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Civil War Era Newsprints
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-286
Scope and Contents
This collection primarily consists of illustrations from Civil War era newspapers including Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Harper’s Weekly, and Illustrated London News. Images printed in the newspapers are listed by the caption of the main illustration with page numbers and/or dates when known. Illustrations in this collection focus on the Civil War as it happened in coastal North...
Dates:
1861-1875, undated
Found in:
Special Collections
Fort Caswell Telegraph Log
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-138
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a log of telegraphs sent from Smithville (Southport), Fort Caswell, and Wilmington, North Carolina from January 1863 through May 1863. These telegraphs reveal food shortages, lack of supplies, and war updates involving the Confederacy, primarily in these three North Carolina forts. Battles were not being fought at these forts during these dates, but it is possible to understand from this document what conditions were like and how the armies responded to successes and...
Dates:
1863 January-May
Found in:
Special Collections
Howell Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-062
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two copies of letters written from William Howell to Lawson Howell in October 1863; a copy of a letter from W.H. Spurlin to his cousins; a copy of a Company Muster Roll for Wm. M. Howell, 5 Regiment South Carolina State Troops; a copy of The Confederate States of America, Officers' Pay Account for Lieutenant W. Howell; copies of Furlough slips for Lawson Howell; and a copy of the Descriptive List and Account of Pay and Clothing for Lawson Howell.
Dates:
1863-1864 (photocopies)
Found in:
Special Collections
Major General William Wing Loring Proclamation
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-073
Scope and Contents
A broadside issued September 14, 1862 by the Army of the Confederate States "To the People of Western Virginia," declaring martial law by the command of Major General William Wing Loring during the Kanawha Valley Campaign of 1862.
Dates:
1862 September 14
Found in:
Special Collections