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Smith, William, 1797-1887. International literary exchange receipts and vouchers, 1859-1860.

Title: International literary exchange receipts and vouchers, 1859-1860.

Each receipt contains the date, the amount received, the name of the person from whom the money was received, and the reason for the payment. The vouchers include the names of persons to whom money was owed, the amounts, and the dates the vouchers were submitted.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86172228 View

Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay), 1809-1885,. Washington Family papers, 1770-1883.

Title: Washington Family papers, 1770-1883.

The papers consist chiefly of correspondence and documents related to the Washington family residing near Winchester, Virginia. The papers include household account, 1770-1772, of Ann Washington; a petition, 1 June 1784, of landowners in Lexington, Va., for a year's extension to complete construction of buildings delayed by the Revolutionary War; a letter, 22 October 1784, to Benjamin Stoddert, Georgetown, D.C., regarding shipping concerns; and correspondence, 1787-1791, of William Fleming, regarding the settlement of a friend's estate, including a letter from Caleb Wallace. There are also miscellaneous papers, 1784-1842, of the Washington family, regarding financial matters; trade between the United States and Great Britain; household accounts, including rent due to George William Fairfax; claims for military service; and land for sale near Red Sulphur Springs, Va. (i.e., W. Va.). The collection also contains papers, 1790-1805, of William Augustine Washington, including accounts for household supplies and shipping costs, and a receipt; an appointment, 19 February 1791, signed by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, of Arthur Simkins as judge for Edgefield County, S.C.; a letter, 22 March 1794, to Bushrod Washington, regarding the disputed ownership of a slave; and a letter, 2 October 1795, to Etienne Dutilh, Philadelphia, Pa., regarding cargo shipments from London. The papers also contain a waxen seal, 1799, of the State of Georgia; a letter, 18 December 1800, from George S. Washington to James Madison, regarding the impact of the Hessian fly on wheat crops; a letter, 23 December 1800, from David Holmes, Washington, D.C., regarding the election of Thomas Jefferson as President of the United States; and a letter, 26 June 1803, from Henry Lee while at Botetourt County, Va., regarding business matters. Also an unsigned letter 27 July 1814, regarding campaigns around Buffalo, N.Y. during the War of 1812; a letter, 1 February 1819, to Samuel McDowell Reid, Lexington, Va., regarding legislation to improve navigation on the James River; a letter, 1 June 1820, from William H. Cabell, Richmond, Va., regarding financial matters; papers, 1826-1828, regarding 202 acres land in Troup County, Ga., granted to John McDowl; and a letter, 4 November 1837, from George Corbin Washington, regarding financial matters. Also a letter, 29 December 1837, from F.W. Pickens to his father, regarding Southern politics, family matters, and the health of his slaves; a letter, 3 April 1839, from David Campbell, Richmond, Va., to William C. Rives, Albemarle County, Va., regarding appointing an agent to secure foreign loans for the James River and Kanawha Company; and aletter, 30 September 1841, to A.P. Upshur, Washington, D.C., soliciting a naval appointment. Also a letter, 13 August 1842, from Thomas Clayton, Washington, D.C., regarding President Tyler; a letter, 5 November 1843, from James McDowell, Richmond, Va., regarding financial matters; a legal opinion, 4 December 1844, signed by George Corbin Washington, regarding lands abandoned under the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819; and a letter, 13 January 1845, from Edmund W. Hubard, Washington, D.C., to Winfield Scott, regarding possible changes to the militia system. Also a letter, 26 July 1845, from William Smith, Washington, D.C., to James K. Polk, soliciting a promotion in the U.S. Department of the Treasury for his brother James; and a letter, 17 November 1845, to John Randolph Tucker, Winchester, Va., regarding deeds issued to his father, Henry St. George Tucker. Also a letter, 8 December 1847, from Gideon J. Pillow, Mexico City, Mexico, to his wife, regarding a painting of the Battle of Chapultepec, the court of inquiry initiated against him by Winfield Scott, and family matters; aletter, 6 July 1848, from James McDowell, Washington, D.C., regarding a visit to Stauntan, Va.; and a letter, 24 October 1857, from T.S. Arthur, Philadelphia, Pa., accompanying a shipment of a volume of his works. Also a letter, 20 December 1857, from Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Washington, D.C., regarding financial matters; a note, 19 December 1858, from John Letcher, Washington, D.C., complying with an unspecified request; and a military bounty, 10 March 1860, signed by James Buchanan, for eighty acres land in Hudson, Wis., granted for service in the War of 1812. Also notes, 13 May 1861, from F.W. Pickens to R.S. Ripley to Edward Manigault, authorizing the transfer of a "twelve pounder" cannon from the Citadel; a pay certificate, 1863, for a Confederate soldier killed in the Battle of Sharpsburg; a letter, 22 February 1864, to David D. Porter, regarding the fitting of naval vessels; and a detail pass, 5 August 1864, for William A. Pierce to oversee work on a plantation in Jefferson County, Ga. Also a letter, 20 March 1876, from Fitzhugh Lee, Stafford County, Va., answering a request for an autograph letter from Robert E. Lee; an autograph, n.d., of G.T. Beauregard, from a letter addressed to Robert E. Lee; a letter, 2 May 1878, from Jefferson Davis, New Orleans, La., to G.T. Beauregard, regarding an invention to manufacture inexpensive gas; and a decree, 19 February 1883, of Alexander Hamilton Stephens, calling for a runoff election for the coroner of Columbia County, Ga.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

