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James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.). Minutes: of the James River and Kanawha Company, 1859 Oct. 26 - 1880 Mar. 5. [manuscript].

Title: Minutes: of the James River and Kanawha Company, 1859 Oct. 26 - 1880 Mar. 5. [manuscript].

The book, a continuation of an earlier volume, contains minutes of stockholders' meetings until the company's acquisition by the Richmond and Allegheny Railroad Company. Included are 1864 and 1865 accounts of the destruction of locks, bridges and supplies by U. S. troops under Generals Hunter and Sheridan, and destruction of the Richmond offices in April, 1865. Some minutes are in the hand of George Wythe Randolph.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (560 p.) : 40 x 27.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647817416 View

Branch, Lawrence O'Bryan, 1820-1862. Papers of Lawrence O'Bryan Branch [manuscript], 1840-1913.

Title: Papers of Lawrence O'Bryan Branch [manuscript], 1840-1913.

The papers of Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, concern his congressional career and describe the political and social scene in Washington, D.C., including accounts of Preston S. Brooks' attack on Charles Sumner, the United States' plan to acquire Cuba, James Buchanan's visit to North Carolina, the election of 1860, the U.S. Treasury Department, and a dispute with Galusha A. Grow. The papers contain an 1840 letter, from Felix Grundy regarding U.S. fiscal policy, abolition, and other political matters; and an 1843 letter from David Levy Yulee regarding John C. Calhoun and Southern politics. Family papers including correspondence with his wife, Nancy "Nannie" Haywood (Blount) Branch, discuss family matters, traveling in the South, Civil War news, the battle of New Bern, N.C., and Florida social life. Civil War papers, 1860-1862, of Branch, concern the organization of the Confederate army, anti-Confederate sentiment in North Carolina, the defense of the North Carolina coast, the battle of New Bern, N.C., and the subsequent retreat, and problems with deserters and spies. Correspondence subsequent to joining Stonewall Jackson in Virginia describes Hanover Court House, Va., 2nd Bull Run, and the Seven Days' Battles, the Maryland Campaign, Josiah Gorgas, and Daniel Harvey Hill. A letter, 1 January 1862, from Thomas Bragg, Richmond, Va., regards the defense of North Carolina, especially Roanoke Island and Albemarle County (N.C.), and infighting among officers under Branch's command. A letter, 17 March 1862, from A.E. Burnside, New Bern, N.C., responds to an inquiry about Confederate casualties and prisoners in the battle of New Bern; and a letter, 20 March 1862, from Zebulon B. Vance, Kinston, N.C. reports those under Vance's command wounded and killed during the battle of New Bern. Correspondence, 1862 with J.P. Benjamin and George W. Randolph, regards promotions and a resignation. Correspondence, 1862, with Richard S. Ewell and Joseph E. Johnston concerns troop movements around Gordonsville, Va., and before the battle of Hanover Court House. Three letters, June 1862, between Branch and Robert E. Lee, concern the battle of Hanover Court House, Va.; and a letter, 26 June 1862, from Stonewall Jackson concerns troop movements.

ArchivalResource: 650 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647856338 View

Rains, Gabriel James, 1803-1881. Gabriel J. Rains papers, 1840-1865.

Title: Gabriel J. Rains papers, 1840-1865.

Papers consist of correspondence and a copy of a newspaper article. A copy of Captain Rains' letter (1840 July 30) to Joel R. Poinsett (U.S. Secretary of War) recommends "Colt's repeating firearms" and requests to have them furnished to his company (Company A of the 7th U.S. Infantry Regiment). Poinsett replies (1840 Aug. 20) that "it is not deemed expedient to comply with your wishes at present." Samuel Colt writes to Poinsett (1840 Aug. 3) requesting a copy of Captain Rains' letter about his firearms. A letter (1849 Nov. 26) from U.S. Treasurer W. [Susen] to [Lt.?] Major Rains in Tampa Bay (Fla.) concerns a financial transaction involving four hundred dollars in Treasury notes. Gabriel J. Rains' letter (1862 July 5) to his brother George W. Rains in Augusta (Ga.) contains copies of several letters between Brigadier General Gabriel J. Rains, General D.H. Hill, George W. Randolph (C.S.A. Secretary of War), and General Longstreet concerning the use of artillery, mines, and torpedoes "to obstruct the advance of the enemy;" difficulties between General Rains and General Longstreet; and defenses and battles on the James River. In a letter (1865 March 8) from Greensboro (N.C.) to his daughter in Richmond (Va.) Gabriel J. Rains asks her to forward a letter to Captain [Fuller] and describes conditions in Greensboro, "incessant rain so that the roads are 2 feet deep with mud and water in places and no army in the world could move this way." Handwritten copy of a newspaper article (1865) concerns the arrest of Gabriel J. Rains.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

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Talcott family. Papers, 1814-1890.

