http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?freeformQuery%3Dgovernment;expand%3Dsubject;f1-subject%3DUnited%20States%20--%20History%20--%20Civil%20War,%201861-1865%20--%20Sources. Results for your query: freeformQuery=government;expand=subject;f1-subject=United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2712.xml Benjamin F. Sells (b. 1824) was a Coshocton, Ohio, soldier who served with the 122nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. The collection consists of correspondence, ordnance returns, military orders, autobiographical sketch, and papers relating to the court-martial of Sells, who was dismissed from the service for criticizing the war and the President and for vigorously supporting the candidacy of Clement L. Vallandigham for Governor of Ohio in 1863. Also includes an essay on the Mexican War. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2712.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2000.xml Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) was a Confederate Army officer during the American Civil War, planter, and engineer. The collection consists of letter books, official and personal communications, reports, orders, and memoranda relating to Bragg's Confederate Army campaigns and to his service as adviser to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. A few of the papers relate to the Mexican War, to Bragg's post-Civil War career as a civil and railroad engineer, and to Bragg's funeral. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2000.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3196.xml Charles Whittlesey (1808-1886) was a soldier, lawyer, geologist, and historian who resided in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, insurance and legal papers, financial papers, account books, diaries, memoranda, reports, invoices, orders, papers relating to his service as Colonel of the 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; manuscript notes and writings on historic, scientific and religious topics, field notes and memoranda books from geological expeditions, and papers concerning his activities as agent for the Humboldt and Eagle River mining companies (1853-1859). http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3196.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2872.xml Charles Whittlesey (1808-1886) was an Army officer, lawyer, and geologist, of Cleveland, Ohio. the collection consists of correspondence, field note books, articles, legal and financial papers, scrapbooks on geology, archaeology, and meteorology, student writings, papers relating to Whittlesey's Civil War service, and papers and notes on topics in archaeology, ethnography, geography, history, astronomy, meteorology, and geology. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2872.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3194.xml William Pendleton Palmer (1861-1927) was a steel company executive and collector of Civil War materials. He served as president of the Western Reserve Historical Society (1913-1927). The collection consists of letters, telegrams, commissions, discharge papers, general and special orders, circulars, broadsides, maps, drawings, naval papers, and scrapbooks, relating to Union and Confederate armed forces and veteran's organizations and Confederate medical services; and newspaper clippings accumulated by Governor Reynolds of Missouri on politics and the American Civil War, a scrapbook including speeches of Mayor Richardson of Cambridge, Massachusetts, registers of 3 Confederate ships, and papers relating to several military units and battles. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3194.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3195.xml The collection consists of letters, notes, memoranda, circulars, orders, broadsides, cartoons, maps, newspaper clippings, muster rolls, patriotic cards, and other papers relating to Union naval affairs, the Army of Mississippi, the Army of Tennessee, and Union and Confederate quartermaster and medical departments; records of the Gambier Council of the National Union League, correspondence and other papers of Ohio State officials, and correspondence from the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. This collection was collected from various sources by the Western Reserve Historical Society. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3195.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2415.xml John Devereux was a sea captain of Marblehead, Mass. John H. Devereux was an American Civil War general, engineer, railroad executive, and philanthropist, of Cleveland, Ohio. Henry K. Devereux was an engineer, real estate agent, industrialist, philanthropist, and harness-horse fancier, of Cleveland. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, business, financial, and legal documents, genealogical data, ship's logs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and other papers, of John Devereux, John H. Devereux, and Henry K. Devereux. Bulk of the collection relates to railroad construction and John H. Devereux's career with several railroads. Includes records (1895-1916) of the Gentlemen's Driving Club, and material relating to Henry K. Devereux's interest in trotting horses and harness racing and his activities as an official of several businesses. The collection also documents the role played by the railroad for the Union during the American Civil War. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2415.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5362.xml The Western Reserve Manuscripts is a collection of small manuscript accessions that have been donated to the Western Reserve Historical Society since its founding in 1867. These manuscripts often consist of one document but can include multiple items contained in one folder. This collection of material documents numerous subjects and themes in the history of Cleveland, Ohio, and the region of northeast Ohio known as the Western Reserve. The collection consists of advertisements, agreements, applications, articles, autobiographies, autograph books and autographs, biographical sketches, certificates, correspondence, deeds, diaries, drawings, envelopes, genealogies, histories, indentures, invoices, letters, lists, manuscripts, memoranda, newspaper clippings, notes, papers, photographs, poems, receipts, reports, scripts, speech transcripts, telegrams, and other material. Western Reserve Historical Society library staff began to describe these manuscripts in this finding aid in 2015. This is an ongoing p... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5362.xml Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3947.xml William Pendleton Palmer (1861-1927) was the President of American Steel and Wire Company, a director of U.S. Steel Corporation, and President of the Western Reserve Historical Society (Cleveland, Ohio) from 1913-1927. Palmer had an intense interest in the American Civil War and acquired an extensive collection of manuscript material related to the war, the memories of that conflict, and slavery. This collection is one of several Palmer collections from the Civil War era owned by the Western Reserve Historical Society. The collection consists of dozens of different types of documents in three distinct categories: civilian, governmental, and military. The document types created by civilians are: academic records, autographs, bills of lading, bills of sale, biographical sketches, circulars, diaries, dissertations, envelopes, essays, financials, funeral records, invitations, letters, manifests, memoirs, minutes, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, petitions, plantation records, obituaries, poetry, postcards,... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3947.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT