United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Taylor Beatty Diaries
Microfilmed copy of the diaries of Taylor Beatty (Beattie), Sr. of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. The diaries document his activities during the Civil War and his later years as a sugar planter and a lawyer who attended court in Houma, Napoleanville, Thibodaux, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Reel 1 contains Volume 3, dating from 1861 to 1865. Reel 2 contains Volumes 4 through 12, dating from 1883 to 1917.
Evans J. Casso Collection
This collection spans 6 linear feet and dates from 1890 to 1988. The collection comprises manuscripts, publications, photographs, clippings, cassettes, floppy disks, printed materials, correspondence, sheet music, and other research materials. Materials relate to Evans J. Casso and his research subjects, including Francis T. Nicholls, the Civil War, and Italian-Americans.
Civil War Centennial Commission Collection
This collection contains correspondence, brochures, programs, and meeting minutes of the Civil War Centennial Commission planning the celebration in Lafourche Parish.
Martin-Pugh Family Collection
This collection consists of title searches, business records, ledger books, correspondence, maps, invoices, and genealogies of the Littlejohn, Whitmell-Bryan, and Pugh-Martin families.
William Littlejohn Martin Collection
This collections consists of negatives, photographs, correpondence, diaries, scrapbooks, and tintypes.
Burton Mayeux Poster and Clippings
This collection comprises one poster and two photocopies of newspaper clippings with notations. The poster includes a map and other information relating the the Civil War, and the clippings relate to a documentary on traditional Louisiana boat building and a book on William Edenborn.
Lee McNicholl Papers
This collection comprises copies of letters and other documents relating to Lee McNicholl's service in the Confederate Army between 1862 and 1864. The letters were written by Nicholl to family members and include accounts of his travels with the Confederate Army in Mississippi (Corinth and Vicksburg) and Louisiana (Shreveport).
John W. Minnich Collection
This collection consists of a map showing the townships and natural resources in Acadia Parish, Louisiana that was designed to attract emigrants in the late 1800s; a 1904 map of the Alluvial Valley of the Mississippi River from the head of the St. Francis Basin to the Gulf of Mexico; a map showing Ollie Canal and railways to New Orleans markets in 1913; and a handwritten index relating to information about the Civil War and veterans of the Confederacy.
Photographs of Civil War Generals
This collection comprises two carte de visite portraits depicting Confederate generals Beauregard and Longstreet.
Paula and Alvin Willis Collection of Poster Proofs
This collection dates from 1990-1991 and spans 2 linear feet. The materials comprise two artistic proofs for posters used to publicize Civil War battle reenactments. Both proofs were designed by Alice Gibson.