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Atkinson, Thomas, 1807-1881. Thomas Atkinson Letter to the Rev. John Sinclair [manuscript], 1859 April 25.

Title: Thomas Atkinson Letter to the Rev. John Sinclair [manuscript], 1859 April 25.

Atkinson, Wilimington, N.C., sends a letter of introduction for University of Virginia Professor James P. Holcombe who is traveling in Europe for his health.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647946244 View

Granberry, John Cowper. Papers of Bishop John Cowper Granberry, 1861-1876.

Title: Papers of Bishop John Cowper Granberry, 1861-1876.

Granberry's early letters describe life at the University of Virginia, some of the faculty, particularly James Holcombe, and attitudes towards the secession crisis. The majority of the letters were written during his service as Confederate chaplain and discuss religious activity among the troops as well as the Seven Days Battles in which he was wounded and captured, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and the siege of Petersburg. He frequently comments on war news from elsewhere in the Confederacy. Eight post war letters, 1866-1868, 1876 and 1878 describe church conferences he attended particularly in New Orleans. There are also eleven letters to him from his second wife, Ella, conveying family news.

ArchivalResource: 141 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30792977 View

Bramham, A. W. Letters, chiefly relating to the Dade family, 1845-1858.

Title: Letters, chiefly relating to the Dade family, 1845-1858.

The collection contains two letters, 1856 and 1858, Henry Dade, Charlottesville, Va., to his father, A.G. Dade, regarding work as a storekeeper, illness in the city, fears he may have consumption, and other personal matters. There are also two letters, 1858 and n.d., A.W. Bramham to her father, A.G. Dade, Westmoreland County, Va., about family news, Bishop Meade's book, Professor Holcombe at the University of Virginia, local political sentiment, the next Congressional election, and an unjust accusation against her husband, a clergyman. There is also a letter, 1845, A.P. Ralls, Charlottesville, Va., to a nephew about family news and hopes for a teaching position.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50995608 View

Ambler, John. Miscellaneous Virginia papers [manuscript], 1826-1950.

Title: Miscellaneous Virginia papers [manuscript], 1826-1950.

The collection includes letters, University of Virginia student notebooks of Archer and Joseph R.J. Anderson, account books and ledgers from various Virginia businesses, and a genealogical record of the Withrow family of Rockbridge County. Of interest is a letter, 1826, from Thomas Mann Randolph to F.W. Maury at the University of Virginia, asking to read and comment upon a translation. Also include letters, 1875-1876, from Mrs. J.H. Fultz to Washington May re: money for Leanna (a freedwoman) and her child; and notes, ca. 1859, in Archer Anderson's school notebook, ca. 1860s, on slavery, disunion and northern and southern character, and volume I of Noah Davis's psychology lectures.

ArchivalResource: 50 (ca.) items.

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Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884,. Letters : from James P. Holcombe and C. C. Clay, Jr. [stats], 1864.

Title: Letters : from James P. Holcombe and C. C. Clay, Jr. [stats], 1864.

Letters sent to Benjamin in his capacity as Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America. They concern a diplomatic mission to Canada from the C. S. A., during which Holcombe and Clay met with an envoy from the U. S. who encouraged actions towards peace in part to secure the states from possible foreign invasion.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (11 leaves) ; 40 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612798830 View

Bell, Edna Evans. Papers of the Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur families of Somerset County, Maryland, and Accomack and Northampton Counties, Virginia [manuscript] 1759 (1800-1898) 1968.

Title: Papers of the Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur families of Somerset County, Maryland, and Accomack and Northampton Counties, Virginia [manuscript] 1759 (1800-1898) 1968.

