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David Homer Bates Papers, 1837-1926

Title: David Homer Bates Papers 1837-1926

Telegrapher. Microfilm of correspondence, diary, journal, facsimiles, photographs, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and drafts and annotated proof sheets of Bates’s writings. Includes eleven Abraham Lincoln manuscripts. Forms part of Alfred Whital Stern collection of Lincolniana in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library.

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm reels

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Kemper, James Lawson, 1823-1895,. Autograph letter signed J.L. Kemper, Madison C.H. Virginia, to William A. Baker [manuscript], 1867 January 7.

Title: Autograph letter signed J.L. Kemper, Madison C.H. Virginia, to William A. Baker [manuscript], 1867 January 7.

Kemper declares that "the people of the South ... lost all in devotion to the grandest cause for which patriot and hero ever drew the sword." To illustrate "our disastrous era," he quotes King Henry IV, Part 1, Act 2, scene 1; Measure for measure, Act 2, scene 1; King Henry VI, Part 3, Act 1, scene 4; and King Henry VI, Part 2, Act 3, scene 1.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 25 x 20 cm.

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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.

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Baldwin, John Brown, 1820-1873. Papers of the McCue family, 1777-1920.

Title: Papers of the McCue family, 1777-1920.

The collection contains correspondence, legal and business papers, accounts, and Confederate Army quartermaster records of McCue family members particularly the Rev. John McCue of Augusta County, Va.; Judge John Howard McCue, Lovingston, Va., lawyer and Confederate Army officer; and William T. McCue, Staunton, Va., lawyer and Democrat. Topics of general interest are life at Randolph-Macon College in the 1830s; professor William E. Peters and the University of Virginia; the Lynchburg Fire Hose Insurance Company; Claudius Crozet and railroad construction; Jedidiah Hotchkiss' plans for opening a school; secession and reconstruction in Virginia, particularly Nelson County; and the University of Virginia chapel. The collection also contains marriage licenses, 1801-1803, for Augusta County, Va.; quartermaster records, 1861-1862, of the 51st Virginia regiment; letters, 1846-1889, of John Daniel Imboden; genealogical information on the McGlachlin, Moffett, and Trimble families; a copy of "The McCues of the Old Dominion," and a Virginia oath of allegiance, 1777.

ArchivalResource: 5000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50846051 View

Kemper, James Lawson, 1823-1895. Papers : of James Lawson Kemper, 1837-1903.

Title: Papers : of James Lawson Kemper, 1837-1903.

The collection contains the correspondence of James Lawson Kemper with, among others, Benjamin Johnson Barbour (concerning George Edward Pickett), John Holmes Bocock, Sarah Margaret Kemper Bocock, John R. Chamberlain, William Westmore Gordon (concerning Joseph Mayo), Lewis Edwin Harvie (concerning the University of Virginia), R.M.T. Hunter, W.H. Swallow (concerning the battle of Gettysburg), James Hoge Tyler (concerning George Edward Pickett), and Robert Enoch Withers (concerning freemasonry). Also included are Kemper's speeches, military commissions in the Virginia militia, law licenses, and notes concerning lawsuits and the Virginia debt; his notebook from Washington College; and diary from the Mexican War. There are letters to Sarah Margaret Kemper Bocock from Cremora Conway Cave Kemper and Maria Elizabeth Allison Kemper; the correspondence of Walter Kemper Bocock with Louisa Anderson Kemper, Robert Warner Lewis, and John Poyntz Tyler; letters from John Leyburn and William K. Pendleton to John Holmes Bocock; and letters from William Kellogg to John Taliaferro (concerning John Gaspar Stadler). John Holmes Bocock, Presbyterian minister in Georgetown, D.C., Fincastle and Halifax, Va., kept commonplace books and notes, some of which have been published in Selections from the Religious and Literary Writings of John H. Bocock, ed. by Sarah Margaret Kemper Bocock (Richmond: Whittet and Shepperson, 1891). Newspaper clippings concerning the Bocock, Flood, and Kemper families, and "Madison Hall," Rockingham County, Va., complete the collection.

