Civil War Transcriptions - Vermont Historical Society. The soldiers listed in the menu to the left are just a few of the many Vermonters who fought in the Civil War.
Many wrote letters home and kept diaries describing the conditions in which they lived. The Vermont Historical Society is proud to host a vast collection of Civil War manuscripts: letters, diaries, and other documents related to the war. Here we've provided online transcripts of some of the letters and diaries in our collection, arranged by the author's last name. Visit the Vermonters in the Civil War website for scans and transcriptions of Civil War letters from the collections of the Vermont Historical Society and the University of Vermont Libraries.
Vermonters in the Civil War. Vermont soldiers in the Civil War wrote an enormous quantity of letters and diaries, of which many thousands have survived in libraries, historical societies, and in private hands.
This collection represents a selection of letters and diaries from the University of Vermont and the Vermont Historical Society. The collection includes materials dating from 1861 at the start of the Civil War, and will grow with additional materials throughout the years of the sesquicentennial commemoration, from 2011 through 2015. Materials were selected for digitization to provide a variety of perspectives on events and issues. The voices represented in the collection include private soldiers and officers, as well as a few civilians. Article, Collections and Site Search. The American Civil War Collection. Company K's muster roll, dated October 27,1863, lists the names and ranks of its members, as well as where and when they were wounded, died or were discharged.
ARC - Digital Copies Search. Cornell University Library Making of America Collection. The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Author: United States.
War Dept.Title: The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate ArmiesOther Title: Official records of the Union and Confederate armiesPublisher: Govt. Print. Off.Place of Publication: WashingtonMoA Volumes: Series I, 1-53; Series II, 1-8; Series III, 1-5; Series IV, 1-4 (1880 - 1901) Browse the Civil War Documents Series I: Contains the formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the Southern States, and of all military operations in the field, with the correspondence, orders, and returns relating specially thereto, and, as proposed is to be accompanied by an Atlas.
Volume I. 1880. Chapter I - Operations in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Volume II. 1880. Chapter VIX - Operations in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Volume III. 1881. Volume IV. 1882. The Civil War - September 17, 1787 When the delegates to what would become the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in 1787, they had the task of creating a new framework of government which would be workable, reflected American republican ideals, and would be acceptable to the majority of constituencies.
One major compromise was the counting of slaves as 3/5 of a person for purposes of allocating representation. Another compromise was the continuance of the slave trade for the next 20 years. March 6, 1820 - December 31, 1820 The first in a series of crises regarding the extension of slavery ended in 1820 with the Missouri Compromise, which admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state in an attempt to maintain the balance of slave and free states. August 21, 1831 - August 22, 1831 September 20, 1850 - December 31, 1850.
Civil War Sesquicentennial. The first few shots fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861 would forever change the course of American history.
An intense civil war broke out between the northern United States and the southern Confederate States of America. This blood-shedding battle would be fought for nearly five years and would affect millions of people. The Civil War influenced Michigan Agricultural College as well as many other schools at this time. The years between 1861 and 1865 proved to be some of the hardest for the college. Enrollment rates dropped because of the war, financial problems were arising, and MAC was fighting to retain the Morrill Land Grant that ensured the permanence of the college. As soon as the “Stars and Bars” had been raised above Fort Sumter in April of 1861, President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to repossess the places that were seized from the Union.