| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | various sources |
| Title: | Civil War Miscellany |
| Dates: | 1860-1874 |
| Extent: | 2.00 linear feet (5 containers) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
| MS Number | MS 3195 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
The Civil War Miscellany, 1860-1874 and undated, 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.
This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of the American Civil War, including topics of interest to the Union and Confederacy.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 3195 Civil War Miscellany, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Collected from various sources by the Western Reserve Historical Society prior to 1962. Provenance is indicated at the series and/or folder level descriptions when known.
Processed by Carole E. Fryer and Judith H. Reynolds in 1962.
Series I: Miscellaneous Papers Relating to the Civil War 1860-1865 |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | General John B. Henderson, correspondence received 1861-1862 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Miscellaneous letters and autographs, including the signatures of George B. McClellan and James Buchanan, a photograph of McClellan and the following letter writers: James W. Albert; J. T. Albert; Edwin Beecher; S. P. Chase; P. Draper; Samuel A. Foote; S. L. Fremont; Chester Harding, Jr.; James F. Johnson; T. Brown Venables; and H. D. Whitcomb ca. 1860-1865 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Oddments, including notes on the siege of Knoxville and an indictment for selling whiskey to a slave, against John Shepherd of Fayette (1864) 1860-1865 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | A collection of letters and papers relating to Union Naval affairs during the Civil War, including a number of letters and routine orders signed by Gideon Welles and Admiral Stringham, and several letters discussing the use of armor plated ships 1861-1865 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5-6 | Union Quartermasters' and shipping records, including routine orders, receipts, invoices, and official letters 1861-1865 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Union and Confederate Quartermasters' and Medical Departments, requisitions, invoices, receipts, and other papers 1861-1865 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Presidential pardon granted to J. W. Murrell by United States President Andrew Johnson (copy made December 11, 1865 and signed by William H. Seward) July 3,1865 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Collection of miscellaneous printed material, including newspaper clippings, cartoons, broadsheets, patriotic cards, stationery, and highly critical caricatures 1861-1865 | |||||||||
Series II: Miscellaneous Papers Chiefly Relating to Ohio Activities During the Civil War 1861-1874 undated |
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| 2 | 1-2 | National Union League, Gambier Council (Ohio), papers concerning the society and the military enrollment of College Township, Knox County, Ohio, including correspondence, notices, memoranda, forms, and other material; correspondents include Ohio state officials such as Governor John Brough and Senator Joseph C. Devin (gift of Peter Neff, 1893) 1862-1867 | |||||||||
| 2 | 3 | National Union League, Gambier Council (Ohio), papers concerning the society and the military enrollment of College Township, Knox County, Ohio; papers concerning the relief fund for for soldiers' families, auditors return, and newspaper clippings (gift of Peter Neff, 1893) 1863-1867 | |||||||||
| 2 | 1 | National Union League, Gambier Council, bylaws, obligations, Freeman's pledge, subscription of members, listing of political affiliations of the electors in College Township, and accounts 1863-1864 | |||||||||
| 2 | 4 | Official correspondence received by Mary Clark Brayton from the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio; and some accounts pertaining to aid given to needy soldiers (Braydon was the Secretary of the Cleveland Branch of the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio) 1868-1874 | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Miscellaneous papers, muster-out roll of Captain Emil Seip's Company B, 10th regiment, Ohio Infantry, 3 months volunteers 1861 | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Miscellaneous papers, printed enrollment lists for the 18th district of Ohio (Summit, Lake, and Cuyahoga counties) 1863 | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Miscellaneous papers, morning report of Captain Davis's company, 25th regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, stationed at Washington Arsenal (gift of General W. W. H. Davis, Doylestown, Pennsylvania in 1870) 1861 | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Miscellaneous papers, form of Dr. Elisha Sterling, Cleveland, Ohio 1871 | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Miscellaneous papers, family photographs, poem, and newspaper clippings dates vary | |||||||||