ArchivalResource: 142 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29553105 View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1865-1891

Title: Correspondence, 1865-1891

This record unit consists of outgoing correspondence from the Office of the Secretary during the tenures of Joseph, Henry, 1846-1878; Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1878-1887; and Samuel Pierpoint Langley, 1887-1906.

ArchivalResource: 46.06 cu. ft. (62 document boxes) (68 3x5 boxes) (243 microfilm reels)

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Tintypes of James Lawson Kemper and John A. Rosser, ca. 1864.

Title: Tintypes of James Lawson Kemper and John A. Rosser, ca. 1864.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Papers, 1804-1951

Title: Papers, 1804-1951

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Thrift, George N., 1802-ca. 1857. Papers of George N. Thrift, 1825-1985.

Title: Papers of George N. Thrift, 1825-1985.

Include admission cards, 1825-1827, of George N. Thrift to attend medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania; correspondence, 1837-1856, of Thrift, regarding a possible move to Missouri, a fugitive slave, Locust Dale farm, a house for sale in Washington, D.C., attending medical lectures in Philadelphia, Pa., and a description of the city, and insurrections in Cuba and the reception thereof in New Orleans, La., and New York, N.Y. Also include admission card, 1851, of George A. Sommers to lectures in anatomy given by W.E. Horner at Jefferson Medical College; survey, 5 June 1852, of land in Madison County, Va., belonging to George N. Thrift; and statement, 1853, of D.H.E. Sanders, regarding a personal dispute between George N. Thrift and James Lawson Kemper. Also include handwritten copy of a will, 1857, of George N. Thrift, including extensive instructions for the disposition of his lands in Missouri and Virginia as well as his slaves, and provision for his wife and children. Also include letter, 26 April [186-?], from George A. Sommers, Greenwood Depot, Albemarle County, Va., to his wife, regarding family matters, the respective positions of Confederate and Union forces in the vicinity, as well as the morale of the people in Albemarle and Augusta counties, Va.; and letter, 2 April 1875, N.M. Wilson & Co., Richmond, Va., to James Early Thrift, Madison County, Va., regarding the tobacco and grain markets. Also include two newspaper clippings, 1985, regarding 19th- and early 20th-century physicians in Madison County, Va.; portrait, n.d., of George N. Thrift; daguerreotype portrait, n.d., of George A. Sommers; and two photographs, n.d., of Locust Dale (Military) Academy, Madison County, Va.

ArchivalResource: 27 items.

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Kemper, James Lawson, 1823-1895. 19th century Governor's letter of permission, 1875 Oct. 26.

Title: 19th century Governor's letter of permission, 1875 Oct. 26.

A letter signed by Governor James L. Kemper giving permission, addressee unknown, to exclusive use to his office on the day stated on the letter, October 26, 1875.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 pa.); 12 x 9 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122468183 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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Perry, Elizabeth. Papers of the McCue, Martin, and Perry families [manuscript] ca. 1800-1930.

Title: Papers of the McCue, Martin, and Perry families [manuscript] ca. 1800-1930.

