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RACE, SLAVERY AND FREE BLACKS, SERIES I: PETITIONS TO SOUTHERN LEGISLATURES, 1777-1867.
Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1998.
Black Studies Research Sources
23 reel(s)
This collection contains all 2,917 extant legislative petitions on the subject of race, slavery, and free blacks in the South dating from 1777 to 1867. The petitions come from the following states: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Written by slaveholders and nonslaveholders, blacks and whites, men and women, slaves and freemen, petitions include requests for emancipation, mass campaigns demanding the total abolition of slavery, and complaints about the activities of free blacks and address issues such as manumission, colonization, religion, laws governing slaves, racial mixing, and black military service. They provide a portrait of the political, legal, economic, social, and cultural life of the American South in the nineteenth century.
Guides:
RACE, SLAVERY, AND FREE BLACKS, SERIES II: PETITIONS TO SOUTHERN COUNTY COURTS 1775-1867.
Bethesda, MD: LexisNexis, 2002.
Black Studies Research Sources
116 reel(s)
See also the website for the Race and Slavery Petitions Project: http://library.uncg.edu/slavery_petitions/ (last accessed 4 October 2006).
Ellis Library has Parts A-E
Guides:
RECORDS OF ANTE-BELLUM SOUTHERN PLANTATIONS FROM THE REVOLUTION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR: SERIES A, SELECTIONS FROM THE SOUTH CAROLINA LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
Frederick, Md: University Publications of America, 1985.
41 reel(s)
James Henry Hammond, plantation owner, served in the House of Representatives (1835-1836), as Governor of South Carolina (1842-1844), and as United States Senator (1857-1860). His papers reflect his interest in scientific agriculture, providing information on cotton growing, fruit and vegetable production, and livestock management. Other subjects include social customs in the ante-bellum South, the state of education at the University of South Carolina, political ideology among educated southerners, the practice of law, and slave management. The miscellaneous collections include records of plantation owners from various South Carolina regions. Certain selections, such as the Wade Hampton papers dealing with sugar plantations in Louisiana, refer to the westward expansion of the plantation system in the nineteenth century. The correspondence offers insight into the social and family life of the South Carolina planter. Plantation journals and account books provide details on crop production and the work and health of plantation slaves.
Guides:
Schipper, Martin Paul. Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War [guide] : series A, selections from the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina.
The guide provides reel content notes.
RECORDS OF ANTE-BELLUM SOUTHERN PLANTATIONS: SERIES B. SELECTIONS FROM THE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1985.
10 reel(s)
Papers of families and individuals from the South Carolina low countries include a concentration of materials from St. John's Parish of the Charleston District. Included are the proceedings of the Black Oak Agricultural Society, the confession of a participant in the Denmark Vesey slave rebellion of 1822, the auction book of Charleston slave trader, Alonzo White, extensive slave records, a parish diary, and a number of plantation journals. The diaries, daybooks, plantation records, and estate accounts for the Thomas Porcher Ravenel family (1731-1899) are also included. These papers relate to lands, plantation management, slaves, and crops, especially rice and cotton.
Guides:
Schipper, Martin Paul. Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War [guide] : series A, selections from the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina.
The guide provides reel content notes.
Ruffin, Edmund, 1794-1865. DIARY OF EDMUND RUFFIN, 1856-1865.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1966.
7 reel(s)
Edmund Ruffin made his reputation from the 1830s to the 1850s as an innovator in southern agriculture. He wrote the important agricultural work An Essay on Calcareous Manures and edited the Farmer's Register beginning in June 1833. As the struggle over states rights evolved, Ruffin became an ardent secessionist. He reportedly fired the first shot against Fort Sumter. With the defeat of the Confederacy, Ruffin committed suicide on June 18, 1865. This collection contains the manuscript diary to the day of his death. It provides considerable information about southern politics before and during the war and repeated observations about conditions on the Confederate domestic front.
The manuscript diary through June of 1863 has been edited and published in two volumes by William Kauffman Scarborough (F230 .R9314). Volume one is titled Toward Independence, October 1856-April, 1861 and volume two is titled The Years of Hope, April 1861-June 1863. Only routine personal affairs were omitted in this edition and it is thoroughly indexed.
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Smith, Gustavus Woodson. CONFEDERATE WAR PAPERS. FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE, NEW ORLEANS, SEVEN PINES, RICHMOND AND NORTH CAROLINA.
New York: Atlantic Publishing and Engraving Co., 1884.
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Smith (1822-1896) was a major general in the Confederate Army. This work is divided into four parts with multiple chapters in each. Part I: War Policy of the Confederate States Administration. Part II: The Defences [sic] of Louisiana. Part III: Notes of the Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks. Part IV: The Defences [sic] of Richmond and of North Carolina in the Latter Part of 1862 and the Early Months of 1863.
(Microfilmed by the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.)
Note: Second edition. Contains three appendices, three maps, and an index at the end.
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Smith, Henry Bascom. BETWEEN THE LINES; SECRET SERVICE STORIES TOLD FIFTY YEARS LATER
New York: Booz Brothers, 1911.
