urn:taro:utexas.cah.00021 A Guide to the Confederate States of America Records Center for American History Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, March 2001. Finding aid written in English. Tue Jul 22 15:26:14 CDT 2003 urn:taro:utexas.cah.00021 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). January 2010 Revised by Megan Mummey. Descriptive Summary Confederate States of America. Confederate States of America Records 1856-1915 Materials are written in English. 66-26; 95-094; 98-025; 2009-318 2 ft., 10 in. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Collection consists of soldiers' personal correspondence, diaries and reminiscences; official Confederate Medical Department papers and miscellaneous papers relating to military medical matters; official documents, orders, and letters relating to Confederate affairs both civil and military. Scope and Contents

Correspondence, diaries, legal record books, special orders, receipts, broadsides, literary productions, muster rolls, photographs, and reports arranged chronologically under subject or individual.

Collection consists of soldiers' personal correspondence, diaries and reminiscences; official Confederate Medical Department papers and miscellaneous papers relating to military medical matters; official documents, orders, and letters relating to Confederate affairs both civil and military; the William W. Hunter papers dealing primarily with the Confederate Navy but also containing miscellaneous military documents; Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy Quartermasters Division papers; Cotton Bureau records; muster rolls; and fourteen Confederate service records.

 Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893. Birge, N. A. Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876. Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914. Gorgas, Josiah, 1818-1883. Hubbert, Mike M. Hunter, William W. McDaniel, E. D. Pike, Albert, 1809-1891--Photographs. Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878. Purdy, J. C. Saltus, Samuel. Saunders, James Edmonds, 1806-1896. Kirby-Smith, Edmund, 1824-1893--Photographs. Stout, Samuel Hollingsworth, 1822-1903. Swanson, Alex B. Taylor, C. E. (Charles E.) Ward, J. D. Wilcox, Cadmus M. (Cadmus Marcellus), 1824-1890. Yates, Jerome B. Subjects (Organizations) Confederate States of America. Army. Arizona Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. Confederate States of America. Army. Louisiana Cavalry Regiment, 2nd. Confederate State of America. Army. Medical Dept. Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Volunteer Regiment, 18th. Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Volunteer Regiment, 1st. Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Volunteer Regiment, 6th. Confederate States of America. Army. Trans-Mississippi Dept. Confederate States of America. Army. Commissariat. Confederate States of America--History--Sources. Confederate States of America. Navy. Subjects Cotton trade--Confederate States of America. Finance--Confederate States of America. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate. Preferred Citation

Confederate States of America Records, 1856-1915, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Separated Material

Some material has been separated to the Money Collection.

 Processing Information

This collection was processed by NAME, DATE. Subsequent revisions were made by Laurel Rozema, January 2010.