There is a partial chronological listing in the control folder, and an incompleted slip list. McCue family papers include a sermon book, 1800-10, of John McCue; correspondence of John Howard McCue and his wife S.C.E. McCue regarding efforts to release their son John Willis McCue from prison-- for a killing while with Mosby's rangers-- the defense of young McCue by Milton Whitney, 1865 May 12 [16 l. transcript (typewritten)] Correspondents includes John Minor Botts, John Daniel Imboden, James Lawson Kemper, Alexander Rives, William Cabell Rives, and Henry Alexander Wise. Papers of William T. McCue include business and political correspondence, and materials pertaining to the Va. Democratic Party, 1890-1910. Correspondents include: William Jennings Bryan, John Warwick Daniel, James Taylor Ellyson, Henry Delaware Flood, Andrew Jackson Montague, Claude Augustus Swanson, and Henry St. George Tucker. Martin family papers are personal letters within the family, 1854-87; correspondents including: J. Thomas R. Martin, confederate soldier, his parents John S. Martin and Susan P. Martin, and sister Harriet R. Martin Perry, also Beall Martin who writes of Europe in 1919. Perry family papers include letters, 1850-70 of Rev. William Perry of Maryland to his wife Harriet R. Martin Perry, and a diary, 1868-69. Correspondence between Mrs. Perry, her husband and children: Susan Perry, Russell Perry, William Willie Perry and John Martin Perry who describes life at U.Va. in 1887. The collection contains a few, infrequent references to slaves including a letter, 1856 December 29, from Lexington mentioning "excitement about some fears lest there should be a Negro riot"; and a letter from a Confederate soldeir, 1864 July 17, requesting his uncle to trade him a slave for a good horse. Also, albums, account books, receipts, bills, wills and deeds belonging to all three families. Marriage licenses, 1805-09 [6 items]--Literary digest liberty map of the Western front ... of the great World War, 1918 [Cloth. with index].

ArchivalResource: 630 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647937969 View

Kemper, James Lawson, 1823-1895. Letter to Dr. A. G. Grinnan, 1856 June 4.

Title: Letter to Dr. A. G. Grinnan, 1856 June 4.

Kemper discusses his plans to visit Iowa for investment purposes and conveys news of Madison County, Virginia, particularly recent local elections.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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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

Kemper, James Lawson, 1823-1895. Letters of James Lawson Kemper to John Rutherfoord [manuscript] 1841-63.

Title: Letters of James Lawson Kemper to John Rutherfoord [manuscript] 1841-63.

Microfilm of James Lawson Kemper letters to John Rutherfoord in the John Rutherfoord Papers, Duke University.

ArchivalResource: 13 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647937676 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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647873563 View

Echols, John, 1823-1896. Letters by John Echols and W. Fearing Gill [manuscript], 1897 and 1908.

Title: Letters by John Echols and W. Fearing Gill [manuscript], 1897 and 1908.

Include letter, 1867 June 4, John Echols, Staunton, Va., to the "Richmond Whig" requesting publication of an announcement that James L. Kemper will not be speaking at the Washington College commencement. Also include a (draft) letter, 1908 November 13, W. Fearing Gill, Medford, Mass., to an unnamed correspondent, chiefly concerning plans to celebrate Poe's centenary.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647817491 View

Janney, Lilias. Janney-Pollock papers, 1865-1901.

Title: Janney-Pollock papers, 1865-1901.

Letter, 1865 June 12, James Lawson Kemper, Richmond, to H.D. Pollock describing the death of Pollock's son, Thomas Gordon Pollock during George Edward Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. Letter, 1865, October 2, Gen. Gabriel C. Wharton, Central Depot Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, to B.B. Long describing the death of Long's son, Melchior Mason Long at the battle of Cedar Creek. Also included is a letter, 1901 September 17, Charles P. Janney, Leesburg, Virginia, to his wife, with a reference to the funeral ofWilliam McKinley. Invitation, 1900 October 20, to a meeting of the Daughters of the Confederacy, Loudoun Hotel, Leesburg, Va.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31254495 View

Kemper, James Lawson, 1823-1895. Papers, 1800-1894 (bulk 1841-1888).

Title: Papers, 1800-1894 (bulk 1841-1888).

These papers contain political correspondence and a few family letters. Of particular significance is the political correspondence during the Civil War and during Kemper's term as governor. Among the correspondents are: Robert A. Banks, James Barbour, J.B. Davis, Jubal A. Early, George H. Geiger, James S. Greever, Ambrose P. Hill, John V. Hill, Thomas J. Humphrey, John Hunton (from the Wyoming Territory, 1875), W.E. Jones, Thomas Jordan, W.T. Patton, G.W. Richardson, J.C. Rutherfoord, John Scott of Fauquier, Mann Spitler, H.N. Wallace and Sidney Wallace.