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Bascom (d. 1916) was the chief of detectives and assistant Provost Marshal General with Major General Lew Wallace for the Union in the Civil War. This work consists of 49 files that took place during the war.
(Microfilmed by the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.)
Note: Pages 27-30 are missing. Map at the end. Three pictures, one of Smith along with his signature.
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Soley, James Russell. BLOCKADE AND THE CRUISERS
New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1883.
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Soley (1850-1911) was a professor of the U.S. Navy. This introductory volume tells about the general condition and problems of the Navy before and at the beginning of the Civil War. It describes the operations of blockade runners, Atlantic squadrons, gulf squadrons, the commerce destroyers, and has three appendices (“Vessels of the U.S. Navy, March 4, 1861;” “Vessels Constructed or Projected, 1861-1865;” and “Instructions from Flag-Officer Goldsborough to Officers Commanding Blockading Vessels”). There are ads for other naval books at the end of this work.
Volume 1 of “The Navy in the Civil War” series. Index and appendices at the end.
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SOUTHERN HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS: PLANTATION RECORDS, 1748-1901 FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES, LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1971.
526 fiche
Personal papers of southern families, both wealthy landowners and freed slaves, provide insights into everyday life in the South before and after the Civil War. The papers include diaries, land deeds, tax receipts, correspondence, bills and invoices, newspaper clippings, school programs, handbills, almanacs, account books, and pamphlets. Topics include life on the plantations, education and student life, financial transactions, agriculture, attitudes toward slavery, religious beliefs, health concerns, Civil War battles, and travel at home and abroad.
An uncataloged guide, Southern Historical Manuscripts: Plantation Records, 1748-1901 From the Department of Archives, Louisiana State University, located in the Special Collections Office, indicates holdings.
Stanton, Robert Livingston. CHURCH AND THE REBELLION
New York: Derby and Miller, 1864.
1 reel(s)
Stanton (1810-1885) was a professor in the Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Danville, KY. Chapters in this work against the secession of states from the Union include “Character of the Rebellion,” “Cause of the Rebellion,” “Responsibility for the Rebellion,” “Responsibility for Beginning and Continuing the War,” “Responsibility of the Southern Church for the Rebellion and the War,” “The Church and Slavery,” “Slavery and Polemics,” and more. Stanton dedicated it “To the young men of the United States, of every creed in religion and every party in politics, who prefer freedom to slavery; who are loyal to the country, and who are aiding to sustain its government against rebellion.”
Microfilmed by the Library of Congress, Washington, DC
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STATE SLAVERY STATUTES.
Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1989.
354 fiche
This collection includes over 7, 100 state statutes regarding slavery dating from 1789 to 1865 in the United States. Included is every statute passed in the fifteen slave states that dealt with slavery, free blacks, and the broader issue of race. Also included are private laws, special acts, legislative resolutions, and texts of state constitutions and subsequent revisions as they affected slavery. These documents depict how the legislators of the American South maintained slavery from the time of the American Revolution when most of the northern states had abolished slavery to the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, as well how slavery affected virtually everything legislators did in the South.
Guides:
State slavery statutes : guide to the microfiche collection.
Guide includes inventory listing and subject, name, and geographic location index.
The Weekly News and Courier, Charleston, SC. OUR WOMEN IN THE WAR. THE LIVES THEY LIVED; THE DEATHS THEY DIED.
Charleston, SC: News and Courier Book Presses, 1885.
1 reel(s)
This book is a compilation of 79 personal narratives during the Civil War as told by southern women and appearing in The Weekly News and Courier. The subjects include the siege at Vicksburg, MS, poets of the Confederacy, talks with children, foraging around Nashville, TN, heroism at home, war times in Alabama, and many more.
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TRAVELS IN THE CONFEDERATE STATES.
Louisville, Ky: Lost Cause Press, 1956.
This collection reproduces most of the items in the bibliography, Travels in the Confederate States. Extremely valuable to students of the Civil War, it contains material written by on-the-scene observers; soldiers, journalists, visitors, and innocent victims caught in the middle of the war. It is especially rich in regimental histories and memoirs of military leaders and common soldiers. Each title is cataloged individually.
Guides:
Coulter, E. Merton (Ellis Merton), 1890- Travels in the Confederate States, a bibliography..
The guide is annotated to indicate which items are in Ellis Library. The guide provides complete bibliographic information and an annotation for each title.
United States. Adjutant General's Office. NEGRO IN THE MILITARY SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES, 1639-1886.
Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service, 1963.
National Archives microfilm publications. Microcopy no. T 823; v. National Archives record group 94.
5 reel(s)
Between 1885 and 1888 the United States Adjutant General's Office compiled federal documents relating to military service of blacks from miscellaneous sources such as secondary works, colonial records, and state legislative records. The largest portion of the material focuses on blacks during the Civil War. Fugitive slaves, black laborers, the Confederate use of blacks, the changing legal status of blacks, and black military service are covered. Blacks served in the Georgia, Louisiana, North and South Carolina militias before the Civil War. Often they were laborers, but sometimes they served as fighting men. They also served in the American Revolutionary Army and in other wars.
There is a description of the contents at the beginning of each reel.
