United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Scope and Contents The papers consist of quilt materials collected by Barbara Brackman including publications, fabric swatches, patterns and designs, news clippings and articles, newspapers, magazines, scrapbooks and notebooks, photographs and slides, posters and publicity for exhibits, and catalogs. Also included are research notes and correspondence about a range of topics including Civil War and Union quilts, enslaved and abolitionist quilters including Harriet Tubman, Ona Judge, Martha Ann Ricks, and...

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One handwritten letter to "Friend Carrie" dated May 18, 1865, after the end of the Cival War. The unidentified author author writes about their experience in Civil War battles near Columbus, Georgia. The writer mentions Spencer carbines, General Emory Upton, the 3rd Iowa Infantry Regiment, and their experience being sick with diarrhea during battle.

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The Clarendon E. Adams Civil War Recollections consist of a 121-page typescript with handwritten annotations, entitled "Recollections of a Veteran of the Civil War," and marked as having been composed in Omaha, Nebraska, on or beginning on February 1, 1915. Included is a 1941 letter identifying the author as C. E. Adams. The Recollections describe battles, including the taking of Atlanta, and foraging on the march.

Scope and Contents The papers consist of research and audio visual material compiled by Pat Ferrero and Julie Silber for their film, Hearts and Hands: A Social History of Nineteenth Century Women and Quilts. Included in the collection is correspondence with quilt historians, along with research articles sent to Ferrero and Silber. The research files are primarily articles pertaining to a wide range of topics concerning nineteenth century women, social history, and quilting,...

Scope and Contents Archival material from the Great Plains Black History Museum (GPBHM) consists of over 200 document boxes of letters, photographs, clippings, artifacts, and other collection material. An archivist for the GPBHM inventoried the material and identified potential series for the collection, including Local Histories, Black Institutions, Family Papers, Rare Books, Musical Scores, Bertha Calloway’s Research Collection, Photographs, Artifacts, and Unknown or Miscellaneous documents. ...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a manuscript titled "Amelia" written by Hazel Perin Reeder in 1976.  Part reminiscence and part narrative biography, the manuscript focuses on Reeder’s grandmother, Amelia Sophie Roubleau Perin.  Born in 1834 in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, Amelia was the daughter of a prosperous sugar cane planter.  She married civil engineer Samuel Perin in 1850.  They moved to Iowa, living in various locations, and homesteaded in Custer County, Nebraska, in the...

Content Description The memories of J.K. Marlay of Lincoln, Nebraska of his service in the U.S. Civil War as a Major in the 60th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry are captured in a journal written in 1896-1897. The collection also includes letters addressed to Marlay's granddaughter Marjorie Noble of Portland, Oregon. The letters were written in 1892 and most were pasted into the journal. Marjorie Noble's name is written inside the journal. A partial transcript provided by the seller:...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of 121 letters and miscellaneous items relating to McConihe's business in Nebraska Territory. The majority of letters are those McConihe sent to his business partner and friend, John B. Kellogg, in Troy, New York. McConihe's letters touch upon topics such as land sales, currency, railroads, and the development of the territory and the city of Omaha. He writes about the expedition against the Pawnee and his opinions about the Civil War. Included among the...

Scope and Contents The Kiesselbach Family Papers document several generations of the Kiesselbach family, including Follett, Hyde, Aufenkamp, Meinsen, and Greene families from 1838-2012. Materials consist of family genealogies, a Civil War diary and correspondence, land grant and estate records, multiple generations of family correspondence, news articles, and. autobiographies. There are World War II letters and military records, and records related to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Lancaster...