ArchivalResource: .5 cubic ft.

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Virginia. Board of Immigration. Brock Collection: Correspondence of Virginia State Board of Immigration, 1875-1879.

Title: Brock Collection: Correspondence of Virginia State Board of Immigration, 1875-1879.

Letters received by the Board, chiefly addressed to Governor James Lawson Kemper and Samuel H. Boykin, Secretary of the Board. The correspondence documents the state government's attempt to attract immigrants from other states and from abroad, particularly from England, Scotland, and Germany. The correspondence falls roughly into two categories: applications for agents' positions, and requests for literature published by Board, particularly for Jedediah Hotckkiss' "Virginia; a geographical and political summary" (Richmond, Va., 1876) and Matthew Fontaine Maury's "Physical survey of Virginia" (Richmond, Va. 1878.) There are a few items relating to a competition between the Board and various state and commercial agencies promoting emigration to the West and letters from emigration agencies in Great Britain and charitable immigration societies in the state. Correspondents include Jedediah Hotchkiss. Also included are orders and minutes of meetings of the Board (1877-1878).

ArchivalResource: 175 pieces.2 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122510124 View

Benan, Nathan S. S. (Nathan Sidney Smith), 1785-1871. Virginiana, 1876-1971.

Title: Virginiana, 1876-1971.

The collection contains photographs, autographs, clippings, and other souvenirs from the scrapbook of William P. Tannehill, a student at Augusta Military Academy in the 1920s. Among his miscellaneous memorabilia is a pamphlet by Nathan S.S. Beman titled "Female Influence and Obligations." Correspondence of Tannehill includes letters of introduction, and a letter of welcome from Hunter B. Blakely, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Staunton, Va. Correspondence of the Bowling family concerns Alexander Sprunt and other family members and chiefly conveys personal news. Of interest is a letter, 1876 December 1, from M.M. Walker, surgeon at the Virginia State Penitentiary, to Governor James Lawson Kemper reporting on inadequate space per inmate.

ArchivalResource: 144 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32136034 View

Kemper, James Lawson, 1823-1895. Papers of the Janney and Pollock families [manuscript], 1865-1901.

Title: Papers of the Janney and Pollock families [manuscript], 1865-1901.

Letter, 1865 June 12, James Lawson Kemper, Richmond, to H. D. Pollock describing the death of Pollock's son, Thomas Gordon Pollock during George Edward Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. Letter, 1865, October 2, Gen. Gabriel C. Wharton, Central Depot Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, to B. B. Long describing the death of Long's son, Melchior Mason Long at the battle of Cedar Creek. Also included is a letter, 1901 September 17, Charles P. Janney, Leesburg, Virginia, to his wife, with a reference to the funeral ofWilliam McKinley. Invitation, 1900 October 20, to a meeting of the Daughters of the Confederacy, Loudoun Hotel, Leesburg, Va.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647839096 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

Kemper, James Lawson, 1823-1895. Letters : to James Lawson Kemper, 1868-1877.

Title: Letters : to James Lawson Kemper, 1868-1877.

Includes letters to Kemper on various business matters, including three letters during his tenure as governor. Among the correspondents are E. J. and T. J. Polk, Robert A. Richardson, and William J. Robertson.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/319065043 View

Walker family. Correspondence of the Walker family, 1853-1936.

Title: Correspondence of the Walker family, 1853-1936.

The collection contains business and personal correspondence between Charles Yates Aglionby, his wife Fanny Walker Aglionby, her father James W. Walker, and other members of the family including mention of cures for tuberculosis, depredations by the Federal army during the Civil War, reconstruction in the South, a vivid account of the flood in Rockingham County, Va., in 1870, and a financial account of the Woodberry Forest School in 1912. Gen. James L. Kemper is included among the correspondents. Also included is genealogical information on the Carter, Goss, Green, Porter, Scott, Shackelford, Walker, and Wood families.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel : positive ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793088 View

Photographs of Confederate officers, n.d.

