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Special Collections Research Center
William & Mary Special Collections Research CenterKaren King, SCRC Staff.
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Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
Civil War Collection, Special Collections Research Center, W&M Libraries, William & Mary
Acquisition information for material received after 7/13/2009 is available by consulting a Special Collections Research Center staff member.
Purchased 589 items prior to 1941; purchased 12 items on 12/26/1941; received 6 items 4/7/1958, gift of Mrs. George P. Coleman including Acc. 1957.58; gift of J. T. Baldwin in 1971; gift of 9 items from Alberta J. Portergen in 1976; purchase from Henry Stevens, Sons; Stiles in 5/1980; purchase from Dana's House, Tx. in 10/1980; received 4 items in 3/1982; purchase in 9/1982; purchase from James Lowe in 12/1982; gift of 3 items from Ruth J. Staton in 5/1984; transfer from the US Military Collection in 5/1985; gift of John Weaver in 7/1985; purchase of 1 item from Howard Mott on 1/20/1988; purchase of 1 item from Bauman on 4/20/1988; 1991.58, 2 items as gift of Spencer and Ruth Timm; 1992.19, 1 item as gift of Ralph Poriss; 1995.06, 1 item purchased, 2/21/1995; Acc. 1997.64, 5 items as gift (copies) through Fay Savadge (originals in National Archives), 11/17/1997; 1998.04, 1 item purchased, 2/10/1998; 1998.24, 2 items purchased, 6/10/1998; 1998.47, 21 items as gift of Christian Vinyard; 1998.61, purchase from Ralph Poriss; 1999.18, 2 items as gift of David Upshur; 2001.17, 1 item purchased; 2003.23, 1 item. unknown; 2003.23, 1 item purchased; 2003.58, 1 item; 2003.43, 1 item purchased; 2003.55, 1 item purchased; 2003.57, 1 item purchased; 2003.58, 1 item purchased; 2004.06, 1 item purchased; 2004.40, 1 item purchased; 2004.41, 1 item purchased; 2004.57, 1 item purchased; 2005.59, 1 item purchased; 2006.13, 1 item purchased; 2006.57, 1 item purchased; 2006.64, 1 item purchased; 2006.71, 1 item purchased. 2008.41, 1 item purchased. 2010.399, gift of Philip Hairston Seawell, per Gene L. Hardin.
The Civil War Collection is an artificial collection of material, chiefly 1861-1865, pertaining to the American Civil War including items from both Union and Confederate forces. The collection includes official correspondence, general and special orders, descriptions of campaigns and battles, articles concerning the war, and artifacts. There are pardons, poems, songs, autographs, maps, muster rolls, pen and ink sketches of camp life, engineers' drawings, and a memorandum of signals used by Confederate steamers when approaching batteries.
There are numerous small collections that contain the personal correspondence of soldiers and civilians involved in the Civil War. Please see individual collections in the range of SC 00277-SC 00446.
Confederate Currency Collection, MS 00015.
Oversize Virgina maps: Buckholtz 1858 Railroads of Virgina and the West and Johnston 1862 map of Virginia, depicting cities, principle towns, railroads, rivers, canals and other internal movements.
Other Information:
The transcription project of "From Fights to Rights: The Long Road to a More Perfect Union" is a massive effort by volunteers to transcribe thousands of manuscripts such as diaries and letters from Special Collections and make them available online at http://scrcdigital.swem.wm.edu/collections/show/1 .
The rolls of Captain W.H. Crank's Company and Captain R.B. Boston's Company, 5th Virginia Cavalry, CSA, display a record of equipment issued men. Bound volume.
This is the oll of the 11th Regiment of VA Volunteers, commanded by D.G. Houston, Jr.
Copy of a list of members of the 13th Virginia Infantry, Company D, as part of the Law Order Book of Louisa County, Virginia. Photostat.
Typescript.
This oversize folder contains various pay vouchers, checks, and receipts in addition to the Treasurer of the Confederate States Checkbook. The checkbook, dated January- March 1865, shows payments to railroads, steamboats, etc. Many are under the Flag of Truce. A letter dated January 24, 1918 from Chas. Taylor, Jr., of The Boston Globe to Secretary, Loyal Legion, Boston, Mass., offers the checkbook of the Treasury of the Confederate States as a gift. Included is a note of acceptance by H.M. Rogers.
Treasurer of the Confederate States Checkbook, Acc. 1991.58.
This folder contains papers relating to quartermasters stores, including correspondence with Quartermaster General M.C. Meigs and inventories of supplies on hand at Chattanooga, Tenn., and Vicksburg, Miss.
Medical supply lists and invoices from the Confederate Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Va.
Invoice of Medicines, Instruments, Hospital Stores, and Bedding.
