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Newman family. Newman family : miscellaneous papers, 1861-1864.

Title: Newman family : miscellaneous papers, 1861-1864.

Collection consists chiefly of letters from Wilson Scott Newman to his wife Mary Louisa White Newman discussing military and civilian life during the Civil War, troop movements, battles, and health conditions. New.

ArchivalResource: 18 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49306922 View

Biography -- Ewell, Richard S.

Title: Biography -- Ewell, Richard S.

ArchivalResource: 1 file folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310375789 View

Ewell, Richard Stoddert, 1817-1872. Letter : Richmond, Va., to Hugh [W.] Sheffey, 1865 March 14.

Title: Letter : Richmond, Va., to Hugh [W.] Sheffey, 1865 March 14.

Asks Confederate legislature to approve enlisting men ages 50 to 60 for duty in trenches around Richmond, Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30366216 View

Branch, Lawrence O'Bryan, 1820-1862. Papers of Lawrence O'Bryan Branch [manuscript], 1840-1913.

Title: Papers of Lawrence O'Bryan Branch [manuscript], 1840-1913.

The papers of Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, concern his congressional career and describe the political and social scene in Washington, D.C., including accounts of Preston S. Brooks' attack on Charles Sumner, the United States' plan to acquire Cuba, James Buchanan's visit to North Carolina, the election of 1860, the U.S. Treasury Department, and a dispute with Galusha A. Grow. The papers contain an 1840 letter, from Felix Grundy regarding U.S. fiscal policy, abolition, and other political matters; and an 1843 letter from David Levy Yulee regarding John C. Calhoun and Southern politics. Family papers including correspondence with his wife, Nancy "Nannie" Haywood (Blount) Branch, discuss family matters, traveling in the South, Civil War news, the battle of New Bern, N.C., and Florida social life. Civil War papers, 1860-1862, of Branch, concern the organization of the Confederate army, anti-Confederate sentiment in North Carolina, the defense of the North Carolina coast, the battle of New Bern, N.C., and the subsequent retreat, and problems with deserters and spies. Correspondence subsequent to joining Stonewall Jackson in Virginia describes Hanover Court House, Va., 2nd Bull Run, and the Seven Days' Battles, the Maryland Campaign, Josiah Gorgas, and Daniel Harvey Hill. A letter, 1 January 1862, from Thomas Bragg, Richmond, Va., regards the defense of North Carolina, especially Roanoke Island and Albemarle County (N.C.), and infighting among officers under Branch's command. A letter, 17 March 1862, from A.E. Burnside, New Bern, N.C., responds to an inquiry about Confederate casualties and prisoners in the battle of New Bern; and a letter, 20 March 1862, from Zebulon B. Vance, Kinston, N.C. reports those under Vance's command wounded and killed during the battle of New Bern. Correspondence, 1862 with J.P. Benjamin and George W. Randolph, regards promotions and a resignation. Correspondence, 1862, with Richard S. Ewell and Joseph E. Johnston concerns troop movements around Gordonsville, Va., and before the battle of Hanover Court House. Three letters, June 1862, between Branch and Robert E. Lee, concern the battle of Hanover Court House, Va.; and a letter, 26 June 1862, from Stonewall Jackson concerns troop movements.

ArchivalResource: 650 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647856338 View

Ewell, Richard Stoddert, 1817-1872. Papers, 1838-1896 [microform].

Title: Papers, 1838-1896 [microform].

Chiefly letters from Richard Stoddert Ewell to his family and others concerning army life, the Mexican War, the Civil War, and his imprisonment at Fort Warren, Mass. Includes accounts of the Gettysburg and Peninsular campaigns and the use of blacks as soldiers by the Confederacy. Correspondents include Jefferson Davis, Henry Kyd Douglas, Jubal Anderson Early, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell, Elizabeth (Stoddert) Ewell, Elizabeth Lowndes Ewell, Rebecca Lowndes Ewell, Elizabeth (Ewell) Scott, Thomas Ewell, Moses Drury Hoge, Henry Jackson Hunt, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Robert Edward Lee, Lafayette McLaws, Charles Marshall, Dabney Herndon Maury, James Knox Polk, and William Tecumseh Sherman.

ArchivalResource: 200 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43163836 View

Clinton H. Haskell Civil War collection 1841-1895 Haskell, Clinton H., Civil War collection

Title: Clinton H. Haskell Civil War collection 1841-1895 Haskell, Clinton H., Civil War collection

Clinton H. Haskell Civil War collection contains miscellaneous letters, military orders, telegrams, and documents related to the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 120 items

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-732has?rgn=main;view=text View

Confederate officers photograph album, n.d.

