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Civil War Regiments

Collections listed in this section of the guide include information related to particular Confederate or Union Army regiments. The collections are listed by state and then by regiment. In addition, Emory has a large collection of Civil War broadsides, including several that are not held elsewhere. Most of these broadsides have not been catalogued. Please contact MARBL for further information about the broadsides.


Confederate States of America

Infantry

3rd Regiment, Company E
  • Mumford H. Dixon diary (MSS332)
  • Marine Corps

  • Graves family (MSS327)
    Family papers, 1818-1939; 3 boxes, 3 oversized items, 12 oversized bound volumes
    Includes the Civil War letters of Henry Lea Graves who served as a private in the 2nd Georgia Battalion and in the Confederate Marine Corps (stationed at Drewry's Bluff, Va., and Savannah, Ga. (1863-1864)).
  • Navy

  • Confederate States of America Navy, Savannah River Squadron, documents (MSS110)
  • Graves family (MSS327)
    Family papers, 1818-1939; 3 boxes, 3 oversized items, 12 oversized bound volumes
    Includes the Civil War letters of Iverson Dutton Graves who served as a master's mate in the Confederate Navy (stationed in Savannah, Ga.)
  • Henry Frederick Willink papers (MSS243)
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    United States of America

    Signal Corps

  • Hale Wesson papers (MSS379)
  • U. S. Colored Troops

    4th Regiment
  • Alfred Milo Brigham letters (MSS365)
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    Alabama

    Artillery

    Jeff Davis Battery
  • Confederate Microfilm Miscellany - Ira Traweek (MSS432)
  • Cavalry

    51st Regiment, Company B (Thompson's Artillery)
  • Nimrod William Ezekiel Long papers
  • (MSS416)

    Infantry

    11th Regiment
  • Honnoll family papers
  • (MSS63)
    14th Regiment
  • James Marshall Collier papers
  • (MSS316)
  • William Anderson Stephens papers
  • (MSS324)
    23rd Regiment, [Panola Guards]
  • James T. Norman family papers
  • (MSS756)
    38th Regiment
  • John Samuel Meriwether papers
  • (MSS253)
    39th Regiment
  • Gillis family correspondence
  • (MSS300)
    40th Regiment
  • John Samuel Meriwether papers
  • (MSS300)
    43rd Regiment
  • James H. Lee letters
  • (MSS69)
    46th Regiment
  • William Anderson Stephens papers
  • (MSS69)
    47th Regiment, Company I
  • James Preston Crowder papers
  • (MSS321)

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    Arkansas

    Infantry

    18th Regiment (Marmaduke's), Company H (Swamp Rangers or Swamp Fox Rangers)
  • Mumford H. Dixon diary (MSS332)
  • 19th Regiment
  • William H. Davis papers (MSS301)
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    Connecticut

    Infantry

    26th Regiment, Company K
  • W. Orville Tift papers (MSS375)
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    Florida

    Artillery

    Marion Artillery Battery
  • Andrew Jackson Neal papers (MSS218)
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    Georgia

    Artillery

    1st Regiment, Light Artillery, Claghorn's Company (Chatham Artillery)
  • Thiot family papers (MSS297)
  • 9th Battalion, Company B (Fulton Artillery)
  • J. A. McMurtrey papers (MSS214)
  • Richard Burch Jett papers (MSS57)
  • [Beulieu Hanleiter's Battery]
  • William Harmon Harden papers (MSS462)
  • Captain Hanleiter's Battery, Jo Thompson Artillery
  • Cornelius R. Hanleiter diary (MSS426)
  • Brigades

    Doles-Cook
  • John Levi Griffin diary (MSS366)
  • Cavalry

    Capt. Nelson's Independent Company (Nelson's Rangers, Capt. Ragland's Company)
  • Thomas Michelle Carter papers (MSS452)
  • Infantry

