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Descriptive Summary
Scope and Contents
Index Terms
Separated Material
Administrative Information
Description of Series
Manuscript Material
Money Collection
Photographs
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A Guide to the Confederate States of America
Records
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Creator: |
Confederate States of
America. |
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Title |
Confederate States of America
Records |
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Dates: |
1856-1915 |
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Abstract: |
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. |
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Accession No.: |
66-26; 95-094; 98-025; 2009-318 |
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OCLC No.: |
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Extent |
2 ft., 10 in. |
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Language: |
Materials are written in English. |
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Repository: |
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History,
The University of Texas at Austin |
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.
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Subjects (Persons) |
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Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave
Toutant), 1818-1893. |
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Birge, N. A. |
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Bragg, Braxton,
1817-1876. |
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Buckner, Simon Bolivar,
1823-1914. |
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Gorgas, Josiah,
1818-1883. |
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Hubbert, Mike M. |
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Hunter, William
W. |
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McDaniel, E. D. |
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Pike, Albert,
1809-1891--Photographs. |
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Pillow, Gideon Johnson,
1806-1878. |
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Purdy, J. C. |
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Saltus, Samuel. |
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Saunders, James Edmonds,
1806-1896. |
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Kirby-Smith, Edmund,
1824-1893--Photographs. |
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Stout, Samuel
Hollingsworth, 1822-1903. |
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Swanson, Alex B. |
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Taylor, C. E. (Charles
E.) |
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Ward, J. D. |
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Wilcox, Cadmus M. (Cadmus
Marcellus), 1824-1890. |
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Yates, Jerome B. |
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Subjects (Organizations) |
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Confederate States of
America. Army. Arizona Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. |
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Confederate States of
America. Army. Louisiana Cavalry Regiment, 2nd. |
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Confederate State of
America. Army. Medical Dept. |
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Confederate States of
America. Army. Texas Volunteer Regiment, 18th. |
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Confederate States of
America. Army. Texas Volunteer Regiment, 1st. |
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Confederate States of
America. Army. Texas Volunteer Regiment, 6th. |
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Confederate States of
America. Army. Trans-Mississippi Dept. |
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Confederate States of
America. Army. Commissariat. |
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Confederate States of
America--History--Sources. |
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Confederate States of
America. Navy. |
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Subjects |
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Cotton trade--Confederate
States of America. |
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Finance--Confederate States
of America. |
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United States--History--Civil
War, 1861-1865--Campaigns. |
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United
States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives,
Confederate. |
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Some material has been separated to the
Money Collection. |
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Confederate States of America Records,
1856-1915, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas
at Austin.
This collection was processed by
NAME, DATE. Subsequent revisions were made by Laurel Rozema, January 2010.
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Manuscript Material |
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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 |
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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. |
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Miscellaneous Confederate Army officers'
papers |
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Copy book pages: "Major General [Frank] Gardner to
Captain P. Ellis, Jr., Assistant Adjutant General, Jackson, Mississippi,"
December 4-16,
1864 |
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Simon Bolivar Buckner papers, Natchitoches, Louisiana,
March-April,
1865 |
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Summaries of communications from inspector-general's
office, Alexandria, Louisiana,
April 28-May 26,
1865 |
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Miscellaneous Confederate Army documents,
1862-1864 |
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Papers of Dr. S. H. Stout, surgeon and superintendent of
hospitals, Confederate Medical Department, from Georgia; Tennessee; and
Richmond, Virginia,
1861-1865 |
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Poem dedicated to General Benjamin Franklin Butler (the
Beast),
n.d. |
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Diary of a confederate soldier, Begins at Richmond,
Madison Parish, Louisiana; concludes one mile from Chattanooga,
Tennessee, May 25, 1861-October 18, 1863
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Typed transcript of excerpts from this diary |
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Diary of John McL. Harrington. Fayetteville, North
Carolina,
January 30-December 31,
1861 |
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Diary of Mike M. Hubbert, sutler, Thirteenth Mississippi
Volunteers,
September 1, 1861-December
31, 1862 |
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Typed transcript of excerpts from this diary |
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Typed and photocopied explanation of misattribution of
this diary to T. J. Ford |
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Official Confederate papers, some of General Gideon
Johnson Pillow,
1861-1865 |
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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 |
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Notebook: "Signatures of the Disbursing Officers of the
Confederate States,"
n.d. |
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Miscellaneous Confederate papers, includes two James E.
