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Barron, Samuel, 1809-1888. Papers of Samuel Barron, 1820-1899.

Title: Papers of Samuel Barron, 1820-1899.

Barron corresponds with family, friends, and naval officers about cruises, naval affairs, and politics, as well as family news, and life in Norfolk, and Essex County, Virginia. Of interest are letters written during the Norfolk yellow fever epidemic of 1855. A large group of Civil War correspondence deals with the safety of U.S. vessels at Pensacola in 1861, the establishment of the Confederate Navy, the defense of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, his capture at Hatteras and eleven months imprisonment in Boston. After his exchange Barron corresponds about the reorganization of the Confederate Navy, the defense of the Mississippi, Tennessee, and Cumberland rivers with iron-clad gunboats, and his mission abroad to order iron-clads and outfit other vessels for the Confederacy. Postwar letters deal almost entirely with family news. The collection also includes some genealogy, photographs, clippings, a sectional sketch of a gunboat and some school-girl essays. Among the correspondents are Samuel Francis DuPont, David Glasgow Farragut, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Catesby Ap Roger Jones, Stephen Russell Mallory, George Edward Pickett, John Slidell, Francis Henry Smith, John Tyler, Gideon Welles, William Conway Whittle, and Henry Alexander Wise.

ArchivalResource: 697 items.

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Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894. Papers, 1784-1934, 1830-1894.

Title: Papers, 1784-1934, 1830-1894.

Papers, chiefly 1810-1894, of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell including correspondence, legal documents and accounts. The collection includes many family letters: letters of his mother Elizabeth Stoddert Ewell, his sister Elizabeth S. Ewell and his daughter Elizabeth S. Ewell Scott as well as correspondence with brothers Richard S. Ewell and William Stoddert. Subjects covered include the College of William and Mary, Hampden-Sydney College, Washington and Lee University, the American Civil War and life in Williamsburg, Va. Prominent correspondents include Hugh Blair Grigsby, Moses Drury Hoge, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Dennis Hart Mahan, Francis Henney Smith, John Tyler (1790-1862), John Tyler, Jr., Julia Gardiner Tyler, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, and Henry A. Wise.

ArchivalResource: 1.503 items.

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McDowell, James, 1770-1835. Papers of James McDowell [manuscript], 1752-1878.

Title: Papers of James McDowell [manuscript], 1752-1878.

Includes personal, legal, political, and business correspondence and papers, 1752-1852, of James McDowell and his son, also James McDowell. Personal correspondence, chiefly of members of the McDowell and Preston families (including Thomas Hart Benton), contains family and social news from Rockbridge County, Va., Kentucky, and St. Louis, Mo.; one letter includes a note from young Jessie Benton (Fremont). Business correspondence pertains to land claims in the Southern states and Ohio, and a fugitive slave; accounts concern slave hiring, school, stud horses, and cattle (including a livestock record); and miscellaneous business papers concern slave appraisals, Revolutionary War claims, and plantation management. Legal papers concern estate settlements, especially of Preston family members, custody, financial interests of Washington College, and land purchases in Augusta and Rockbridge counties, Va., with pertinent records and documentation. Military correspondence, 1797-1826, relates to the elder James McDowell's service as colonel of 8th Regt. Va. Militia, and its records for the War of 1812, some relating to courts-martial, and a discharge for John Floyd (1813). Political correspondence pertains to Virginia and national politics, the Democratic party, the War of 1812, the Staunton Convention of 1816, reasons to locate the University of Virginia at Lexington, the Virginia Constitutional Conventions of 1829-1830 and 1850-1851, military appointments in the Mexican War, temperance, and the tariff. Correspondents include Allen Trimble, William H. Cabell, John Tyler (Sr.), Robert Bland Lee, James Pleasants, James Barbour, John Floyd, Francis H. Smith, Robert Craig, Alexander H.H. Stuart, William H. Richardson, William P. Anderson, John Letcher, and various local politicians. Also include letter, 1869, of introduction from W.H. Smith to John Letcher for Gilbert C. Walker; and letter, 1870, of William Mahone to a constituent concerning Virginia railroads and the constitutional convention. Also include correspondence, 1823-1866, of various Rockbridge County residents re: education, horses, estate settlements, medical practice; letter, 1826, from William Cabell Rives re: medical treatment; and letters, 1859, from a man alleged to be mentally ill applying to John Letcher for legal help. Also include letters, 1861-1862, from James B. Dorman re: secession, the organization of 3rd Regt. Va. Artillery, and a request for a pistol; and a letter, 1862, from Thomas Martin, Letcher Artillery, requesting a court-martial of his captain, with witness list. Also include letter, 1864, from Ham Webb, 7th Miss. Regt., concerning wounded friends; letter, 1864, concerning imprisonment of John Humphreys, 52nd Regt. Va., in Fort Delaware; printed broadside, 1864, declaring protection of soldiers' families' supplies; and two love letters, 1865, to a Confederate soldier. Also include fundraising letters, 1870-1878, for the Lee Memorial Association, including a letter, 1875, from J. William Jones, donating his book profits; and petition, n.d., to raise money to buy Jefferson Davis a cotton plantation. Also include home remedy, 1816; a subcribers' contract, 1834, to teach a sewing class; Goggin family genealogy, 1854; and notebook, ca. 1855, with notes about the Democratic and Know-Nothing parties and Henry Wise.