Title: Confederate officers photograph album, n.d.

This collection contains one hundred ninety two cartes-de-visite photographs of officers who served in the Confederate army. The majority of the officers served as either major generals or brigadier generals in the Confederate forces. The collection includes the photographs of many lesser known officers, as well as the famous; such as Lee, Beauregard, Morgan, Jackson, and Stuart. The collection also includes photos of past American presidents and European royalty. Acid free photocopies have been placed in the original photograph album and the originals are in a separate container. Both copies have the subject's name on it. The cartes-de-visites were taken by photographers in Mobile, Nashville, and New York; and are roughly two by five inches.

ArchivalResource: .66 cubic ft. (2 archives containers).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122548140 View

Melton, Samuel Wickliffe, 1830-1899. Samuel Wickliffe Melton papers, 1860-1878.

Title: Samuel Wickliffe Melton papers, 1860-1878.

Chiefly correspondence from Samuel Wickliffe Melton to his wife, Mary Helen Gore Melton re his Confederate military service as an officer during Civil War, inclluding letters written from Charleston and Columbia, S.C.; Richmond, Va.; and from various camps elsewhere in Virginia and North Carolina; and career in the S.C. Topics discussed include Secession Convention, Dec. 1860, in Columbia, S.C.; small pox outbreak; election of Gov. Francis W. Pickens; passing of Ordinance of Secession; activity at forts in Charleston, S.C.; participation in First Battle of Manassas (21 July 1861), Peninsula Campaign (ca. Mar.-July 1862), Seven Pines, and other battles in Va. and N.C. while serving on the staffs of Gen. Milledge Luke Bonham and Gen. Gustavus W. Smith; persons discussed include Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, Maxcy Gregg, Micah Jenkins, Richard S. Ewell, Wade Hampton, James Longstreet, Martin W. Gary, and the resignation of Gen. G.W. Smith. Letter, 6 July 1861, Fairfax, Va., to Gen. R.S. Ewell, re a previous communication re route taken by "the two Mrs.'s Tripletts"; 3 partial letters, including, [Dec. 1862], SWM to his wife [Mary Helen Gore Melton], expressing expectation that "we shall have peace by Spring-time" due to the Union's defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg [11-15 Dec. 1862] and his desire that for Christmas, his wife give each of his African American slaves "a substantial Holiday gift - money, if you have nothing else better - and liberally ... [as] such faithful servants deserve a liberal master." Letter, [ca. 1862], SWM to his wife re a soldier named "Miller" who had been granted a medical release due to being struck by fragments of an artillery shell but who Melton claims was "not wounded at all" and Melton's opinion that "it is strange that Dr. Bratton could so forget his duty as to give him a release. He is doing such things far too liberally, for the good of the service." Other Civil War letters document Melton's service, beginning in early 1863 and continuing through end of war, in the Adjutant and Inspector General's Department, noting the conscription act; death of Stonewall Jackson; public opinion of Jefferson Davis; work of the Confederate Congress; food and living costs; reorganization of the War Department; defense of Richmond, Va.; and concern over safety, health, and welfare of his family. Reconstruction-era papers discuss Melton's campaign for election to the S.C. House; and letter, 18 Nov. 1873, Columbia, [S.C.], Ellen C. LaBorde to Judge S.W. Melton requesting help in settling a claim of her deceased father, Maximilian LaBorde, "for back Salary as a Prof[essor]" while teaching at South Carolina College, present day University of South Carolina. Letters, 16 June-19 Aug. 1878, written by SWM to his wife MHGM, re his tour of Europe with Washington A. Clark, who was appointed an honorary commissioner to the 1878 industrial exposition in Paris, with accounts from Paris, France; Geneva, Switzerland; Baden-Baden, Germany, and Italy (Turin, Genoa, Pisa, Rome, Florence, Naples, and Milan) including letter re assistance rendered Mary Custis Lee during a fire in her hotel room in Naples; and letter, 10 July 1878, Naples, re his audience with Pope Leo XIII, "The Pope was especially attentive to me. I think he got the impression that I was a 'nabob' from the ... [country] of Colombia, in South America. At any rate he was particularly condescending; and 'blessed' my handful of tricks with especial unction."

ArchivalResource: 196 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42520955 View

Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers, 1784-1934.

Title: Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers, 1784-1934.

This group of 1,256 items and one bound volume, dated 1784-1934, consists chiefly of letters and papers of the Ewell family of Virginia. Many personal letters of Benjamin S. Ewell are included.

