United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Emmons Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: A0450
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of materials related to the history of St. Charles, Missouri, and spans the lives of three generations of the Benjamin Emmons family. Persons involved in the early transactions include Edward Bates, Frederick Bates, Charles Dehault Delassus, John C. Edwards, Archibald Gamble, Hamilton Gamble, J. Mackay, William G. Pettus, Amos Stoddard, and Zenon Trudeau. Manuscripts include St. Charles land documents from the French and Spanish periods, including Zenon Trudeau's...
Dates:
1776-1941
John V. Hogan Diary
Collection
Identifier: A3089
Scope and Contents
John V. Hogan kept a diary between January 1 and December 31, 1868. Entries included activities for each day of the year spent either in St. Louis or travelling to New Orleans for their honeymoon and to New York. There are also notes and lists on the front and back covers and on the end papers. Hogan listed receipts and expenses for each day.
The diary documented the Hogan’s wedding in Illinois and their honeymoon trip to New Orleans in January 1868. John described their...
Dates:
1868
LaMotte-Coppinger Papers
Collection
Identifier: A0869
Scope and Contents
The LaMotte-Coppinger Papers include letters, land deeds, photographs, receipts, inventories, journals, and other miscellaneous material concerning LaMotte’s time in war and his descendant’s family matters.
The Joseph LaMotte Series is a compilation arranged chronologically of all letters and postcards received and written by the LaMotte family ranging from 1804-1934. The earliest letters concerned the Chambers family and their...
Dates:
1800-1989
Johann Wilhelm Osterhorn Papers
Collection
Identifier: A1168
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters between Wilhelm and Minna Osterhorn and from friends and family. The letters from Wilhelm to Minna sometimes give first-hand accounts of conditions in the U.S. Army during the Civil War. The letters from the Buhner family in Marburg consist mostly of news about family and friends. The collection also contains Wilhelm's journal, which has untranslated receipts in German in the front and his account of his own personal history in the middle, with the rest...
Dates:
1849-2000; Majority of material found within 1862-1865
Samuel H. Starr Papers
Collection
Identifier: A1558
Scope and Contents
The Samuel Starr Papers consist primarily of correspondence, military papers, and miscellaneous material regarding Starr's family and his service with various military units. The papers also include several folders of papers regarding William D. Price and his family.
Dates:
1846-1904
Von Phul Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A1697
Scope and Contents
The collection contains family correspondence, mainly letters of Anna Maria von Phul, Sarah von Phul (Jordan) Mason, and Graff von Phul to Henry von Phul in St. Louis. The letters mention family news, Anna Maria von Phul’s artwork, soldiers in Lexington just prior to the War of 1812, Henry's business affairs, an 1819 flooding in St. Louis from Chouteau's Pond when the dam gave way, the murder of Elijah Lovejoy, and the Civil War.
The collection also...
Dates:
1769-1874; 1953-1954