Blank Confederate military forms including two pages of passes from the Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond, Va. Native warrior woman imagry is printed on each form.
Newspaper clipping and poem.
Confederate Sheet Music. Words by F.W. Rosier and lithod by Geo. Dunn and Comp.
A new comic camp song. Printed.
A poem by Judge George L. Christian of Richmond, Va.
The poem was written by Major Jonas of Mississippi and which includes a Confederate States of America $20 note.
Poem.
A poem by A. Ryan.
A poem by Francis Miles Finch.
Notepaper with cut of Fort Welles, formerly Fort Walker, Hilton Head, S.C.
Photograph 3 1/2" x 4 1/4", black and white, head view of General Braxton Bragg in uniform.
Photograph, 3 1/2" x 4 1/4", black and white, head view of General. Sterling Price in uniform.
Photograph, 8" x 10", black and white, of Col. Franklin Hulse Clack (1828 - 1864), originally taken March 30, 1862 in New Orleans, LA, in his uniform of the Major of the Confederate Guards, Response Battalion of New Orleans. He died April 24, 1864 of wounds received at the Battle of Mansfield, LA.
Photograph, 7 3/4" x 9 3/4", of aerial view of Surrender Field and monument, Appomattox, Va., taken by Underwood and Underwood.
Photostat of a Whitworth gun taken from Fort Fisher, N.C.
An engraving of President Lincoln entering Richmond, Va.
Insert of nine photographs showing various scenes on Tenn., Ga., and Va. From Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861 - 1865.
Copy of a lithograph of Gen. James Longstreet. The original was published by Geo. E. Perine, 111 Nassau St., NY.
This folder contains receipts for the battlefield maps from Hoyer and Leudwig by William H. Smith, Richmond, Virginia, dated March 8 and 16, 1862.
This folder contains the following:
Map of the Battle of Bethel, Va., dated 1861 June 10, by W.G. Lewis, cont., 200 feet:1 inch. Photostat.
Map of Charleston and its Defenses, dated 1863 November 28, by . John R. Key, cartographer. 1" = 1 3/4 mile. Photostat.
Memorandum of signals used by Confederate steamers when approaching batteries.
Order originating from the War Department, Richmond, Va., regarding the application of discharge for soldiers over 35 years of age and promotions due to seniority.
General Order from Major General Loring is included at the bottom.
Piano instruction book used as a scrapbook for newspaper clippings of General orders of the Adjutant and Inspector Generals' Office, CSA, Richmond, VA, December 31, 1863-February 28, 1865, and other military orders.
Facsimile of Robert E. Lee's farewell to the Army of Northern Virginia.
Printed copy of Robert E. Lee's farewell to the Army of Northern Virginia.
Orderly book of Major W.H. Werth, 45th VA Regiment, including proceedings of regimental courts-martial, dated. December 10, 1861-September 2, 1862.
Special orders book (April 18-19, ril 1861) of the 4th Division, Virginia Militia, including a memorandum book, 1882 - 1883.
Report of Captain Peyton H. Colquitt, commanding at Sewell's Point, Va. Typed copy. A clipping concerning the Sewell's Point engagement is also included.
Reports of officers concerning engagements around Fredericksburg, December 19-25, 1862. Incomplete.
This folder contains the aAutographs of John Brown Gordon, R.F. Hoke (2), Fitzhugh Lee, Stephen Dill Lee, James Longstreet, Will H. Seward (William H. Seward) and Benj. F. Butler (Benjamin Franklin Butler).
A blue bloth badge with an attached gold button engraved with the seal of Virginia. Popular at the beginning of the war.
This artifact was loaned by Miss Kate Mason Rowland, 1st Vice President, of the Baltimore Daughters of the Confederacy. It was then part of a purchase from Charles Tuttle, November 20, 1940.
Piece of flag from Camp Winder Hospital, Richmond, Va. The flag was cut up and divided among the surgeons, matrons, and nurses on the evacuation of Richmond.
This artifact was loaned by Miss Kate Mason Rowland, 1st Vice President, of the Baltimore Daughters of the Confederacy. It was then part of a purchase from Charles Tuttle, November 20, 1940.
The pamplet requests donations and support to create a monument to President Jefferson Davis. It originatesing from the Confederate Bazaar, Richmond, Va.
Letter from Isabel Maury, House Regent of the Confederate Museum, to Commander A.F. Grandstaff, Myers-Riddleberger Camp, Edinburg, Virginia. The envelope includes a blank application, C.S.A. roll of honour, and brochure of the Confederate museum [White House of the Confederacy].
The booklet, authored by Edgar Legare Pennington, is titled "The Confederate Episcopal Church and the Southern Soldiers." Reprinted from the Historical Magazine of the Episcopal Church, Vol. XVII, pp. 356-383.