 Manuscript Material 2C484 1. Charles E. Taylor family correspondence, Letters of Taylor from Confederate camps in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia; and letters of the Taylor family in Mississippi, 1861-1875 2C484 2. James E. Saunders papers, "Statement of events in relation to the fettering of Jefferson Davis when a prisoner at Fortress Monroe," 1860-1867, n.d. 2C484 Miscellaneous Confederate Army officers' papers 2C484 3. Copy book pages: "Major General [Frank] Gardner to Captain P. Ellis, Jr., Assistant Adjutant General, Jackson, Mississippi," December 4-16, 1864 2C484 4. Simon Bolivar Buckner papers, Natchitoches, Louisiana, March-April, 1865 2C484 5. Summaries of communications from inspector-general's office, Alexandria, Louisiana, April 28-May 26, 1865 2C484 6. Miscellaneous Confederate Army documents, 1862-1864 2C484 7. Papers of Dr. S. H. Stout, surgeon and superintendent of hospitals, Confederate Medical Department, from Georgia; Tennessee; and Richmond, Virginia, 1861-1865 2C4848. Poem dedicated to General Benjamin Franklin Butler (the Beast), n.d. 2C4849. Diary of a confederate soldier, Begins at Richmond, Madison Parish, Louisiana; concludes one mile from Chattanooga, Tennessee, May 25, 1861-October 18, 1863 2C484 Typed transcript of excerpts from this diary 2C484 Diary of John McL. Harrington. Fayetteville, North Carolina, January 30-December 31, 1861 2C484 10. Diary of Mike M. Hubbert, sutler, Thirteenth Mississippi Volunteers, September 1, 1861-December 31, 1862 2C484 Typed transcript of excerpts from this diary 2C484 Typed and photocopied explanation of misattribution of this diary to T. J. Ford 2C484 11. Official Confederate papers, some of General Gideon Johnson Pillow, 1861-1865 2C484 12. J. W. Ward family correspondence, 1861-1864, Letters of Ward from Confederate camps in Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida and Georgia; and letters of his mother, father, and sister at Madison, Georgia. Included is a funeral notice for Ward, December 1864 2C484 13. Notebook: "Signatures of the Disbursing Officers of the Confederate States," n.d. 2C484 14. Miscellaneous Confederate papers, includes two James E. Saunders letters 2C484 15. Documents related to Confederate veterans, 1873-1910 2C484 16. Paper of Jefferson Davis, 1856 2C484 Two letters, James E. Saunders and F. W. Pickens, 1860. 2C484 Official orders and letters related to Confederate military affairs, Some James E. Saunders papers, many to or by Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, 1861. 2C485 1. Official orders and letters related to Confederate military affairs, Some Saunders and Beauregard papers, 1862-1863 2C485 2. Official orders and letters related to Confederate military affairs, Some Saunders and Beauregard papers, 1864-1865 2C485 Letter from Robert E. Lee to Confederate general, August 1, 1865, offering his opinion for the cause of his defeat at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 9, 1865 2C485 Miscellaneous material, 1868-1888, including letters of General Josiah Gorgas, 1877-1878 2C485 3. Miscellaneous papers related to the Confederacy, including some related to military medical matters, Macon, Georgia, and some to Lieutenan J. C. Purdy, Mobile, Alabama, 1861-1889. 2C485 4. Miscellaneous papers related to the Confederacy, including some related to military medical matters, Macon, Georgia, and some to Lieutenant J. C. Purdy, Mobile, Alabama, 1862-1865. 2C485 5. Official papers of the Confederacy, some military, some civil, 1861-1864 2C485 6. Official papers of the Confederacy, some military, some civil, 1862-1865 2C485 Miscellaneous papers, 1865-1871 2C485 7. Correspondence of Samuel Saltus from military camps near Charleston, S.C., to his sisters in Charleston, 1861-1862 2C485 8. Letters of Jerome B. Yates of the Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment; and his brother-in-law Alex B. Swanson, cotton buyer at Vicksburg, New Orleans, and St. Louis; 1861-1865 2C485 9. [Same as above] 2C485 10. Papers related to Confederate banks, 1861-1863 2C485 11. Johnston, Longstreet, Lamar and other letters, 1860-1878 2C485 12. Miscellaneous papers related to the Confederacy, 1861-1900 2C48512. Photocopy of a roster of Confederate prisoners in the charge of Baron Franx Schilling in Atlanta, Georgia, April 29, 1865 2C486 1. William W. Hunter papers, Materials related to Confederate Navy; defense of Texas at Galveston, Sabine Pass, and other points; his command of the vessel Savannah; capture of the U.S. vessel Water Witch, 1861-1864 2C486 2. William W. Hunter papers. 