Title: Papers, 1814-1890.

This collection consists primarily of materials concerning Andrew Talcott (1797-1883) and his son, Thomas Mann Randolph Talcott (1838- 1920). The correspondence, 1815-1844, of Andrew Talcott, while at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and while serving in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, concerns life at West Point and various commissions in the U.S. Army. Items pertaining to T.M.R. Talcott in the collection include official letters, 1861-1863, offering Talcott various commissions in the Confederate Corps of Engineers, and affidavits, 1865, of Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) attesting to Talcott's character. Correspondents in the collection include, among others, Benjamin Huger (1805-1877), Jeremy Francis Gilmer (1818-1883), and George Wythe Randolph (1818-1867).

ArchivalResource: 51 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36039951 View

Peter Wellington Alexander Papers, 1855-1863

Title: Peter Wellington Alexander Papers, 1855-1863,

ArchivalResource: 10 linear feet (18 document boxes and 12 flat boxes).; 16 reels of microfilm (8 positive reels-2 copies of reels 1-3 & 5-7); 8 master negative reels).

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079103 View

Jefferson Davis collection 1861-1865 Davis, Jefferson collection

Title: Jefferson Davis collection 1861-1865 Davis, Jefferson collection

The Jefferson Davis collection contains political and military correspondence of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America. Most of the letters are from congressmen, governors, cabinet officers, generals, and local politicians to Davis.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-491dav?rgn=main;view=text View

Stearns, Hannah C.,. Letters : concerning the Civil War, 1881 and undated.

Title: Letters : concerning the Civil War, 1881 and undated.

Letter from Hannah C. Stearns to her brother Thomas concerning how Union troops, specifically mentioning the Massachusetts 6th, traveled to Washington, D.C. after the battle in Baltimore of 19 April 1861, and the part that [Nicholas P.] Trist played in the plan to move the troops. Also includes a second written copy of the account, slightly different, by Stearns. With a second letter, incomplete, concerning a deal between Confederate Secretary of War George Wythe Randolph and Union General Benjamin Butler to exchange Southern cotton for food and other goods needed by the Confederate Army, and the disciplining of Randolph by Jefferson Davis for this action. This letter was written by one of Randolph's siblings (reference to him as "brother" in the letter), but not to Randolph.

ArchivalResource: 3 items ; 21 cm.

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Randolph, George Wythe, 1818-1867. George Wythe Randolph letter, 1862 July 17.

Title: George Wythe Randolph letter, 1862 July 17.

Letter to Jefferson Davis relating the hanging of William Mumford in New Orleans by General Benjamin Butler.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/259801913 View

Dearing, John J. Papers, 1821-1899.

Title: Papers, 1821-1899.

Correspondence, wills, deeds, grants, insurance policies, patents, tax receipts, promissory notes, and a brief for a law suit. The correspondence pertains to the settlement of the estate of William Dearing, the slave trade, and the Southern Masonic Female College, with a few Civil War letters included. Correspondents include Howell Cobb and George W. Randolph.

ArchivalResource: 183 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19491384 View

Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818-1867,. Lee family papers [microform] 1652 [1769-1870] 1890.

Title: Lee family papers [microform] 1652 [1769-1870] 1890.

