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Civil War Diaries and Letters

: American travel diary of an unknown Englishman, 1864

: Andrew F. Davis diary, 1861-1862

: Ann Larimer letters to husband John, February - July 1865

: Bean family letters, 1845-1860

: Bean family letters, 1868-1898

: Bean family letters and papers, 1912-1962

: Bean family letters, circa 1855-1880

: Bean family papers, 1839-1863

: Charles Arad Gates letters, 1861-1863

: Charles H. Perry application for service in naval hospital, Aug. 29, 1861

: Christian D. Rupp diary

: Clara Barton letters to cousin Len, 1864

: Clara Barton's letters to Cousin Leander (Len), 1863-1864

: Clara Vinson Weaver's letters to husband James B. Weaver, 1862-1864

: Commonplace-book of Thomas E. Corkhill, 1851-1895

: Eliphalet W. Ensign diary, August 1865-June 1866

: Eliphalet W. Ensign diary, January 1864-August 1865

: George C. Burmeister diary, 1861

: George C. Burmeister diary, 1862

: George C. Burmeister diary, 1863

: George C. Burmeister diary, 1864

: George Hall letters, 1861-1864

: Iowa Governor and Adjutant General correspondence, 1862-1865

: James A. Throop's ledgers for his hardware business, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, 1860-1863

: James B. Weaver letters to Clara Vinson, 1856-1858

: Laura Gibson's correspondence to her mother, June-August 1863

: Letter to the New York Chamber of Commerce, September 17, 1864

: Loyal Union League, Henry County, Iowa, 1863-1864

: Mark family letters, 1860-1865

: Mark family letters, 1862-1864

: Minutes of disposition by General Foster for the expedition in the Stono to begin 1 July 1864

: Philip H. Conard discharge paper, September 1864

: Quartermaster's documents, 2nd Iowa Cavalry, 1862-1864

: Refugee narrative of Martha Huntington, 1920s

: Robert A. Howard, general orders. no. 4, Benton Barracks, September 18, 1861

: Robert J. Moyle letters, 1862-1906

: Samuel Calvin letters, May-August 1864

: Silas B. Silver diary, 1863

: Tariff and the trusts, speech of Hon. J.B. Weaver of Iowa delivered in the House of Representatives, May 16, 1888

: Trial of the Lincoln conspirators autograph album, May 1865

: War between the states essay, 1861

: Weaver and Vinson family correspondence, 1837-1894

: William Elmer Thorp correspondence, 1846-1868

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University of Iowa

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Title: Civil War Diaries and Letters
Date Created: 1837/1894
Description: Diaries, correspondence, and photographs from Iowa soldiers and their families during the American Civil War. The collection offers valuable insight on soldiers' daily activities, experiences in battles, and views on the war.
Language: English
Subjects: Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: Civil wars
Military life
Soldiers
Subjects: Library of Congress Subject Headings: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject: Time: 1860-1870
Subject: Place: United States
Archival Collection: Civil War Diaries and Letters
Abraham Lincoln Collection
Host institution: University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Department
Date Digital: 2007/2015
Rights Management: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Contact Information: Contact the Special Collections Department at the University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/contact
Item Type (DCMI): Collection
Item Type (AAT): diaries
correspondence
Item Type (IMT): jpeg