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United States. Department of State. JOURNAL OF CHARLES MASON KENT DURING THE SURVEY OF THE MASON AND DIXON LINE, 1763-1768.
Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service, 1945.
National Archives microfilm publications. Microcopy no. M 86; v. National Archives record group 59.
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The reel contains a journal of the activities of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the commissioners who surveyed a boundary between the provinces of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Before the Civil War, the boundary was considered the dividing line between slave and non-slave states. The journal includes a series of topographical notes and letters received by the commissioners during their mission.
An uncataloged guide, Journal of Charles Mason Kent During the Survey of the Mason and Dixon Line, is in the Special Collections Office. The same information is reproduced at the beginning of the reel.
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United States. War Department. RECORDS RELATING TO CONFEDERATE NAVAL AND MARINE PERSONNEL.
Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service, 1959.
National Archives microfilm publications. Microcopy no. M 260; v. National Archives record group 109
7 reel(s)
This collection of Confederate naval and marine records divides itself into three parts. Part one is concerned with Union and Confederate hospital records as well as Union and parole prison records of naval and marine personnel. The second part reproduces reference cards and papers relating to naval personnel and the third part reproduces those of marine personnel. Reference cards indicate rank of sailor or marine, payroll, and include references to vessel papers. Entries were obtained from hospital registers, prescription books, and prison and payroll records. The records are arranged alphabetically by the surname of the sailor or marine.
Military Service Records: a Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications (p. 310-311) provides a reel guide.
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Guides:
United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Military service records : a select catalog of National Archives microfilm publications..
The guide provides background on the various collections and indicates the alphabetical range for each reel.
United States. War Department. UNFILED PAPERS AND SLIPS BELONGING IN CONFEDERATE COMPILED SERVICE RECORDS.
Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service, 1962.
National Archives microfilm publications. Microcopy no. M 347; v. National Archives record group 109
442 reel(s)
The War Department placed papers in this series when, for one reason or another, the records could not be positively connected with any soldier for whom there was a compiled service record. In some cases, the soldiers served in a home-guard unit or Another state organization never called into the service of the central government. The card abstracts contain entries taken from original muster rolls, returns, rosters, payrolls, hospital registers, and parole rolls. Also included are references to original records, letters, vouchers, requisitions, and oaths of allegiance. The records are arranged alphabetically by surname.
An uncataloged guide, Unfiled Papers and Slips Belonging in Confederate Compiled Service Records, available in the Special Collections Office, indicates the surnames included on each reel.
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United States. War Department. UNION PROVOST MARSHAL'S FILE OF PAPERS RELATING TO CIVILIANS.
Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service, 1966.
National Archives microfilm publications. Microcopy no. M 345; v. National Archives record group 109
300 reel(s)
The Provost Marshal's file relates to civilians who came in contact with the army from 1861 to 1866. Provost marshals served as military police. They sought out and arrested deserters, Confederate spies, and civilians suspected of crimes or disloyalty. Provost courts tried cases involving civilians and military personnel accused of civil crimes. The documents include correspondence, provost court papers, orders, passes, and paroles. The documents are arranged alphabetically by the name of the civilian concerned.
An uncataloged guide, Union Provost Marshal's File of Papers Relating to Civilians, is available in the Special Collections Office.
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United States. War Department. UNION PROVOST MARSHAL'S FILE OF PAPERS RELATING TO TWO OR MORE CIVILIANS.
Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service, 1969.
National Archives microfilm publications. Microcopy no. M 416; v. National Archives record group 109
94 reel(s)
The Provost Marshal's file from 1861 to 1867 relates to civilians who came in contact with the army. Provost marshals served as military police. They sought out and arrested deserters, Confederate spies, and civilians suspected of crimes or disloyalty. Provost courts tried cases involving civilians and military personnel accused of civil crimes. The papers include correspondence, provost court papers, passes, and paroles. Generally the arrangement is chronological. Separate groups of reels relate to civilians in military prisons and to civilian prisoners confined by the Middle Department, 8th Army Corps, at Baltimore.
An uncataloged guide, Union Provost Marshal's File of Papers Relating to Two or More Civilians, is available in the Special Collections Office. An incomplete place and subject index is on the first reel.
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WHARNCLIFFE MANUSCRIPTS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1864-1872: IN THE SHEFFIELD CITY LIBRARY.
East Ardsley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England: EP Microform, 1975.
British records relating to America in microform
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Letters to the third Lord Wharncliffe relate to the Confederacy during the Civil War. Lord Wharncliffe, like many aristocratic Englishmen, was a strong southern sympathizer and had business interests in southern cotton. Letters concern the Committee for the Relief of Southern Prisoners of War, chaired by Wharncliffe from 1864 to 1865. In 1864, the committee raised 17,000 pounds for southern prisoners of war held in the North. United States secretary of state, William Seward, refused the money on the grounds that it was unnecessary. Letters to Lord Wharncliffe after this refusal tell of southern hardship and alleged atrocities of the North. Other correspondence concerns the business affairs of Alexander Collie, a blockade-runner during the later stages of the war, and James Spence, a British supporter of the South.
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