Port Royal, S.C.
in University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana LibraryLetter relating R. Tilghman Smith’s visits to Smithfield and Oakland where the town is suffering, South Carolina, June 7, 1863
Smith, R. TilghmanView Full ItemLetter relating R. Tilghman Smith's visit to Smithfield and Oakland, the latter, "suffered very severely. They have burnt all the mills except the powder and run off all the Negro[e]s except fifty," M…
in University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana LibraryPhotograph of a hospital yard in Nashville, Tennessee, July 1863
View Full ItemScene in the yard of a military hospital in Nashville, showing numerous men and women, some African American, among lines of hanging laundry.
in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesThank-you letter for donating to the Ladies’ Soldiers’ Aid Society, Curllsville, Pennsylvania, July 6, 1863
Thorne, CharlotteView Full ItemLetter from Charlotte Thorne to Captain Bernard J. Reid. She thanks him for donated to the Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society.
in Santa Clara UniversitySusannah Pullen’s Civil War quilt, created following U.S. Sanitary Commission guidelines and used at Carver and Armory Square Hospitals in Washington D.C., 1863
View Full ItemMrs. Gilbert (Susannah G.) Pullen and her Sunday school class made this pieced quilt in Augusta, Maine in 1863. She followed the guidelines set by the U.S. Sanitary Commission for bedding to be used i…
in National Museum of American HistoryDaguerreotype portrait of a woman carried by Confederate soldier Guilford Andrews during the war, taken September 26, 1863
View Full ItemDaguerreotype portrait (#P-275/112) of a Civil War-era woman, produced on a silver coated, copper 1/9-plate. The image is dated September 26, 1863, at Orange Court House. Guilford Andrews carried this…
in East Carolina UniversityMemoir of Confederate spy and Washington socialite Rose O’Neal Greehnow, 1863
Grenhow, Rose O'Neal, Mrs. d. 1864View Full ItemMrs. Greenhow was a secret agent of the Confederate goverrnment.
in University of CaliforniaPledge to the National Union League, an organization of men established during the war to promote loyalty to the Union
National Union LeagueView Full ItemA Union League is one of a number of organizations established starting in 1862, during the American Civil War to promote loyalty to the Union and the policies of Abraham Lincoln. They were also known…
in Western Illinois UniversityLetter from the Attorney General of North Carolina regarding the use of the Home Guard to arrest deserters, November 2, 1863
Rogers, Sion Hart, North Carolina Governor (1862-1865 : Vance), Office of the GovernorView Full ItemThree page letter written to the Governor of North Carolina by his Attorney General regarding the effect of recent court cases on the use of the Home Guard to arrest deserters
in North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural ResourcesBrady family wooden box, built to store valuables and hide them from marauding guerillas in the Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee
View Full ItemThe Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee experienced brutal guerrilla warfare throughout the Civil War. According to local and family lore the Thomas Majors and Samuel Brady families constructed thi…
in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesPhotographs of the family of Confederate Sergeant Robert Frederick Johnson
View Full ItemSgt. Robert Frederick Johnson, Co. D, 7th Tenn. Cav., CSA, and his wife, Sarah Madison Taylor Johnson hold their daughter, Claudia. The baby died at the age of 15 months after a servant gave her cornb…
in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesDocument planning a fundraising fair for the Chicago Sanitary Commission, 1863
Chicago Sanitary CommissionView Full TextDuring the Civil War, the United States Sanitary Commission was the largest volunteer organization in national history, with chapters formed all around the northern states. In 1863, the Chicago Sanita…
in Wisconsin Historical SocietyPamphlet titled “How Can We Best Help Our Camps and Hospitals?” published by the Women’s Central Association of Relief, New York, 1863
Woman's Central Association of ReliefView Full TextCover title Will digitize Condition reviewed
in U.S. National Library of MedicineMap illustrating the operations of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1864
United States Sanitary Commission, Lindenkohl, H. (Henry), Krebs, Charles GView Full ItemKey to map symbols for branch supply depots, and distributing depots and relief stations.
