Found 2 collections related to United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans

The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC), 1861-1879, was a civilian organization authorized by the United States government to provide medical and sanitary assistance to the Union volunteer forces during the United States Civil War (1861-1865). As the USSC broadened the scope of its work during the war, Regular troops, sailors and others also benefited from its services. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, military service claim files, registers, diaries, financial records, scrapbooks, posters, illustrations, photographs, printed matter, maps, ephemera and artifacts concerning the Commission's sanitary, medical and relief work during the Civil War, as well as its post-war relief work and publication activities. The collection also includes the records of the American Association for the Relief of the Misery of Battle Fields, founded in 1866 by USSC officers and former associates. less

John William Holm was a clergyman in the West Indies. Collection consists of Holm's sermons, addresses and notes on natural theology and on the Epistles of Paul the Apostle. Includes sermons delivered at Brooklyn, N.Y., and Reading, Pa.; addresses, 1861-1862, given on emancipation of the British West Indian colonies; and an address given before a branch of the Freedman Relief Association. less