Contains a petition to the Provisional Confederate Congress seeking financial compensation for six runaway slaves. Records concerning the Civil War include correspondence containing references to political attitudes before the war on slavery and secession, activities of Peace Democrats during the war, the supplying of Illinois Volunteer Regiments, Lincoln's assasination and efforts to secure peace with the Confederate States of America toward the end of the war. Correspondents include Clement Vallandigham, Richard Yates, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand and James Shields. Eloise Word Skewis Collection, 1777-1914. Contains records from a wide variety of sources documenting economic transactions in antebellum Virginia including the buying, selling and hiring out of slaves.
Material pertaining to the Civil War includes Confederate war bonds of various denominations.
Thom Williamson Papers , 1853-1913. Two Hollinger Documents Cases. Contains several items pertaining to the Civil War including orders issued to Williamson for various assignments and a handwritten copy of a report on the Confederate ironclad Tennessee captured at the Battle of Mobile Bay. This report is particularly important due to the detailed description of the Tennessee's design and the damages inflicted upon it by the Union naval forces.