    1st Regiment Regular
  • Tomlinson Fort family papers (MSS26)
  • 1st Regiment Volunteer (Ramsey's), Company G (Bainbridge Independents)
  • Harris family papers (MSS405)
  • 2nd Battalion
  • Graves family (MSS327)
    Family papers, 1818-1939; 3 boxes, 3 oversized items, 12 oversized bound volumes
    Includes the Civil War letters of Henry Lea Graves who served as a private in the 2nd Georgia Battalion (stationed in Virginia) and in the Confederate Marine Corps.
  • 2nd Regiment, Company G (Columbus Guards)
  • Thomas Michelle Carter papers (MSS452)
  • Theodore T. Fogle letters (MSS436)
  • 4th Regiment
  • James W. Williams papers (MSS389)
  • Company K (Sumter Light Guards)
  • 5th Regiment, Company K (Upson Guards)
  • Loula Kendall Rogers family papers (MSS696)
  • 6th Regiment
  • Company E (Crawford County Greys)
  • Company I (Twiggs County Guards)
  • 7th Battalion
  • Charles A.L. Lamar papers (MSS400)
  • 7th Regiment, Company E
  • Confederate Misc. I (MSS20) -- letter from "Jimmie" to "Del" written 29 June 1862. (This likely was written by James W. McCulloch to his wife Delia Davis.)
  • 8th Regiment
  • Godfrey Barnsley family papers (MSS13)
  • Company A (Rome Light Guards)
  • 9th Regiment
  • Company E (Talbot Guards)
  • Company F (Baldwin County Volunteers)
  • 10th Regiment, Company C (Chattahoochee Beauregards)
  • John Emory Rylander papers (MSS393)
  • 11th Regiment, Company K (Houston Volunteers)
  • John A. Everett papers (MSS58)
  • 12th Regiment
  • United Daughters of the Confederacy, A. H. Colquitt Chapter records (MSS394)
  • Company A (Muckalee Guards)
  • Regiment enlistment Roster for the 12th Georgia Regiment, Co. A (Muckalee Guards), 25 May 1861, from the John Emory Rylander papers. Click on the image to see the full document.
    13th Regiment
  • Company F (Fayette Rangers)
  • Company K (Evans Guards)
  • 14th Regiment
  • Company A (Confederate Volunteers)
  • 15th Regiment, [Company E (Hancock Guards)]
  • Ivy Walker Duggan papers (MSS53)
  • 16th Regiment
  • James W. Williams papers (MSS389)
  • 19th Regiment
  • Robert Battey papers (MSS361)
  • Charles Crawford Jarrell papers (MSS428)
  • Company B (Jackson Guards)
  • 20th Regiment
  • James D. Waddell papers (MSS296)
  • 26th Regiment, (Lamar's)
  • Charles A. L. Lamar papers (MSS400)
  • 28th Regiment
  • Tomlinson Fort family papers (MSS26)
  • 32nd Regiment, Company I
  • William H. Ivey papers (MSS351)
  • 36th Regiment, Company H
  • Harris family papers (MSS405)
  • 38th Regiment
  • Wright's Legion
  • Company L
  • Company M (became Jo Thompson Artillery)
  • 39th Regiment
  • William H. Brotherton papers (MSS278)
  • Company H
  • 40th Regiment
  • Camp family papers (MSS141)
  • Company I
  • 41st Regiment, Company E (Troup Light Infantry)
  • Confederate Microfilm Miscellany - Lovett family (MSS432)
  • 42nd Regiment, Company B
  • Henry W. Robinson letters (MSS392)
  • 43rd Regiment
  • Company F
  • Company I
  • 46th Regiment, Company G
  • Gillis family correspondence (MSS300)
  • 47th Regiment
  • Benjamin S. Williams papers (MSS377)
  • 49th Regiment
  • Ivy Walker Duggan papers (MSS53)
  • 52nd Regiment, Company C
  • Andrew J. Edge papers (MSS296)
  • 56th Regiment
  • Lucius Horace Featherston papers (MSS504)
  • Company K
  • 59th Regiment, Company C (Arthur Greys)
  • Vincent Montgomery papers (MSS355)
  • 60th Regiment
  • William H. Stiles papers (MSS229)
  • Company H
  • 61st Regiment
  • Charles A. L. Lamar papers (MSS400)
  • 63rd Regiment, Company G
  • William Harmon Harden papers (MSS462)
  • Legions

