Collection Overview
Title: Civil War Collection, 1858-2007
ID: COLL/455
Extent: 1.0 Box
Arrangement: Folder level description
Abstract
Subject collection of works on the Civil War. The collection includes letters, i.e. Stillwell, Roorda, Weener, Roon, Slotman, Van Bree, Holland, Todd, Bouma, Ledeboer; a booklet, in Dutch, about the responses of the Dutch immigrant community in Michigan regarding this war by Willemien M. Schenkeveld, 1989; a diary, 1863, by Cephas Andrus, a Union Soldier from Canton, Pennsylvania; a tract, 1861, written for the armed forces by G. Duffield of Detroit, Michigan entitled “Friendly Council”; “Daily Diary of Andrew McDonald”; and references. [See also Coll. 456 Driscoll and the Campus Titles Database.]
Box and Folder Listing
- Series 1
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Andrus, Cephas: Diary --- 1862
- (with transcription, [undated])
- Folder 2: Bouma, Douwe R.: Letter --- 1863
- (photocopy, transcription, translation, [undated])
- Folder 3: Holland, Joseph: Correspondence re: Civil War and the use of the term "Dutch" --- 1984
- Folder 4
- Item 1: Ledeboer, William G.: Correspondence --- 1862-1863
- (with summary notes, [undated])
- Item 2: Tract, "Friendly Counsel,"G. Duffield --- 1861
- Folder 5: Roon, Jacob: Correspondence --- 1863
- (photocopy, transcription, translation, [undated])
- Folder 6: Roon, Willem: Correspondence --- 1863
- (photocopy, transcription, translation, [undated])
- Folder 7: Roorda, Henry Epke: Correspondence --- 1862
- (transcribed photocopy, [undated])
- Folder 8: Slotman, Gerrit H.: Correspondence --- 1863
- (photocopy, transcription, translation1966)
- Folder 9-13: Stillwell: Correspondence --- 1858-1864
- Folder 14: Todd, Andrew: Correspondence --- [undated]
- (photocopy)
- Folder 15: Van Bree, Gerrit: Correspondence --- 1863
- (photocopy)
- Folder 16
- Item 1: Weener, Wolter: Correspondence --- 1862;
- (photocopy, transcription, translation, M. Douma, 2007)
- Item 2: Paper, "Walter Weener: Young Civil War Soldier" --- Undated
- Folder 17: Schenkeveld, Willemien M., En Er Werd een Groote Storm van Wind: Reacties uit de Nederlandse Immigrantenkolonie in Michigan op de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog (1861-1865) --- 1989
- (in Dutch about the responses of the Dutch immigrant community in Michigan concerning the Civil War) [HERH E514 .S454 1989]
- Folder 18: Daily Diary of Andrew McDonald during Civil War Years, Niels T. Andersen, editor --- 1987
- Folder 19: References