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Barksdale, Narcissa L. Smith, d. 1875. Papers of the Janney family, 1695-1981 (bulk 1755-1944).

Title: Papers of the Janney family, 1695-1981 (bulk 1755-1944).

Papers of the Janney and allied families of Gilmour and Pollock consisting of personal and political correspondence, financial and legal papers, genealogical material and photographs, particularly of John Janney of Loudoun County, Va. The papers cover Janney's legal practice, his career as a Whig politician, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and president of Virginia's secession convention. His correspondents include Arthur Ingram Borreman; John Minor Botts; Henry Clay; J.J. Crittenden; Charles J. Faulkner; Philip R. Fendall; Joshua F. Fisher; Willis Green; John W. Mallet; R.C.L. Moncure; Jeremiah Morton; Richard William Noland; Francis H. Pierpoint; William Cabell Rives; Wyndham Robertson; Valentine Wood Southall; James F. Strother; Alexander H.H. Stuart; and George Summers. Major topics include the Whig Party and the elections of 1840, 1844, 1848 and 1860; the tariff; the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company; the Loco-Focos; slavery and the new territories; the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850; the University of Virginia; the Constitutional Union Party; the Virginia Convention of 1861; a re-union of Virginia and West Virginia and debt readjustment. Of interest is an 1861 electoral ticket for Jefferson Davis. People discussed in the correspondence include J.S. Barbour, John C. Calhoun, Joseph Johnson; Robert E. Lee; "Extra Billy" Smith; Alexander H. Stephens; Zachary Taylor; and Daniel Webster. Of interest in Janney's financial and legal papers are a letter from Abbott Lawrence to John S. Pendleton on the machine shop at Lowell, Mass.; correspondence regarding the building of the Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad; papers conderning the Mutual Assurance Society; and a slave bill of sale for one Harriet Jackson. Papers of Solomon Parsons, 1810-1830, concern business in Alexandria, Gloucester and Occoquan, and include letters on the War of 1812 and British Admiral J.B. Warren; and an 1829 letter from a slave to "Dear Master." Civil War and Reconstruction papers include passes; a letter to J.E. Johnston regarding Janney's slave "George"; a list of sick soldiers nursed by Mrs. Janney; letters, 1862, 1866, from Narcissa L. Smith Barksdale regarding the Civil War in Louisiana and the death of her husband at Gettysburg; letters from Joseph E. Segar regarding reconstruction; and two memoranda by Alcinda S. Marmaduke Janney, 1862 and 1863, relating details of the war in Leesburg and Loudoun County, including the arrest of John Janney, Federal occupation and outrages, Confederate procurement, and second hand news about personalities and battles. The collection also contains letters and a portrait of World War II American pilot, Robert Stevenson Janney. Topics include student life at Princeton, travel in Europe and Japan in the 1930s including a 1937 Nazi festival, and World War II experiences in training, in North Africa and in Italy. Topics of interest in the miscellaneous Gilmour, Janney and Pollock family papers include the early ministry of W.H. Milton; slavery; St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1830s and 40s; foreign travel; Pantops Academy of Charlottesville; V.M.I. in the 1890s; U. Va. in the 1850s and 1890s; medical missionary work in China and Japan in the 1930s; social life in Virginia in the 1930s; the great depression; the Leesburg, Va., Presbyterian church; Virginia governor Almond and Massive Resistance; and life in Pioche, Nevada and Pasadena, Calif. Correspondents include W. Sinclair Bowen, Lily H.D. Dabney, William E. Dodd; Edward Griffith Dodson;and the Rev. James Shannon Montgomery. In addition there are photographs, scrapbooks and travel journals.

