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What this cruel war was over : soldiers, slavery, and the Civil War

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Author: Manning, Chandra.

Date of Publication: 2007.

Call Number: 973.74 M283

Responsibility: Chandra Manning.

ISBN: 9780307264824; 0307264823

Author: Manning, Chandra.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,

Date of Publication: 2007.

Physical Description: 350 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-332) and index.

Contents: "Lincoln and liberty": why an antislavery president meant war -- "Richmond is a hard road to travel": gaps between expectations and experience -- "Kingdom coming in the year of Jubilo": revolution and resistance -- "Mine years have seen the glory": the war and the hand of God -- "Many are the hearts that are weary tonight": the war in 1864 -- "Slavery's chain done broke at last": the coming of the end -- Conclusion: what this cruel war was over.

Summary: Chandra Manning uses letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take the reader inside the minds of Civil War soldiers-black and white, Northern and Southern-as they fought and marched across a divided country. With stunning poise and narrative verve, Manning explores how the Union and Confederate soldiers came to identify slavery as the central issue of the war and what that meant for a tumultuous nation. [from the publisher]

Subjects: United States. - Army - History; Confederate States of America. - Army - History.; Soldiers - United States; Soldiers - Confederate States of America; Slavery - United States; Slavery - Confederate States of America; Public opinion - United States; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Causes.; United States - Race relations - History - 19th century.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Social aspects.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.74 M283

Dear Catharine, dear Taylor : the Civil War letters of a Union soldier and his wife

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Author: Peirce, Taylor,

Date of Publication: 2002.

Call Number: 973.781 P378

Responsibility: edited by Richard L. Kiper ; letters transcribed by Donna B. Vaughn.

ISBN: 070061205X (alk. paper)

Author: Peirce, Taylor,

Place of Publication: Lawrence

Publisher: University Press of Kansas,

Date of Publication: 2002.

Physical Description: xii, 448 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Series: Modern war studies

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-438) and index.

Contents: August 20, 1862 to March 22, 1863, Missouri -- March 28 to September 24, 1863, the Vicksburg Campaign -- October 4, 1863 to July 24, 1864, Texas and Louisiana -- July 26, 1864 to December 25, 1864, Virginia -- January 9, 1865 to August 2, 1865, South Carolina, North Carolina, Iowa.

Summary: "While there are many collections of letters from Civil War soldiers to their wives, very few include such a rich trove of letters from the homefront. Together they paint an engrossing portrait of a soldier and husband who was trying to do his patriotic and familial duty, and of a wife trying to cope with loneliness and responsibility while longing for her husband's safe return. Beautifully edited and annotated...they bring to life a nation under siege and provide a rare look at the war's impact on both the common soldier and his family." [from the book jacket]

Subjects: Peirce, Taylor, - 1822-1901; Peirce, Catherine L., - d. 1867; United States. - Army. - Iowa Infantry Regiment, 22nd (1862-1865); Soldiers - United States - Correspondence.; Army spouses - Iowa - Des Moines - Correspondence.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Social aspects.; Iowa - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.; Iowa - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Social aspects.; Des Moines (Iowa) - Biography.

Additional Author: Peirce, Catherine L.,; Kiper, Richard L.,; Vaughn, Donna B.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.781 P378

Locating Union & Confederate records : a guide to the most commonly used Civil War records of the National Archives and Family History Library

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Author: Morebeck, Nancy Justus.

Date of Publication: 2001.

Call Number: 929.1 M837

Responsibility: Nancy Justus Morebeck.

ISBN: 0944931898 (softbound); 0944931901 (hardbound)

Author: Morebeck, Nancy Justus.

Place of Publication: North Salt Lake, Utah

Publisher: HeritageQuest,

Date of Publication: 2001.

Physical Description: vi, 152 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: United States. - National Archives and Records Administration.; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. - Family History Library.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Archival resources.; Confederate States of America - History - Archival resources.; United States - Genealogy - Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.1 M837

The Slaves' War : the Civil War in the words of former slaves

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Author: Ward, Andrew,

Date of Publication: 2008.

Call Number: 973.711 W256

Responsibility: Andrew Ward.

ISBN: 9780618634002; 0618634002; 9780547237923; 0547237928

Author: Ward, Andrew,

Place of Publication: Boston

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.,

Date of Publication: 2008.

Physical Description: xiv, 386 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-372) and index.

