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Smith, James Power, 1837-1923. James Power Smith papers, 1861-1864.

Title: James Power Smith papers, 1861-1864.

Official Confederate army correspondence, orders, and reports. Includes a report by Capt. William Robertson Garrett on the attack of the 1st Virginia Atillery Regiment, Company F (also known as the Lee Artillery or Williamsburg Light Artillery) on Fort Magruder, Va., May 5, 1862; Gen. John Bell Hood's report on the engagement at Eltham's landing, Va., May 7, 1862; and other reports on the battle of Williamsburg by Lt. Col. J. Thompson Brown, Lt. William Izard Clopton, Capt. James Dearing, Capt. George E. Pickett, Capt. Robert M. Stribling, and Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox. Also includes reports by Gen. Braxton Bragg on the battle of Chickamauga; letter (1863 February 25) from Gen. Bragg to Gen, Joseph E. Johnston explaining his plan for attack on Franklin, Tenn.; and letter (1863 January 5) from Samuel Preston Moore, Confederate surgeon-general, to James A. Seddon, secretary of defense, relating to pay for soldiers detained in the Confederate Army Medical Dept. Other persons represented include Stephen R. Mallory (Confederate secretary of the navy), Gen. George Henry Thomas, and Gen. C. C. Washburn.

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

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Clopton family. Papers, 1629-1915; (bulk 1775-1897).

Title: Papers, 1629-1915; (bulk 1775-1897).

Family correspondence and miscellaneous papers of four generations of the Clopton family and three generations of the Wallace family, centering in Virginia. The earlier papers are genealogical records. Papers of John Clopton, Virginia legislator and U.S. Representative contain comments on politics in the Jeffersonian Republican Party, the Continental Congress, Jay's treaty, the Alien and Sedition acts, the Embargo act, and American relations with France. Letters to son, John Bacon Clopton, Virginia judge, relate to the operation of a plantation in New Kent County. Correspondence of Charles Montriou Wallace, Sr., a Richmond merchant, includes accounts of an overland journey to California (1849) and subsequent residence there, Reconstruction, and Virginia politics. Of interest also are Civil War letters from William Izard Clopton. Letters from a Richmond commission firm concern wartime and postwar business conditions. The collection also includes several memorandum books, scrapbooks, account books, legal casebooks, journals of trips to California, Texas and England, records of an unidentified temperance society, and financial records of a teacher.

ArchivalResource: 11,916 items.

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