ArchivalResource: 2750 (c.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57123190 View

Bowers, Theodore S., 1832-1866,. Confederate Civil War letters [manuscript], 1861-1865.

Title: Confederate Civil War letters [manuscript], 1861-1865.

The collection contains a letter, 1861 March 12, New York Hotel, George H. Thomas, Maj., U. S. Army, to Gov. John Letcher, Richmond, Va., declining the offer of a commission. A letter, 1861 April 30, Warrenton, Va., William [Extra-Billy] Smith to Gov. Letcher, encloses a tender of service from his nephew, Lieut Caleb Smith. A letter, 1861 May 21, Fredericksburg, Va., R. L. Walker, Capt., Vol. Va., to Gov. Letcher, asks for an artillery captaincy in the Provisional Army. A letter, 1864 June 26, Danville, Va., Commandants Office, R. E. Withers, Col. Comdg. Post, to Gen. Bragg, states damage done to the Richmond & Danville Railroad by the enemy's cavalry and estimates their force to be 2500 or 3000. A letter, 1865 May 16, Camp Lincoln, Va., Headquarters, 25th Army Corps, Army of the James, G. Weitzel, Major General, to Lieut. Col. T. S. Bowers, Asst. Adjt. General, Armies in the Field, Washington D.C, concerns alleged irregularities committed by troops in and about Richmond.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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Smith, William, 1797-1887. Letter to Gilbert Carlton Walker [manuscript], 1873 August 20.

Title: Letter to Gilbert Carlton Walker [manuscript], 1873 August 20.

Smith discusses the nominations of various candidates in Virginia, anticipating triumph from a "vigorous, uncompromising campaign," and comments on his ambitions for a United States Senate seat.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647844246 View

Smith, William, 1797-1887. Letter [manuscript], 1860 October 10, Richmond to A.R. Blakey [Madison Court House].

Title: Letter [manuscript], 1860 October 10, Richmond to A.R. Blakey [Madison Court House].

Smith writes that he has been told there will be a "considerable Douglas vote in the 'Rag' of your County" and asks him to work to get out the vote for Breckinridge and Lane.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1p. on 1l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647823159 View

Bruce, Philip Alexander, 1856-1933. Papers of the Hubard family [manuscript] 1749-1951.

Title: Papers of the Hubard family [manuscript] 1749-1951.

The collection contains the correspondence of three generations of the Hubard family of Virginia and West Virginia planters, lawyers and politicians. The papers of Robert Thruston Hubard [1808-1871] of Rosney and Chellowe, Buckingham Co. Va., contain letters from his brother Edmund Wilcox Hubard and his son at V. M. I. James Linnaeus Hubard. Genealogy, U. S. politics and farming are frequent topics. Most of the papers of Robert Thruston Hubbard [1839-1921] were generated by his law practice and businesses, including the presidency of the Orange-Keysville Railway. There are a few Civil War letters and copies of political letters between his father-in-law John R. Edmunds and Walter Coles as well as some genealogical material. The bulk of the papers of Robert Thruston Hubard [1876- ],a Fayetteville, W. Va. lawyer, consists of correspondence with his wife Ruth Drewry Whittle Hubard, their children, and relatives. Family papers include land grants, wills, deeds, court orders, maps and plats, stocks and Confederate bonds, plantation journals, insurance policies, bills and receipts, and estate settlements. There are numerous clippings, greeting cards, invitations, photographs, school reports and miscellany. Of special interest in the collection are 1781 orders to William Hubard to join Nathanael Greene's southern army; class notes from lectures on economics by George Tucker; and a description of the garrison at Vera Cruz by William A. Whittle of the U. S. Ohio; Also a denouncement of Martin Van Buren for turning a relative out of office; an effort to discredit the log cabin campaign of 1840; an 1844 letter to Thomas Ritchie on the annexation of Texas; an account of a visit to V. M. I. by Millard Fillmore; and an 1852 letter on the Virginia delegates' role at the Democratic National Convention, Also an 1854 plea by an overseer on behalf of a slave named "Walker" who wishes Hubard to buy his wife; memoirs of the battle of Spotsylvania; a description of an 1870 James River flood; an 1872 appeal from Horace Greeley to support his nomination, and an 1875 description of the Va. Democratic party by Fitzhugh Lee. Also efforts to aid Jefferson's impoverished granddaughter Septimia Randolph Meikleham; 1884 papers for the Richmond, Va., Republican City Committee; a letter from William Smith commending Hubard II's legislative service, and a petition to William McKinley recommending Hubard II for an appointment. Correspondents include Philip Alexander Bruce, George Craighead Cabell, William C. Cabell, William M. Cabell, Philip St. George Cocke, John Warwick Daniel, Alfred T. Harris, John Bell Henneman, Bolling Hubard, Lyttleton E. Hubard, Sallie Edmunds Hubard, William Bolling Hubard, Thomas Staples Martin, Septimia Ann Randolph Meikleham, Richard McIlwaine, Henry Chester Parsons, Henry Smith Pritchett, Wilson Cary Nicholas Randolph, Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Buckner Thruston, John Randolph Tucker and Lewis N. Whittle.

