American Civil War

United Confederate Veterans Camp No. 662 (Nevada, Mo.) Record Book, 1895 (C1276)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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List of members, constitution and bylaws, and minutes of meetings.

United Confederate Veterans Committee on History Record Book, 1897 (C1277)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Proceedings of a committee formed for "the preparation and publication of a correct history of the part borne by Missourians in the Confederate Army." Also contains copies of two stories, one attempted in black dialect.

United Confederate Veterans Springfield, Missouri Records, 1894-1915 (R0060)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The United Confederate Veterans, Campbell Camp No. 488 Records contains a microfilm copy of a volume with the records of the United Confederate Veterans, Campbell Camp No. 488 in Springfield, Missouri. The volume includes the constitution and bylaws, minutes of meetings, lists of the members, and miscellaneous papers.

United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), Robert E. Lee Chapter Records, 1916-1917, 1935 (K0152)
0.01 c.f. (2 folders)

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Annual yearbook of the Chapter includes constitution and by-laws, membership lists, and lists of officers and committee people.

United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC)-Jefferson Davis Chapter Scrapbook, 1924-1936 (K0020)
1 v

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Chapter historian's scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and magazine articles, program announcements, detailing the activities of a UDC chapter in Kansas City, MO.

United Daughters of the Confederacy and Children of the Confederacy Records, 1921-1954 (C4305)
0.95 cubic feet (3 folders, 7 oversize volumes)

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The records contain meeting minutes of the Richmond Greys Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and scrapbooks of the Charlotte Jones Smith Chapter of the Children of the Confederacy.

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Dames Chapter Records, 1918-1990s (CA2986)
1.4 cubic feet

Records of a chapter in St. Louis consisting of minutes of chapter and board meetings, 1918-1988; state annual convention programs; by-laws, 1980s; membership lists, 1980s-1990s; HISTORY OF THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY, 1894-1955; and miscellaneous publications concerning the Civil War.

United Daughters of the Confederacy, John S. Marmaduke Chapter Scrapbooks, 1927-1929 (C2996)
2 volumes

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The collection contains newspaper articles regarding events of the Civil War and members and activities of the chapter.

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Missouri Division Collection, 1954 (R1254)
(1 folder)

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This booklet contains the minutes of the 57th annual convention of the Missouri Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, held at Black River Lodge near Lesterville in Reynolds County, Missouri, on September 28-30, 1954. Lucile V. Wallace was president.

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Missouri Division Records, no date (C3188)
9.2 cubic feet; also available on 33 rolls of microfilm

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Records of Missouri Confederate veterans, compiled for the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Missouri Division, by local chapters. Records include four page record forms of biographical and historical data, arranged alphabetically by veteran's names; copies of rosters and muster rolls; and miscellaneous lists and records.

Earl Van Dorn Papers, 1862 (C2456)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Special orders issued by Major General Van Dorn, Headquarters, Army of the West, concerning Confederate forces. March on enemy, rations, artillery, preparedness to fight and orders by officers.

Robert Thompson Van Horn Papers, 1855-1907 (C1032)
0.15 cubic feet (7 folders)

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The papers of Robert Thompson Van Horn contain correspondence and miscellaneous papers of a Kansas City journalist who served as a lieutenant colonel with the 25th Regiment of Missouri Volunteers, as mayor of Kansas City, and as a U.S. congressman.

Charles Van Ravenswaay Collection, 1820-1971 (C2668)
1.2 cubic feet

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Material relating to the Trigg family of Boonville, MO; the papers of Harvey Bunce, Cooper County civic leader and vice-president of the Tebo and Neosho Railroad; and Charles Van Ravenswaay's correspondence and research notes on various families, institutions, historic sites and events in Cooper and Howard Counties, and miscellaneous material related primarily to Boonville, MO.

Charles Van Ravenswaay Papers, 1841-1990 (C3873)
21.8 cubic feet, 1 audio cassette

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Correspondence, research notes, photographs, and literary manuscripts of historian and author Charles Van Ravenswaay, former director of the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis; Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA; and the Henry F. duPont Winterthur Museum and Gardens, Wilmington, DE.

Gilbert Van Zandt Papers, 1865-1956 (C4163)
0.4 cubic feet

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The papers of Gilbert Van Zandt contain personal correspondence, biographical information, newspaper clippings and photographs. Van Zandt became notorious as the youngest member of the Union Army.

Cassius and Obadiah Varney Letters, 1862-1865 (C1960)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Letters to their family from brothers in the Union army who spent time in Washington, D.C., and North Carolina.

Henry Voelkner Letters, 1861-1862 (C0436)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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Letters written in German by a Union soldier fighting in Missouri during the Civil War, including description of the battle of Sugar Creek. Also typed translations.

Benjamin Von Phul Letter, 1891 (C3265)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To William P. Barlow, St. Louis, MO, from St. Louis, MO, Nov. 5, 1891. Regards lieutenants in Von Phul's Battery, Missouri Artillery, Confederate States of America.