2C486 3. William W. Hunter papers. 2C486 Some James E. Saunders papers. 2C486 Miscellaneous papers. 2C486 4. Miscellaneous papers related to the Confederacy: Includes reminiscence of General Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox; reminiscence of Captain S. A. Poche of the Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana, April 8, 1864;other papers. 2C486 5. Miscellaneous papers related to the Confederacy: Includes William Carter Stubbs' narrative concerning General Joseph Lancaster Brent; narrative by Burton N. Harrison, 1877, concerning 1865 flight and capture of Jefferson Davis;; 1877, 1898 reminiscence by Commander of Second Louisiana Cavalry of Teche Campaign in Louisiana, 1862; reminiscence of Jefferson Davis by R. Ransom, 1890; 1906 reminiscence by Linn Tanner of the capture of the vessel Indianola, 1863; other papers 2C486 6. Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy, Quartermaster's Division, papers: Receipts, requisitions, and other documents related to the business of the quartermaster's office, most signed by N. A. Birge at Jefferson, Texas, and Monroe, Louisiana, 1862-1865 2C486 7. [Same as above] 2C486 8. [Same as above] 2C486 9. [Same as above] 2C486 10. [Same as above] 2C486 11. [Same as above] 2C486 12. [Same as above] 2C486 13. [Same as above] 2C487 1.-13. [Same as above] 2C488 1.-19. [Same as above] 2C489 Trans-Mississippi Quartermaster's Books, 1861-1863; 1863-1864; 1862-1865 2C489 Commissariat book, 1863-1865 2C489 W. H. Jackson's Cavalry Division, order book 2C489 Muster roll of Nathan Bedford Forrest Camp, Durant, Oklahoma, May 1915 2C489 Muster roll, Bentores Company, Texas Brigade, 1864 2C490 Roster for Cotton Bureau, Captain N. A. Birge, 1863-1864 2C490 Ledger "A," Cotton Bureau, N. A. Birge, 1864-1865 2C490 Confederate service records, 1861-1865 2C490 Julius A. Andrews 2C490 Joseph Murphy Bounds 2C490 George Washington Carter 2C490 Joseph J. Cook 2C490 Clayton C. Gillespie 2C490 James B. Likens (includes transcripts of originals) 2C490 Noble L. McGinnis 2C490 Leonidas M. Martin 2C490 Otis M. Messick 2C490 James R. Taylor 2C490 George H. Sweet 2C490 Nathaniel W. Townes 2C490 Franklin Collett Wilkes 2C490 Overton Young 2C490 Hospital Records: 2C490 Franklin and El Paso, Texas, June-July, 1862 2C490 Prescription Book, hospital, C. S. Army, August 1861-February, 1862 4K524 “Opinions of the Attorneys General of the Confederate States of America,” 1861-1865 4K525 “Opinions of the Attorneys General of the Confederate States of America,” 1861-1865 2.116/OP22 Oversize material: 2.116/OP22 Seal of the Confederate States of America, reproduced, 1911 2.116/OD1224 Muster Rolls, 1862-1864 2.116/OD1224 Two documents related to Confederate ordnance and artillery, 1863-1864 2.116/OD1275 Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy, Quartermaster's Division, papers: Documents related to the business of the quartermaster's office, most signed by N. A. Birge, 1862 and undated 2.116/OD1275 One document related to Confederate ordinance, 1864 2.325/V1 Muster Rolls, included are rolls for the 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 7th Texas Volunteer Regiments 1861-1862, undated 2.325/V1 Miscellaneous Confederate documents, some related to ordance and ammunition 1861-1865. 2.325/V1 Three items related to medicine, 1864 2.325/V1 Correspondence, 1862, 1864, 1865 2.325/V1 Literary productions, "Louisiana's Part in the Confederate War," and newspaper clipping, "War History," undated and 1887 2.325/V1 Other documents, 1860, 1863, and undated 2.325/V3 Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy, Quartermaster's Division, papers: Documents related to the business of the quartermaster's office, most signed by N. A. Birge at Jefferson, Texas, and Shreveport, Louisiana, 1861-1865 Money Collection 2 Confederate States of America Bonds, Blank Forms, $1000 each, 1861, 1865 1 Confederate States of America, Loan, $100.00, with interest certificates, 1863 1 Confederate States of America, $20.00 Bill, Annotated “3rd Louisiana Cavalry, Camp Last Hope, May 26th, 1865”, Plus 68 Names. Photographs 3Y24 Portrait of unidentified man, albumin print 3Y24 Portrait of "Lieutenant General E. Kirby Smith, C.S.A, commanding Trans.-Miss. Department," albumin, undated 3Y24 General Albert Pike, seated, with three boys, albumin, undated