Summary: The first narrative history of the Civil War as told by the very people it freed. Historian of nineteenth-century and African-American history Andrew Ward weaves together hundreds of interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs. Here is the Civil War as seen from slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, swamps, and fields. Body servants, army cooks and launderers, runaways, teamsters, and gravediggers bring the war to richly detailed life. From slaves' theories about the causes of the Civil War to their frank assessments of major figures; from their searing memories of the carnage of battle to their often startling attitudes toward masters and liberators alike; and from their initial jubilation at the Yankee invasion of the slave South to the crushing disappointment of freedom's promise unfulfilled, this is a transformative vision of America's second revolution.--From publisher description.

Subjects: Slaves - Southern States - Biography.; Freedmen - United States - Biography.; African Americans - Biography.; African Americans.; Freedmen.; Slaves.; Social aspects.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - African Americans.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Social aspects.; Southern States.; United States.; Biography.; History.; Personal narratives.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.711 W256

A Pennsylvanian in blue : the Civil War diary of Thomas Beck Walton

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Author: Walton, Thomas Beck,

Date of Publication: 1995

Responsibility: edited by Robert A. Taylor

ISBN: 0942597826 (softcover : alk. paper)

Author: Walton, Thomas Beck,

Place of Publication: Shippensburg, PA

Publisher: Burd Street Press,

Date of Publication: 1995

Physical Description: xiv, 65 p. : ill ; 23 cm

Series: Civil War heritage series ;

Notes: Includes bibliographical references

Subjects: Walton, Thomas Beck, - 1840-1913 - Diaries; United States. - Army. - Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 195th (1864-1865); Soldiers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives; Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography

Additional Author: Taylor, Robert A.,

No balm in Gilead : Lancaster's African-American population and the Civil War Era

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Author: Hopkins, Leroy.

Date of Publication: 1993.

appeared in the Daily Evening Express which stated: TO MEN OF COLOR ! A Mass Meeting of the able-bodied men of color will be held on Wednesday at 8 o'clock, Fulton Hall, Lancaster City, to promote recruiting for United States Colored Troops For the War Frederick Douglas and other distinguished speakers

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Responsibility: by Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. Ph.D.

Author: Hopkins, Leroy.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1993.

Physical Description: [20]-40 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v.95, no.1

Subjects: Confederate States of America. - Army - History.; United States. - Army - History; African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Lancaster (Pa.) - Race relations.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 95, number 1 (1993), p. 20-40Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.95

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Three years in the Bloody Eleventh : the campaigns of a Pennsylvania Reserves regiment

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Author: Gibbs, Joseph,

Date of Publication: 2002.

Call Number: 973.7448 G443

Responsibility: Joseph Gibbs.

ISBN: 0271021667 (alk. paper)

Author: Gibbs, Joseph,

Place of Publication: University Park, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,

Date of Publication: 2002.

Physical Description: xxi, 378 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-356) and index.

Subjects: United States. - Army. - Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 11th (1861-1865); United States. - Army - Reserves - History; Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Regimental histories.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Regimental histories.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Campaigns.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7448 G443

The Southern journey of a Civil War marine : the illustrated note-book of Henry O. Gusley

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Author: Gusley, Henry O.,

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 2006.

Call Number: 973.758 G982

Responsibility: edited and annotated by Edward T. Cotham, Jr.

ISBN: 0292712839 (alk. paper); 9780292712836 (alk. paper)

Author: Gusley, Henry O.,

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Austin

Publisher: University of Texas Press,

Date of Publication: 2006.

Physical Description: x, 213 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.

Series: Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas heritage series ; no. 10

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-206) and index.

Contents: Galveston Tri-Weekly News introduction to the Note-Book -- 1. The Battle below New Orleans -- 2. Ship Island, the Pearl River, and Lake Pontchartrain -- 3. Pensacola -- 4. New Orleans -- 5. The Mississippi River -- 6. Baton Rouge, Plaquemine, and Donaldsonville -- 7. The Return to Pensacola and Ship Island -- 8. The Capture of Galveston -- 9. Matagorda Bay -- 10. The Battle of Galveston -- 11. The Capture of U.S.S. Hatteras -- 12. A New Commander -- 13. Mississippi Sound -- 14. The Swamps of Louisiana -- 15. Butte a la Rose -- 16. Mobile Bay -- 17. The Return to the Teche Country -- 18. The Battle of Sabine Pass -- 19. Letters from Prison.

Summary: Information about the inner workings and day-to-day life aboard U.S. Naval vessels patrolling the Gulf of Mexico and the major river systems of the Trans-Mississippi.

