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1	Title:	Margret S. Ferguson Correspondence
	Creator:	Ferguson, Margaret S.
	Dates:	1846-1861
	Abstract:	Margret S. Ferguson was a resident of Ways Station, Bryan County, Georgia. Her son, C.W. Ferguson, served in the 8th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, during the American Civil War, and was stationed at Manassas Junction, Virginia, in 1861. The collection consists of letters received by Mrs. Ferguson, including some from her son, C.W. Ferguson.
	Call #:	MS 3424
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Ferguson, Margret S. \| Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 8th. \| Women -- Georgia -- Correspondence. \| Soldiers -- Georgia -- Correspondence. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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2	Title:	Nancie Swan Folkett Papers
	Creator:	Foskett, Nancie Swan
	Dates:	1818-1869
	Abstract:	Nancie Swan Foskett(1838-?) of Medina County, Ohio, was a schoolteacher (1861-1865) in various schools in Medina County. During 1861-1862, she and her father lived in LeSeuer, Minnesota with her brothers and their families, returning to Medina County in the spring of 1862. In 1865, Nancie Swan married Captain Porter Foskett of Brunswick, Ohio. They made their home in the city of Medina, where Porter Foskett became a successful businessman. The collection consists of eleven diaries of Nancie Swan Foskett, 1855-1869, and one account book of N.A. Goodwin, 1818-1834. The diaries detail her life as a teacher in various schools in Medina County, Ohio, her trip to Minnesota, civilian life during the American Civil War, and family events during the period.
	Call #:	MS 4576
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Foskett, Nancie Swan. \| Foskett, Nancie Swan -- Diaries. \| Foskett, Porter. \| Swan family. \| Goodwin, N. A. \| Women -- Ohio -- Medina County. \| Women -- Ohio -- Medina County -- Diaries. \| Teachers -- Ohio -- Medina County. \| Education -- Ohio -- Medina County. \| Diaries. \| Account books -- Ohio -- Medina County. \| Medina County (Ohio) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women. \| Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. \| Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.
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3	Title:	Kellys Island Literary Society Records ("The Islander")
	Creator:	Kellys Island Literary Society
	Dates:	1860-1878
	Abstract:	Datus Kelley (1788-1866) and his family were some of the first permanent settlers of what later became Rocky River, Ohio. In 1833 Datus, with brother Irad, began to purchase land near Sandusky, Ohio, on Cunninghma's Island. The island was later renamed Kelly's Island. The Kelley Island Literary Society was established pursuant to the building of Kelley Hall, a hall Datus Kelley built. On December 22, 1860 the Literary Society published its first edition of the Islander. Anyone who wished to join the literary society was welcome, including women. The collection consists of issues of a manuscript newspaper published on Kelleys Island, in Sandusky Bay, Erie County, Ohio, by the Kellys Island Literary Society. The journal was "devoted to the discussion of questions in the Arts and Sciences, Agriculture and Manufactures, Politics and Morality." Prepared and written during the winter months, issues were read before weekly gatherings of inhabitants of the isolated island. Includes reports on current events, editorials, letters to the editor, articles on history, humor, philosophy, religion, science, and travel, letters of soldiers participating in the American Civil War, and advertisements.
	Call #:	MS 2116
	Extent:	2.0 linear feet (5 containers)
	Subjects:	Soldiers -- Ohio -- Correspondence. \| Kelleys Island (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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4	Title:	Marilla Wells Leggett Papers
	Creator:	Leggett, Marilla Wells
	Dates:	1848-1876
	Abstract:	Marilla Wells Leggett (1823-1876) was the wife of Mortimer Dormer Leggett, of Montville and Zanesville, Ohio. He commanded the 78th Ohio Volunteer Militia during the American Civil War, served as United States Commissioner of Patents (1871-1874), and practiced law in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of eighteen diaries and miscellaneous papers. There are lengthy entries concerning trips to Mississippi (1862 and 1863-1864) and Morgan's Raiders in Ohio (1863).