ArchivalResource: 9,600 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647938071 View

Lunenburg County (Va.) Free Negro and Slave Records, 1780-1868

Title: Lunenburg County (Va.) Free Negro and Slave Records, 1780-1868

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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

Jones, Ann Pendleton Ashby, 1814?-1862,. Papers of the Jones family of Louisa County, Va. [manuscript], 1853-1908.

Title: Papers of the Jones family of Louisa County, Va. [manuscript], 1853-1908.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence between members of the Jones family of Louisa County, Va. The collection contains letters written while John William Jones was a student at the University of Virginia in the 1850s. Subjects include smallpox in Charlottesville, student drinking and temperance, and the expelling of F. Pendleton Jones from a preparatory school. Of interest are letters of advise to John from Baptist theologian Crawford H. Toy. Approximately fifty of the letters were written between April 5, 1861 and April 5, 1863 by the brothers John William Jones, F. Pendleton Jones and P. Edloe Jones during their service in the Confederate Army in Virginia. They describe camp life, skirmishes at Romney [West] Va., Martinsburg [West], Va., Munsons' Hill, the battles of Port Republic and Cross Keys, and destruction of railroads. There are comments on Turner Ashby, Stonewall Jackson, A. E. Jones, "Extra Billy" Smith, J.E.B. Stuart, and James Walker and brief mentions of many other generals and officers. Of interest are comments on cowardice of Yankees, desire for peace and doubts about the war's outcome, the death of their mother, religion and the war, Virgiina politics, and the death of Edloe. Correspondents include Francis William Jones; his wife Ann Pendleton Ashby Jones; their children John WIlliam Jones, F. Pendleton Jones, P. Edloe Jones and Helen Jones. The collection also contains a photograph album.

ArchivalResource: ca.250 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/252696680 View

United States. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 1st. Letterbook, 1846-1848 [microform].

Title: Letterbook, 1846-1848 [microform].

Letterbook, 1846 December 15-1848 May 17, of the 1st Virginia Infantry Regiment, U.S.A., containing the correspondence of John Francis Hamtramck (as commander of the regiment) concerning the organization of the unit, issues of supply, and its journey from Richmond, Va., to Mexico. Some of the correspondents include Jubal Anderson Early, Roger Jones, James Lawson Kemper, William Learned Marcy, William Harvie Richardson, Robert Gourmain Scott, Larkin Smith, William Smith, and Henry Stanton.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43356155 View

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Stidham Collection. 1973 - 1973. Civil War and Reconstruction Records

Title: Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Stidham Collection. 1973 - 1973. Civil War and Reconstruction Records

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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

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.)

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Archer, William Segar, 1789-1855,. Argosy collection [manuscript], 1795-1893.

Title: Argosy collection [manuscript], 1795-1893.

Letters, papers, portraits of Revolutionary and nineteenth century statesmen. Subjects dealt with in the letters include slavery, the currency question, agriculture, land grants, politics and government, the silver question, education, and religion.