Correspondence, accounts, deeds, and legal documents. Letterbooks, 1769-1771, 1775-1776, & 1793-1795, of William Lee, a partner in deBendt & Sayre, London, comprise the bulk of the collection. Letters to business associates primarily discuss the tobacco trade. Letters to his brothers Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee contain frequent political commentary on events in England & the colonies, and mention most of the prominent revolutionary Virginia leaders as well as their Parliamentary supporters. In addition to the letterbooks there are genealogies, deeds, indentures, wills, and other legal documents, correspondence of family members including many of Robert Edward Lee and other Civil War leaders. Correspondents include John Albion Andrew, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, John James Beckley, Francis Preston Blair, Braxton Bragg, John Cabell Breckenridge, Ambrose Everett Burnside, Nathaniel Burwell, Benjamin Franklin Butler, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, William Daniel Cabell, Landon Carter, Robert Wormeley Carter, Salmon Portland Chase, Samuel Cooper, Hannah Lee Corbin, Richard Corbin, Henry Knox Craig, Jefferson Davis, Jubal Anderson Early, Richard Stoddert Ewell, Thomas Fairfax, George Gibson, Josiah Gorgas, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Nathanael Greene, Henry Heth, Daniel Harvey Hill, John Bell Hood, Joseph Hooker, Oliver Otis Howard, Benjamin Huger, William Irvine, Thomas S. Thomas Sidney Jesup, Andrew Johnson, Edward Johnson, Robert Underwood Johnson, Albert Sidney Johnston, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. Sidney Lanier, Arthur Lee, Charles Lee, Fitzhugh Lee, Mary Ann Randolph Custis Lee, Richard Bland Lee, Thomas Lee, John Letcher, Abraham Lincoln, James Longstreet, William Mahone, George Brinton McClellan, Lafayette McLaws, George Mason, George Gordon Meade, Robert Carter Nicholas, Edward Follansbee Noyes, George Edward Pickett, Franklin Pierce, Alfred Pleasonton, Roger Atkinson Pryor, George Wythe Randolph, John Cook Rives, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur Comte de Rochambeau, Winfield Scott, Philip Henry Sheridan, William Tecumseh Sherman, William Shippen, Edmund Kirby Smith, William Smith, James Ewell Brown Stuart, Andrew Talcott, Lorenzo Thomas, Robert Augustus Toombs, Jonathan Trumbull, David Emanuel Twiggs, Zebulon Baird Vance, George Washington, John Wentworth, John Henry Winder, Henry Alexander Wise, John Ellis Wool, and Marcus Joseph Wright.

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647972016 View

Von David, Pritchard. Von David, Pritchard, papers, 1811, 1839-1888

Title: Von David, Pritchard, papers, 1811, 1839-1888

Collected by Pritchard Von David, correspondence, ledgers, military documents, literary productions, and newspaper clippings comprise the Pritchard Von David Papers, 1811, 1839-1888, which document the activities of Jefferson Davis, particularly during his presidency of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 5 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/772629950 View

Virginia State Convention of 1861 (Richmond, Va.). Record of the vote in the Virginia Convention on the Ordinance of Secession, 1861 April 17.

Title: Record of the vote in the Virginia Convention on the Ordinance of Secession, 1861 April 17.

The official record of the vote, taken five days after the firing on Ft. Sumter and two days after Lincoln's call for troops, tallied 88 "yea" and 55 "no." Among the "Yea" voters were former U.S. President John Tyler; University of Virginia law professor James P. Holcombe; Thomas Jefferson's grandson and future Confederate Secretary of War George W. Randolph; future Confederate and U.S. Congressman John Goode, Jr., former U.S. cabinet member William B. Preston, and former governor Henry A. Wise. Among the "No" voters were U.S. Representative Sherrard Clemens, future Confederate General Jubal Early; future West Virginia Congressmen William G. Brown, Chester D. Hubbard and Waitman Willey, former Congressmen and Cabinet Secretary Alexander H.H. Stuart, and future Virginia Unionist Senator John S. Carlile.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49050088 View

Logan, Daniel, d.1862. Diary of Daniel Logan [manuscript] 1862, 2008-2010.

Title: Diary of Daniel Logan [manuscript] 1862, 2008-2010.

Diary, 1862 January-July, of Confederate soldier Daniel Logan. There are references to life in Williamsburg and Richmond, Va., war news from elsewhere, C.S.A. General John B. Magruder, University of Virginia alumni Captain Joseph B. Cosnahan and General Paul Jones Semmes, Secretary of War George Wythe Randolph, his brother Thmas M. Logan "Mullie," and numerous socially prominent Confederate officers. Of interest are accounts of the siege of Yorktown and the Seven Days Battle; a description of an aborted mission against a blockading Union steamer and references to courting the noted belle Hetty Carr Cary who later married C.S.A. General John Pegram. The collection also contains a transcription of Daniel Logan's diary by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards, with notes by Condederate historians Robert K. Krick, Robert E. Lee Krick, and David Winfred Gaddy, as well as by Logan'a great grandniece Sarah Rice Forsyth Donnelly. The collection also contains an article about the diary by Mrs. Edwards and copies of Logan letters owned by the Museum of the Confederacy.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume + accompanying transcript and notes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/643097113 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.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01500/catalog View

Carr, George, 1800-1886. Papers of George Carr (1745) 1801-1939.