Series III: Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Confederate Activities During the Civil War 1861-1865 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | Papers concerning the First Corps, Army of the Mississippi, CSA, Major-General Leonidas Polk commanding, reports of the killed, wounded, and missing at the Battle of Shiloh and documents concerning discipline or appointments (gift of J. H. H. Bone in 1871) 1861-1862 | |||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Routine military correspondence, chiefly concerned with deserters (gift of N. A. Chapman in 1873) 1864-1865 | |||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Miscellaneous papers concerning the Army of Tennessee, including a dispatch from Brigadier-General Gideon Johnson Pillow to Colonel George William Brent and a roster of the field officers and regimental staff of John A. Wharton's cavalry brigade (gift of M. A. Cleveland of Huntsburg, Ohio) 1863 | |||||||||
| 3 | 4 | Military correspondence between General Joseph E. Johnston, President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee, and Secretary of War George Wythe Randolph (gift of Colonel J. F. Herrien) 1862 | |||||||||
| 3 | 5 | Official papers of Lieutenant F. Curtis, Acting Assistant Quartermaster, Woods' Battalion, stationed in Arkansas, chiefly payrolls, vouchers, and circulars (gift of Rudolfus Edwards, Newburg, Ohio, in 1871) 1864 | |||||||||
| 3 | 6 | Military correspondence, including dispatches, supply invoices, form of oath and applications for exchange or leave; correspondents include General Samuel Cooper, General Josiah Gorgas, Major General Leonidas Polk, Brigadier General Gideon Johnson Pillow, Acting Governor of Missouri Thomas C. Reynolds, and M. Jeff Thompson (gift of Royal Taylor in 1887) 1861-1862 | |||||||||
| 3 | 7 | Oddments: patriotic stationery (gift of Dr. Elisha Sterling) undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 7 | Oddments: letter from Georgia ladies to Mr. Turman (gift of W. B. Sterling, Cleveland, Ohio, 1870) 1861 | |||||||||
| 3 | 7 | Oddments: official copy of a telegram containing Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest's dispatch of April 15, 1863 concerning Fort Pillow (gift of S. A. Lane, Akron, Ohio, 1894) 1863 | |||||||||
| 3 | 7 | Oddments: muster roll of J. R. Rhodes, Company D of the 1st Confederate regiment of 12 month volunteers (gift of W. H. Gaylord) 1862 | |||||||||
| 3 | 7 | Oddments: return of Captain A. J. Grayson's Company F, 45th regiment of riflemen, Floyd's Brigade, (gift of William Crump, Cleveland, Ohio, 1871) 1861 | |||||||||
Series IV: Miscellaneous Papers Relating Chiefly to the Civil War (found among the papers of William Pendleton Palmer but not marked as such) ca. 1860-1865 undated |
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| 4 | 1 | Autograph letter collection of Union Generals, government officials, and prominent citizens including C. A. Dana, A. Ely, H. Greely, W. S. Hancock, and others ca. 1860-1865 | |||||||||
| 4 | 2 | Autograph letter collection of Union Naval officers including J. A. Dahlgren, S. F. DuPont, A. H. Foote, and others ca. 1860-1865 | |||||||||
| 4 | 3 | Miscellaneous papers received by Confederate General Carter L. Stevenson, including letters received, orders received and sent, muster rolls, and other documents 1862-1863 | |||||||||
| 4 | 4 | Letters from Confederate Colonel John B. Sale to Confederate General Braxton Bragg 1863-1865 | |||||||||
| 4 | 5 | Miscellaneous correspondence of apparently minor importance but contemporary to the Civil War ca. 1861-1865 | |||||||||
| 4 | 6 | Collection of maps pertaining to or of the Civil War period, including some hand-drawn ca. 1861-1865 | |||||||||
| 4 | 7 | Handwritten biography of Confederate General Sterling Price by R. H. Musser undated | |||||||||
| 4 | 8 | Miscellaneous forms, circulars, and directives pertaining to Ohio and the Civil War ca. 1861-1865 | |||||||||
| 4 | 9 | Miscellaneous forms, circulars, and directives issued by the United States War Department, various branches of the department, and its various armies ca. 1861-1865 | |||||||||
| 4 | 10 | Oddments pertaining to the Union Army or veterans' organizations including programs of reunions and memorial services, patriotic stationery, government envelopes, and commissions from Pennsylvania and New York dates vary | |||||||||
| 4 | 11 | Oddments pertaining to the Confederate Army or government including passes, railroad tickets, sketches of contemporary scenes, a passport signed by J. P. Benjamin, and a blank Naval Commission dates vary | |||||||||
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| 5 | 1 | Pages 208-219 from the History of Clay County (Missouri), "The Carnage at Centralia;" and pages 439-467 from the History of Boone County (Missouri), "The Battle of Blue Mills" undated | |||||||||
| 5 | 2-4 | Miscellaneous blank requisition forms, muster rolls, etc. of the Union Army ca 1861-1865 | |||||||||
| 5 | 5 | Numerous miscellaneous newspaper clippings pertaining to the Civil War ca. 1861-1865 | |||||||||
| 5 | 6 | Oddments found in these papers, including a petition signed by a number of ladies of West Salem, Ohio condemning another for expressions of Southern sympathy; an envelope franked "J. Tyler;" two envelopes whose addresses are believed to be in teh hands of U. S. Grant and R. B. Hayes; two letters to W. H. Cathcart from book dealers, and sundry other items dates vary | |||||||||
| 5 | 1 | Scrapbook of a. Brooks containing newspaper clippings from Boston, Massachusetts 1849-1866 | |||||||||