ArchivalResource: 500 (ca.) items.

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Jones, Hilary P.,. Papers of the Noland family of Hanover County, Va., 1814-1948.

Title: Papers of the Noland family of Hanover County, Va., 1814-1948.

The papers consist chiefly of the correspondence of three brothers, Nelson Berkeley Noland, Frank Noland, and William Churchill Noland with each other and their parents, Callender St. George and Mary Edmonia Berkeley Noland. The letters convey family news and discuss farming, school, the Civil War, business and employment. Specific topics include an 1851 slave sale; runaway slaves, 1864; Virginia Military Institute; defense of the James River, the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid, Jeb Stuart's forty mile ride to attend a wedding, family members imprisoned after Gettysburg, the Union march on Richmond, 1864, and privation during the war; the election of 1876; life in Texas, 1876; mining in Colorado, 1876, and the murder of a marshall in Leadville, 1878; pension claims for Mexican War service; 1889 purchase of a mill site and other Virginia land suitable for development. Other papers include: civil service examinations, 1889; two letters to William Churchill Noland (Oct. 21 and Oct 25, 1896) about the accidental death of a workman in the collapse of a portion of the newly rebuilt Rotunda at the University of Virginia--the Oct. 25 letter includes a small sketch indicating the collapsed portion; development opportunities in South America, 1903; Teddy Roosevelt's invitation to Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House; and the design of St. Paul's Church, Miller's Tavern, Virginia, 1924. Miscellaneous business papers include accounts from the firm of James Noland, 1882-1884; estate settlement papers; and a contract with a farm caretaker, 1910. There are also newsclippings of buildings designed by William C. Noland and a pocket memoranda book of background information for the design of a Roanoke hospital; and arithmetic example book of Thomas Noland. Miscellaneous items include: Confederate money and stamps; farm diaries, 1843-1849; and photographs of Mary Noland, Nelson Noland, and a (family retainer?).

ArchivalResource: 400 items.

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Tazewell family. Papers, 1623-1930

Title: Tazewell family papers, 1623-1930.

Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg, Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal and family papers, including account books, accounts, advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings, commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays, genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills. Collection is divided into following series: Series I: Papers, 1650-1890. Series II: Undated Papers, Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and Miscellaneous Papers. Series III: Diaries, Account Books, Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890. Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political, business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and accounts of their plantations in James City County, Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children, including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County during the Civil War. Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers, political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers. Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell; typescript copies of letters, 1782-1825, from Thomas Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia; deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings. Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches, 1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell; register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell; household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur, William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others. Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell concerning national and Virginia politics, including the presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker, Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N. Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters, 1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia politics and legal matters. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence, 1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family; depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia; deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison Tazewell concerning their education.

