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Virginia Central Railroad Company. 19th century bond for Negro slave: agreement, 1851 Dec. 30.

Title: 19th century bond for Negro slave: agreement, 1851 Dec. 30.

Partially printed bond for the rent of the slave, Woodson Daniel. The Virginia Central Railroad Company agrees to pay Joseph W. Pendleton for the rent of his slave for the sum of two hundred dollars.

ArchivalResource: 1 item; 20 x 8 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122541760 View

Stuart, Alexander H. H. (Alexander Hugh Holmes), 1807-1891. Papers of Alexander H. H. Stuart and the related Stuart and Baldwin families [manuscript], 1776-1878 (bulk 1850-1861).

Title: Papers of Alexander H. H. Stuart and the related Stuart and Baldwin families [manuscript], 1776-1878 (bulk 1850-1861).

The collection contains the political correspondence of Alexander H.H. Stuart, particularly from 1850-1853, when he served in Fillmore's cabinet and from 1857-1861, when he was in the Virginia State Senate. The Whig Party is a major topic. Other topics include national and Virginia politics, the presidential elections of 1848, 1852, and 1868, the reestablishment of a national bank, the Virginia Reform Convention of 1850, the American Know-Nothing Party, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Also slavery, abolition, Southern conservative opposition to secession, Virginia elections of 1831, 1851, 1859, 1867, the aftermath of Nat Turner's rebellion, the use of statistics in government, the Confederate Congress, sectional reconciliation after the Civil War, the Readjustor controversy, political patronage, and internal improvements. Also mentioned are Revolutionary War pension claims, migration of free blacks to Liberia, affairs at the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indian Agency in 1851, California politics and Indians in 1851, the Tehuantepec Isthmus route, Iowa in 1851, San Francisco in 1854, New Orleans in 1861, West Virginia in 1861, the U.S.S. Princeton explosion, Dorothea Dix's efforts to establish hospitals for the mentally ill, building of the U.S. Capitol, the Virginia Central Railroad and the University of Virginia. Many letters convey local news in Staunton and Augusta County, Va., such as the development of Alum Springs, the establishment of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, smallpox cases and land sales and controversies in Virginia and Kentucky. Others refer to legal cases handled by Stuart, including suits involving the Bath Iron Works and Buffalo Forge, and the Wheeling Bridge. Several letters discuss family affairs including plans by a cousin to run a boarding house for young women in Athens, Greece. Only a few letters mention the Civil War and Reconstruction and include references to the military movements of Confederate general Robert S. Garnett. Topics in earlier Stuart and the related Baldwin family papers include ratification of the U.S. constitution, Jeffersonian party politics, political events during the administration of George Washington, Washington Academy, the University of Virginia and its honor system, Washington College, and William Wirt's biography of Patrick Henry. The papers also contain an architectural drawing of an unidentified house, an engraving of Alexander H.H. Stuart, insurance policies, stock certificates, indentures, wills, land plats, and speeches by Alexander H.H. Stuart. Military papers of Captain George M. Cochran, Jr., Quartermaster, 52nd Virginia Infantry, consist chiefly of requisitions and receipts. There are also two printed pamphlets, 1849, in French and German, on the potato blight.

ArchivalResource: 800 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647857203 View

Hager, Jonathan B. Memoir of Jonathan B. Hager [manuscript], 1862-1863.

Title: Memoir of Jonathan B. Hager [manuscript], 1862-1863.

"Recollections of the Campaign in the Great War of the American Rebellion, 1862" copied at a later date from original diaries. Over half of the memoirs are devoted to the Peninsula Campaign. The remainder describe mustering duty in Albany, N.Y., 1862 August 12 to 1863 February 10; Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 April 27 to June 10; Gettysburg, Pa., particularly Little Round Top, 1863 June 13 to August 10; and Mine Run, 1863 November 26 to December 14. Of interest are descriptions of the Monitor, an attempt to capture Mosby, and the destruction of the Virginia Central Railroad. Diagrams of his regiment's positions at Chancellorsville and Gaines Mill are included.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647816435 View

Blackwell family. Papers of the Blackwell family, 1796-1869.

Title: Papers of the Blackwell family, 1796-1869.

Business papers of the Blackwell family include accounts from the firm of Pickett and Blackwell and a partial deed, n.d., transferring the Fauquier Co. property of Armistead and Elizabeth Churchill to William Stanton.

ArchivalResource: 32 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32959242 View

Brock Collection: Virginia railroads collection, 1828-1894.

Title: Brock Collection: Virginia railroads collection, 1828-1894.

Chiefly correspondence of the companies' officers and employees, with miscellaneous documents.

ArchivalResource: Approx. 2000 pieces.13 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122383340 View

Anderson, Carter S.,. Train running for the Confederacy [manuscript], 1892-1898, 1954.

Title: Train running for the Confederacy [manuscript], 1892-1898, 1954.