Title: Papers of George Carr (1745) 1801-1939.

Family and professional correspondence of Carr constitutes the bulk of the collection. In the former are numerous letters describing the pioneer life of relatives who emigrated to Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, & Mississippi. Of unusual interest is a letter describing an 1842 Philadelphia race riot. Later 19th century family letters are primarily concerned with the genealogy of the Carr and related Cave, Poore, Cross, Tompkins and Trevillian families. Carr's professional papers contain correspondence and some related legal and financial papers for Albemarle County clients. Of interest are his papers as attorney for Uriah Phillips Levy, the purchaser of Monticello, and Carr's subsequent management of the estate after Levy's death until its purchase by Thomas Jefferson Levy. Other professional items include George Wythe Randolph's interest in a fireproof clerk's office in Richmond, the 1825 proceeds of the Board of School Commissioners, problems over settlement of the will of Martin Dawson, and a contemporary copy of a legal brief in Jefferson vs. Michie over land at Milton, 1804-1813. Political commentary appears frequently and includes a letter, 1814, from Joseph Jones Monroe to James Monroe regarding opposition to the current administration supposedly fomented by Jefferson, and the draft of an 1834 speech by William Cabell Rives explaining his support of Andrew Jackson's destruction of the 2nd Bank of the U.S. and consequent resignation as senator. Carr's financial papers contain bills and receipts, insurance policies for houses and slaves and comodity price reports. The collection also contains 4 letters, 1801-1802, from James Dinsmore to Thomas Jefferson regarding work on the Monticello dining room; 18th cent. land grants in Goochland and Greenbrier; wills and deeds including copies on an 1837 deed from Thomas Jefferson Randolph to David Michie, and and 1832 Deed of James Monroe and Elizabeth Kortright Monroe offering their Albemarle Co. land as surety for a debt; the records of an investigation of a military court of occupation into a land fraud case involving Carr; scattered militia rolls and expenses, 1794-1829; land surveys; an 1832 commonplace book; and The Piedmont Hospital of Charlottesville, Va. 1886-1902, Haidee Watson Perkins Michie. Collection includes a Eugene Perry photograph of an unidentified African American woman "Mammy Sally" connected with the Poore family of Albemarle County, Va. Correspondents include Alexander Rives, Thomas Walker Gilmer, John Andrew Gardner Davis, St. George Tucker, Thomas Johnson Michie, 1795-1873, Charles Christian Wertenbaker, Thomas Mann Randolph, Jefferson Randolph Taylor and Joseph Coolidge.

ArchivalResource: 900 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647952246 View

William L. Clements Library. Jefferson Davis collection, 1861-1865.

Title: Jefferson Davis collection, 1861-1865.

The Jefferson Davis collection contains political and military correspondence of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America. Most of the letters are from congressmen, governors, cabinet officers, generals, and local politicians to Davis.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758450164 View

Breckinridge, James, 1763-1833. Papers of the Randolph and Nicholas families, 1777-1875.

Title: Papers of the Randolph and Nicholas families, 1777-1875.

