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  • A1986-050.0007
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A diary from Dixie, as written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861, and afterward an aide to Jefferson Davis and a brigadier-general in the Confederate army ed. by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary. | Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller, 1823-1886. | New York, Peter Smith [1929] | xxii, 423 p. front., plates, ports., facsim. 22 cm. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.;"Confederate States of America."
  • A1986-050.0008
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A diary with reminiscences of the war and refugee life in the Shenandoah valley, 1860-1865 [by] Mrs. Cornelia McDonald ... annotated and supplemented by Hunter McDonald ... | McDonald, Cornelia Peake, 1822-1909. | Nashville, Cullom & Ghertner Co. [c1935] | xvi, 540 p. col. front., plates (part col.) ports. (1 col.) facsims. 24 cm. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.;"Shenandoah Valley -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.";"Refugees, Southern.";"McDonald family (Angus McDonald, 1727-1778)"
  • A1986-050.0009
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A journal of the expedition to Quebec, in the year 1775, under the command of Colonel Benedict Arnold / by James Melvin, a private in Captain Dearborn's company. | Melvin, James, b. 1754? | New York : [s.n.], 1857. | vii, [8]- 30 p. 26 cm. | Canadian Invasion, 1775-1776.;"United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal narratives"
  • A1986-050.0010
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A journal of the Santa Fe Expedition under Colonel Doniphan, by Jacob S. Robinson. Reprinted, with an historical introduction and notes by Carl L. Cannon, from the edition of 1848. | Robinson, Jacob S. | Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1932. | xx, 95, p. front., plates, map, facsim. 20 cm. | Doniphan's Expedition, 1846-1847.
  • A1986-050.0011
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A life of Gen. Robert E. Lee. By John Esten Cooke ... | Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. | New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1871. | vi, 577 p. plates, ports (incl. front.) maps (1 fold.) 24 cm. | Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870.
  • A1986-050.0012
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A locomotive engineer's album: the saga of steam engines in America / by locomotive engineer George B. Abdill. | Abdill, George B. | New York : Bonanza Books, 1965. | 190 p. : ill. 28 cm. | Railroads -- United States -- History.;"Locomotives -- United States -- History."
  • A1986-050.0013
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A memoir of the last year of the war for independence, in the Confederate States of America, containing an account of the operations of his commands in the years 1864 and 1865. | Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894. | Lynchburg, C.W. Button, 1867. | 135 p. 23 cm. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.;"United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate."
  • A1986-050.0014
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A narrative of Major General Wool's campaign in Mexico, in the years 1846, 1847, and 1848. By Francis Baylies ... | Baylies, Francis, 1783-1852. | Albany, Little & Company, 1851. | 78 p. front. (port.) 23 cm. | Mexican War, 1846-1848.;"Wool, John Ellis, 1784-1869."
  • A1986-050.0015
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A narrative of the campaign in the valley of the Shenandoah, in 1861 / by Robert Patterson . | Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881. | Philadelphia : Sherman & Co., Printers, 1865. | 128 p. : map 24 cm. | Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1861.;"United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.";"Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861."
  • A1986-050.0016
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A narrative of the capture and subsequent sufferings of the Mier prisoners in Mexico : captured in the cause of Texas, Dec. 26th, 1842 and liberated Sept. 16th, 1844. / By Thos. W. Bell, one of the captives with an introd. and notes by James W. Day. | Bell, Thomas W., 1815-1871. | Waco, Tex. : Reproduced by Texian Press, 1964, 1845. | vii, 97 p. 24 cm. | Mier Expedition, 1842 -- Personal narratives.;"Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas.";"Texas -- History -- Republic, 1836-1846."
  • A1986-050.0017
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A new history of Texas from the first European settlement in 1692, down to the present time. Together with a history of the Mexican War ... with an account of the late battles in and near the city of Mexico, to which is added the treaty of peace with Mexico. | Stiff, Edward. | Cincinnati, H. M. Rulison, 1855. | 254, p. front., illus. 20 cm. | Texas -- History -- To 1846.;"Texas -- Description and travel.";"Mexican War, 1846-1848."
  • A1986-050.0018
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A rebel war clerk's diary at the Confederate States capital, by J.B. Jones … (Vols. 1-2 in Rees Collection) | Jones, J. B. (John Beauchamp), 1810-1866. | New York, Old Hickory Bookshop, 1935. | 2 v. 24 cm. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.;"Autobiographies."
  • A1986-050.0019
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A Rebel's recollections / by George Cary Eggleston. | Eggleston, George Cary, 1839-1911. | New York : Hurd and Houghton Cambridge : The Riverside Press, 1875. | vi, 260 p. 18 cm. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.