ArchivalResource: 6.435 cu. ft.

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Smith, Francis H. (Francis Henney), 1812-1890. Correspondence, 1834-1869.

Title: Correspondence, 1834-1869.

Correspondence concerning an order for swords, employment of a student from V.M.I. to survey a canal route, conscripting students in 1863, obtaining a piece of sculpture, and a report of J. Williamson, a student at V.M.I.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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Cocke, Philip St. George, 1809-1861. Diaries of Philip St. George Cocke [manuscript], 1853 and 1860.

Title: Diaries of Philip St. George Cocke [manuscript], 1853 and 1860.

Cocke's August 11-18, 1853 pocket diary records a visit to Lexington and Warm Springs, Virginia, describes a tour of the improvements at the Virginia Military Institute, and contains some notes on the Warm Springs Company. His diary for April 25-May 3, 1860, describes meetings of the Virginia Military Institute Board of Visitors and the Virginia Armory Commission in Richmond followed by a tour to the Frankfort Arsenal in Philadephia and the Ames Manufacturing Company, Chicopee, Massachusetts. His expense account for the tour is included.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

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F. H. Smith Letter, 1867

Title: F. H. Smith Letter, 1867

This collection contains a carbon copy of a letter written to Captain M. F. Maury from Francis Henney Smith at Virginia Military Institute.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 cu. ft.; 1 folder

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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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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.

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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.

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Papers of the Virginia Military Institute Superintendent. Francis H. Smith, 1839-1889

Title: Papers of the Virginia Military Institute Superintendent. Francis H. Smith 1839-1889

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Smith, Francis H. (Francis Henney), 1812-1890. Letter, 1878 April 26, Lexington, Virginia [to] John M. Schofield.

Title: Letter, 1878 April 26, Lexington, Virginia [to] John M. Schofield.

Superintendent, VMI, 1840-1889. Letter discusses the Parrott gun.

ArchivalResource: 7 p. ; 25 x 20 cm.

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Cocke, John Hartwell, 1780-1866,. Miscellaneous papers relating to the Cocke family, 1856-1939.

Title: Miscellaneous papers relating to the Cocke family, 1856-1939.

A letter, 1860 October 4, Edward Troye to John Hartwell Cocke, with typed transcript, asks Cocke's assistance in obtaining a professorship in drawing at the University of Virginia. A letter, 1872, Edward Troye to an unknown recipient, includes Troye's transcription of Francis H. Smith's letter of 1872 December to him concerning his equestrian portrati of General Scott. The collection also contains "Kennedy's estimate" for a piece of machinery, unsigned, n.d. A fragment of the Richmond Weekly Examiner, 1856 Dec. 26 regards manufacture of improved cotton. "Belmead" is inscribed at top, possibly in the hand of Philip St. George Cocke. There are also specifications by Marshall S. Wells for 1108 Hilltop Road, Charlottesville, Virginia; the residence of Lucy Cocke Elliott. The collection also contains a catalogue of a loan exhibition of paintings by Edward Troye, 1808-1874 ... November 15th to 26th, 1938 at the Newhouse Galleries.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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Allyn, Joseph Tyler, 1840-. Papers of Joseph T. Allyn, 1861-1911.

Title: Papers of Joseph T. Allyn, 1861-1911.