    Cobb's, Georgia Volunteers
  • Artillery, Troup Artillery
  • Cavalry, Company E
  • Infantry, Company E ([Burke] Poythress Volunteers)
  • Phillip's, Georgia Volunteers
  • Camp family papers (MSS141)
  • George Gilman Smith papers (MSS228)
  • Infantry, Company C
  • Cavalry, Company E
  • Infantry, Company E ([Burke] Poythress Volunteers)
  • Militia

    Capt. Ed Ford's Militia Company, Baker's Regiment
  • Noble John Brooke papers (MSS334)
  • ???

    1st Regiment, Company I
  • William Augustus Chunn letters (MSS18)
  • 8th Regiment
  • Vincent Montgomery papers (MSS355)
  • 1st Regiment, Company I
  • William Augustus Chunn letters (MSS18)
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    Illinois

    Infantry

    11th Regiment, Company C
  • William M. Parkinson letters (MSS93)
  • 15th Regiment, Company G
  • Union Microfilm Miscellany - Alexander McEathron papers (MSS468)
  • 34th Regiment
  • Harvey Warren Cox papers (MSS38)
  • 38th Regiment
  • Company F
  • Company G
  • 125th Regiment
  • Alexander Miller Ayers papers (MSS276)
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    Indiana

    Infantry

    66th Regiment, Company H
  • Union Microfilm Miscellany - Ephraim L. Girdner papers (MSS468)
  • 70th Regiment
  • Charles Harding Cox papers (MSS330)
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    Iowa

    Infantry

    2nd Regiment, Company D
  • Thomas Stuart Birch papers (MSS344)
  • 12th Regiment
  • Joseph Manson letters (MSS387)
  • 19th Regiment, Company R
  • John Humphrey papers (MSS497)
  • 24th Regiment, Company B
  • Alfred A. Rigby diary (MSS368)
  • 27th Regiment
  • Joseph Manson letters (MSS387)
  • 29th Regiment, Company D
  • Union Miscellany - James Munns (MSS99)
  • 35th Regiment, Company F
  • Ichabod Frisbie papers (MSS396)
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    Kentucky

    Cavalry

    6th Battalion (Jessee's Battalion, Kentucky Mounted Riflemen)
  • George M. Jessee papers (MSS370)
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    Louisiana

    Infantry

    8th Regiment, Company G (Minden Blues)
  • George Lovick Pierce Wren diaries (MSS249)
  • 8th Regiment (African Descent), Company B
  • William M. Parkinson letters (MSS93)
  • 14th Battalion (Austin's Sharpshooters)
  • W. L. Trask papers (MSS380)
  • 19th Regiment, Company D
  • John A. Harris papers (MSS399)
  • Sumter Greys (New Orleans)
  • W. L. Trask papers (MSS380)
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    Mississippi

    Cavalry

    28th Regiment, Company I
  • Sidney S. Champion papers (MSS512)
  • Infantry

    15th Regiment, Company D
  • Bomar family papers (MSS86)
  • 24th Regiment, Company D (Caledonia Rifles)
  • Honnoll family papers (MSS63)
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    Maine

    Infantry

    13th Regiment
  • Charles Brown Thurston papers (MSS97)
  • 17th Regiment
  • Arthur A. Harmon papers (MSS388)
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    Maryland

    Infantry

    5th Regiment, Company B
  • John D. Babb family papers (MSS360)
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    Massachusetts

