United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

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American Civil War history

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Correspondence among family members and other assorted letters.

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Collection contains personal materials created by Arthur Ben and Betty Nick Chitty, materials related to Sewanee and The University of the South, Episcopal Church materials, Civil War related materials, materials related to Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, bibliographies, books and audiovisual materials.

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Collection contains assorted letters from the US Civil War period, including those from General Braxton Bragg and Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner. Collection also contains a prayer for the deaths at the Battle of Gettysburg.

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Collection contains correspondence from 1835 to 1979, diaries from 1836 to 1884 and two volumes on zoology.

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Correspondence, biographies, genealogies, memoirs and transcriptions.

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News clippings, correspondence, Confederate bonds, presidential pardons, biographical material, engravings, tintypes, rotogravures, bills of sale for enslaved persons.

Scope and Contents Materials related to Sewanee professor Abbott Cotten Martin. This collection is composed of newspapers clippings (the majority), index (some) and notes for his English classes (little). Martin was a gardener who, with the help of WWII POW labor, transformed the ravine on campus into the Abbott Cotten Martin Ravine Gardens, better known as "Abbo's Alley." He was also a staunch segregationist, believer in the Southern Cause and was anti-Communist-- with news clippings reflecting that. One...

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Collection contains biographical material, correspondence, newspaper clippings, letters written by Oertel himself, museum exhibit materials, inventories, grant requests, conservation records, appraisal records, photographs of his art and their negatives.

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Collection contains diaries from David Pise from 1850 to 1869, correspondence calendar and pastoral letters from the House of Bishops.

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Collection materials pertain to Leonidas Polk and members of the Polk family from the 1820s to 2003. Letters, historical documentation, profiles, essays, news clippings, photographs, family Bibles, VHS tapes, reels, books and CD ROMS, flag and t-shirt.

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Collection contains syllabi, lecture notes, study guides, conference materials, speeches, tenure-related materials, professional writings on topics of agency for People of Color, history of the South, history of Black churches, social activism, civil disobedience, student writings and other assorted professor-related materials.

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United States Civil War history