The collection contains a handwritten account of his service in the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues. He describes the shelling of Sewell's Point Battery by the Monitor; incidents of camp life including the hazing of recruits; the withdrawal from Norfolk; Fredericksburg; short rations and catching and eating rats; bravery of Captain Robinson Taylor; Chancellorsville; and his leaving the blues for an appointment to Lt. of ordnance in the 11th battalion Georgia artillery. The collection also contains two letters to his father, 1861, written from the University of Virginia. On February 14 he discusses leaving college to teach, the difficulty of the "ticket" in Greek, need for money, a conversation with W.H. McGuffey on choosing a profession, and his concern that his father accept Jesus as saviour. On April 19 he discusses war fever at the University including obtaining a Maynard rifle, the Jeff Davis Corps of students, raising a Confederate flag on the Rotunda, recruiting by Colonel Smith of V.M.I., and lack of studying. In addition there is correspondence between Allyn and the Records and Pension Office, 1903, discussing an 1864 promotion together with a copy of the letter requesting the promotion form Briscoe G. Baldwin to Josiah Gorgas; a letter of introduction to General John B. Floyd, n.d.; and a souvenir Confederate ten dollar bill, 1892.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

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Barbour, James, 1775-1842. Walker family papers [manuscript] 1753-1873 (bulk 1816-1853).

Title: Walker family papers [manuscript] 1753-1873 (bulk 1816-1853).

The collection pertains to Alexander Walker, a merchant, mill owner and militia captain, his siblings and five generations of descendants, and includes correspondence, business and legal papers, memoirs, autographs, military documents, poems and ledgers. Much of the correspondence is between Alexander and his brother John who immigrated to Missouri. There are also Civil War letters of Sam A. Walker, 14th Virginia Cavalry. In addition to family news, topics include early settlement,land speculation, and politics in Missouri; Virginia politics; emigration to Tennessee; commerce; epidemics; slavery and emancipation; and the Civil War. There are also letters concerning ironworks in Rockbridge County, Va., and the California gold rush. Business and legal papers contain documents re slave sales and hirings, and a Confederate "tax in kind" form, as well as items pertaining to John Walker's will; insurance; Snicker's Gap Turnpike Company; and the James River and Kanawha Company. A series of land grants signed by early Virginia and Kentucky governors including James Monroe and John Tyler and autographs of prominent Virginia figures are also present. The collection also contains a small group of Virginia military papers; some printed and miscellaneous papers including a pamphlet regarding the Freedman's Bank Swindle and a notice re an auction of Alexander Stuart's land and slaves; ledgers and an account book of Walker family members which contain genealogical information; and a statement of the Graham Society of Washington College.

ArchivalResource: 1200 items.

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Tazewell family. Papers, 1785-1867.

Title: Papers, 1785-1867.

These papers are chiefly militia commissions and civil appointments of Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell by Virginia governors. In addition there is family correspondence, from Anne S. and Louisa N. Tazewell to John regarding family members, and Francis H. Smith wrote to John from the Virginia Military Institute to solicit the sale of bonds for restoration of the Institute.

ArchivalResource: 21 p.

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Executive Papers of Governor John Letcher, 1859-1863

