#0505

Civil War Collection

Various unrelated items (1862-1865) concerning the Civil War including two 1862 letters, an 1865 oath of allegiance, Harper's Weekly lithographs (1862), an Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Company 1862 statement, an 1862 $1000 Civil War bond from North Carolina;, and photocopies of a memoir written about fifty years after the war and transcribed in 1978, an 1862 letter and an 1863 circular.

#1313

James F. Shapleigh Civil War Diary

This pocket diary was kept by Union soldier James F. Shapleigh of 43rd Massachusetts Volunteers, Co. D, from January 1, 1863, through July 20, 1863. He was mustered out at the end of July 1863. During this period the 43rd Massachusetts Volunteers served in North Carolina with the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps. Camp Rogers in New Bern, was home base. Included in the diary are good details related to the Battle of Washington, North Carolina, that covers March 30 to April 19, 1863, as well as everyday life for soldiers. Later scattered entries in the diary go through January 1864.

#1349

Henry A. Phelon Civil War Logbook/Scrapbook

Included is a logbook/scrapbook kept by Henry A. Phelon (1831-1902) who served as an acting Master in the Union Navy (1862-1865) during the Civil War. Orders, holograph letters, dispatches, handwritten copies of documents, and newspaper clippings glued into this scrapbook chronicle his wartime service under Rear Admiral Samuel P. Lee with the Blockading Squadron off the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina on the U.S. Steamers Shawsheen, Monticello, and Daylight, and U.S. Ironclad Steamers Canonicus and Atlanta. Later clippings (through 1900) and documents pertain to his post-war years, most of which was spent in West Springfield, Massachusetts.

#1412

American Civil War Era Military and Political Cartes de Visite

Collection contains ninety-six Civil War era cartes de visite and the deteriorating photograph album they were removed from. The vast majority of the images are of Union generals and leaders plus a few Union naval figures and political figures. All but six images have been identified; most identifications were not made contemperanously. Only five images are of Confederate figures.

#1373

Civil War Union Camp Live Oak Site in Waves, North Carolina Papers

This collection contains two archeological reports of investigations conducted in Dare County, North Carolina.

#0986

U.S. War Department Collection

#0585

Henry Green Lewis Collection

Civil War era verse, a published account of the Civil War experiences of Henry Green Lewis, issues of the Semi-Weekly Raleigh Register (1854) and the North Carolina Presbyterian (1879) and a print of the Hotel Carolina in Durham, N.C.

#0133

Sallie Joyner Davis Collection

Collection (1954-1780, 1861-1866, 1916) consisting of letters, Revolutionary War currency and Civil War money.

#0997

Johnson's Island Prisoner of War Camp Collection

#0455

William Decatur Mintz Sketch

Sketch (1860s) including photocopy of reminiscence of Civil War service, organizations.

#0362

Agnes Paton Foy Memoir

Memoir(1861-1865) including correspondence, Civil War Memoir, typescript copy.

#0207

Clarrisa Phelps Hanks Papers

Papers (1854-1864) consisting diaries, references to Civil War, genealogical notes.

#0264

James Willard Carter Papers

Papers (1861-1918) including correspondence referring family papers, Civil War letters.

#0135

Abraham G. Jones Papers

Papers (1856-1898) consisting correspondence in Civil War, letters, post-war correspondence, diaries, miscellaneous items about camp life, etc.

#0289

Cora Warren Beck Memoir

Memoir [1855-1867] of the author's childhood in Atlanta, GA, including Civil War and postwar references.