Full title: The Army of the Potomac "Rally on Washington!" - "On to Richmond!" Address of Hon. Martin Maginnis before the Society of the Army of the Potomac at its Fourteenth Annual Reunion, delivered in National Theatre, at Washington, Wednesday, May 16, 1883.
Acc. 2012.098
Full title: 88th Regiment, Infantry, Pennsylvania Volunteers: Address delivered at the Dedication of its Monument at Gettysburg, September 11, 1889, by George E. Wagner
Acc. 2012.098
Full title: Argument of Hon. William S. Kirkpatrick, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, before the Committee on War Claims, Fifty-first Congress, on behalf of H. R. Bill 750, entitled "A bill to authorize the payment of damages sustained by citizens of the State of Pennsylvania from Union and Confederate troops, during the late war, as adjudicated and liquidated by the State of Pennsylvania, under the provisions of an act of the General Assembly, of the said State of Pennsylvania, approved the 22d day of May, A. D. 1871.
Acc. 2012.098
"Confederate Banners", a descriptive booklet by Mary Lynn Conrad of Harrisonburg, Virginia, printed by The Stone Printing and Manufacturing Co., Roanoke, Virginia.
Full title: History of the Battle of Gettysburg, presented with compliments of the City Hotel, to guests who use its facilities for driving over the Battlefield.
Acc. 2012.098
Official pardon and amnesty granted to William Ballard Bruce for serving in the Confederate Army, with facsimile signatures of Andrew Johnson and William Seward.
Andrew Johnson, President of the United States of America, granting pardon to George Blow, Sr., of Sussex Co., VA. Negative and positive photostats.
Certificate of enlistment of Frederick Bushing, 5th Regt. Rhode Island Volunteers, dated October 11, 1862 at Providence, RI.
Record of recruits, 11th Regiment, Infantry, Ohio Volunteers.
The muster roll shows a total of $162.00.
The muster roll shows a total of $2025.00.
The muster roll of the soldiers and others attached to the hospital at West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The roll includes their name, rank, company, regiment, date that they were attached to the hospital, amount that they where paid, and by whom they were paid.
Acc. 2011.426
Pay vouchers made out to James Harris and Joseph Miller for services rendered to the Union Army.
Petition from Webster Co., Va. [W. Va.], for the release of Isaac Lynch and Samuel Miller who have "done nothing against the union party." Signed by Archiblad Cogar, Jesse Harrimons, Daniel Harrimons, Mark Harrimons, Geocly [?] Cogar, Peter L.J. Cogar, Wm. Given, Isaac N. Gregory, Currence Gregory, James Woodzell, Robert G. Gregory, Francis M. Dobbins, Wm. N. Cummings, Patrick Carr, and Adam Gregory.
From the Hart Collection
Special Orders, No. 44, transferring Capt. Ellis and his command from Fort Lyon to Fort Ellsworth. The orders are signed by Henry R. Dalton, Asst. Adjt. General, and by command of Brig. Gen. Amiel Weeks Whipple. The orders originated from Head Quarters, Military Defences, South West of the Potomac, Arlington, Va.
This folder contains orders from the War Department, Adjutant General's Office.
This folder contains orders from the War Department, Adjutant General's Office. It also includes two copies of the blank military form, "General Orders No. 64 from the Office of Provost Marshall" which discusses rebel deserters who desire to take the Amnesty Oath.
General Orders No. 33 and No. 47, issued August 7, 1863 and October 5, 1863, by Robert M. West, at Fort Magruder, Virginia, concerning provost guard for the City of Williamsburg.
Guard reports of the 66th Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, USA, at Camps McArthur, Candy, and Chase, and camps near Strasburg, New Market, and Harrisonburg, VA.
List of prisoners forwarded from the Kanawha District, W. Va., to Department Head Quarters at Wheeling, W. Va.
Four booklets of pasted newspaper clippings from the Daily Enquirer which show the view taken by Clement Laird Vallandigham and other moderates toward abolition and the war with the South.
Engineer's drawing of a forage house at Richmond, Va., by Bvt. Lt. Col. James M. Moors, Q.M.U.S.A. The drawing measures 18 1/2"x33".
Manuscript map of the intersection of the James River and Warwick River showing Union and Confederate positions, drawn by Lt. Jencks of the 2nd Rhode Island Volunteers.
Acc. 2004.40
Manuscript map of the intersection of the James River and Warwick River showing the Confederate positions. Drawn by Captain Barton of the 10th Massachusetts.
Acc. 2004.41
Union engineer's drawing of the permanent bridge over the Chickahominy River, Va., built by the Engineer Brigade.
Acc. 1988.04
Clippings from Washington, D.C., newspapers, including the Daily Morning Chronicle, describing conditions in Federal hospitals.
Newspaper cClipping.