Confederate Army records, 1861-1865.

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Confederate Army records, 1861-1865.

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Confederate Army records, 1861-1865, and other miscellaneous documents related to the Confederacy or to Confederate states. They include reports of operations against the enemy, September-December, 1862, submitted by unit commanders to Confederate H.Q., Trans-Mississippi Department, Little Rock (Ark.); seven lists of Confederate prisoners paroled by the Union Army at Richmond (Va.) in April 1865, and a roll of prisoners released from Libby Prison on April 10, 1865; miscellaneous general orders; morning reports of various Confederate prisons and hospitals; muster rolls; returns of clothing and provisions; certificates; military passes; requisitions; applications for exemption from military service; papers connected with the arrest of a deserter; telegrams and official correspondence, including a letter from Brigadier General M. Jeff. Thompson to Daniel Ruggles; and a register of people passing over Charleston New Bridge on June 1, 1863. Non-military documents include some official correspondence from the State of South Carolina; papers relating to the settlement of an estate in Georgia; a list of people sworn in as Confederate citizens in the Eastern District of Virginia; numerous blank forms related to Confederate tax or post office business; a bond issued by the Confederacy; some personal correspondence, with occasional manuscript maps; and a typescript recording the experiences of Leonidas Sebastian Daniel as a Confederate Army telegrapher in Vicksburg, 1861-1863, as condensed by his daughter, Louise C. Daniel, in 1955.

1.2 linear feet (3 boxes)

New-York Historical Society

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Daniel, Louise C.

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Thompson, Meriwether Jeff, 1826-1876

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Confederate veteran and Chief State Engineer of Louisiana. From the description of M. Jeff Thompson letter, 1875 Sept. 6. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 269015946 Meriwether Jeff Thompson, Confederate officer and mayor of Saint Joseph, Mo. From the guide to the Meriwether Jeff Thompson Papers, 1860-1940, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) M. Jeff Thompson, son of Meriwether and Marth...

Ruggles, Daniel, 1810-1897

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Daniel Ruggles, a native of Massachusetts and former U. S. Army officer, was a general in the Confederate Army. Ruggles led the Second Division in the Battle of Baton Rouge, 1862. From the description of Daniel Ruggles letter, 1861 Dec. 2. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 122505551 From the description of Daniel Ruggles letter, 1836 Nov. 1. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 317132959 From the description of Daniel Ruggles Confederate...

Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

Daniel, Leonidas Sebastian, 1837-1922.

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Libby Prison

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