United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Alfred Dexter Morgan diaries, 1864-1866
Collection
Identifier: 1993-006
Content Description
Two autograph volumes of a diary kept by Alfred Dexter Morgan during his service with the 17th Illinois Cavalry Volunteers in 1864 and 1865. Morgan and his company saw duty primarily in Missouri, but was also stationed in Kansas at the end of the war. Missouri experienced some of the most bitter conflict due to sectionalism and protracted guerrilla warfare, and Morgan's diary speaks of the events occuring at that time. Mentioned in the diary are such notarious bushwhackers as Charles...
Dates:
1864 - 1866
Lee, Robert E.
File
Identifier: 1981.008.1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This artificial collection was begun as a catch-all for small single gifts and purchases, and to make them easier for scholars to search them. This assemblage consists primarily of documents, correspondence, photographs, broadsides and artifacts, dealing mostly with United States history.
Dates:
1747 - 1985