American Civil War, 1861-1865

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Miscellaneous autograph, signed manuscripts by various individuals collected by John S. Mayfield.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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Research materials relating to the book "Mary Suratt: An American Tragedy" by Elizabeth Trindal (1996).