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0087 Index to [Ohio] Prisoners; or a list of our
Civil War primary collections.
The Ohio Historical Society's Archives/Library
Division possesses a vast collection
of materials pertaining to the Civil War
and Ohio's participation in the conflict. This
collection includes regimental histories and
studies of tactics; publications regarding individual
battles and campaigns; books on equipment including
firearms and uniforms; newspapers; periodicals;
manuscript letters, diaries, battle reports,
and artwork; State
of Ohio Adjutant General material including
correspondence,
draft records, recruiting officers' records,
regimental records, officers' records, militia
and National Guard records, prisoner
of war records, and Surgeon General records;
Ohio
Secretary of State record series pertaining
to the soldiers'
vote in the presidential election of 1864;
and photographs
including group shots and cartes de visite,
and battle flags.
Among the Northern states,
Ohio was third behind New York and Pennsylvania
in the number of men who served during the Civil
War. Ohio was represented by artillery, cavalry,
and infantry units. In addition, the 5th and
27th United
States Colored Troops were made up primarily
of Ohioans.
Ohio units took part in all
of the major battles and campaigns of the Civil
War including Antietam, the Atlanta campaign,
the Bermuda Hundred campaign, Carnifex Ferry,
Chancellorsville, Chattanooga, Chickamauga,
Cold Harbor, Forts Henry and Donelson, Franklin,
Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Harper's Ferry,
Lookout Mountain, First and Second Manassas
(Bull Run), Nashville, the Peninsular campaign,
Perryville, the siege of Petersburg and the
Battle of the Crater, Sherman's march to the
sea, Shiloh, Spotsylvania Court House, Stones
River (Murfreesboro), Vicksburg, and the Wilderness.
The Archives/Library Division's
collection contains materials relating to these
battles and campaigns, as well as a wealth of
social history. The everyday life of the Civil
War soldier, and the effects of the war on the
soldiers and their families and friends are
documented. While professors, students, genealogists,
and general researchers have long made extensive
use of our Civil War materials, the popularity
of The Civil War (the documentary
film by Ken Burns which aired on PBS) and Gettysburg
(the theatrical film from Turner Pictures and
New Line Cinema based on the novel Killer
Angels by Michael Shaara) has heightened
interest in America's bloodiest conflict.
The Archives/Library Division
has undertaken a long term project to compile
a comprehensive list of the Civil War materials
in its collections. Begun using the WordPerfect
and dBASE computer programs (currently Microsoft
Word and Microsoft Access), bibliographic entries
will be created for each book, pamphlet, special
press newspaper, periodical, manuscript collection,
government record, and photographic collection.
Each entry will have the following fields: Item
Number, Type, Author, Title, Place, Publisher,
Date, Battle/Campaign, Unit, Comments, Subjects,
and Call Number. In the "Comments" field, material
of potential interest to the social historian
will be noted. Indexes will be generated by
subject, name, battle/campaign, and unit. Maximum
access to, and dissemination of, the information
in the database is a primary goal of the project,
and a wide range of software will be examined
to achieve this goal. For example, the applicability
of CD-ROM technology will be evaluated.
During the first phase of the project,
a list of the Archives/Library Division's Civil
War primary collections was compiled. Browse
approximately 1,200 collections which pertain
either totally or in part to the Civil War.
Among these collections are:
AP - Antique Photographs
AUDVFM - Audio Vertical File Material
CA - Cartoons
LGR - Local Government Records
MIC - Manuscripts on Microfilm
MSS - Manuscript Collections
N - Negatives
OVS - Oversize Manuscript and Visual Materials
P - Photograph Collections
PR - Print Collections
SC -Small Picture Collections
Series - State Archives
T - Transparencies
VFM - Manuscript Vertical File Material
VOL - Manuscript Volumes
Guidelines for offsite reference and
vital records requests, see
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/archlib/fees/
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