The collection consists of a compilation of eleven articles by Anderson originally published in "Locomotive Engineering" between July 1892 and January 1898. The articles describe his wartime activities on the Virginia Central Railroad, predecessor of the Chesapeake and Ohio. The compilation may have been done by Laura E. Armitage. Topics include troop transportation and supply, and railroad maintenance. Of interest are his account of running troops from Charlottesville and from Waynesboro to meet Stonewall Jackson at Mechum's River; the subsequent run to Gordonsville, Louisa Court House and Richmond; Richmond during the Seven Days Battle; destruction and repair of bridges and track; difficulties with Confederate officers; accidents; Federal cavalry raids, particularly Kilpatrick Dahlgren with pursuit by Wade Hampton and an incident involving North Carolina surgeon Thomas E. Williams; and incidents from the battle of Waynesboro including Federal cavalry chasing the train up Ivy Hill from Mechum's Depot. There are frequent mentions of Superintendent H. D. Whitcomb, engineer John W. Whalley, free black fireman John Wesley, and events around Charlottesville, Va., and other central Virginia towns.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647923504 View

Transportation in Virginia [manuscript], 1937 ca.

Title: Transportation in Virginia [manuscript], 1937 ca.

Typescript article summarizes a history of Virginia transportation from the colonial period to the 1930's, providing names of numerous railroad companies, some steamship companies, ferries motor companies, and aviation companies; major highways and waterways are noted as well as legislation dealing with transportation. An index and bibliography are included.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647873955 View

Hagley Museum and Library. Regional Economic History Research Center. Map project data files, Transportation in the Middle Atlantic States, 1750-1860.

Title: Map project data files, Transportation in the Middle Atlantic States, 1750-1860.

The Map Project Data Files include all the work undertaken by the project team, including much that was excluded from the final publication.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122397685 View

Locher, Charles Hess, 1821-1889. Ledger for the James River Cement Works [manuscript], 1854-1879.

Title: Ledger for the James River Cement Works [manuscript], 1854-1879.

The volume contains accounts, 1854-1856, with the James River & Kanawha Canal Compnay; Charles Irving, editor of the Lynchburg Republican; the Farmer's Bank of Lynchburg; Phoenix Foundry; Daily Richmond Whig; Blue Ridge Railroad; James River & Kanawha Canal Co.; North River Navigation Company; James River Quarry; Virginia Central Railroad; Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company; Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad; Orange and Alexandria Railroad; York River Railroad; and the Virginia Military Institute. There are also pages of accounts for "Negroes" [no individual names] including labor, insurance and clothing, 1854, 1855, 1856. There is a separate account on page 38 for "Ned Hudson Free Negro." In 1878 and 1879 the last half of the volume was reused as a general store and family account book.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/776906781 View

Virginia. Board of Public Works. Louisa Railroad Company records, 1837-1851.

Title: Louisa Railroad Company records, 1837-1851.

Contains letters sent to the board, reports, specifications, certificates of stock subscriptions, minutes of company meetings and lists of stockholders.

ArchivalResource: 5 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261417155 View

Adams, Thomson. Estimate, 1855.

Title: Estimate, 1855.

Final estimate on section 35, Staunton and Covington Division of the Virginia Central Railroad. Includes detailed list of type of work and costs.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145410751 View

Hager, Jonathan B., Capt. Memoir of Jonathan B. Hager, 1862-1863.

Title: Memoir of Jonathan B. Hager, 1862-1863.

"Recollections of the Campaign in the Great War of the American Rebellion, 1862" copied at a later date from original diaries. Over half of the memoirs are devoted to the Peninsula Campaign. The remainder describe mustering duty in Albany, N.Y., 1862 August 12 to 1863 February 10; Chancellorsville, 1863 April 27 to June 10; Gettysburg, particularly Little Round Top, 1863 June 13 to August 10; and Mine Run, 1863 November 26 to December 14. Of interest are descriptions of the Monitor, an attempt to capture Mosby, and the destruction of the Virginia Central Railroad. Diagrams of his regiment's positions at Chancellorsville and Gaines Mill are included.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32135995 View

Cabell, J. L. (James Lawrence), 1813-1889,. Papers of the Twyman family of Albemarle County, Virginia, 1835-1865.

Title: Papers of the Twyman family of Albemarle County, Virginia, 1835-1865.

The papers consist of correspondence of the Twyman family with friends and relatives. The papers include letters, 1861-1865, from Walker G. Twyman, with the 19th Virginia Infantry, describing battles, marches and conditions in Virginia camps and Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond, Virginia. Specific Civil War topics include Charlottesville troops at Harper's Ferry; Camp Pickens; battle at Fairfax Court House; execution of spies; 1st Manassas; rumors, picket duty; Seven Days' Battles; prisoners dying of typhoid at Chimborazo; sending of food and supplies to soldiers; and fighting at Gordonsville. Other topics include the settlement of an estate in Albemarle County, Va.; a Virginia Central Railroad Company report on inability to pay a dividend; a baptism in an Earlysville Baptist church; an ailing child with "curved spine"; the sale of slave in poor health; and bail for Charles [Watts?] in Lexington, Ky. James Lawrence Cabell is a correspondent. The collection also contains a death notice for John C. Wilhoit.