Saunders letters |
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Documents related to Confederate veterans,
1873-1910 |
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Paper of Jefferson Davis,
1856 |
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Two letters, James E. Saunders and F. W. Pickens,
1860. |
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Official orders and letters related to Confederate
military affairs, Some James E. Saunders papers, many to or by Pierre Gustave
Toutant Beauregard,
1861.
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| 2C485 |
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Official orders and letters related to Confederate
military affairs, Some Saunders and Beauregard papers,
1862-1863
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Official orders and letters related to Confederate
military affairs, Some Saunders and Beauregard papers,
1864-1865
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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 |
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Miscellaneous material, 1868-1888, including letters of
General Josiah Gorgas,
1877-1878 |
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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.
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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.
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Official papers of the Confederacy, some military, some
civil,
1861-1864 |
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Official papers of the Confederacy, some military, some
civil,
1862-1865 |
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Miscellaneous papers,
1865-1871 |
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Correspondence of Samuel Saltus from military camps near
Charleston, S.C., to his sisters in Charleston,
1861-1862 |
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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 |
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[Same as above] |
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Papers related to Confederate banks,
1861-1863 |
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Johnston, Longstreet, Lamar and other letters,
1860-1878 |
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Miscellaneous papers related to the Confederacy,
1861-1900 |
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Photocopy of a roster of Confederate prisoners in the
charge of Baron Franx Schilling in Atlanta, Georgia,
April 29, 1865 |
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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 |
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William W. Hunter papers. |
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William W. Hunter papers. |
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Some James E. Saunders papers. |
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Miscellaneous papers. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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[Same as above] |
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1.-19. |
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[Same as above] |
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Trans-Mississippi Quartermaster's Books,
1861-1863; 1863-1864;
1862-1865 |
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Commissariat book,
1863-1865 |
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W. H. Jackson's Cavalry Division, order book |
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Muster roll of Nathan Bedford Forrest Camp, Durant,
Oklahoma,
May 1915 |
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Muster roll, Bentores Company, Texas Brigade,
1864 |
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Roster for Cotton Bureau, Captain N. A. Birge,
1863-1864 |
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Ledger "A," Cotton Bureau, N. A. Birge,
1864-1865 |
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Confederate service records,
1861-1865 |
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Julius A. Andrews |
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Joseph Murphy Bounds |
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George Washington Carter |
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Joseph J. Cook |
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Clayton C. Gillespie |
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James B. Likens (includes transcripts of
originals) |
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Noble L. McGinnis |
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Leonidas M. Martin |
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Otis M. Messick |
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James R. Taylor |
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George H. Sweet |
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Nathaniel W. Townes |
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Franklin Collett Wilkes |
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Overton Young |
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Hospital Records: |
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Franklin and El Paso, Texas,
June-July,
1862 |
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Prescription Book, hospital, C. S. Army,
August 1861-February,
1862 |
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“Opinions of the Attorneys General of the Confederate
States of America,”
1861-1865 |
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“Opinions of the Attorneys General of the Confederate
States of America,”
1861-1865 |
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Oversize material: |
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Seal of the Confederate States of America, reproduced,
1911 |
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Muster Rolls,
1862-1864 |
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Two documents related to Confederate ordnance and
artillery,
1863-1864 |
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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
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One document related to Confederate ordinance,
1864 |
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Muster Rolls, included are rolls for the 2nd, 4th, 5th,
and 7th Texas Volunteer Regiments
1861-1862,
undated |
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Miscellaneous Confederate documents, some related to
ordance and ammunition
1861-1865. |
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Three items related to medicine,
1864 |
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Correspondence,
1862, 1864,
1865 |
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Literary productions, "Louisiana's Part in the
Confederate War," and newspaper clipping, "War History,"
undated and1887 |
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Other documents,
1860, 1863, and
undated |
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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 |
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Money Collection |
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2 Confederate States of America Bonds, Blank Forms, $1000
each,
1861, 1865 |
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1 Confederate States of America, Loan, $100.00, with
interest certificates,
1863 |
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1 Confederate States of America, $20.00 Bill, Annotated
“3rd Louisiana Cavalry, Camp Last Hope, May 26th, 1865”, Plus 68 Names.
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Photographs |
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Portrait of unidentified man, albumin print |
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Portrait of "Lieutenant General E. Kirby Smith, C.S.A,
commanding Trans.-Miss. Department," albumin,
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General Albert Pike, seated, with three boys, albumin,
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