    Cavalry

    1st Regiment
  • Greely Stevenson Curtis papers (MSS768)
  • Infantry

    2nd Regiment, Company B
  • Greely Stevenson Curtis papers (MSS768)
  • 24th Regiment
  • Charles M. Duren papers (MSS267)
  • Alfred Milo Brigham letters (MSS365) -- may be 39th regiment
  • 25th Regiment
  • Hale Wesson papers (MSS379)
  • 45th Regiment
  • Nathan G. Newton letters (MSS364)
  • 54th Regiment (Colored)
  • Charles M. Duren papers (MSS267)
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    Michigan

    Engineers and Mechanics

    1st Regiment, Company D
  • Isaac Roseberry diary (MSS391)
  • Infantry

    20th Regiment, Company K
  • Clark S. Wortley papers (MSS248)
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    Missouri

    Infantry

    8th Regiment, Company B (American Zouaves)
  • Anthony J. Baudick papers (MSS72)
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    New Hampshire

    Infantry

    7th Regiment
  • Blake Goodrich papers (MSS369)
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    New York

    Artillery

    5th Artillery
  • Perrigo family correspondence (MSS635)
  • 3rd Light Artillery
  • Edwin R. Fish papers (MSS418)
  • 6th Heavy Artillery
  • Samuel B. Pierce reminiscences (MSS407)
  • Cavalry

    9th Regiment, Company E
  • Microfilm Miscellany - Daniel Peck (MSS468)
  • 21st Regiment, Company I
  • John M. Burdick diary (MSS323)
  • Infantry

    1st Dragoons
  • Charles B. Darling correspondence (MSS390)
  • 3rd Regiment, Company H
  • Edward King Wightman letters (MSS463)
  • 9th Regiment, Company B (Hawkins' Zouaves)
  • Edward King Wightman letters (MSS463)

  • 19th Regiment
  • Charles B. Darling correspondence (MSS390)
  • 60th Regiment, Company A
  • Luther L. Gates letters (MSS474)
  • 82nd Regiment
  • Dimock family papers (MSS587)
  • 85th Regiment, Company G
  • Edwin C. Peirson papers (MSS421)
  • 122nd Regiment, Company F
  • James Burton diary (MSS120)
  • 130th Regiment, Company D
  • Charles B. Darling correspondence (MSS390)
  • 135th Regiment
  • Samuel B. Pierce reminiscences (MSS407)
  • 142nd Regiment, Company C
  • William Dalzell letters (MSS79)
  • 148th Regiment, Company B
  • John L. Hoster diary (MSS464)
  • Militia

    2nd Regiment
  • Dimock family papers (MSS587)
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    North Carolina

    Brigades

    Pettigrew's Brigade
  • Benjamin Wesley Justice papers (MSS386)
  • Infantry

    33rd Regiment
  • Augustin E. Shore correspondence (MSS56)
  • 39th Regiment, Company C
  • John Mitchell Davidson papers (MSS357)
  • 47th Regiment
  • Company E
  • Company G
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    Ohio

    Infantry

    1st Regiment, Company 9 (Ohio Sharpshooters)
  • Zereh Coston Monks papers (MSS376)
  • 4th Regiment, Company K
  • Albert L. Slack correspondence (MSS459)
  • 12th Regiment, Company I
  • Thomas Thomson Taylor papers (MSS354)
  • 25th Regiment, Company H
  • Samuel M. Gordon diary (MSS317)
  • 47th Regiment, Company F
  • Thomas Thomson Taylor papers (MSS354)
  • 50th Regiment
  • John Humphrey papers (MSS497)
  • 76th Regiment, Company I
  • William G. Baugh letters (MSS353)
  • 103rd Regiment, Company E
  • Chauncey W. Mead letters (MSS498)
  • 110th Regiment
  • David Hamilton letters (MSS384)
  • Company B
  • 118th Regiment
  • John Humphrey papers (MSS497)
  • 121st Regiment, Company D
  • Albert L. Slack correspondence (MSS459)
  • Veteran Reserve Corps

    3rd Regiment, Company K
  • Silas Morrison letters (MSS385)
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    Pennsylvania

    Cavalry

    13th Regiment
  • George W. Nailer papers (MSS359)
  • 22nd Regiment, Company A
  • John W. Elwood papers (MSS593)
  • Ringgold Cavalry
  • John W. Elwood papers (MSS593)
  • Infantry