The collection contains one drawing by Thomas Jefferson on verso of letter, 1777, from Charles Lewis; 12 bills to Jefferson, chiefly from English taverns; and a lottery ticket. The collection also contains correspondence between James Monroe and Edmund Jennings Randolph about a financial matter, and a letter from Monroe to Thomas Mann Randolph about a treaty with Spain and a proposed surveying expedition about which Mathew Carey also writes. There are legal papers and correspondence of Wilson Cary Nicholas over finances with Edmund Randolph, John Taylor and James Breckinridge as well as with Albert Gallatin about customs inspectors, Peyton Randolph on the election of Madison, and William Wirt about a naval appointment. Correspondence of Thomas Mann Randolph includes a letter of advice from his father on entering college, and letters concerning the Lynchburg bank, and a cruel overseer at Varina. Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson Randolph concerns land purchases in Albemarle, repairs at the University of Virginia and memories of his wife. Letters of George Wythe Randolph deal with a feud between his father and John Randolph of Roanoke to Henry Stephens Randall and a lengthy discussion of Jefferson, abolition, and the Fugitive Slave Law. The collection also contains a note from Dabney Carr, a letter from the sons of James A. Bayard to Samuel Smith about Jefferson's denial of an 1800 election deal with Bayard, a letter from Joseph Coolidge about publication of Jefferson's biography, and a legal statement of Peggy Eaton. The remaining letters contain family news written by Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph, Margaret Smith Nicholas, and Cornelia Jefferson Randolph. The collection also contains an account by Sarah Nicholas Randolph of George Wythe Randolph's death and an 1831 plat of Lego.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31254244 View

Kean, Robert Garlick Hill, 1828-1898. Papers of Robert Garlick Hill Kean [manuscript] 1826-1922.

Title: Papers of Robert Garlick Hill Kean [manuscript] 1826-1922.

Electrostatic copies, including copies of legal documents and correspondence of Kean with Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Elizabeth Garlick Hill, John Barbee Minor, and George Wythe Randolph. A Civil War pardon and a slave bill of sale are included.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647967689 View

Richey, Samuel W.,. Samuel W. Richey Confederate Collection, 1805-1936, (bulk 1861-1865).

Title: Samuel W. Richey Confederate Collection, 1805-1936, (bulk 1861-1865).

Primarily correspondence of Jefferson Davis, his cabinet officers, and Confederate military officers, from 1861 through 1865.

ArchivalResource: 744 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29941629 View

Paxton, Elisha Franklin, 1828-1863. Papers [manuscript] 1861-1913.

Title: Papers [manuscript] 1861-1913.

Personal letters and papers of Brig. Gen. Elisha Franklin Paxton, C.S.A., with autograph letters of Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson, George W. Randolph, the Confederate Sectretary of War, and others. Some of these have been published in Elisha Franklin Paxton, 1905. E 605/P34/13247.

ArchivalResource: 34 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647961268 View

Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893. Papers of the Harrison family [manuscript] 1720-1960.

Title: Papers of the Harrison family [manuscript] 1720-1960.

Correspondence, business papers, and diaries of the Harrison and Meem families. Chiefly concerns Randolph Harrison; his brothers: George Moffett Harrison, Carter Henry Harrison, Edward Carrington Harrison, and William Byrd Harrison; their sisters: Susan Harrison Blane, Rose Harrison Ranson, and Margaret R. Harrison; their father, Henry Harrison and Randolph's wife, Julia Halsey Meem Harrison. From the Meem family those of importance are the builder, J. Lawrence Meem, James Meem, John G. Meem, and Aurelia Halsey Meem. Other correspondents include Richard Henry Lee, P. G. T. Beauregard, friend of Aurelia Halsey Meem, Milton W. Humphreys, FitzHugh Lee, John B. Minor, Rosewell Page, Archibald G. Stuart, Henry St.George Tucker and Jacob Yost. Of interest is a letter, 1841 Aug. 15, Henry Clay, Washington, D.C., to Charles Parrow, Lovingston, Va., concerning the U.S. Congress and the National Bank. Civil War items of interest include documents signed by Judah Benjamin, John Letcher and George W. Randolph, a note from John Bell Hood, and cartes-de-visite of Robert E. Lee. There are typed transcripts of letters from Eliza Jacquelin "Betsy" Ambler to Ann "Nancy" Ambler Fisher. There are also account books, 1890 Feb.-1892 June, of Boude, Pendleton, Meem & Co., Glasgow, Va., and diaries, 1886, 1891-95, 1898-99, 1901-07, of John Gaw Meem.

ArchivalResource: 3 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647947335 View

Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1875. Monticello cemetery papers, 1836-1916.

Title: Monticello cemetery papers, 1836-1916.

This collection consists of a ca. 1871 photograph of George Wythe Randolph's gravestone at Monticello, a ca. 1836 subscription list (copied in 1974) by Thomas Jefferson Randolph to enclose the cemetery at Monticello, and a 1916 transcription list as it appeared in the Monticello Association annual report.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29734034 View

Beauregard, G.T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893. Papers, 1861-1863.