Charles A. Wade Papers, 1854-1920 (C3237)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers of Charles A. Wade contain letters, commissions, and miscellaneous material of a captain in Company C, 25th Regiment, Missouri Volunteer Infantry, who was killed at the Battle of Pittsburgh Landing, April 10, 1862. The letters urge his wife to sell out and join him.

Henry Wadsworth Papers, 1849-1864 (C1916)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Letters from relatives in Maryland and Illinois regarding collection of debts, scarcity of money, politics and war.

Charles P. Walker, Daily Express Collection, 1861 (R0649)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Charles P. Walker, Daily Express Collection contains Volume 1, No. 29 of the Daily Express, published December 11, 1861 at Rolla in Phelps County, Missouri. Charles P. Walker, editor of the weekly Rolla Express, published the daily sheet for the military market during the Civil War. It contains an address to Congress by President Lincoln, camp news, and official notices.

Washburne Family Papers, 1825-1900 (C4047)
0.6 cubic feet (17 folders)

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The papers of the Washburne family consist of personal and business correspondence concerning their wool business in Lockhart, Texas, advertisements, receipts, and account information. The correspondence deals extensively with family affairs, slavery, the Civil War, and politics. The collection also includes several bills of sale for enslaved persons.

Watson-Westlake Family Papers, 1813-1949 (C0186)
0.7 cubic feet

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Correspondence, receipts, legal documents, and miscellaneous items of the Watson family of Boone County. Memoir by Thomas W. Westlake of his Civil War and post-Civil War experiences.

Robert W. Wells Papers, 1826-1863 (C1998)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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Primarily letters written by Wells to his daughter containing family news and description of conditions in Missouri prior to and during the Civil War.

Edward Leo Welter Papers, 1918-1919 (R0312)
(1 folder)

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This is a diary of overseas service by a native of Kelso, Scott County, Missouri, and an enlisted
member of Co. F, 110th Engineers, 35th Division, U.S. Army. E. L. Welter served in France along
the Somme River and in the Vosges Mountains, was part of the reserve during the St. Mihiel
offensive, and came under fire during the Meuse-Argonne offensive.

Stephen Werly Diary, 1862-1864 (C1949)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Civil War diary of the movements of the 21st Regiment of Missouri Volunteers, Company K. The original was written in German.

John G. Westover Papers, no date (C0442)
0.08 cubic feet (4 folders)

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Notes, pictures, and clippings assembled by Westover for a master's thesis in the University of Missouri Department of History editing General M. Jeff Thompson's memoirs. Includes working drafts of memoirs.

Aaron Miles Wetzel Papers, 1864 (R1340)
(1 folder)

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The Aaron Wetzel papers consist of photocopies of two letters written during the Civil War by Aaron Wetzel, a Union soldier.

Edwin D. Wheelock Papers, 1862-1901 (R0654)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Edwin D. Wheelock Papers contain photocopied Civil War correspondence written by Edwin D. Wheelock, a soldier in Company G of the 17th Illinois Cavalry. The letters were written from camps at Alton, Illinois; St. Louis, Rolla, and Pilot Knob, Missouri; and Fort Scott, Kansas. There is also a letter written by a friend, Emery F. Farnsworth, who was a soldier in the 37th Illinois Infantry, a photographic copy of Wheelock in uniform, postwar information on veterans of the unit printed by the Nunda Herald, and a brief family record.

Green Bery White Letters, 1862-1864 (C3001)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Six letters from a Union soldier in Co. D, 21st Regiment, Missouri Volunteers, from camps at Vicksburg, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Georgia to his parents.

J.E. Whitehorne Letter, 1862 (C0478)
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To his sister, from Cockado Barracks, Mar. 10, 1862.

Relates witnessing the naval battle at Newport News, VA, between the MERIMAC and the Union steamers CUMBERLAND, CONGRESS, MONTICELLO, and PATRICK HENRY. Describes the damage to the vessels, and casualties.

E.M. Wiker Letters, 1885-1887 (C2929)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Three letters to W.S. Fultz of Muscatine, IA, discussing the Company D reunion and some of the men in the company during the Civil War.

Francis Marion Williams Papers, 1862-1866 (R0413)
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These are Civil War papers of Francis M. Williams, a native of Fredericktown in Madison County, Missouri, who served in the 4th Missouri Militia Regiment and the 50th Missouri Infantry. The collection includes correspondence and military papers concerning duty at St. Francis Bridge and in Iron and Washington counties in Missouri.

John M. Williams Autobiography, no date (C3367)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains recollections of Williams' Civil War experiences. A sergeant in an Ohio division, he enlisted at age 18 after teaching school in Elizabethtown, OH.

Orsono Ayers Williams Papers, 1861-1903 (C3135)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Civil War correspondence of O.A. Williams, Confederate army surgeon, and his friends and relatives, containing a mixture of family matters and local news.

Sarah Cornelia Williams Diaries, 1845-1889 (S0177)
1 microfilm roll

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This collection consists of the diaries of a St. Louis wife and mother with references to daily life, servant problems, Civil War, Lincoln's assassination, and the Chicago fire of 1871.