	Call #:	MS 3672
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Leggett, Marilla Wells, 1823-1876. \| Women -- Ohio -- Diaries. \| Officers' wives -- Ohio. \| Morgan's Ohio Raid, 1863. \| Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. \| Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. \| Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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5	Title:	William P. Palmer Collection of Civil War Manuscripts
	Creator:	Various
	Dates:	1761-1977
	Abstract:	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, prayers, reminiscences, resumes, rosters, scrapbooks, sermons, ship's papers, slave rolls, song lyrics, speaker's notes, speech texts, unpublished books, and yearbooks. Governmental documents types are: affidavits, certificates, contracts, coroner's reports, court documents, depositions, diplomatic documents, financials, indentures, legislation, letters, licenses, notes, pardons, probate records, proclamations, resolutions, subpoenas, telegrams, and warrants. Military documents types are: battlefield dispatches, charts, code books, commissions, courts martial documents, discharges, drawings, furloughs, inventories, letters, maps, manuals, muster rolls, notes, orders, passes, payroll records, pension records, materials by and related to prisoners of war, reports, service records, shipping documents, telegrams, and vouchers.
	Call #:	MS 3947
	Extent:	18.40 linear feet (46 containers)
	Subjects:	Confederate States of America -- History, Military -- Sources. \| Confederate States of America. Army -- Biography. \| Generals -- Confederate States of America -- Biography. \| Generals -- United States -- Biography. \| Johnson Island Prison. \| Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. \| Plantations -- Florida -- History -- Sources. \| Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- History -- Sources. \| Slave trade -- United States -- History -- Sources. \| Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources. \| Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Sources. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. \| United States. Army -- Biography.
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6	Title:	Mary P. Ballard Ross Correspondence
	Creator:	Ross, Mary P. Ballard
	Dates:	1845-1861
	Abstract:	From 1857-1858 Miss Mary P. Ballard was a student at the Western Female Seminary, Oxford, Ohio. She married William Ross of Pittsfield, Illinois. The collection consists primarily of general and personal letters to Mary Ballard, later Mrs. William Ross, of Pittsfield, Illinois, from her father, Rev. John Ballard, of Griggsville and Perry, Illinois, and her sisters and brothers, one of whom served in the Illinois Volunteer Militia.
	Call #:	MS 3060
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Ross, Mary P. Ballard. \| Ballard family. \| Soldiers -- Illinois -- Correspondence. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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7	Title:	Alfred Mewett Papers
	Creator:	Mewett, Alfred
	Dates:	1736-1955
	Abstract:	Alfred Mewett was the registrar of the Cleveland School of Art (1925-1943) and dean of the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute of Cleveland, Ohio (1930-1953). The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, account books, deeds, newspaper clippings, and other papers reflecting Mewett's interest in the local history and early settlements of the area around Gates Mills, Ohio, in the Western Reserve. The bulk of the collection consists of notes and articles written by Mewett on many historical subjects, including genealogical notes and accounts of interviews with and recollections of old settlers.
	Call #:	MS 3124
	Extent:	9.20 linear feet (15 containers)
	Subjects:	Allen family. \| Gates family. \| Greenwalt family. \| Lockemer family. \| Rudd family. \| Sharp family. \| Sorter family. \| Talbot family. \| Kirtland, J. P. (Jared Potter), 1793-1877. \| Gates Mills Milling Company. \| St. John's Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Presbyterian Church (Mayfield, Ohio) \| Gates Mills (Ohio) -- History. \| Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- History. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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8	Title:	Alexander Bunts Family Papers
	Creator:	Bunts, Alexander Family
	Dates:	1770-1968
	Abstract:	Alexander Bunts was a Cleveland, Ohio, neurosurgeon, amateur historian, and Trustee of the Western Reserve Historical Society. He traced his descent from Virgil C. Taylor, an American Civil War soldier and Cleveland realtor, and from Levi Johnson, an early settler of Cleveland. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, genealogies, autograph books and scrapbooks of Bunts family members, and several monographs collected by Dr. Bunts.
