United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
John S. Mayfield Papers: Autographs Series
Collection
Identifier: GTM-830101a
Scope and Contents note
Miscellaneous autograph, signed manuscripts by various individuals collected by John S. Mayfield.
Dates:
1443 - 1950; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1950
Ord Family Papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS146
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Ord family papers consist of correspondence exchanged between, among others, three family members who were important American military figures. Namely, James Ord (c.1789-1873), an officer in the U.S. Navy for a short time, and later a lieutenant in the army during the War of 1812; his son, Edward Otho Cresap Ord (1818-1883), a noted Civil War general; and his son, Edward Otho Cresap Ord II (1858-1923), who served in the Indian campaign in Texas in 1880, commanded the Seminole Indian...
Dates:
1840 - 1963; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1870
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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Ord Family Papers 1
Ord Family Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS267
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Ord Family Papers: Part 2 provide a wealth of documentary material on members of the distinguished Ord family, especially Edward Otho Cresap Ord (1818-1883) and Edward Otho Cresap Ord II (1858-1923). This collection fills in details about the career of American Civil War notable Edward Otho Cresap Ord and includes his letters from California in 1848 touching on the Mexican War and the gold rush; his correspondence to his brother Doctor James Lycurgus Ord between 1848 and 1873; some...
Dates:
1848 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1923
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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Ord Family Papers 2
Ord Family Papers 3
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS277
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Ord Family Papers: Part 3 provide more biographical details about several key members of the prominent Ord family. This collection includes sixteen letters dated 1847 to 1858 from War of 1812 veteran James Ord to his son, medical doctor James Lycurgus Ord, mostly regarding family news and touching on social life in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan and political events in Washington, D.C. and California. Also, this portion of the family's papers contains numerous letters dated 1841 to 1865...
Dates:
1841 - 1901; Majority of material found within 1841 - 1865
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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Ord Family Papers 3
Roosevelt Civil War Envelopes Collection
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030756293]
Identifier: GTM-0035
Scope and Contents
The Roosevelt Civil War Envelopes Collection contains 370 envelopes illustrated with American Civil war themes. Bound together in one album, the envelopes often depict the American flag, patriotic slogans, and satirical portrayals. Representations include Lady Liberty, Abraham Lincoln, Winfield Scott, and Elmer E. Ellsworth, to name a few. Also, slavery is addressed in some of the envelopes. Moreover, references to the American Revolution are presented. While most of the envelopes focus on...
Dates:
1861
Nicholas B. Scheetz Collection of Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20200101
Scope and Contents
The personal collection of former Georgetown University Manuscripts Librarian Nicholas B. Scheetz (1952-2016). The collection includes over 300 sub-collections of bound and loose manuscripts, documents, journals, correspondence, commonplace books, scrapbooks, photograph albums, and other ephemera reflecting Scheetz's interest in Anglo-American literature, politics, and history -- primarily of the 19th and early 20th century.
Highlights include:1. Letters...
Dates:
circa 1551-2015
Carolyn Smith Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: GTM-140106
Content Description
Articles, monographs and printed source material relating to history of Catholic families in Maryland, and Southern American history including American Civil War.Folder list1. Browning, Sister Mary Carmel, OSU. Think Big: A partial biography of Reverend Tong, SJ. (1970). Inscribed by the author to Smith.
2. Smith, Lancaster. “Impeaching a ‘National Expert’ in a Catastrophic Collision Case.” For the Defense, vol. 23, no. 6, June 1981.
3. St. Ferdinand’s...
Dates:
1789 - 1981
E. H. Swaim Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-830601
Scope and Contents Note
The E.H. Swaim Collection is comprised of correspondence, documents, manuscripts, photographs and newspaper clippings. The collection was assembled in its present state by E.H. Swaim, an attorney in Eden, Texas, who has a strong interest in the Lincoln assassination and John Wilkes Booth. The collection, which consists in part of the papers of Finis L. Bates, W.P. Campbell, and Clarence True Wilson, concerns the events surrounding Lincoln's assassinaiton and Booth's flight from Washington....
Dates:
1865 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1902 - 1930
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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E. H. Swaim Papers
Elizabeth Trindal Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-121205
Scope and Contents note
Research materials relating to the book "Mary Suratt: An American Tragedy" by Elizabeth Trindal (1996).
Dates:
1861 - 2011
James A. Ward, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS7
Scope and Contents
The James A. Ward, SJ Papers consist of journals, spiritual and other writings, materials related to his teaching career, and correspondence.
Dates:
1832 - 1895