Title: Executive Papers of Governor John Letcher, 1859-1863

Governor Letcher's Executive papers are organized into two series. Series have been designated for Chronological files and Subject files. The bulk of the material can be found in the Chronological files' series which primarily consists of incoming correspondence between 1860 to 1863. Although Governor Letcher did not take office until 1860, there is correspondence addressed to Governor Letcher soon after he was elected between November and December 1859. Correspondence, court cases, telegrams, poll books, pardons, proceedings, receipts, clippings, reports, petitions, resignations, contracts, proclamations, requisitions, resolutions, and other items can be found in this series. Noteworthy correspondents include Jefferson Davis, Gen. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Joseph R. Anderson (President Tredegar Iron Works), L.P. Walker & James A. Seddon (C.S.A. Secretaries of War), and James Mallory (C.S.A. Secretary of the Navy). The correspondence from Jefferson Davis involves Virginia troops (May 2, 1861), the reduction of service for some soldiers' companies (July 16, 1861), the enrollment of conscripts (Dec. 2, 1862), and the reduction of the number of slaves working on fortifications (Feb. 25, 1863 & March 5, 1863). As commander of all land and naval forces in Virginia, Gen. Robert E. Lee received correspondence referred from Governor Letcher. One such letter relates to the civil and military government alleged to have been established in Norfolk and Portsmouth (March 24, 1862). These letters include Lee's response written on the endorsement. Stonewall Jackson wrote Governor Letcher on several occasions. On October 12, 1861, Jackson wrote regarding Letcher's intended visit. On January 31, 1862, Jackson wrote Letcher complaining about an order from the Secretary of War to fall back from Romney. Jackson expresses his opposition to this order and requests a resignation and another order to be sent back to the Virginia Military Institute. Joseph R. Anderson wrote to Governor Letcher asking him to exempt workers at Tredegar from volunteer service (May 7, 1861) and for other purposes. Also included is a contract between Anderson and the Board of Commissioners to manufacture arms (Aug. 23, 1860). A letter from Secretary of the Navy, James Mallory, involves the transfer of the steamers Jamestown and Yorktown to the Confederate navy (July 15, 1861). Much of the correspondence to Governor Letcher consists of recommendations of Virginians for appointments. The governor appointed coroners; inspectors of salt, flour, tobacco, warehouses and vessels; commissioners; Bank of Virginia directors; and notaries, in addition to positions in the Provisional Army. Numerous petitions accompany these recommendations. Letters by individuals stating their desire to be considered for a particular position are also present. One such letter from Elizabeth L. Stuart asks the governor to reserve a position in the Virginia Provisional Army for her son, Jeb Stuart (April 23, 1861). Governor Letcher dealt with numerous such requests for commissions in the Provisional Army before the governor transferred all Virginia's forces to the Confederate States. Also common are letters and telegrams, mostly from April 1861, to the governor from individuals in support of secession and others who are tendering their service for the war effort. Letcher sent letters to the convention nominating colonels, calling volunteers into service, and issuing commissions (May 1-2, 1861). Letcher nominated Robert E. Lee as commander of all land and naval forces with the rank of Major General (April 22, 1861) and also Thomas J. Jackson as colonel of volunteers. Along these same lines are various requests for exemptions from military service. An ordinance of the convention exempted railroad officers and employees from service. A list of Central Railroad exemptions can be found in these papers (July 16, 1861). An important function of the governor was issuing reprieves and pardons. Copies of court cases, clippings, petitions, and correspondence supplement the pardons. All of the pardon papers are filed separately in the chronological series at the end of each month. One significant pardon involved the case of Notley P. Adams of Patrick County who was charged with arson. Letcher pardoned Adams in December 1863, after he served three years in the penitentiary. A map of the area in Patrick County where the crime was committed is included in the papers. The governor also received and issued proclamations and requisitions regarding escaped convicts and fugitives. Significant are the requisitions involving conspirators who assisted John Brown in his raid on Harper's Ferry (see below). Other