Title: Photographs of Confederate officers, n.d.

A collection of photographs, chiefly of Confederate officers and other Civil War personalities assembled by Thomas Hughes. Images include magazine photos, cartes-de-visite and a postcard (of Stonewall Jackson). Men depicted include James J. Archer, P.G.T. Beauregard, Braxton Bragg, Simon B. Bolivar, Mr. Castleman, Raleigh Edward Colston, Richard S. Ewell, John B. Gordon, Wade Hampton, A.P. Hill, John Bell Hood, Stonewall Jackson, Joseph E. Johnston, John Marshall Jones (negataive only), Samuel Jones, James L. Kemper, James Henry Lane, George Washington Custis Lee, Mansfield Lovell, H.B. Lyon, and William Peck and Isaac Munroe St. John (negative only).

ArchivalResource: 55 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145741448 View

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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Kemper, James Lawson, 1823-1895. Financial journal of James Lawson Kemper, 1861-1871.

Title: Financial journal of James Lawson Kemper, 1861-1871.

Kemper's daily account of debts and credits is chiefly post-war though there are a few records during his service in the Confederate army. The volume contains an account with his servant Horace (p. 232) who is also mentioned on pp. 44-45. On January 1, 1867 Kemper mentions the dissolution of his partnership with W.O. Fry and removal to new law offices in Madison County. Laid in the volume is a copy of a letter, 1856 June 4, Kemper to A.G. Grinnan discussing a western land speculation trip, and conveying local news including a recent election in Madison County, Va.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51929502 View

Photographic Portrait File

Title: Photographic Portrait File

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Clark, Edwin Parsons, Dr. Items from the papers of Dr. Edwin Parsons Clark, of Willow Grove, Orange County, Va. and The plains, Fauquier County [manuscript] 1803-1906.

Title: Items from the papers of Dr. Edwin Parsons Clark, of Willow Grove, Orange County, Va. and The plains, Fauquier County [manuscript] 1803-1906.

Included is a land grant, 6 July 1830, to John Jones for lands in Habersham County, Ga. change of station orders, 14 Feb. 1863, issued by the Chief Surgeon's Office, C.S.A. Richmond, Va. Mrs. Charles Aglion by (nee Judith Francis Walker), recalling personalities and events in Orange County, personal correspondence of Dr. Clark letters and bills concerning the estate of Amanda Clark and an account books, 1839-1850, of William David Clark. Correspondents include Amanda Clark, Taliaferro Clark, William D. Clark, John A. Emmerson, James L. Kemper, Joseph J. Halsey, and Francis H. Smith.

ArchivalResource: 75 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647952832 View

Tunstall, Nannie Whitmell. Papers, 1842-1886 (bulk 1875-1878).

Title: Papers, 1842-1886 (bulk 1875-1878).

Letters to Nannie W. Tunstall from Va. Governor James Lawson Kemper and George Washington Custis Lee, chiefly concerned with social affairs.

ArchivalResource: 21 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41150375 View

French, Samuel Bassett, 1820-1898. Papers, 1858-1892.

Title: Papers, 1858-1892.

Letters, 1858-1892, received by Samuel Bassett French. Most concern biographical sketches for his projected biographical book, The Annals of Prominent Virginians of the XIXth Century. The book was never published. Other letters concern politics. Prominent correspondents include William Evelyn Cameron, Jubal Anderson Early, James Lawson Kemper, Fitzhugh Lee, Phillip Watkins McKinney, John Barbee Minor, Roger A. Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, John Sherman, John Randolph Tucker and Lyon G. Tyler.

ArchivalResource: 52 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22742888 View

Records of the U.S. Coast Guard.

Title: Records of the U.S. Coast Guard.

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Baldwin, John Brown, 1820-1873,. Papers of the McCue family [manuscript], 1767-1944.

Title: Papers of the McCue family [manuscript], 1767-1944.