  • A1986-050.0020
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A report on the Spanish archives in San Antonio, Texas, by Carlos Eduardo Castañeda. | Castañeda, Carlos Eduardo, 1896-1958. | San Antonio, Yanaguana Society, 1937. | 167 p. 24 cm. | Archives -- Texas -- San Antonio.;"San Antonio (Tex.) -- History -- Sources.";"Texas -- History -- To 1846 -- Sources."
  • A1986-050.0021
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A short history of the Army and Navy, by Fletcher Pratt. | Pratt, Fletcher, 1897-1956. | Washington, The Infantry journal [1944] | viii p., 1 l., 262 p. illus., maps 17 cm. | United States -- History, Military.;"United States -- History, Naval."
  • A1986-050.0022
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A short history of the Civil War. (Ordeal by fire). | Pratt, Fletcher, 1897-1956. | New York, Pocket Books [1952,c1948] | xvi, 413 p. maps. 17 cm. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
  • A1986-050.0023
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A short history of the Confederate States of America, by Jefferson Davis ... | Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889. | New York, Belford Co., 1890. | xii, 505 p. front. (port.) 25 cm. | Confederate States of America -- History.;"United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.";"United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865."
  • A1986-050.0023A
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Flat File C2/D4
Poster of the Beatles. b/w 27x38.
  • A1986-050.0024
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A Short narrative of the horrid massacre in Boston : perpetrated in the evening of the fifth day of March, 1770, by soldiers of the 29th Regiment, which with the 14th Regiment were then quartered there : with some observations on the state of things prior to that catastrophe. | | New York : J. Doggett, Jr., 1849. | 122 p. : ill., map 24 cm. | Boston Massacre, 1770.
  • A1986-050.0025
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A sketch of the history of Debray's (26th) Regiment of Texas Cavalry. Austin, Tex. : E. von Boeckmann, 1884. | Debray, X. B. (Xavier Blanchard) | Waco, Tex. : Waco Village Press, 1961. | 26 p. 23 cm. | Texas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.;"Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Cavalry Regiment, 26th.";"United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories."
  • A1986-050.0026
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A Sketch of the life and public services of Maj. Gen. John E. Wool, United States Army : with a portrait. | | New York : Kettell & Moore, 1851. | 30 p. : port. 23 cm. | Wool, John Ellis, 1784-1869.;"Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Biography.";"Generals -- Biography.";"United States. Army -- Biography."
  • A1986-050.0027
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A sketch of the life and times and speeches of Joseph E. Brown. By Herbert Fielder. | Fielder, Herbert, b. 1827. | Springfield, Mass., Press of Springfield Printing Company, 1883. | 785 p. illus. 24 cm. | Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894.;"Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865."
  • A1986-050.0028
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade from its rise in June 1780 until disbanded in December, 1782, with descriptions of characters and scenes not heretofore published. Containing also an appendix with copies of letters which passed between several of the leading characters of that day, principally from Gen. Greene to Gen. Marion. | James, William Dobein, 1764-1830. | Marietta, Ga., Continental Book Co., 1948. | 182, 39 p. 23 cm. | Marion, Francis, 1732-1795.;"South Carolina -- History -- Revolution."
  • A1986-050.0029
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A sketch of the war record of the Edisto rifles, 1861-1865, by William Valmore Izlar Company A, 1st regiment S. C. V. infantry ... Provisional army of the Confederate States 1861-1862 Company G, 25th regiment S. C. V. infantry ... Confederate States army 1862-1865. Pub. by August Kohn. | Izlar, William Valmore. | Columbia, S.C., The State Company, 1914. | 168 p. port. (incl. front.) 20 cm. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories -- South Carolina Infantry -- Edisto Rifles.;"Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry. Edisto Rifles.";"United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate."
  • A1986-050.0030
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A soldier's recollections leaves from the diary of a young Confederate, with an oration on the motives and aims of the soldiers of the South, by Randolph H. McKim... | McKim, Randolph H. (Randolph Harrison), 1842-1920. | New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910. | xvii, 362 p. front., 5 port. 22 cm. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.;"Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916. Stuart's cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign."
  • A1986-050.0031
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A student's guide to history / Jules R. Benjamin. | Benjamin, Jules R. | New York : St. Martin's Press, c1979. | x, 154 p. 21 cm. | History -- Study and teaching -- United States.;"History -- Research.";"History -- Bibliography."
  • A1986-050.0032
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A Texas surgeon in the C. S. A. | Anderson, John Q. | Tuscaloosa, Ala., Confederate Pub. Co., 1957. | 123 p. 22 cm. | Cade, Edward W., 1838-1869.;"United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.";"United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care.";"United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories -- Walker's Texas Division (C.S.A.)";"Confederate States of America. Army. Walker's Texas Division."
  • A1986-050.0033
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A visit to the cities and camps of the Condederate states, by Fitzgerald Ross... | Ross, FitzGerald. | Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood and Sons, 1865. | x, 300 p. front. [fold. map] 19 cm. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. Confederate.