noteworthy documents within the chronological series include: a rough copy of the ordinance of the Virginia Convention defining the duties of the Advisory Council (April 23, 1861); a letter from the Virginia Convention to Jefferson Davis inviting him to make Richmond the seat of government of the Confederacy (April 27, 1861); an anonymous letter to Letcher warning of the U.S. government's intention to take Arlington Heights (May 6, 1861); a letter from Letcher to Sam Houston, Governor of Texas, enclosing a copy of the resolution in response to the request of South Carolina and Mississippi for a Conference of the Southern States (May 24, 1860); a resolution of the state of Tennessee on state's rights (May 24, 1860); telegrams from the states of Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi announcing their secession from the Union (Jan. 10-12, 1861); a proclamation by Letcher to the people of northwestern Virginia regarding secession (June 17, 1861); deed of the state of Virginia to the Confederate States of America transferring property including all the machinery and stores at Harper's Ferry and the armory in Richmond (Oct. 3, 1861). A drawing of a "steam gun" designed by Philip Strickler (Oct. 29, 1861); a message from Letcher to the General Assembly announcing the death of former President John Tyler (Jan. 18, 1862); a 15-page report by Jeb Stuart to Gen. Lee on the Pamunkey expedition (June 23, 1862); lists of negro convicts employed by Joseph R. Anderson & Co. (Sept. 3, 1862); a list of prisoners taken by Maj. Gen. Floyd confined in the State Armory (Dec. 29-30, 1862); report of S. Bassett French calculating the slave population in those counties where requisitions were made for slaves to work on fortifications (March 20, 1863); deed of the Hollywood Cemetery Company to the Commonwealth of Virginia for a section to bury President Tyler (March 17, 1863); a telegram from James P. Smith, Guineas Station, to Letcher regarding the condition of Gen. Jackson (May 5, 1863); and a message from Letcher to the House of Delegates transmitting a statement of the number of troops furnished the Confederate States by Virginia (Oct. 8, 1863). The second series of Governor Letcher's Executive papers contains subject files. There are three subjects represented in this series: the Advisory Council, John Brown's Raid, and Railroads. The materials related to the Advisory Council include correspondence, proceedings, and reports of committees between April and June of 1861. Governor Letcher often referred correspondence to the Advisory Council and the endorsement on the letter details the Council's action with regard to the letter. One letter, in particular, from Robert E. Lee is relevant to the preparations for the defense of Virginia (June 15, 1861). The majority of the correspondence, however, concerns appointments in the Provisional Army and other military matters. The proceedings contain reports of the Committee for Courts of Justice, the Committee of Propositions and Grievances, the Committee on Finance, and the Committee on Military Affairs. The John Brown's Raid documents include correspondence related to the request for pardon of conspirators, Aaron D. Stevens and Albert Hazlett, and information concerning fugitive conspirators Barclay Cappoc, Owen Brown, and Francis Merriam. Particularly interesting is a printed protest by the Democratic members of the Iowa General Assembly condemning Governor Kirkwood's refusal to extradite Barclay Cappoc. There are copies of the indictments for Francis Merriam, Jeremiah Anderson, Owen Brown, and Charles P. Tidd. Military expenses incurred by militia, yet unpaid, are also documented here. Lastly, material concerning railroads include correspondence with regard to railroad connections and the ordinance of the convention relieving railroad workers from military duty and arming them for the defense of the railroads. A roll of the Richmond & Danville Railroad Guard is included. Accession 19736 has been included in Governor Letcher's Executive Papers. This accession consists of a letter from Susan E. Wash to Governor Letcher asking that her husband be relieved from military service. Endorsement of Gov. Letcher, dated May 7, 1861, grants the request. Accession 19923 has been included in Governor Letcher's Executive Papers. This accession consists of a letter from Major Gen. T.J. Jackson, Winchester, to Governor Letcher. In this letter, Jackson comments on the military situation and requests reinforcements and arms to be sent to Winchester, Nov. 30, 1861. Accession 33651 has been included in Governor Letcher's Executive Papers. This accession consists of a letter from John H. Winder to Governor Letcher regarding the sentence of J.C. Northwood, April 6, 1863.

