Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era

2003 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 335
Author(s):  
Bobby L. Lovett ◽  
John David Smith
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Black Soldiers ◽  
Civil War Era

Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era

2004 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 439
Author(s):  
John D. Warner ◽  
John David Smith
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Black Soldiers ◽  
Civil War Era

The Timothy 0. Webster Papers and the Pearce Civil War Collection: Using Civil War Military Collections for Women's History

Collections ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-381
Author(s):  
Julie L. Holcomb
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Working Class ◽  
African American Women ◽  
White Women ◽  
Final Part ◽  
American Women ◽  
Women's Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
Civil War Era

Working-class and rural white women and free and enslaved African American women left few material traces, making it difficult for scholars to document their experience of the Civil War. This three-part article uses the story of the Timothy O. Webster Papers, which is part of the Pearce Civil War Collection at Navarro College in Corsi-cana, Texas, to examine the possibilities and limitations of recovering women's experience of the war from military collections. The first part examines the practice of collecting Civil War documents, the history of the Pearce Civil War Collection, and the collection and preservation of the Webster letters. In the second part, I begin to reconstruct Harriet's story using letters from the Webster Papers. The final part returns to the archive to consider how archivists might aid scholars in recovering the story of Civil War-era women from military collections.

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