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Civil War manuscripts collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 619
Abstract: The Civil War Manuscripts Collection was created to give the researcher more direct access to small and fragmentary collections of material on the subject of the Civil War in the United States, 1861-1865. It is an intentionally assembled collection of diaries, correspondence, photographs, printed material, and ephemera primarily documenting military events and daily camp life, as well as family life on the home front and civilian activities. Many Connecticut regiments are represented...
Dates: 1859-1900, bulk 1861-1865

S. Griswold Flagg collection

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Call Number: MS 216
Abstract: Materials relating to the Civil War including correspondence of military leaders on both sides, military documents, commissions, orders, inventories and administrative records, and private correspondence of important figures in the war. There are also letters from soldiers in the field and citizens viewing the progress of the war. In addition there are many autographs and memorabilia including Confederate war bonds, patriotic stationery and about a dozen photographs. In all some 120 names...
Dates: 1825-1938

Anson Conger Goodyear Collection

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Call Number: MS 244
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, proclamations, and drafts of letters chiefly relating to the Civil War, but also including letters from the Jacksonian period. The major portion of the collection concerns the siege of Fort Sumter with letters from both Major Robert Anderson and General P.G.T. Beauregard. Included also are a diary kept by General S. Wylie Crawford during the siege and two letters from Abraham Lincoln. Other portions of the collection concern Lincoln as a political figure; the...
Dates: 1813-1890

Isaac Munroe St. John papers

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Call Number: MS 427
Abstract:

Correspondence, diplomas, commissions, and other papers of Gen. Isaac M. St. John, civil engineer and Confederate officer during the Civil War.

Dates: 1850-1879