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Descriptive Summary
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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. |
| Title | Confederate States of
America Records
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| Dates: | 1856-1915 |
| Abstract | Miscellaneous official documents
and other records, including personal narratives, related to the Confederacy,
chiefly concerning military affairs. |
| ID | CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA |
| Extent | 2 ft., 8 in. |
| Language | English. |
| Repository | 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
reminisceneses; 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) |
| | 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. |
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Confederate States of America Records, 1856-1915, The University of
Texas at Austin. Center for American History
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Manuscript Material
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| 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: |
| | | 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. |
| | | Miscellaneous Confederate Army officers'
papers. |
| | | 3. Copy book pages: "Major General [Frank] Gardner to
Captain P. Ellis, Jr., Assistant Adjutant General, Jackson, Mississippi,"
December 4-16, 1864. |
| | | 4. Simon Bolivar Buckner papers, Natchitoches,
Louisiana,
March-April, 1865. |
| | | 5. Summaries of communications from inspector-general's
office, Alexandria, Louisiana,
April 28-May 26, 1865. |
| | | 6. Miscellaneous Confederate Army documents,
1862-1864. |
| | | 7. Papers of Dr. S. H. Stout, surgeon and superintendent
of hospitals, Confederate Medical Department, from Georgia; Tennessee; and
Richmond, Virginia,
1861-1865. |
| | | 8. Poem dedicated to General Benjamin Franklin Butler
(the Beast),
n.d. |
| | | 9. Diary of a confederate soldier,
Begins at
Richmond, Madison Parish, Louisiana; concludes one mile from Chattanooga,
Tennessee. May 25, 1861-October 18, 1863: |
| | | Typed transcript of excerpts from this diary |
| | | Diary of John McL. Harrington. Fayetteville, North
Carolina,
January 30-December 31, 1861 |
| | | 10. Diary of Mike M. Hubbert, sutler, Thirteenth
Mississippi Volunteers,
September 1, 1861-December 31,
1862. |
| | | Typed transcript of excerpts from this diary |
| | | Typed and photocopied explanation of misattribution of
this diary to T. J. Ford. |
| | | 11. Official Confederate papers, some of General Gideon
Johnson Pillow,
1861-1865. |
| | | 12. J. W. Ward family correspondence,
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,
1861-1864: December 1864. |
| | | 13. Notebook: "Signatures of the Disbursing Officers of
the Confederate States,"
n.d. |
| | | 14. Miscellaneous Confederate papers, includes two James
E. Saunders letters. |
| | | 15. Documents related to Confederate veterans,
1873-1910 |
| | | 16. Paper of Jefferson Davis,
1856. |
| | | Two letters, James E. Saunders and F. W. Pickens,
1860. |
| | | Official orders and letters related to Confederate
military affairs,
Some James E. Saunders papers, many to
or by Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregar 1861: |
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| 2C485 | | | 1. Official orders and letters related to Confederate
military affairs,
Some Saunders and Beauregard
papers. 1862-1863: |
| | | 2. Official orders and letters related to Confederate
military affairs,
Some Saunders and Beauregard
papers. 1864-1865: |
| | | Letter from Robert E. Lee to Confederate general,
offering his opinion for the
cause of his defeat at Appomattox Court House, Virginia,
August 1, 1865, April 9, 1865. |
| | | Miscellaneous material,
including letters of General
Josiah Gorgas,
1868-1888, 1877-1878. |
| | | 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, |
| | | 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, |
| | | 5. Official papers of the Confederacy, some military,
some civil,
1861-1864. |
| | | 6. Official papers of the Confederacy, some military,
some civil,
1862-1865. |
| | | Miscellaneous papers,
1865-1871. |
| | | 7. Correspondence of Samuel Saltus from military camps
near Charleston, S.C., to his sisters in Charleston,
1861-1862. |
| | | 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. |
| | | 9. [Same as above] |
| | | 10. Papers related to Confederate banks,
1861-1863. |
| | | 11. Johnston, Longstreet, Lamar and other letters,
1860-1878. |
| | | 12. Miscellaneous papers related to the Confederacy,
1861-1900. |
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| 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: |
| | | 2. William W. Hunter papers. |
| | | 3. William W. Hunter papers. |
| | | Some James E. Saunders papers. |
| | | Miscellaneous papers. |
| | | 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,
other papers. April 8, 1864; |
| | | 5. Miscellaneous papers related to the Confederacy:
Includes William Carter Stubbs' narrative concerning General Joseph Lancaster
Brent; narrative by Burton N. Harrison,
concerning 1865 flight and capture of
Jefferson Davis;;
1898 reminiscence by Commander of
Second Louisiana Cavalry of Teche Campaign in Louisiana,
reminiscence of Jefferson Davis by R.