Title: Papers, 1861-1863.

These papers consist of photostats of file copies of letters written and received by Beauregard during 1862. There is also an invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores turned over by Captain J. L. White, 19 December 1861, and Beauregards "Remarks relative to Iron Clad Gun Boats," dated 14 November 1863. The letters are as follows: a). Letter from Beauregard to Samuel Cooper, 19 May 1862, commenting on the strategic location of Corinth. b). Telegram from Beauregard to Cooper, 14 June 1862, requesting that Gen ragg temporarily replace him. c). Letter from George Randolph, Secretary of War, to Beauregard, 23 June 1862, including copies of a telegram and a letter, all relating to turning over command to Gen. Bragg. d). Memorandum from Col. Johnston to Pres. Davis, 24 June 1862, of a conversation with Beauregard concerning the military situation in the West. e). Letter from Beauregard to Cooper, 25 June 1862, advising him that he will take leave to rest. f). Letter from Beauregard to Gen. Forney, offering suggestions, dated 18 July 1862. g). Letter from Beauregard to Gen. Smith dated 25 July 1862, commenting on improvements of the defenses of Charleston. h). Letter from Beauregard to Col. Huger, 2 August 1862, reviewing the possibility of retaking New Orleans. i). Letter from Dr. Brodie to C. J. Villiers reporting on Beauregard's health.

ArchivalResource: 11 items (20 prints).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145408219 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.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01500/catalog View

Brady, James, fl. 1832-1856. Papers of James Brady [manuscript], 1810-1890 bulk 1826-1857.

Title: Papers of James Brady [manuscript], 1810-1890 bulk 1826-1857.

The collection consists of correspondence and business papers of Brady and chiefly concerns the Virginia slave trade, involving Richmond firms Pulliam and Davis, Pulliam and Brady, Dickman Hill and Company, and R.H. Dickinson and Brother. The collection also contains family correspondence of James Brady and Benjamin Brady, business papers of William Campbell and miscellaneous legal and financial papers involving land transactions, estate settlements and general store accounts. Of interest is an April 1849 letter from Independence, Mo., describing the California gold rush and a promissory note docketed by George Wythe Randolph.

ArchivalResource: 265 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647824658 View

Confederate States of America collection, 1861-1865

Title: Confederate States of America collection 1861-1865

Correspondence and official documents originating from various CSA government departments and from individual Confederate states, 1861-65. Includes correspondence of Jefferson Davis, Confederate cabinet members and congressmen, and other officials, as well as official reports of Civil War battles and events, estimates of expenditures and appropriations, petitions, special orders, forms, passes, receipts, bonds, tax records, and other documents. While the bulk of the material is administrative in nature, many of the documents, such as tax records and discharge papers, concern particular individuals, and there are a few letters from private citizens, such as one to President Davis from two women who offer to go behind enemy lines. The collection also includes designs for an alternate Confederate flag.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 3; Linear Feet: 2.30

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Collection of Judah P. Benjamin, undated, 1838, 1854-1884, 1893, 1925, 1930, 1942, 1948, 1854-1884

Title: Collection of Judah P. Benjamin undated, 1838, 1854-1884, 1893, 1925, 1930, 1942, 1948 1854-1884

Judah P. Benjamin, called the "brains of the Confederacy", was a statesman and jurist in the United States, the Confederate States, and Great Britain who achieved high-ranking titles wherever he served, and especially left an indelible mark in the South where he held more official positions than any other man during the Civil War. After the fall of the Confederacy, Benjamin fled to England, where he was admitted to the English bar, and later assumed a judgeship In 1872, he was appointed the highest ranking of Queen's counselor. Containing correspondence, letters, newspaper clippings, Confederate bank notes and bonds, Civil War memorabilia, pamphlets, and a bound copy of Benjamin's diary from 1862-1864, the collection is valuable to researchers studying the activities and experiences of Jews in the antebellum South and under the brief reign of the Confederate States of America. Additionally, through the material relating to memorials and preservation endeavors for Benjamin, the collection also provides a look at the continued glorification of Confederate heroes in the South long into the twentieth century. The collection also contains pre-Civil War correspondence between Benjamin and Peter A. Hargous regarding the creation of a railroad line on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico and the Tehuantepec Railroad Company of New Orleans.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 linear feet (1 manuscript box, 1 ½ manuscript box, 2 oversized folders)

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109168 View

Kirk, Page Taylor, Mrs.,. Civil War letters [manuscript] 1861-73.

