civil war manuscripts - American Memory from the Library of Congress

John C. Breckinridge, John H. Claiborne, Samuel G. French,
Josiah Gorgas, Robert E. Lee, Richard Morton, B. P. Nolan,
and Isaac Munroe St. John; and letters from Mrs. Lydia Johnston
to Mrs. L. T. Wigfall, 1862-74, relating generally to the
war.
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Wight, Frederick H. 9th New York Volunteers
Collection, 1860-62. 11 items.
Includes nine letters written by Wight from camps in Maryland
and Virginia, Aug. 21, 1861-Feb. 12, 1862, concerning
camp life, marches, morale, discipline, disease, hospital care,
and military organization.
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Wilcox, Cadmus Marcellus
(1824-1890) Gen., CSA
Papers, 1846-87. ca. 1,200 items.
In part, transcripts and photocopies.
Includes copies of official reports on the battles of Williamsburg,
Fair Oaks, Gaines Mill, White Oak Swamp, 2d Manassas,
Fredericksburg, Salem Church, and Gettysburg, extracts of
reports on the Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, and Wilderness
campaigns, notes on the Siege of Petersburg, casualty reports,
clippings on the war, and an autobiography for the period June
8, 1861-Apr. 1865. Also contains letters from General Wilcox
to his brother, John A. Wilcox, 1861-65, concerning Confederate
morale, fortifications, casualties, conscription, pillage by
Confederate soldiers, depredations by Union soldiers, the suffering
of noncombatants, disease, discipline, supply shortages,
weapons, and his feelings toward his former friends in the U.S.
Army.
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Wild, Edward Augustus (1825-1891) Gen., USV
Letter, 1863. 1 item.
Letter from Wild to Rev. William A. Green, Nov. 5, 1863,
Norfolk, Va., concerning Green's appointment as chaplain in
the 3d Regiment, African brigade.
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Wilda, R. W. A.
Index, undated. 1 v.
"Index to Volumes, First Series of the Official War Records."
Incomplete.
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