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Confederate States of America

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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

Confederate States of America collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 463
Abstract: Correspondence and official documents originating from various CSA government departments and from individual Confederate states, 1861-65. Includes correspondence of Jefferson Davis, Confederate cabinet members and congressmen, and other officials, as well as official reports of Civil War battles and events, estimates of expenditures and appropriations, petitions, special orders, forms, passes, receipts, bonds, tax records, and other documents. While the bulk of the material is...
Dates: 1861-1865

S. Griswold Flagg collection

 Collection
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

Isaac Munroe St. John papers

 Collection
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