ArchivalResource: 103 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647893815 View

Smith, William, 1797-1887. Letter [manuscript] : Warrenton, Va., 1856 October 11.

Title: Letter [manuscript] : Warrenton, Va., 1856 October 11.

Smith tells a dealer to fill his son's book orders and bill him.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

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Smith, William, 1797-1887. Letter : Warrenton, Va., to Gilbert Carlton Walker, 1873 August 20.

Title: Letter : Warrenton, Va., to Gilbert Carlton Walker, 1873 August 20.

Smith discusses the nominations of various candidates in Virginia, anticipating triumph from a "vigorous, uncompromising campaign," and comments on his ambitions for a United States Senate seat.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32136177 View

Botetourt, Norborne Berkeley, Baron de, ca. 1718-1770. Albemarle County, Va., land grants [manuscript], 1770-1846.

Title: Albemarle County, Va., land grants [manuscript], 1770-1846.

Land grant, 1846 June 30, Governor William Smith to Garland T. Brown, for 18 acres on the north side of Buck's Elbow and Moorman's River, Albemarle County, Va. Land patent, 1770 August 27, George III to Joseph Hawkins for 370 acres on both sides of Moorman's River, Albemarle County, Va., signed by Governor Botetourt.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Watt family. Papers [manuscript] : of the Watts family, 1859-1927.

Title: Papers [manuscript] : of the Watts family, 1859-1927.

School essays, 1892-1894, of Charles Wesley Watts with letters from various people, news clippings, Civil War reminiscences, and photographs of the Rev. Thomas Smith, and "Extra Billy" Smith. Much of the correspondence and miscellaneous material concerns the education of Charles Wesley Watts and Charles E. Watts.

ArchivalResource: 25 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647835738 View

Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896. Charles Carleton Coffin papers, 1861-1890.

Title: Charles Carleton Coffin papers, 1861-1890.

Thirty-seven addresses or book chapters by Coffin on patriotic and historical subjects, ca. 1870-1890, and souvenirs of his reporting days during the Civil War consisting of Confederate papers found in the streets of Richmond April 3, 1865. The Civil War material includes appointments for 3 officers; copy of General Beauregards letter of resignation; copies of reports including casualty reports from Marmadukes raid into Missouri and the defense of James Island in Charleston Harbor, 16-20 June 1862; letters to Col. Frances Henney Smith, Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute; correspondence between Generals Robert E. Lee and Henry W. Halleck on alleged Union atrocities; and some material on provisions for prisoners of war in Richmond. There are misc. CSA government documents like an 1863 annual report from the office of the Secretary of War and Treasury Department documents along with misc. state governments documents such as the resolutions passed at a meeting of the citizens of Amelia County, VA on 23 February 1865. There is a small group of letters sent to Jefferson Davis, his wife, and Judah P. Benjamin, Secretary of War. Correspondents include Clement Claiborne Clay, Thomas F. Drayton; S. Bassett French, Ambrosio Jose Gonzales, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Christopher Gustavus Memminger, Virginia McLaurine Mosby, Jacob Thompson, and Nathaniel Beverly Tucker. There is also a group of 345 letters sent to VA governors John Letcher and William Smith; 53 letters sent between Confederate soldiers from VA and their families; correspondence sent to Edward J. Harden, a GA Superior Court Judge; a collection of poetry and letters contributed to the Richmond Examiner, Richmond Sentinel and Savannah Morning News concerning problems in the army and civilian life; and correspondence (bulk 1857) sent to Ziba Oakes, a Charleston slaver trader.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64665331 View

Maupin, S. (Socrates), 1808-1871. Papers of Socrates Maupin, 1790-1921 (bulk 1831-1851).

Title: Papers of Socrates Maupin, 1790-1921 (bulk 1831-1851).

