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Box 1

 Container

Contains 5 Results:

"Sketch of the Country occupied by the Federal & Confederate Armies on the 18th & 21st July 1861" lithograph, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8, Item: 1
Scope and Contents

At the Battle of Bull's Run by Captain Samuel P. Mitchell.

Dates: undated

Typewritten account of the war in Virginia, fragment (3 pages), undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8, Item: 2
Scope and Contents

Fredericksburg and Richmond are mentioned.

Dates: undated

Ironclads USS Keokuk and USS Monitor ink sketch, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes Civil War era documents assembled by the Allston family, including broadsides, correspondence, handwritten manuscripts, news clippings, and cartoons from Punch and Vanity Fair caricaturing personalities and issues before and during the war. Detailed information about each item included with collection.

Dates: undated

Handwritten poem, "Charge of Hagood's Brigade...21st Aug. 1864 on the Federal lines on the Weldon R[ail] R[oa]d," author unknown, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes Civil War era documents assembled by the Allston family, including broadsides, correspondence, handwritten manuscripts, news clippings, and cartoons from Punch and Vanity Fair caricaturing personalities and issues before and during the war. Detailed information about each item included with collection.

Dates: undated

Handwritten poem, "Stack Arms" by J.B. Allston, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8, Item: 5
Scope and Contents

Noted as, "Lines written by a prisoner in Fort Delaware Del. on hearing the surrender of Gen. Lee's army."

Dates: undated