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=wm/viw00084.xml View

Brown-Ewell family papers, 1781-1984.

Title: Brown-Ewell family papers, 1781-1984.

The collection is comprised of papers of George Washington Campbell, the Polk family, Plunkett family, Brown family, and Richard S. Ewell. Correspondence relates in part the activities and experiences of these allied families in the 19th and 20th centuries. Of particular interest is the antebellum political and Civil War military papers of the families; including letters written to General William Polk from prominent individuals discussing politics and other matters, and letters written by Confederate General Richard S. Ewell while a prisoner of war in 1865. Correspondents include Pierre G.T. Beauregard, John Bell, Montgomery Blair, George Washington Campbell, William Eastin, William H. Eaton, Benjamin S. Ewell, Thomas I. Green, Felix Grundy, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, Joseph E. Johnston, Abraham Lincoln, James Otey, James K. Polk, Leonidas Polk, John Randolph, Horatio Seymour, William T. Sherman, Martin Van Buren, Felix K. Zollicoffer, and others. Family members represented include Lizinka Campbell Brown Ewell, her son, George Campbell Brown, her daughter, Harriot Brown Turner, Percy Brown, Joseph Plunkett, James Dace Plunkett, Thomas Plunkett, and other family members.

ArchivalResource: 7 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49230544 View

Brown, Campbell. Campbell Brown books, 1861-1863 [manuscript].

Title: Campbell Brown books, 1861-1863 [manuscript].

Campbell Brown's reminiscences, written 1867-1870, of his service as a major in the Confederate Army, especially in Virginia, 1861-1863, and during the Gettysburg campaign. He was sometime on the staffs of generals J. E. Johnston and R. S. Ewell. The reminiscences include minute details and incidents of camp life and battles and information about and comments on the officers Brown associated with.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. (114, 87 p.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24639232 View

Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. John Esten Cooke letters, 1861-1862.

Title: John Esten Cooke letters, 1861-1862.

The collection consists of two letters from John Esten Cooke to Miss Nettie, apparently his girlfriend, from 1861-1862. The letters were written from camp near Leesburg, Virginia, while Cooke was a soldier in the Confederate States Army. He wrote of the personal relationship between he and Miss Nettie, mentions his friends General Richard S. Ewell and Mrs. Curtis, and wishes to be with Jeb Stuart.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38475768 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Autograph letters and documents of officers and statesmen associated with the Confederacy in the Civil War, collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01500/catalog View

Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).

Title: Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 10 volumes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01783/catalog View

Minor, Louisa H.A., 1833-. Diary of Louisa H.A. Minor [manuscript], 1855-1866.

Title: Diary of Louisa H.A. Minor [manuscript], 1855-1866.

The diary contains a weekly account of the activities of Minor, her friends and family including church services attended, with the text for each sermon, visits and visitors, family and neighborhood news, weather and social events. She quotes poetry and occasionally composes her own, and there is also a lengthy list of her reading. Topics include: trips to the Richmond state fair in 1857 and 1860; activities at the University of Virginia, particularly celebrations of the Jefferson and Washington Societies; and, a lecture by Edward Everett on "The character of Washington." Of interest are mentions of freed slaves emigrating to Liberia and accounts of deaths and hardships there'; a note on the funeral of artist John Toole; and, an account of a young relative's successful efforts to go as a missionary to Liberia with Bishop John S. Payne. Most Civil War news is indirect but she does describe cooking for Ewell's troops when they came through the county and entertaining the general in her parlor. She also mentions a Christmas dinner given to soldier patients at the Delevan Hospital, Custer's diversionary raid on Rio Hill, February 1864, Federal troops passing through Albemarle County in March 1865, and the brief occupation of her home, an event that forced several family members to hide out in the woods. She also describes the difficulties of the first year of Reconstruction and expresses her bewilderment over the insubordination and disloyalty of former slaves. With the diary is a bequest 1871 April 23, from Mary W. Anderson, her foster mother.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647821457 View

Carroll collection, 1776-1867.

Title: Carroll collection, 1776-1867.

Collection consists of correspondence and other material related to the Carroll family of Maryland. Transcripts of letters written by Charles Carroll of Carrollton to his son, Charles Carroll of Homewood, describe the building of Homewood House. Included also are holographic letters of persons notable in the American Revolutionary period and letters of military officers active during the War of 1812. Collection consists of original and copied letters and documents, some related to the interests of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and others related to persons and events important during the Revolutionary period and the years immediately following.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 linear ft. (1 document box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48380111 View