Two letters between Peter Grayson Washington and Maupin discuss an honorary appointment to the U.S. Mint and family matters. An 1858 letter from William "Extra Billy" Smith regards an acquaintance who wishes to matriculate at the University of Virginia. Civil War items include an 1863 letter from Judah P. Benjamin concerning the appointment of M. Schele de Vere to a confidential mission; an 1864 letter to James A. Seddon concerning rations for disabled soldiers enrolled at the University; two 1863 letters from Alfred Landon Rives regarding a military appointment for Maupin's son; and an 1863 letter from Albert Taylor Bledsoe to Robert E. Lee requesting a furlough for Maupin's son, with an affirmative note by Lee on verso. The remainder of the correspondence, chiefly letters from Socrates Maupin to his brother Addison, discuss lead mining; the Peruvian navy; the Medical College of Virginia; an 1841 operation on a Negro woman with osteosarcoma; the use of chloroform; Dr. John Peter Mettauer; Hampden-Sydney College and the influence of the Presbyterian Church there; and the Richmond Academy. Topics related to the University of Virginia include the Alumni Society; textbooks; student life; the school of medicine; the "uniform law"; the faculty; and the murder of John A.G. Davis. Other topics include plantation management; crops; the tobacco market; slave purchasing, hiring and discipline; Richmond business conditions and social life; land values in Albemarle County; travel in Virginia; Virginia state politics and diseases including smallpox, scarlet fever, chorea and cholera. Family matters are also discussed including clothing; courtship; marriage; pregnancies; illness; education; jobs; finances; building a house and the shipment of household goods; and the suicide of a relative. The papers also contain an 1854 bond for the Rivanna Navigation Company signed by Thomas Jefferson Randolph; and a 1790 land grant for property in Richmond, Va., signed by Beverley Randolph.

ArchivalResource: 169 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49378542 View

Smith, William, 1797-1887. Autograph letter signed : Warrenton, VA, to an unidentified general, 1881 July 17.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Warrenton, VA, to an unidentified general, 1881 July 17.

About Thomas Smith Bell's service in the Confederate army under the general.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

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Seddon, James A. Letter, 1864 July 11, Richmond, Va., to Governor William Smith.

Title: Letter, 1864 July 11, Richmond, Va., to Governor William Smith.

Inquires concerning an officer of Mosby's command, whom he is anxious to assign for duty on the Rappahannock.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237336177 View

Gray, David W., b. 1817. David Gray Mexican War papers [manuscript], 1837-1849, 1909-1910.

Title: David Gray Mexican War papers [manuscript], 1837-1849, 1909-1910.

Gray writes from Richmond, Fortress Monroe, and Old Point Comfort, Va., the transport vessel "Exact," Brazos Santiago, Camargo, Monterrey, Buena Vista, Agua Nueva, Encantada, Paros, Saltillo, and China, Mexico. Subjects include recruitment of volunteers; life and drilling at Fortress Monroe; voyage to Texas; battle rumors; the Mexican countryside; illnesses and deaths from disease; resignation from the Virginia Volunteers and service with the Texas Rangers. There are constant references to the misery of the soldiers in face of dust, lice, fleas, heat, reptiles, and rotten food. Topics include a soldier reduced to servant for lack of upper teeth necessary to chew off the top of a cartridge; troubles with pay; officer misconduct in Virginia and Mexico; uniforms; presentation of flag by Governor Smith; General Wool's refusal to accept substitutes; favoritism in promotions; town of Monterrey; Cordillera Mountains; Mexican slave soldiers guarding silver mines; regret that the men under Scott are doing all the fighting; chasing Mexican general Miñón; dislike of John F. Hamtramck and Jubal Early; wretched lives of Mexican "peons"; hunting robbers near Potosi; fighting Commanches near Aqua Nueva and Castanuela, the former in a battle led by Ranger Major Walter P. Lane;serving as judge in a trial of prisoners in Encarnación; confiscation of a guerilla's hacienda west of Saltillo; executions of volunteers and Mexicans for murder and other crimes; revenue (tax collecting) guard duty in Saltillo; countryside on route to Buena Vista; and rumors of peace. Correspondence of Gray Silver and Mary Llewellyn Silver with various government departments, 1909-1910, attempt to trace Gray's whereabouts after the war. The collection also contains two indentures for land sales, 1837, 1839; a summons, 1840; a receipt, 1836; and a letter, 1849, Adam Klein to Gray pertaining to Gray's land in Clemont County, Ohio.

ArchivalResource: 44 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/698377167 View

Smith, William, 1797-1887. Letter : Warrenton, Va., 1856 October 11.

Title: Letter : Warrenton, Va., 1856 October 11.

Smith tells a dealer to fill his son's book orders and bill him.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29734105 View

Smith, William, 1797-1887. Autograph letter signed : Washington, to the President, 1858 Feb. 27.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Washington, to the President, 1858 Feb. 27.

