Guy Di Carlo, Jr., Civil War Research Papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
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Fax: (540) 231-3694
Restrictions:

The collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Guy Di Carlo, Jr., Civil War Research Papers, Ms1995-015, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
25.2 Cubic Feet 18 boxes
Creator:
Di Carlo, Guy, Jr. and Di Carlo, Guy, Jr.
Abstract:
The Guy Di Carlo, Jr., Civil War Research Papers consist of newsletters, newspapers clippings, photographs, newspapers articles, photocopies from published literature, maps, and calendars, related to American Civil War topics.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Guy Di Carlo, Jr., Civil War Research Papers, Ms1995-015, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

The Guy Di Carlo, Jr., Civil War Research Papers consist of newsletters, newspapers clippings, photographs, newspapers articles, photocopies from published literature, maps, and calendars, related to American Civil War topics. The collection also contains audio and videocassettes from Civil War events and television. Many of these are homemade.

Please Note: Civil War Round Table is abbreviated as CWRT throughout the inventory.

List of Tour Sites
  1. Antietam-South Mountain, n.d.
  2. Brandy Station, Wilderness, Spotsylvania Courthouse, n.d.
  3. Chancellorsville, n.d.
  4. Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Stone's River, n.d.
  5. Ft. Donelson; Tupelo, Mississippi; Brice's Crossroads, n.d.
  6. Ft. Sumter; Charleston, South Carolina, n.d.
  7. Gettysburg, n.d. [3 folders]
  8. First and Second Manassas, n.d.
  9. Pea Ridge; Prairie Grove, Arkansas, n.d.
  10. Richmond, Seven Days Battles, 1967-1968
  11. Shiloh, n.d.
  12. Vicksburg, n.d.
  13. Harpers Ferry, South Mountain, 1969
  14. The Atlanta Campaign, 1971
  15. Lee's Retreat from Petersburg to Appomattox
  16. Shenandoah Valley-1862: Jackson-1864: Early, n.d.
  17. Civil War Cemeteries, n.d.
  18. Civil War Forts, n.d.
  19. Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Conspiracy, Conspirators' Trail, n.d.
  20. Civil War History in Ohio, n.d.
  21. Ohio Monuments on Civil War Battlefields, Weapons and Weaponry, n.d.
  22. Re-enactment Group: Antietam, Gettysburg, Manassas, 1974-1981
  23. Civil War Washington Landmarks and Buildings, Booth Escape Trail, n.d.
List of Audio Cassettes
  1. Beauregard the Man, 1955
  2. John Wilkes Booth Capture, n.d.
  3. Chancellorsville Auto Tour, 1979
  4. Cleveland Civil War Round Table, 1993 [2 items]
  5. Stephen A. Douglas, 1983
  6. Ft. Pillow Massacre, n.d.
  7. Fredericksburg Auto Tour, 1978
  8. Hard Hand of War, 1996
  9. Ulysses S. Grant, 1952
  10. Abraham Lincoln, 1949
  11. Manassas, n.d.
  12. Politics and the Army of the Potomac, 1963
  13. Edwin Stanton, n.d.
  14. Western Union, 1950
List of Videocassettes
  1. Grant's March: the Vicksburg Campaign and Seige, 1995
  2. Gettysburg, n.d.
  3. Civil War Battles / Civil War Journal, n.d.
  4. Great Battles of the Civil War, n.d.
  5. Touring Civil War Battlefields, 1988
  6. Civil War (pts. 3-4), n.d.
  7. Shenandoah, n.d.
  8. David Herbert Donald, n.d.
List of Videocassettes
  1. Abraham Lincoln, 1930
  2. America's Civil War: 1st Manassas, 1986
  3. America's Civil War: Vicksburg, 1989
  4. Antietam: the Bloodiest Day in American History, [1987?]
  5. Battles of the Civil War, n.d. (2 vols.)
  6. The Blue and the Gray, 1986 (2 vols)
  7. Chickamauga: River of Death, [1988?]
  8. Civil War, n.d. (6 vols.)
  9. The Civil War, n.d.
  10. The Civil War, 1991 (2 vols.)
  11. Civil War Battlefields, 2000
  12. Civil War Docs, n.d. (3 vols.)
  13. Civil War Generals, n.d.
  14. Civil War Journal, n.d. (6 vols.)
  15. The Civil War Photographers, 1989
  16. The Civil War: the Story and the Artillery, 1994
  17. Divided Union: Story of the Civil War, n.d. (2 vols.)
  18. Echoes of the Blue & Gray: Civil War Veterans on Video Cassette, 1989
  19. The General, n.d.
  20. Gettysburg: the Final Fury, 1983
  21. Gettysburg: The Video History of the Civil War, n.d.
  22. The Great Campaigns of the Civil War, 1994 (2 vols.)
  23. History of the Civil War, n.d.
  24. The Last of Mrs. Lincoln, 1972 / Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939
  25. Lincoln, 1992 (2 vols.)
  26. Monocacy: the Battle That Saved Washington, [1989?]
  27. New Market: Field of Honor, [1989?]
  28. North and South Book II, 1986. (3 vols.)
  29. North and South, 1985 (3 vols.)
  30. Raising the Hunley: The Resurrection of the Civil War Legend, 2002
Acquisition information:
The Guy Di Carlo, Jr., Civil War Research Papers were donated to Special Collections in April 1995. Additional materials were donated in 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2007.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the original donation from the Guy Di Carlo, Jr., Civil War Research Papers commenced and was completed by student volunteers in 1996. Additional description was completed several times between 2003 and 2009 as more materials were donated.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged by subject matter.

Physical location:
Please note: This collection is in off-site storage and requires 2-3 days notice for retrieval. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives for more information.
Rules or conventions:
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