Title: Civil War letters [manuscript] 1861-73.

Primarily letters exchanged among Mary Ann Randolph Custis (Mrs. Robert E. Lee), Margaret Randolph (Mrs. Francis Asbury Dickins), and Mrs. Anna Maria Fitzhugh, describing civilan life in northern Virginia during the Civil War; also records of expenditures made by George Wythe Randolph while he was Confederate envoy to Europe to procure supplies, and later correspondence concerning his pardon; one group of letters by Jane Hollins Nicholas "Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Randolph" of "Edgehill", Albemarle County, Virginia, to a cousin concerning the hardships of the war and reconstruction at her farm.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647938020 View

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647898582 View

Randolph, George Wythe, 1818-1867. Letter : to Bettie D. George, Charlottesville, Va., 1862 September 25.

Title: Letter : to Bettie D. George, Charlottesville, Va., 1862 September 25.

Randolph writes that he has no power to exempt anyone from military service.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29536517 View

Von David, Pritchard, papers 1933., 1811, 1839-1888

Title: Von David, Pritchard, papers 1811,1839-1888

Collected by Pritchard Von David,correspondence, ledgers, military documents, literary productions, and newspaperclippings comprise the Pritchard Von David Papers, 1811, 1839-1888, which documentthe activities of Jefferson Davis, particularly during his presidency of theConfederate States of America during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource:

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Meikleham, Septimia Randolph, 1814-1887. Randolph-Meikleham family papers [manuscript], 1792-1882.

Title: Randolph-Meikleham family papers [manuscript], 1792-1882.

Papers, 1820-1882, of Septimia Randolph Meikleham, include correspondence concerning Monticello, Edgehill, the University of Virginia, family matters, social life in Virginia, Boston, Mass., and Washington, D.C., her schoolmates in Cambridge, Mass., travel in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York, courtship, and fashion; narratives about the Lewis and Clark expeditions, Monticello, and James and Dolley Madison; legal papers; and poetry. The papers also contain miscellaneous correspondence, 1836-1839, of the Randolph, Meikleham, Coolidge, and Bankhead families, concerning family and social matters, travelling to Havana, Cuba, and a trip to Philadelphia, Pa., during which Martha Jefferson Randolph sat for a portrait by Thomas Sully; and three letters, 1840-1844, from Dolley Madison to Septimia Randolph Meikleham relating to social and family matters, and specifically Meikleham's marriage. Of particular note are letters from Meriwether Lewis Randolph concerning life in the frontier town of Little Rock, Ark., including fighting off wolves; a letter, 28 August 1825, from John Hemings, a slave, to Septimia Randolph pertaining to the grounds at Poplar Forest; a letter, ca. 1829, from Martha Jefferson Randolph, Lynchburg, Va., to Septimia Randolph, Edgehill, Va., providing an account of her trip to Lynchburg, sewing; and a letter from George Wythe Randolph, 1860 October 14, speculating on the effect of Lincoln's election on the South. There is also a letter, 1843 October 2, from Edward Everett, London, Eng., involving the "Cary estate" and his admiration for Thomas Jefferson; and a letter, 30 January 1878, from Charles Stewart Parnell, Rathdrum, Ireland, to Septimia Randolph Meikleham, concerning his mother's visit to the United States. Of particular interest are a letter, 1792 November 2, from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, concerning family matters and Virginia politics and mentioning Madison and Monroe; a letter, 1820 April 17, from John St. George Randolph, Amelia County, Va., to Thomas Mann Randolph, Richmond, Va., on the dismissal of an overseer; and a list, ca. 1821, in Thomas Jefferson's hand, of slaves' bread distribution. A letter from Archibald Cary at the University of Virginia, to Septimia Randolph, 1834 Dec. 15, mentions that her "acquaintance A. F. E. Robertson (the young man you saw at Davis' & thought so handsome) was shot in the back by an old fellow, while endeavoring to take a dead negro for our anatomical dissections." Additional items include drafts of poems by Septimia Randolph, and Mrs. Hemans, fragments of Cornelia Randolph's music, and a photograph of an unidentified family home.

ArchivalResource: 183 items.

