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From: "Rhonda Houston" <>
Subject: RE: [MO-CW] Missouri Amnesty papers?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:45:34 -0600
In-Reply-To: <57.12e11594.27e0ba9f@aol.com>



Amnesty papers can be found within any State library where there are
Manuscript Resources for Civil War holdings.
Some examples are below. Rhonda Houston

http://www.swem.wm.edu/SPCOL/CivilWar/webcw2.html#table

The Civil War holdings of the library are comprehensive. Scholars interested
in social issues and civilian affairs may find this guide especially helpful
as enlisted men, non-combatants, and women are particularly prevalent in the
manuscripts collections. Both sides of the conflict are well represented,
although there are more Confederate manuscript sources because of the large
number of Virginia family papers held by the library. Should you find
something you would like to look at, please contact us either by e-mail or
by the following:

Special Collections
Swem Library
College of William and Mary
P.O. Box 8794
Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8794
757-253-4841
FAX: (757) 221-2638


http://www.swem.wm.edu/SPCOL/CivilWar/archiv.html
University Archives

http://cavern.uark.edu/libinfo/speccoll/civilwarindex.html
Manuscript Resources for the Civil War
Index to Civil War Collections (which includes Amnesty papers)

http://cavern.uark.edu/libinfo/speccoll/index.html
University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, AR 72701-1201
Special Collections - University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, AR
72701-1201

http://www.uark.edu/libinfo/speccoll/civilwar4.html
(2)Examples of Special Collection:
153. Sara Jane Smith.
Records, 1864-1865; 4 items.
Sara Jane Smith was a resident of Washington County during the Civil War.
After her father enlisted in the Confederate army, she went to Springfield,
Missouri, to stay with relatives. Sara apparently became involved with a
band of guerrillas and participated in the destruction of telegraph lines
along the road from Springfield to Lebanon, Missouri. She was captured and
tried at St. Louis on November 16, 1864. Although convicted and sentenced to
death by the military court, Sara's sentence was reduced to imprisonment at
Alton, Illinois, for the remainder of the war. The proceedings include two
statements by the accused and listings of all officers involved in the
trial. Positive photocopies of trial proceedings held by the National
Archives

157. Southern Memorial Association.
Records, 1872-1934; 3 volumes.
Two record books and a scrapbook pertaining to the Southern Memorial Society
(SMA) of Washington County. In 1872, prominent women of Washington County
organized an association to procure a resting place for the deceased
Confederate soldiers buried at Pea Ridge (Benton County), Prairie Grove
(Washington County), and other locations in Benton, Washington, and Crawford
counties. They eventually raised enough money to purchase a small parcel on
the southwest slope of Fayetteville's Mount Sequoyah and began the
reinterrment of the deceased at what became known as the Confederate
Cemetery. It was officially dedicated on June 10, 1873, and the SMA has
assumed responsibility for the upkeep of the cemetery up to the present day.
The record books contain the constitution, bylaws, membership lists, and
minutes of meetings, 1872-1921. The scrapbook contains necrology and
eulogies of deceased members of the SMA, 1898-1934.

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/civwar.html
Manuscript Resources on the Civil War in the Lower Mississippi Valley
in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections,
Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University

This guide describes collections documenting the Civil War in the Lower
Mississippi Valley, including the states of Louisiana, Mississippi,
Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi
Valley Collections (LLMVC) at LSU. The guide includes not only materials
from the war years (1861-1865) themselves, but also materials from later
periods containing manuscript sources for Civil War history. Thus such
sources as post-war reminiscences and records of veterans' groups--materials
dealing with the war as memory and experience--will be found alongside
soldiers' and civilians' letters, diaries, and daybooks from the war itself.
In addition, the guide includes collections of papers of Louisiana and other
area soldiers who fought outside of the Lower Mississippi Valley

LSU's holdings of Civil War manuscripts make LLMVC a rich treasure-trove for
researchers. Many researchers are studying these documents from new
perspectives, to see what they have to tell us about women's experiences on
the home front and about Louisiana's African Americans, a significant number
of whom fought for the Union. Louisiana played a central role in the war,
with the fall of Port Hudson in July 1863 a critical event. Much of the
state was long occupied by Union forces, and LLMVC contains the papers of
numerous Union as well as Confederate soldiers. Other areas of strength
include materials documenting the siege of Vicksburg, the Battle of Shiloh,
and the Red River campaign


http://dante.uark.edu/
http://www.uark.edu/libinfo/govgeneral.html
Mullins Library is a depository for documents from the United States
government. The Government Documents Department processes these documents
and assists library users in finding and using them

http://library.uark.edu/screens/othercat.html
Other Library Catalogs or homepages


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Hi, all,

A group of genealogists here in Athens, Georgia, are working to transcribe
onto disk amnesty papers issued for former Confederate soldiers...is there
any such record in Missouri for former Confederate soldiers?

Thanks,
Nancy Bowen


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