in Manuscripts and Archives Division. The New York Public LibraryLetter from Martha Poteet to her husband describing challenges with sickness, death, and speculators in McDowell County, North Carolina, February 4, 1864
Poteet, Martha HendleyView Full ItemEncapsulated letter. Martha is distressed because she and the children are still sick, and Bill Cowen is trying to get them to leave their home by preventing them from farming the land. She says the o…
in North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural ResourcesPolitical cartoon titled “A Hint for the Sanitary Fair,” March 26, 1864
Unknown, Harper's WeeklyView Full ItemGettysburg College - GettOpen Public Collection; Political cartoons
in Gettysburg CollegeAn appeal for donations to aid white southern refugees at Cairo, Illinois, 1864
Johnson, John WView Full TextAn appeal for donations to aid white Southern refugees at Cairo
in Wisconsin Historical SocietyPhotograph of a famous sack of flour auctioned off in Austin, Nevada, to raise funds for United States Sanitary Commission, 1864
View Full ItemPhotograph of famous sack of flour auctioned of in Austin, Nevada in 1864, raising funds for United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War; photographic print
in University of Nevada, Reno, University LibrariesSermon given by Dr. F. M. Hubbard on April 4, 1864 in memory of Confederate soldier George Burgwin Johnston, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Hubbard, F. M.View Full ItemA sermon given by Dr. F. M. Hubbard on April 4, 1864 in memory of George Burgwin Johnston.
in North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural ResourcesPortrait of Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy who gathered information from occupying Union troops in Martinsburg, Virginia
Unidentified ArtistView Full ItemBorn Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) Belle Boyd was one of the Confederacy's most well-known spies. She first attracted the notice of occupying Union troops in her hometown of Martinsburg, V…
in National Portrait GalleryMathew Brady portrait of activist Sojourner Truth, who helped found the Colored Soldiers’ Aid Society and the National Freedmen’s Relief Association
Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894View Full ItemAbolitionist and former slave Sojourner Truth was overjoyed when President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Eager to assist the many refugees from slavery who had flock…
in National Portrait GalleryMemoir and letters from nurse Phoebe Pember who served at Confederate Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Virginia
Pember, Phoebe Yates, 1823-1913View Full Item in University of MichiganPhotograph of an officer’s family on a visit to his miliary quarters
View Full ItemB-5207 [notes in folder] USSC
in The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. The New York Public LibraryBroadside from the Confederate Office of Chief Wool Agent restricting the private sale of wool in Georgia, 1864
Confederate States of America. War DeptView Full ItemSigned: Wm. Hunter, Chief Wool Agent, District "A"; dated: Office of Chief Wool Agent of Confederate States, for District "A". Savannah, May 20, 1864. Caption title.
in Duke UniversityLetter from the State of South Carolina reviewing the destruction of Columbia and appealing for food for the city, February 27, 1865
Andrew Gordon MagrathView Full ItemReviews defense, fall and destruction of Columbia; appeals for food for the city
in University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana LibraryApportionment for the relief of soldiers’ families, Delaware County, Indiana, approved March 4, 1865
View Full ItemWritten by T. B. McCarty, Auditor of the State of Indiana.
in Ball State University. University Libraries. Archives and Special CollectionsLetter from Martha Dooley giving updates on family members who are helping the Parke County Indiana Aid Society, March 14, 1865
Dooley, MarthaView Full ImageMartha Dooley gives Rufus Dooley updates on their family members, who are engaged in various activities, from attending meeting to helping with the Aid Society. Dooley, Rufus This Civil War Home Front…
in Indiana Historical SocietyLetter from Rowena McMicken to her husband relating news about the war and life at home in Lake Mills, Wisconsin, April 27, 1865
McMicken, Rowena OstranderView Full TextThis letter, from Rowena Ostrander McMicken to her husband, Captain William McMicken of the 10th Minnesota Infantry Volunteers, relates news about the war and life at home in Lake Mills, Wisconsin. Sh…
in University of WashingtonLetter from an unidentified Pro-Union woman living in Gainesville, Georgia to her sister in the North describing Confederate suffering, May 28, 1865
View Full ItemLetter written by an unidentified Pro-Union woman living in Gainesville, Ga., to her sister in the North shortly after the end of the Civil War. She describes wartime conditions of southerners, financ…
in East Carolina UniversityIllustration of Richmond women going to receive government rations, June 3, 1865
Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph) (1828-1891)View Full Item in Art and Picture Collection. The New York Public Library