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Great Britain. Consulate (Savannah, Ga.). Great Britain Consulate papers, 1859-1866.

Title: Great Britain Consulate papers, 1859-1866.

The collection consists of correspondence, certificates, and printed material relating to the Confederate policy of conscripting foreigners who overstayed their time limits, proofs of citizenship, and to the blockade of Confederate ports. Correspondents include Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown, Confederate Secretary of State, Judah P. Benjamin, Confederate Secretary of War, G.W. Randolph, the British minister in Washington D.C., Richard B.P. Lyons, and British consuls in Savannah. Post war letters relate to the kidnapping of an African American (Samuel Edwards) from Nassau, to be sold as a slave in Georgia.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft. (1 box)

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Alexander, Peter Wellington, 1825-1886. Peter Wellington Alexander papers, 1835-1910.

Title: Peter Wellington Alexander papers, 1835-1910.

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, and newspapers. These include over four hundred letters to Alexander, as well as miscellaneous letters and telegrams; some of his manuscripts and notes; business records of his law firm; military documents of the western divisions of the Confederate Army; copybooks and letter books; and complete and partial newspapers and clippings from the various Southern newspapers (in particular THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN, the DAILY DISPATCH of Richmond, and the ADVERTISER AND REGISTER of Mobile) which carried Alexander's dispatches.

ArchivalResource: 30 linear ft. ( 18 boxes and 12 flat boxes)

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Randolph, Sarah N. (Sarah Nicholas), 1839-1892. Papers of the Randolph family [manuscript], 1790-1903.

Title: Papers of the Randolph family [manuscript], 1790-1903.

The collection, which contains correspondence of the Randolph and Nicholas families, centers on Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Topics include slavery in Virginia, particularly the emanicipation bill of 1832; University of Virginia, national, state and Albemarle County politics and government; internal improvements; the Second Bank of the United States and the independent treasury system; scientific agriculture; the disposal of the estate of Thomas Jefferson and the impecunity of the Randolph family; Thomas Jefferson Randolph's biography of Jefferson; John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson and the South Carolina nullification crises; Thomas Jefferson Randolph's political campaign in 1832; and the building of a railroad through Albemarle County. The collection also contains scattered business and legal papers including an 1801 land grant to John Lewis signed by James Monroe; correspondence, 1870-1871 of Sarah Nicholas Randolph with Harper and Brothers, N. Y. regarding The domestic life of Thomas Jefferson and an edition of his letters; and correspondence, 1889-1891 between Ellen Wayles (Randolph) Harrison and J. R. Lamb Co., N. Y. regarding a stained glass memeorial window. There is also a considerable amount of miscellaneous printed material. The accounts include one small slip docketed by Jefferson April 22, 1819; and three accounts with John R. Jones, one brought over to the estate of Jefferson and two directly with the estate. Also of interest is a letter (in another hand) from Madison Hemings to [Thomas Jefferson?] Randolph, 1833 Jan. 15, requesting payment for his work. Correspondents include Philip Pendleton Barbour, Charles Lewis Bankhead, James Breckinridge, William H. Cabell, Dabney Carr, Wilson Miles Cary, Charles Cocke, John Hartwell Cocke, Francis Corbin, John Andrew Gardner Davis,, Robley Dunglison, John Patten Emmet, William Maxwell Evarts, Edward Everett, Alexander Garrett, William Branch Giles, Peachy Ridgeway Gilmer, Thomas Walker Gilmer, Duff Green, Randolph Harrison, Madison Hemings, Samuel Leitch, James Murry Mason, Philip Norborne Nicholas, Robert Carter Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas, Joel Roberts Poinsett, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Thomas Mann Randolph, Thomas Ritchie, William Cabell Rives, Samuel Smith, George W. Spooner, John Timberlake, Valentine Wood Southall, Nicholas Philip Trist, Daniel Wolsey Voorhees and Joel Yancey.

ArchivalResource: 3,200 items.

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Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1875. Monticello cemetery papers, 1836-1916.

Title: Monticello cemetery papers, 1836-1916.

This collection consists of a ca. 1871 photograph of George Wythe Randolph's gravestone at Monticello, a ca. 1836 subscription list (copied in 1974) by Thomas Jefferson Randolph to enclose the cemetery at Monticello, and a 1916 transcription list as it appeared in the Monticello Association annual report.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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