Williams-Shaw Family Papers, 1796-1904 (C0189)
0.12 cubic feet (6 folders)

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Papers of a Virginia family who moved to Rutherford County, Tennessee, in the 1830s and to Cass County, Missouri, in the 1860s. Includes tax receipts, legal documents regarding land purchases, accounts, and plans and lists of materials for building a barn, 1867.

Jacob P. Williamson Papers, 1862 (R0664)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Jacob P. Williamson Papers contain a Civil War letter written February 27, 1862, from Camp Rolla in Phelps county, Missouri , by a soldier in the 13th Illinois Infantry. The letter notes the Union capture of Springfield, Missouri, by soldiers who had marched from Rolla, and rumors of future movements.

Wilson Family Papers, 1898-1926 (C0438)
0.08 cubic feet (4 folders)

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Biographical sketches, 1898, of John Wilson and R.P.C. Wilson, Platte County, MO, politicians; resolution about Platte County delegates to constitutional convention; letter, 1926, with Civil War reminiscences of Confederate troops under Sterling Price.

Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Papers, 1926-1949 (C4221)
0.2 cubic feet (7 folders)

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Correspondence and descriptions regarding the Civil War Battle of Wilson's Creek that took place in Springfield, Missouri, on August 10, 1861. Also included are maps, letters from the Shepard of the Hills Association, Lebanon, Missouri, Chamber of Commerce Commercial Club, Civic Groups, the Missouri State Legislature, and other organizations endorsing efforts to make Wilson's Creek Battlefield a National Park/Memorial.

Elias V. Wilson Papers, 1858-1868, 1962 (C4502)
0.1 cubic feet (1 folder, 4 oversize items)

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Papers of E.V. Wilson of Edina, Knox County, Missouri. Primarily relates to Wilson's Civil War service as Major of North East Missouri Home Guards; including correspondence, muster rolls, commission papers and provision reports. Includes few earlier and later documents.

James Wilson Papers, 1864-1951 (C1994)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers of James Wilson contain documents pertaining to the death of Major Wilson, U.S. Army, who was shot by Confederate forces near Union, MO, in 1864.

Wisconsin, Eighth Infantry Regiment, "Old Abe" Mascot, 1865 (C4150)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Image of "Old Abe," the live Eagle, which was carried through a three year campaign by the 8th Wisconsin Regiment.

Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Columbia, Mo.) Minute Book, 1884-1888 (C0262)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Book contains constitution and bylaws, minutes of meetings, roll of members, and activities of the organization.

James Washington Woodard Papers, 1862-1867 (SP0048)
0.01 cubic feet (2 folders)

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James Washington Woodard Papers consist of Civil War letters that recount the horror of war, camp life, the fate of comrades at the battles of Corinth and Vicksburg, and the movements of General Sterling Price’s army as they evacuated Missouri in 1862 and 1863. The collection consists of six letters written by a Confederate Lieutenant serving in Company D, 5th Missouri Infantry, 1st Brigade. Also included is a document dealing with an 1867 property transfer from his wife’s family, the Lemmons, to his widow.

Charles Woods Papers, 1873, 1878 (K1419)
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The Charles Woods Papers contain correspondence from Charles Woods concerning a Southern claim against the United States government that he was attempting to resolve. A majority of the correspondence addresses his difficulties with getting his claim reviewed, extortion, and his experience overall. The letters within the collection are dated primarily in 1873, with one letter from 1878.

Woods-Holman Family Papers, 1805-1906 (C0191)
0.25 cubic feet

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Letters, documents, notebooks, accounts, and receipts of two southeast Missouri families. Papers concern family news, business, farming, livestock, religion, teaching, Native Americans, fur trade, economics, politics, Gold Rush and Civil War and descriptions of California, Iowa, Kansas, and Texas.

Richard Goodrich Woddson Article, 1863 (C3092)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Newspaper clipping from the MISSOURI DEMOCRAT, reporting the capture of General Jeff Thompson and his staff by Colonel Richard Goodrich Woodson of the 3rd Cavalry, Missouri State Militia, at Pilot Knob, MO.

Richard Goodridge Woodson Papers, 1862-1865 (R0410)
0.1 cubic foot (2 folders)

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The Richard Goodridge Woodson Papers consist of the correspondence, orders, and miscellaneous military papers of Richard G. Woodson of Pike County, Missouri, colonel of the 3rd Missouri State Militia Cavalry (New). The papers concern the administration of the post at Pilot Knob, Missouri, and the activities of the 3rd Missouri State Militia Calvary.

Clark Wright Papers, 1861-1863 (R0523)
2 folder

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These are the Civil War papers of Clark Wright, a resident of Polk County, Missouri, and a Union
cavalry officer. The collection includes an order to Wright from John M. Schofield, letters from
St. Louis and Rolla to his wife, Sarah Jane Wright, newspaper clippings, rosters of the field and staff
officers of the 6th Missouri Cavalry, and a list of signs and countersigns for the post at Lebanon,
Missouri.