    28th Regiment
  • William Crawford Armor diary (MSS678)
  • 54th Regiment, Company A
  • Union Microfilm Miscellany - Jacob Cohn journal (MSS468)
  • 62nd Regiment, Company C
  • Zereh Coston Monks papers (MSS376)
  • 83rd Regiment, Company C
  • Zereh Coston Monks papers (MSS376)
  • 93rd Regiment, Company A
  • Henry Clay Bowman diaries (MSS381)
  • 99th Regiment, Company L
  • Enos Bennage papers (MSS383)
  • 153rd Regiment, Company A
  • Union Microfilm Miscellany - R. H. F. Roesfel diary (MSS468)
  • 155th Regiment, Company E (Zouaves)
  • Zereh Coston Monks papers (MSS376)
  • 199th Regiment, Company I
  • Enos Bennage papers (MSS383)
  • 209th Regiment, Company H
  • Peter Oswald correspondence (MSS478)
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    South Carolina

    Artillery

    18th Battery, Company A (Palmetto Guards)
  • Joseph Brevard Kershaw papers (MSS205)
  • Battery

    Jenkin's Brigade
  • John Bratton letters (MSS373)
  • John R. Little papers (MSS408)
  • Kershaw's Brigade
  • Joseph Brevard Kershaw papers (MSS205)
  • Infantry

    1st Regiment of Rifles, Company F
  • William T. Martin papers (MSS466)
  • 2nd Battalion Reserves (Barnett's), Company C
  • William T. Martin papers (MSS466)
  • 2nd Regiment
  • Joseph Brevard Kershaw papers (MSS205)
  • 3rd Regiment, Company I
  • Thomas Henry Pitts papers (MSS440)
  • 6th Regiment
  • John Bratton letters (MSS373)
  • 12th Regiment
  • John Bratton letters (MSS373)
  • 21st Regiment, Company D
  • Samuel David Sanders papers (MSS422)
  • Palmetto Sharpshooters
  • William McFall papers (MSS423)
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    Tennessee

    Artillery

    1st Regiment, Company L
  • J. L. J. Lear diary (MSS352)
  • Cavalry

    9th Regiment (Bennett's), Company B
  • John Edmondson papers (MSS441)
  • 21st Regiment (Carter's), Company A
  • John Edmondson papers (MSS441)
  • Infantry

    9th Regiment, Company C
  • William H. Davis papers (MSS301)
  • 13th Regiment
  • Lemuel A. Scarbrough diary (MSS349)
  • 20th Regiment, Company E
  • John Edmondson papers (MSS441)
  • 23rd Regiment, Company B
  • Honnoll family papers (MSS63)
  • 41st Regiment
  • John K. Farris diaries (MSS343)
  • 43rd Regiment
  • Lockmiller family papers (MSS815)
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    Texas

    Infantry

    12th Regiment
  • Robert Donnell Bone papers (MSS406)
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    Vermont

    Infantry

    4th Regiment
  • Charles H. Manson papers (MSS454)
  • Company E
  • 17th Regiment
  • Charles H. Manson papers (MSS454)
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    Virginia

    Cavalry

    12th Regiment, Company B
  • William Sydnor Thomson papers (MSS96)
  • Infantry

    8th Regiment, Company D (Champe Rifles)
  • W. H. Adams manuscripts (MSS465)
  • 9th Regiment
  • James Marshall Collier papers (MSS316)
  • 18th Regiment, Company F
  • Samuel B. McKinney papers (MSS420)
  • 26th Regiment, Company G
  • Edwin D. Tuttle letters (MSS318)
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    Wisconsin

    Cavalry

    2nd Regiment, Company L
  • Jennie Safford Smith correspondence (MSS415)
  • Infantry

    22nd Regiment
  • Jennie Safford Smith correspondence (MSS415)
  • Company D
  • Company F
  • Company H
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    updated 09-2005