	Call #:	MS 3590
	Extent:	1.21 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Bunts family. \| Taylor family. \| Johnson family. \| Sackett family. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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9	Title:	Anna Wing Family Papers
	Creator:	Wing, Anna Family
	Dates:	1865-1939
	Abstract:	Anna Wing was a resident of Tiffin, Ohio. Her husband, Cyrus Fernando Wing, was killed in the American Civil War. The collection consists of an autograph album and mid-nineteenth century correspondence of Anna Wing, American Civil War diary of Cyrus Fernando Wing, and the Great Depression-era diary of Anna Wing Mowry, detailing her daily activities at home and in her community during the 1930s.
	Call #:	MS 4359
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Wing, Anna. \| Wing, Cyrus Fernando, d. 1865. \| Mowry, Anna E. Wing. \| Wing family. \| Autograph albums -- Ohio -- Tiffin. \| Soldiers -- Ohio -- Diaries. \| Women -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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10	Title:	Fayette Brown Family Papers
	Creator:	Brown, Fayette Family
	Dates:	1831-1891
	Abstract:	Fayette Brown (1823-1910) was a banker and industrialist who resided in Cleveland, Ohio with his wife, Cornelia, and children, Alexander, William, and Mary. The collection consists of personal correspondence of members of the Brown family, poetry, grade reports, a cash sheet detailing school expenses, a Union Army payroll sheet, and notices and memoranda from the Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair (1864).
	Call #:	MS 3150
	Extent:	1.40 linear feet (4 containers)
	Subjects:	Brown family. \| Brown, Fayette, 1823-1910. \| Strikes and lockouts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Labor -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women -- United States -- Social life and customs. \| Upper classes -- United States -- Social life and customs. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. \| Yellowstone National Park.
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11	Title:	Jeremiah B. and Elizabeth Taggart Mansfield Papers
	Creator:	Mansfield, Jeremiah B. and Elizabeth Taggart
	Dates:	1810-1898
	Abstract:	Jeremiah Browning Mansfield, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Mansfield, was born in 1841 in Ohio, and raised on his father's farm in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio. He and his older brother Oliver served in the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War. Jeremiah Mansfield participated in the Battles of Chickamauga and the Battle of Perrysville, and then served at Camp Sheridan in Nashville, Tennessee until the end of the war. He and Elizabeth Taggart Mansfield were married in Harrison County, Ohio in 1869. She was born in 1845 in Harrison County, Ohio, and received a teaching certificate in 1863. Her brother, Milton, attended Oberlin College and Michigan Law School. By 1880, Jeremiah and Elizabeth Mansfield had settled in Wells Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, where they farmed and raised five children. The collection consists of correspondence, essays, and miscellany relating to the Mansfield and Taggart families; Jefferson and Harrison counties, Ohio; the Civil War; and Oberlin College and Michigan Law School. The papers include letters written over a twenty-year period to James Carrick, an early settler of Harrison County, Ohio and ancestor of the Mansfield/Taggart family.
	Call #:	MS 4592
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Mansfield, Jeremiah Browning. \| Mansfield, Elizabeth Taggart. \| Mansfield family. \| Taggart family. \| Carrick, James. \| United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 52nd (1862-1865). \| Oberlin College. \| University of Michigan. Law School. \| Antislavery movements -- United States. \| Farmers -- Ohio -- Jefferson County. \| Women -- Ohio -- Harrison County. \| Women -- Ohio -- Jefferson County. \| College students -- Ohio -- Correspondence. \| Soldiers -- Ohio -- Correspondence. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. \| Jefferson County (Ohio) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. \| Harrison County (Ohio) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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