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Hemphill, William Edwin, 1912-. Papers pertaining to John Bowie Strange [manuscript] 1939.

Title: Papers pertaining to John Bowie Strange [manuscript] 1939.

The collection contains "John Bowie Strange", a speech delivered before the Albemarle Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy. With the speech are copies of two letters from Strange to Colonel F.H. Smith, 5 June 1861 and March 1862.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Smith, Francis H. (Francis Henney), 1812-1890. Notebook.

Title: Notebook. 1832-1834.

Notebook containing by laws of the "United Carroll Club"; copy of a letter from Professor Edward Henry Courtenay declining to have his portrait painted; sketch of a cadet; original poetry by Smith, Hunter, Bliss and others.

ArchivalResource: 212 p., bound ; 20 x 17 cm.

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Cocke, Philip St. George, 1809-1861. Papers of Philip St. George Cocke [manuscript] 1859-1865.

Title: Papers of Philip St. George Cocke [manuscript] 1859-1865.

The papers contain correspondence of Cocke with Francis Henney Smith regarding V.M.I. and the outbreak of the Civil War, with Ballard Preston regarding business, from Edwin Gilliam Booth regarding a slave sale, from John Grant regarding wire fencing, and to John Bowdoin Cocke regarding cotton production the defense of the South, his resignation from the C.S.A. Army. The collection also contains a draft of an address arousing the South to action, 1860, notes on the government manufacture of arms, 1860, & a memorial resolution of his brigade on his death, 1861. There is also a pocket memoranda book, 1809-12, of John Hartwell Cocke, and a letter from Cary Charles Cocke to John B. Cocke regarding amnesty.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647972110 View

Tazewell family. Papers, 1759-1858.

Title: Papers, 1759-1858.

These papers concern almost entirely contemporary political activities and issues. The letters from Francis H. Smith to John N. Tazewell discuss education in Virginia and the development of the Virginia Military Institute.

ArchivalResource: 56 items (183 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122352112 View

Stubbs, Elizabeth Saunders Blair. Commonplace book, 1872.

Title: Commonplace book, 1872.

Volume used for recording quotations and literary comment, a gift to "Miss Lizzie Blair" from "Mr. Mc" on June 18, 1872 in Memphis, Tennessee. The book also includes a letter from Francis H. Smith to Jefferson W. Stubbs concerning the application of W.C. Stubbs for a position at Vanderbilt University. The letter is dated March 26, 1874.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27057862 View

Grace Memorial Church (Lexington, Va.). Minutes, 1884 February 4.

Title: Minutes, 1884 February 4.

Minutes of a February 4, 1884 committee meeting at the church describing the funeral of former Virginia governor John Letcher (1813-18884) the week before, and the decision to name a group consisting of Lexington, Virginia notables to write a sketch of Governor's Letcher's life. This group included G. W. C. Lee, Francis H. Smith, J. T. Preston, A. T. Barclay, and Col. Edmund Pendleton.

ArchivalResource: .1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/567359520 View

Matthew Fontaine Maury Papers, 1825-1960, (bulk 1830-1880)

Title: Matthew Fontaine Maury Papers 1825-1960 (bulk 1830-1880)

Naval officer and oceanographer. Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, journals, speeches, articles, and other writings, notebooks, electrical experiment book, charts, and printed material relating chiefly to Maury's naval career, scientific activities and interests, service as a Confederate agent in England, and work as an immigration official for Southern expatriates in Mexico, and to the Maury (Morey) family.

ArchivalResource: 14,650 items; 65 containers plus 1 oversize; 17.5 linear feet

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Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894. Papers, 1848-1898.

Title: Papers, 1848-1898.

An artificial collection of correspondence, 1848-1898, of and concerning Benjamin Stoddert Ewell while he was serving on the faculty and as president of the College of William and Mary. Prominent correspondents include: Ambrose Burnside, Ulysses S. Grant, Hugh Blair Grigsby, John Johns, Joseph E. Johnston, Robert McCandlish, Matthew Fontaine Maury, George Gordon Meade, Charles Minnigerode, William Cabell Rives, Francis Henney Smith, John Reuben Thompson, John Tyler, Henry A. Washington, and Henry A. Wise. Subjects include Ewell's hiring as professor of mathematics and as acting president, the fire of 1859, William and Mary during the Civil War, raising funds in the United States and England to restore the college following the war, the possible removal of the college from Williamsburg, the suspension of the college and its re-opening as a normal school to train male teachers.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25214212 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.

ArchivalResource:

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

Lee, Fitzhugh, 1835-1905. Papers of Fitzhugh Lee [manuscript], 1731-1952.

Title: Papers of Fitzhugh Lee [manuscript], 1731-1952.