The collection contains correspondence of Elizabeth Upshur Teackle, Littleton Dennis Teackle, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle Quinby, Aaron Balderston Quinby, and Upshur Balderston Quinby with friends, family and business associates. They send news regarding family affairs and local events with a few references to national events, particularly the War of 1812. Of interest are the letterbook, 1805-1807, of Littleton D. Teackle detailing his eastern shore ship supply business, and Great Britain and West Indies trade, correspondence, 1837-1842, of Aaron B. Quinby regarding ship propellers and improved steamboat design, and letters regarding the contemplated construction of a railroad through the eastern shore in 1836. There are also letters, 1825 & 1843, from Henry Clay on paper money and the Whigs, a letter, 1826, from James Madison, on primary schools in Maryland, letters, 1840s, from Jese B. Quinby on English investment in the U.S., letters from Isaac Dashiell Jones and others to Daniel Webster recommending AB Quinby for a patent office job, letters of Upshur B. Quinby, 1860-61, from U. Va. describing Monticello and the University on the outbreak of war. The collection also contains recommendations and a legal opinion, 1877 and 1879, of John Barbee Minor, and U.B. Quinby's correspondence regarding Onancock Academy and his candidacy for the Eastern Shore Circuit Court Judgeship in the 1880s, and a letter, 1861, from Pittsfield, Mass. describing the death of Mrs. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Legal papers of A.B. and U.B. Quinby contain correspondence regarding debt collection, property claims, a Virginia Military District land claim and personal land holdings. Genealogical material includes charts, Bible records and correspondence regarding the related Andrews, Balderston, Cutler, Dennis, Little, Quinby, Revell, Richardson, Scarburgh, Stockley, Sturges, Teackle, Upshur, Walter, and West families. The collection also contains prayerbooks, commonplace books, law lecture notes from the U. Va., classes of J.B. Minor and James Philemon Holcombe, Onancock Academy fee & account books, farm and legal account books, an Accomack Co. court practise book, "My birthplace and my home, "1968, by Edna Evans Bell regarding Roanoke Island, N.C.,and two clippings concerning Upshur B. Quinby, 1881, 1898. Correspondents include Richard Lee Tuberville Beale, James Biddle, George Edmund Badger, Andrew Donaldson Campbell, Robert Thruston Hubard, Judge John M. Jeffries, the Rev. J.W. Hoffman of Monroe, Conn. James Kirke Paulding, Charles Stuart, and Henry Alexander Wise.

ArchivalResource: 2.8 ft. (1,300 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647962675 View

Hubard, Robert Thruston, 1839-1921. Notebook of Robert Thruston Hubard [manuscript], 1860-1866.

Title: Notebook of Robert Thruston Hubard [manuscript], 1860-1866.

The volume contains notes from the lectures, 1860-1861, on mercantile law, of James Philemon Holcombe, an analysis of the rules of pleading in "Stephen pleading," a catalog of his law library, and Hubard's Civil War reminiscences, 1865-1866, of service with the Cumberland Light Dragoons (Company G, Third Regiment Virginia Cavalry). Hubard's reminiscences give an overall account of the causes of the war and Virginia's entry and relates his own participation from events at the University of Virginia in 1861 through his wounding in the war's last week. Topics include winter camp life in 1861, and the battles of Big Bethel, Yorktown, Williamsburg, the Peninsular campaign, Antietam, Stuart's Dumfries Raid, Kellys Ford, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Rappahannock Bridge, Spotsylvania, Yellow Tavern, Cold Harbor, Wilson & Kautz's Petersburg Raid, Winchester, and Sheridan's Valley campaign, 1864-1865. The collection also contains a genealogy "The descendants of Robert Thruston Hubard (1808-1871) by William Stebbins Hubard, 1999,

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647820518 View

Faw, Enoch, 1835-1902. Enoch Faw diary [manuscript], 1857 September 25-October 9.

Title: Enoch Faw diary [manuscript], 1857 September 25-October 9.

Faw records his matriculation at the University of Virginia and early session activities, including book buying at G. F. Jones's store. He describes a visit to Monticello and Thomas Jefferson's delapidated grave and mentions several professors and fellow students including James P. Holcombe, Isaac Hudson, and John Barbee Minor.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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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.