ArchivalResource: 190 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53208684 View

Virginia Central Railroad Company. Reports, 1862-1863 [microform].

Title: Reports, 1862-1863 [microform].

Reports, 1862 September 30 and 1863 September 30, of the Virginia Central Railroad Company to the stockholders concerning company operations.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43165755 View

Joseph W. Sampson & Co. Blacksmith's ledger and young girl's scrapbook [manuscript], 1858-1865, 1888-1895.

Title: Blacksmith's ledger and young girl's scrapbook [manuscript], 1858-1865, 1888-1895.

Journal of an unidentified [Virginia?] blacksmith includes a page of rates in 1864 for various services. Accounts are kept in "Federal Currency" with payments in "present currency." Inserted in the volume are entries for the Albemarle County sawmill of Campbell and Sampson (later Joseph W. Camptell & Co.) containing accounts for board and fencing plank with Dr. Charles Everett, Dr. James Minor, William Cabell Rives, and the Virginia Central Railroad among others. At least one purchase for the University of Virginia is mentioned. A scrapbook of Sallie C. Sampson, 1888-1895, consists almost entirely of assorted humorous, inspirational and sentimental clippings together with obituaries, poetry and songs. A few greeting cards are pasted in and one page contains 8 locks of hair. The album also contains pressed leaves, a sign language chart , photographs of unidentified men, one of whom is wearing an Eli Banana ribbon, and a menu for July 19, 1892, at the White Sulphur Springs. A letter from "Joseph," 1884 August 21, concerns the renting of an unidentified farm.

ArchivalResource: 2 volumes + 78 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/247493025 View

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885. ALS, [18]64 Dec. 12, City Point, Va., to Philip H. Sheridan, Kernstown, Va.

Title: ALS, [18]64 Dec. 12, City Point, Va., to Philip H. Sheridan, Kernstown, Va.

Reports that with destruction of the Weldon Rail Road all supply lines to Richmond from the south have been cut; asks Sheridan if it is possible for his command or a part of it to attack the Virginia Central and other northern supply lines.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122591515 View

Redman, William Henry 1840. History of the 12th Illinois cavalry [manuscript], n.d.

Title: History of the 12th Illinois cavalry [manuscript], n.d.

Redman compiled his work from the reports of the Adjutant-Generals of Illinois, "The war of the rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies," and "The history of the patriotism of Illinois." Redman writes of the regiment's organization, engagements near Martinsburg and Winchester, Va., in September 1862, the escape from Harper's Ferry during the Antietam Campaign, reorganizations of the Regiment, participation in Stoneman's Raid during the Chancellorsville campaign, Gettysburg, reassignment to Louisiana and skirmishes, scouting and picket duty until the end of the war, and reassignment to Texas until mustering out in May 1866. Specific topics include the destruction of the Central Railroad at Hanover Station during Stoneman's Raid, cavalry action during the first day at Gettysburg, and an anecdote regarding two brothers mortally wounded in September 1863. There are very brief references to obtaining information from "ignorant contrabands," the capture of "Rooney" Lee during a raid against coastal smugglers, and dysentery in New Orleans.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647833084 View

Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company. [Virginia railroad and transportation pamphlets].

Title: [Virginia railroad and transportation pamphlets]. 1850-1946.

ArchivalResource: 6 v. ; 23-24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173264967 View

Fontaine, Edmund, 1801-1869. Edmund Fontaine Papers [manuscript], 1840- [1867-77].

Title: Edmund Fontaine Papers [manuscript], 1840- [1867-77].

The collection centers around the Virginia Central Railroad Company of which Fontaine was President. It contains correspondence, financial papers, and assorted legal documents, many of which concern the railroad's eventual encorporation as the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company.

ArchivalResource: 82 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647975404 View

Whitcomb, H. D. (Henry Donald). Virginia Central Railroad : historical data from annual reports, 1861-1865.

Title: Virginia Central Railroad : historical data from annual reports, 1861-1865.

Report includes list of officers, annual reports by general superintendent H.D. Whitcomb, and business statements.

ArchivalResource: 25 leaves (1 folded) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276357558 View

Virginia. Board of Public Works. Virginia Central Railroad Company records, 1835-1870.

Title: Virginia Central Railroad Company records, 1835-1870.

Contains letters sent to the board, field notes, maps, reports, lists of stockholders, certificates of stock subscriptions, contracts, and petitions.

ArchivalResource: 5 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/262833638 View

Virginia. Board of Public Works. Covington and Ohio Railroad Company records, 1850-1879.

Title: Covington and Ohio Railroad Company records, 1850-1879.

Contains letters sent to the board, reports, proposals for construction, powers of attorney, security bonds, receipts, vouchers and accounts, estimates of construction expenses, disbursements ledger listing payments to contractors.

ArchivalResource: 1.77 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261340244 View