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Goss, Isabelle H. (Isabelle Hunter), d. 1947. Albemarle County Collection of the United Daughters of the Confederacy [manucript], 1942-1948.

Title: Albemarle County Collection of the United Daughters of the Confederacy [manucript], 1942-1948.

The collection contains a history of the Albemarle Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy by Isabelle H. Goss containing names of officers, 1894-1944, and biographical sketches of several members. "A Confederate history of Albemarle County," 1942, by Isabelle H. Goss, contains a mixture of oral reminiscences and extracts from printed sources on Charlottesville during the Civil War, particularly the hospitals and Sheridan's raid in March of 1865. The collected reminiscences of Confederate veterans and Confederate women compiled by Isabelle H. Goss and Almera McPherson, contain interviews with General C. B. Linney, W. C. Webb, W. L. Beasley, Nat Terrell, William H. Ponton, William Garrison, Gillie Hill on her father "Top" Hill and Walter Bowie, L. Wesley Cox, and Anne Humphreys Dyer on Dr. Milton W. Humphreys. The collection also contains later copies of assorted minutes, 1894-1944, including the 1902 "Plea for impartial histories in Southern schools" by Kate Noland Garnett; a biographical sketch of Sallie Doswell, the first female secretary at the University of Virginia; histories of Albemarle Chapter no. 1 and the Ladies' Confederate Memorial Association; and various papers presented at meetings.

ArchivalResource: 50 (circa) items.

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