The collection contains correspondence, legal and business papers, legal case notes, genealogical material, school notebooks and bound volumes, accounts, and Confederate Army quartermaster records of McCue family members particularly the Rev. John McCue of Augusta County, Va.; Judge John Howard McCue, Lovingston, Va., lawyer and Confederate Army officer; and William T. McCue, Staunton, Va., lawyer and Democrat. Topics of general interest are life at Randolph-Macon College in the 1830s; slavery, including hires, pre-war emancipations, a law suit and sales; sectionalism and efforts to preserve the Union; professor William E. Peters and the University of Virginia; the Lynchburg Fire Hose Insurance Company; Claudius Crozet, railroad construction and inventions; Jedidiah Hotchkiss' plans for opening a school; the Civil War, particularly in western Virginia and the Valley, including John B. Floyd's retreat from Carnifex Ferry; and secession and reconstruction in Virginia, particularly in Nelson County. Prominent people mentioned include Claudius Crozet, John Buchanan Floyd, Horace Greeley, Jedediah Hotchkiss, Stonewall Jackson, William Mahone, and William E. Peters. Political papers include election returns, a secession resolution, a letter to the editor on African-American suffrage, and a Nelson County meeting on Andrew Jackson. The collection also contains marriage licenses, 1801-1803, for Augusta County, Va.; quartermaster records, 1861-1862, of the 51st Virginia regiment; letters, 1846-1889, of John Daniel Imboden; genealogical information on the McGlachlin, Moffett, and Trimble families; a copy of "The McCues of the Old Dominion," a Virginia oath of allegiance, 1777, clippings on Augusta County politics, ca. 1900-1905, and photographs, largely unidentified. Correspondents include John S. Barbour, Thomas Barry, Thomas S. Bocock, John Minor Botts, D. S. G. Cabell, Mayo Cabell, William C. Cabell, Claudius Crozet, Robert E. Cutler, R. L. Dabney, John W. Daniel, James B. Dorman, Lyman Draper, R. T. W. Duke, Dr. James A. Forbes, Edward Echols, John Echols, Thomas Walker Gilmer, Don P. Halsey, James Marshall Hanger, Col. A. W. Harman, John B. Imboden, James Lawson Kemper, Joseph L. S. Kirby, Shelton Leake, Robert E. Lee, John Letcher, John F. Lewis, John McCue, and John Howard McCue. Also John Howard McCue, Hudson Martin, John E. Massey, N. H. Massie, Matthew Fontaine Maury, John Newton, Royal Paris, John Paul, William E. Peters, Alexander Rives, William C. Rives, John Robertson, Roger A. Pryor, Leverett Saltonstall, C. Whittle Sams, Joseph Santini, Hugh Sheffey, James C. Southall, John Spiece, Alexander H. H. Stuart, Wiliam T. Sutherlin, Nicholas K. Trout, G. W. Truehart, James A. Walker, Robert Whitehead, Elisha E. Wills, William Withrow, Drury Wood, and Edgar Woods.

ArchivalResource: 10,000 items.

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McConville, D. D. Confederate Collection, 1861-1918, 1862-1863.

Title: Confederate Collection, 1861-1918, 1862-1863.

Miscellaneous collection of orders, reports, lists of men and casualties, dates of commissions, and letters, mostly addressed to Gen. James Lawson Kemper or about his brigade; also list of members of the United Confederate Veterans, Garland-Rodes Camp (1918), list of Confederate veterans living in the Lynchburg, Virginia, area, and other items.

ArchivalResource: 1 binder.

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Munford, George Wythe, d. 1882. Papers, 1828-1891.

Title: Papers, 1828-1891.

These items consist of records relevant to Munford and his family, in addition to documents which he appears to have obtained while Secretary of the Commonwealth. Several items concern Powhatan Ellis, Charles Ellis, and Thomas H. Ellis. Included are two sermons which appear to be those of the Reverend John Buchanan, rector of St. John's Church, Henrico Parish, 1785-1822, and a history of the Buchanan Springs Quoit Club, which was an influential group of prominent Richmond men who met to socialize and discuss politics and government.

