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Obituary of Horace Dade Taliaferro [manuscript], n.d.

Title: Obituary of Horace Dade Taliaferro [manuscript], n.d.

Obituary of Taliaferro, student of the University of Virginia, Richmond surgeon, eventually in charge of the Medical College Infirmary from 1871-1874.

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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.

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