  • A1986-050.0034
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A woman's wartime journal an account of the passage over a Georgia plantation of Sherman's army on the march to the sea, as recorded in the diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt (Mrs. Thomas Burge) with an introduction and notes by Julian Street. | Lunt, Dolly Sumner, 1817-1891. | Macon, The J.W. Burke Co., 1927. | 65 p. 20 cm. | Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.;"Sherman's March to the Sea.";"United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate."
  • A1986-050.0035
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
A.P. Hill, Lee's forgotten general. | Hassler, William W. (William Woods), 1917- | Richmond, Garrett & Massie [1957] | xiv, 249 p. illus. 24 cm. | Hill, Ambrose Powell, 1825-1865.
  • A1986-050.0036
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
Abraham Lincoln, a new portrait, by Emanuel Hertz ... foreword by Nicholas Murray Butler. (Vols. 1-2 in Rees Collection) | Hertz, Emanuel, 1870-1940. | New York, H. Liveright, Inc. [c1931] | 2 v. fronts., plates, ports., facsims. 24 cm. | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.;"Presidents -- United States -- Biography."
  • A1986-050.0037
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
Abraham Lincoln… (Vols. 1-6 in Rees Collection) | Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967. | New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1942. | 6 v. fronts., illus. (incl. maps, plans) plates, ports., facsims. 24 cm. | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
  • A1986-050.0038
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
Admiral Dewey at Manila and the complete story of the Philippines : life and glorious deeds of Admiral George Dewey, including a thrilling account of our conflicts with the Spaniards and Filipinos in the Orient / by Joseph L. Stickney. | Stickney, Joseph L. | Chicago : Imperial Pub. Co., c1899. | 415 p. : ill. 25 cm. | Dewey, George, 1837-1917.;"Philippines -- History."
  • A1986-050.0039
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
Advance and retreat. Personal experiences in the United States and Confederate States armies. By J. B. Hood. | Hood, John Bell, 1831-1879 | New Orleans, Published for the Hood Orphan Memorial Fund [by] G. T. Beauregard, 1880. | 358 p. port., plans. 23 cm. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.;"United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.";"Confederate States of America. Army of Tennessee.";"Hood, John Bell, 1831-1879";"Generals -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.";"Confederate States of America. Army. -- Biography."
  • A1986-050.0040
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
Adventure in glory, 1836-1849. | Connor, Seymour V. | Austin, Tex., Steck-Vaughn Co. [1965] | 270 p. illus. 22 cm. | Texas -- History -- Republic, 1836-1846.
  • A1986-050.0041
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
Alamo, altar of Texas liberty, [by Frederick C.] Chabot [with] illustrations & rare maps. | Chabot, Frederick C. (Frederick Charles), b. 1891. | [San Antonio, Naylor Printing Co.,] 1931. | viii, 141 p. incl. front., illus., maps, facsims., pl., ports. 23 cm. | Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.);"Texas -- History -- To 1846.";"Texas -- History -- Revolution, 1835-1836.";"Alamo (San Antonio, Tex) -- Siege, 1836."
  • A1986-050.0042
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
Along the Rio Grande scenes on the line of the Southern Pacific--Sunset Route in West Texas. | Southern Pacific Company. | [Houston, Tex., 190-] | [47] p. illus. 15 x 23 cm. | Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) -- Description and travel.;"Railroads -- Texas -- Guidebooks."
  • A1986-050.0043
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
American locomotives a pictorial record of steam power, 1900-1950. | Alexander, Edwin P. | New York, Bonanza Books [c1950] | 254 p. illus., 29 cm. | Locomotives -- United States -- Pictorial works.
  • A1986-050.0044
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
An account of Col. Crockett's tour to the North and down East, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. His object being to examine the grand manufacturing establishments of the country and also to find out the condition of its literature and its morals, the extent of its commerce, and the practical operation of The Experiment ... Written by himself. | Crockett, Davy, 1786-1836. | Philadelphia, E. L. Carey and A. Hart, Baltimore, Carey, Hart, and Co., 1835. | 234 p. front. (port.) 19 cm. | United States -- Social life and customs.;"Atlantic States -- Description and travel.";"United States -- Politics and government -- 1829-1837."
  • A1986-050.0045
  • Collection: Floyd Elton & Jewel Griffith Rees Collection
  • Location: Rare Books
An aide-de-camp of Lee, being the papers of Colonel Charles Marshall, sometime aid-de-camp, military secretary,and assistant adjutant general on the staff of Robert E. Lee, 1862-1865, edited by Major General Sir Frederick Maurice ... | Marshall, Charles, 1830-1902. | Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1927. | xxix, 287 p. front., illus. (facsim.) plates, ports., maps (part fold.) 22 cm. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.;"Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870."
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