Recommending Patrick Henry Aylett as U.S. District Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

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Hammond, Isaac, 1841-1915. Isaac Hammond Collection, 1839-1875

Title: Isaac Hammond Collection, 1839-1875

Collection, 1839-1875, of Isaac Hammond of New York, a Union soldier who was stationed for a time in Richmond, Virginia, and gathered various documents from the files of Governors John Letcher and William Smith, the Virginia General Assembly, the Confederate Congress, the files of Confederate Senators James M. Baker of Florida and R. M. T. Hunter of Virginia, and the Confederate adjutant-general's office. The material covers a wide range of subjects including the impressment of slaves for working on Confederate and local defenses, hospitals, the plights of women and children in Virginia during the Civil War, military defenses, supplies for various companies in the Confederate army, pay vouchers, military passes, military orders, and newspapers from Richmond, Virginia, Montgomery, Alabama, and Augusta, Georgia.

ArchivalResource: .45 cubic feet

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Allen, Sarah, fl. 1886,. Daybooks, account books, invoice book and letter books, kept at Larkin Hundley's general store at Montagues Post Office, Essex Co., Va. [manuscript] 1833-1900.

Title: Daybooks, account books, invoice book and letter books, kept at Larkin Hundley's general store at Montagues Post Office, Essex Co., Va. [manuscript] 1833-1900.

With the collection are a few miscellaneous letters and receipts, 1858-1886, found loose in the volumes, including a request to buy a yoke of oxen; a report on the case of Street vs Street; a note to "Pa" to inquire if he would send an indirect request to Governor "Extra Billy" Smith through a third party about an appointment as magistrate; a note on a shipment of a barrel of "Staunton Whiskey"; and a letter from Sarah Allen to the Rev. T. H. Hundley, 1886.

ArchivalResource: 25 v.

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Hume, Fannie Page, 1838-1865. Diaries of Fannie Page Hume, 1858-1862.

Title: Diaries of Fannie Page Hume, 1858-1862.

The collection contains Fannie Page Hume diaries, 1858, 1860-1862, kept at "Selma," Orange County, Va., and on visits to Washington, D.C. She describes family events; daily life; weather; health, particularly her increasing problems with head and back pain and treatment with blue mass (mercury) and morphine; illnesses and deaths; church services; religious reflections; reading; courtship and her engagement to a U.S. naval officer; social events; and slaves, particularly the fate of family slaves who have been hired out and been mistreated. After November, 1860, there are comments on political affairs; war news and rumors; women's war work; caring for the sick and wounded; refugees; and troop movements through Orange. Particular incidents include the wreck of a Confederate troop train, May 1861; presenting a flannel shirt to General Beauregard; a speech by Jefferson Davis after Manassas; entertaining officers in spring of 1862 including Paul J. Semmes and "Extra Billy" Smith; and the occupation of "Selma" by Federal troops, July-August, 1862. People mentioned include her future husband, Col. Carter Braxton; the Rev. Joseph Earnest, rector of St. Thomas; U.S. naval captain and later Confederate blockade runner John Newland Maffitt; naval officer Alexander Golden Rhind of the U.S.S. Constellation; Bishop William Meade; and Confederate surgeon Horace Dade Taliaferro.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

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Davis, Isaac. Papers, 1782-1878; (bulk 1790-1828).

Title: Papers, 1782-1878; (bulk 1790-1828).

Correspondence of Isaac and of his son, Thomas, concerning land in Kentucky; Indian wars and war with Great Britain, 1790-1828; Thomas's lawsuit against Robert Wickliffe; the election of James Barbour to the Virginia House of Delegates; Thomas Davis' plantation and purchase of horses; politics; and William Smith, governor of Virginia. Among the correspondents are Robert H. Banks, James Barbour, William Fitzhugh Gordon, Enoch Smith, and Robert Wickliffe.

ArchivalResource: 611 items.

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Watts family. Papers : of the Watts family, 1859-1927.

Title: Papers : of the Watts family, 1859-1927.

School essays, 1892-1894, of Charles Wesley Watts with letters from various people, news clippings, Civil War reminiscences, and photographs of the Rev. Thomas Smith, and "Extra Billy" Smith. Much of the correspondence and miscellaneous material concerns the education of Charles Wesley Watts and Charles E. Watts.

ArchivalResource: 25 items.

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