civil war manuscripts - American Memory from the Library of Congress

Washington and vicinity, and a genealogical and statistical
table on the men of the 2d Connecticut Heavy Artillery published
in Apr. 1864.
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Phillips, Philip (1807-1884) Washington, D.C.,
and New Orleans, La.
Family papers, 1826-1914. ca. 7,000 items.
In part, transcripts.
Includes the diary of Phillip's wife, Eugenia Yates Levy
Phillips (1820-1902), a southern sympathizer and suspected
spy, describing her arrest and imprisonment in Washington,
her parole and return to the South, conflict with Federal
authorities in New Orleans, La., life as a prisoner on Ship
Island, Miss., and her work with sick and wounded Confederate
soldiers at La Grange, Ga.; and the autobiography of Philip
Phillips concerning the secession movement, the arrest and
imprisonment of his wife, and life in New Orleans and La
Grange during the war. Also contains two letters from Phebe
Levy to Eugenia Phillips written from a military hospital near
Richmond, Va., June 25 and Sept. 13, 1863, concerning the
progress of the war, troop movements, inflation, and the attitude
of women in the South; four letters from Eugenia's brother,
S. Yates Levy, to his father, July 28, 1864-May 16, 1865,
Johnsons Island, Ohio, concerning prison life and family
matters; and a letter from C. C. Clay, Jr., to Gen. James H.
Wilson, May 10, 1865, La Grange, Ga., written in response to
an order for his arrest as a possible conspirator in the Lincoln
assassination.
Finding aid available.
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Pickard, Alonzo C.
(1938-1910) 112th New York Volunteers
Papers, 1856-87. ca. 150 items.
Chiefly letters from Pickard to his fiance written during
campaigns in Virginia, 1861-65. Contains information on fortifications
near Suffolk, camp life, morale, marches, discipline,
supplies, prisoners of war, religion, conscription, reconnaissance
expeditions, disease, deaths, hospital care, and generalship.
Also includes letters relating to the war by E. P. Putnam, R.
Tyler, and F. A. Pickard, and a detailed account of the engagement
at Dranesville, Va., Dec. 20,1862, written by an unidentified
participant.
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