Subjects: Gusley, Henry O., - 1837-1884; United States. - Marine Corps - Biography.; United States. - Marine Corps - Military life - History; Seafaring life - Gulf Coast (U.S.); United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Naval operations.; Gulf Coast (U.S.) - History, Naval - 19th century.; Gulf States - History, Military - 19th century.; Mexico, Gulf of - History, Naval - 19th century.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.; Gulf Coast (U.S.) - Description and travel.

Additional Author: Cotham, Edward T.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.758 G982

Archive

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Collection: Civil War Collection

Title: Civil War Collection

Object ID: MG0018

Date Range: 1859-1990

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Collection: Civil War Collection

Title: Civil War Collection

Description: The Civil War Collection consists of material acquired over many years from different sources. Coverage is of Lancaster County soldiers and of daily life in the county during the Civil War. The collection contains records of various military units, family correspondence, "Home Front" papers, Civil War era diaries, the Captain John R. Bricker/Dept. of Commissary papers, celebration and reunion materials, images, newspaper clippings, and general orders.

System of Arrangement: The collection is organized by category into ten series.; The oversized documents of Series A, C, F, and H are oversized and filed flat in Box 4.; Series A Military Units: Series A contains documents of military units, including muster rolls, enlistment papers, discharge certificates, assignment and promotion records, and papers of individual soldiers and officers.; Pennsylvania Volunteers; Pennsylvania Militia; Certificate of State Regiments; U.S. Regiments; Series B Civil War Families; Benjamin Reed Family; Soldier's Letters; Series C The Lancaster Home Front; The Bounty Funds; Pension Claims; Articles; Letters; Series D Lancaster Notables; Series E Civil War Era Diaries; Series F The Captain John R. Bricker/Dept. of PA Commissary Papers; Series G Celebrations & Reunions; Series H Appendix; Articles, Photographic Prints, Blank Forms; Series I Printed General Orders; Series J Books

Date Range: 1859-1990

Year Range From: 1859

Year Range To: 1990

Date of Accumulation: 1859-1990

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 01

People: Clark, James; Fass, John; Flick, Henry; Harris, Samuel; Hess, Martin D., Mrs.; Watson, George W.

Subjects: Letters; Soldiers; Soldiers, Black; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States. Army; United States. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.

Search Terms: Autobiographies; Civil War; Discharge papers; Finding aids; Manuscript groups; Memoirs; Muster rolls; Persons of color; Soldiers; Soldiers, Black; United States Army

Extent: 15 boxes, 212 folders, 11 books, 9 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0018

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Abraham H. Good Family Papers (MG0542); Henry Seiger's Civil War Letters (MG0570); Lewis Jones Family Papers (MG0541); Robert Clark Morrison Family Papers (MG0543); Springer Family Letters (MG0540); William M. McClure Family Papers (MG0544); William McCaskey Civil War Letters (MG0355)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Civil War Collection (MG0018), Series #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-18

Classification: MG0018

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Much of the collection was cataloged prior to 1997. Added to database 23 March 2022.

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The encyclopedia of Civil War usage : an illustrated compendium of the everyday language of soldiers and civilians

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Author: Garrison, Webb B.

Date of Publication: 2001.

Call Number: 973.7 G241

Responsibility: Webb Garrison with Cheryl Garrison.

ISBN: 1581821867

Author: Garrison, Webb B.

Place of Publication: Nashville

Publisher: Cumberland House,

Date of Publication: 2001.

Physical Description: x, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-274).

Summary: More than 2,500 entries and 250 illustrations cover the terms, equipment, and organizations for the three million soldiers who fought inthe war.

Subjects: Soldiers - United States - Encyclopedias.; English language - United States - Encyclopedias.; Americanisms - Encyclopedias.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Language - Encyclopedias.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Social aspects - Encyclopedias.

Additional Author: Garrison, Cheryl D.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7 G241

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What this cruel war was over : soldiers, slavery, and the Civil War

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16817

Dear Catharine, dear Taylor : the Civil War letters of a Union soldier and his wife

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14326

Locating Union & Confederate records : a guide to the most commonly used Civil War records of the National Archives and Family History Library

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14386

The Slaves' War : the Civil War in the words of former slaves

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21092

A Pennsylvanian in blue : the Civil War diary of Thomas Beck Walton

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/32544711

No balm in Gilead : Lancaster's African-American population and the Civil War Era

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo93

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Three years in the Bloody Eleventh : the campaigns of a Pennsylvania Reserves regiment

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11907

The Southern journey of a Civil War marine : the illustrated note-book of Henry O. Gusley

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16966

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/66a494be-0124-4ba5-acb2-180580781700

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The encyclopedia of Civil War usage : an illustrated compendium of the everyday language of soldiers and civilians

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14018