Ransom,
1906 reminiscence by Linn Tanner of
the capture of the vessel Indianola, other papers. 1877, 1877, 1862; 1890; 1863; |
| | | 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 |
| | | 7. [Same as above] |
| | | 8. [Same as above] |
| | | 9. [Same as above] |
| | | 10. [Same as above] |
| | | 11. [Same as above] |
| | | 12. [Same as above] |
| | | 13. [Same as above] |
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| 2C487 | | |
1-13 [Same as above] |
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| 2C488 | | | 1-19 [Same as above] |
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| 2C489 | | | Trans-Mississippi Quartermaster's Books,
1861-1863; 1863-1864; 1862-1865. |
| | | Commissariat book,
1863-1865 |
| | | W. H. Jackson's Cavalry Division, order book |
| | | Muster roll of Nathan Bedford Forrest Camp, Durant,
Oklahoma,
May 1915. |
| | | Muster roll, Bentores Company, Texas Brigade,
1864. |
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| 2C490 | | | Roster for Cotton Bureau, Captain N. A. Birge,
1863-1864. |
| | | Ledger "A," Cotton Bureau, N. A. Birge,
1864-1865. |
| | | Confederate service records,
1861-1865 |
| | | | Julius A. Andrews |
| | | | Joseph Murphy Bounds |
| | | | George Washington Carter |
| | | | Joseph J. Cook |
| | | | Clayton C. Gillespie |
| | | | James B. Likens |
| | | | Noble L. McGinnis |
| | | | Leonidas M. Martin |
| | | | Otis M. Messick |
| | | | James R. Taylor |
| | | | George H. Sweet |
| | | | Nathaniel W. Townes |
| | | | Franklin Collett Wilkes |
| | | | Overton Young |
| | | Hospital Records: |
| | | | Franklin and El Paso, Texas,
June-July, 1862 |
| | | | Prescription Book, hospital, C. S. Army,
August 1861-February, 1862 |
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| 2.116/OP22 | | | Oversize material: |
| | | | Seal of the Confederate States of America, reproduced,
1911 |
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| 2.116/OD1224 | | | | Muster Rolls,
1862-1864 |
| | | | Two documents related to Confederate ordnance and
artillery,
1863-1864 |
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| 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. |
| | | | One document related to Confederate ordnance,
1864. |
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| 2.325/V1 | | | | Muster Rolls,
1861-1862, undated |
| | | included are rolls for the 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 7th Texas
Volunteer Regiments. |
| | | | Miscellaneous Confederate documents, some related to
ordance and ammunitionm
1861-1865. |
| | | | Three items related to medicine,
1864. |
| | | | Correspondence,
1862, 1864, 1865. |
| | | | Literary productions, "Louisiana's Part in the
Confederate War,"
and newspaper clipping, "War
History,"
undated. 1887. |
| | | | Other documents,
1860, 1863, and undated. |
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| 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. |
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Photographs
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| 3Y24 | | | Three photographs |
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| 3Y241 | | | Portrait of unidentified man, albumin print |
| | | Portrait of "Lieutenant General E. Kirby Smith, C.S.A,
commanding Trans.-Miss. Department," albumin,
undated |
| | | General Albert Pike, seated, with three boys, albumin,
undated |
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