The collection contains letters, commissions, orders, notes, reports, and clippings pertaining to Lee's service in the U.S. cavalry in the West and in the C.S.A. cavalry. Post-Civil War material includes correspondence, speeches, and clippings about Civil War incidents and leaders, especially James Longstreet and the battle of Gettysburg. Other material concerns his travels, his service as consul-general at Havana during the Cuban revolution and in the Spanish American War. Business interests are represented by correspondence and papers pertinent to the American Animal Tether Company, the Chicago Town Company of Virginia, the Pittsburgh and Virginia Railroad Company, the Rockbridge Company, and the South Boston Improvement Company. There is some material, chiefly financial and legal documents, of the Lee and related Mason family ancestors including Northern Neck land grants and a deed of gift for a slave, as well as a diary of Mrs. Sidney Smith Lee. Among items of interest are an 1859 report by Earl Van Dorn on a skirmish with Commanches, confidential communications of Lee, Robert E. Lee and Jeb Stuart including telegrams to Stuart before Yellow Tavern, Fitzhugh Lee's report on the Appomattox campaign, letters regarding events of the Cuban revolution including the Isle of Pines uprising, the U.S.S. Maine, and an incident involving General Shafter, and a letter from a former driver offering to serve in the Spanish American War.

ArchivalResource: 3 reels: positive; 35 mm.

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Smith, Francis Henney, 1812-1890. Notes taken from the lectures of Proffessor [sic] Smith on civil engineering : lights and shadows / by John W. Cosby of Prince Edward County, Virginia.

Title: Notes taken from the lectures of Proffessor [sic] Smith on civil engineering : lights and shadows / by John W. Cosby of Prince Edward County, Virginia. [183-]

ArchivalResource: 162 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38596780 View

Orleans Parish (La.). Seventh District Court. Suit record, State of Virginia for the use of Virginia Military Institute vs. James Longstreet, (1872).

Title: Suit record, State of Virginia for the use of Virginia Military Institute vs. James Longstreet, (1872).

In addition to the pleadings, transcriptions of testimony, and other suit-generated documents, the record also includes manuscript letters from Gerneral and/or Mrs. Longstreet to the Institute, and manuscript copies of letters from VMI to the Longstreets. Most of the latter were signed by the Institute's superintendent, Francis H. Smith. This correspondence dates from late 1865 through 1871 and deals with Cadet Longstreet's career at VMI as well as with the monetary difficulties that led to the suit. Also included are manuscript accounts of the Institute with Cadet Longstreet and a copy of the Regulations for the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, Virginia (Richmond, 1870).

ArchivalResource: 4 folders

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Smith, Francis G. C. Francis G.C. Smith account books, 1881-1883.

Title: Francis G.C. Smith account books, 1881-1883.

Accounts and receipt book of wholesale purchases.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34421926 View

Smith, Francis H. (Francis Henney), 1812-1890. Papers, 1860-1888.

Title: Papers, 1860-1888.

Letter, 6 Sept[ember] 1860, written by Francis H. Smith, to Ja[me]s T. Ames, concerning Armory, "model musket," and swords; and letter, 7 March 1888, concerning his resignation as superintendant of Virginia Military Institute in 1886 which was withdrawn and an investigation into his period of service by the Virginia General Assembly.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23527578 View

Broadus, John Albert, 1827-1895. Letters to the Rev. Broadus [microform] 1850-94.

Title: Letters to the Rev. Broadus [microform] 1850-94.

Among those writing to Broadus were Albert Taylor Bledsoe, John Hartwell Cocke, John Staige Davis, Noah K. Davis, Basil L. Gildersleeve, Maximilian Schele de Vere, Gessner Harrison, Moses D. Hoge, Frederick W. Holliday, Thomas Cary Johnson, W. Gordon McCabe, William H. McGuffey, Socrates Maupin, John B. Minor, Samuel C. Mitchell, Dwight L. Moody, William E. Peters, William Barton Rogers, Francis H. Smith, George Boardman Taylor, William M. Thornton, Crawford H. Toy, George Tucker, Zebulon B. Vance and Charles S. Venable.

ArchivalResource: 405 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647971948 View

Virginia. Convention (1861 : Richmond). Agency history.

Title: Agency history. 1995.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145411411 View