This section of the subject guide provides archival documentation on the efforts to construct the Yale Civil War Memorial. The archival records contain digitized folders of letters, memoranda, and official records from several collections in the University Archives that document the efforts of Yale alumni to create the memorial beginning as early as July of 1865 and leading to its dedication in 1915.
Committee on Commemorating the Service of Yale Men in the Civil War Records (RU 528). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
Committee on the Civil War Memorial, Yale University, Records (RU 529). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
Office of the Secretary, Yale University, Records (RU 49). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
Committees of Yale University, Records (RU 153). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library
Accession 1937-A-003 Box 1 folder 4 - Civil War Memorial Committee Meeting Minutes, 1909-1915
Civil War Memorial Dedication program (1915)
Committee Formed to Honor the Memory of Yale Graduates Who Died in the Civil War (1866)
Yale Alumni Weekly Supplement on the Civil War Memorial (1910)
Yale Alumni Weekly articles on the Civil War Memorial (1914-1935)
Patriotic Commemoration of the Civil War at Yale (1865)
The Movement to Establish a Memorial to Yale Men Who Lost Their Lives in the War Between the States, by Talcott H. Russell (1910)
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