ArchivalResource: 30 items (143 p.)

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Adams, Stephen, 1835-. Papers of the Barbour family [manuscript], 1793-1941.

Title: Papers of the Barbour family [manuscript], 1793-1941.

The collection consists chiefly of the personal and financial papers of James Barbour, his son, Benjamin Johnson Barbour, and granddaughter Caroline Homassel Barbour Ellis. Topics of interest include complaints of extravagance by a Harvard student, 1815; the War of 1812; slaves and slavery (including an 1854 inventory); genealogy; the American Party and its opposition to Roman Catholics as office holders; rail travel from Virginia to Florida in 1857; cotton; Orange County court house construction; and Reconstruction, the Republican Party, and the Virginia Convention of 1867. Also the Immigration Society; the shooting of General Thompson by Osceola at Ft. King; William Mahone's political activities; a St. Paul law practice in 1886; the Minneapolis exposition, 1886; the destruction of Madison letters by a gardener; a building for the Library of Congress; Fitzhugh Lee as governor; Thomas L. Rosser's political opinions; and Russian and Polish affairs, 1889. Also James Barbour's orations, 1890; race relations in 1891; the Boer War; the San Francisco earthquake; a 1917 poetry reading by Robert Frost; Red Cross Work; Catherine Booth; the Yorktown Sesquecentennial; and Garden Week. University of Virginia topics include the Student Infirmary Fund, 1867; Washington Hall, 1869; renovations and additions, 1869; astronomical observations, 1869; a department of agriculture, 1870; and the detrimental effect of politics on the University, 1884. Also the selling of the Lee family papers to the Library of Congress, 1886; the resevoir and dam, 1886; reorganization of various schools, 1887; recasting of the bell; the hiring and resignation of professors; Dr. Harrison's affair; and Presbyterian influence. The collection also contains ballot sheets for the election of Zachary Taylor; a William Henry Harrison political cartoon; U.Va. Board of Visitors resolutions, 1850-1865, on faculty salaries; minutes and membership lists, 1876-1879, of the Lay Association Virginia Diocese of the Episcopal Church; minutes, 1892, of the U.Va. Society of Alumni; photographs of Barboursville; slave inventories; and copies of General orders, August - November 1861, issued by Generals Banks, and McClellan, U.S. Army of the Potomac.

ArchivalResource: 3 feet.

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Ewell family papers [manuscript], 1819-1918.

Title: Ewell family papers [manuscript], 1819-1918.

Papers, chiefly of Dr. Jesse Ewell, Jr., contain an essay, "Medical and surgical history of Virginia" by Dr. Ewell which contains names and biographical sketches of approximately 166 surgeons and physicians. The papers also contain a scrapbook, chiefly devoted to Virginia and Maryland heraldry; a manuscript biographical sketch of Gen. Richard S. Ewell, C.S.A.; some correspondence which is chiefly personal and family, but with one letter, 16 Feb. 1860, relating to Virginia secession that mentions James L. Kemper; and a newspaper clipping listing a partial roster of Virginia physicians and the units in which they served while in the Confederate Army.

ArchivalResource: 30 items.

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Morton, James W. (James Williams), 1842-. Papers of James Williams Morton [manuscript], 1889-1909.

Title: Papers of James Williams Morton [manuscript], 1889-1909.

Morton's legal correspondence constitutes the bulk of the collection. Most of it concerns debt collection but there are many items from routine legal cases he handled and some personal letters from relatives and friends including his former partner, James Lawson Kemper, and his overseer at "Soldier's Rest" John E. Grady. There are a few political letters from WiIliam Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning the Orange County Democratic Party. Larger topics include the building of a new home and the settlement of the estate of George Terrell. A record book and index to the 1895-98 correspondence completes the collection.

ArchivalResource: 1600 items.

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