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Bedford County, Va., slave lists 1865 January; n.d.

Title: Bedford County, Va., slave lists 1865 January; n.d.

The collection consists of two slave lists. The first, undated list, contains the names of 99 slave owners whose slaves were impressed for thirty days by the Confederate Army. Among the owners named are University of Virginia law professor James P. Holcombe and Confederate Colonel Thomas T. Munford. The second concerns slaves who fled to the Union army and contains the names of the slave holders; whether the slaves were owned or hired; the number who escaped, and in some instances their ages, date of escape, and names. Professor Holcombe is listed as having lost 10, none named. Almost all listed fled on the 17th of June 1864, when Union General David Hunter's troops skirmished with Jubal Early at Lynchburg.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49050468 View

Hay, John, 1838-1905. Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Hendry" to "House".

Title: Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Hendry" to "House".

Includes letters to Hay and to members of his family.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 6,000 items.

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Coxe, Harriet. Papers of the Dinwiddie Family [manuscript], 1846-1937.

Title: Papers of the Dinwiddie Family [manuscript], 1846-1937.

The collection includes 39 letters of William Dinwiddie, 1846-1878. Many of the letters concern the Civil War in Albemarle County, Va., especially the Confederate hospital in Greenwood. Correspondents include James P. Holcombe, Lucius Q.C. Lamar, R.L. Dabney, Hunter McGuire, and Stonewall Jackson. The collection also contains a scrapbook of articles concerning Albert Taylor Bledsoe, 1877-1878, and a typescript memorandum book of Bledsoe; and a manuscript notebook of Harriet Coxe containing algebra notes. There are also genealogical notes on the Coxe family, especially regarding Dr. Daniel Coxe. Of interest are maps of Big Sewell Mountain, autumn, 1861.

ArchivalResource: 50 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647924313 View

Holcombe, James Philemon, 1820-1873. Letter, Richmond, Va., to Humphrey Howe Leavitt, Steubenville, Ohio [manuscript] 1851 May 8.

Title: Letter, Richmond, Va., to Humphrey Howe Leavitt, Steubenville, Ohio [manuscript] 1851 May 8.

Concerning establishing an additional chair in law dept. at the University of Virginia to embrace the branches of equity and commercial law; and law school faculty.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Granberry, J. C. (John Cowper) 1829-1907. John Cowper Granberry papers [manuscript], 1861-1876.

Title: John Cowper Granberry papers [manuscript], 1861-1876.

Granberry's early letters describe life at the University of Virginia, some of the faculty, particularly James Holcombe, and attitudes towards the secession crisis. The majority of the letters were written during his service as Confederate chaplain and discuss religious acitivity among the troops as well as the Seven Days Battles in which he was wounded and captured, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and the siege of Petersburg. He frequently comments on war news from elsewhere in the Confederacy. Eight post war letters, 1866-1868, 1876 and 1878 describe church conferences he attended particularly in New Orleans. There are also eleven letters to him from his second wife, Ella, conveying family news.

ArchivalResource: 141 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647835248 View

Berkeley, William, Sir, 1605-1677. Papers of the Latané and related Waring, Allen, Temple, Roane and Dix families [manuscript], 1650-1898 (bulk 1720-1854).

Title: Papers of the Latané and related Waring, Allen, Temple, Roane and Dix families [manuscript], 1650-1898 (bulk 1720-1854).

The collection consists chiefly of business and legal papers of the family but also contains correspondence, military, genealogical and religious papers, school notebooks and University of Virginia certificates of graduation. Business and legal papers include deeds, patents, leases, bills of lading, wills, indentures, invoices, land grants of Sir William Berkeley and Baron Effingham, surveyors plats and reports, financial accounts and receipts for tobacco shipped to England and articles purchased there. Topics in the correspondence include the tobacco trade, settlement of the estate of Lewis Latané (d. 1732), plantation management, life in Harden County, Ky., slavery, and the University of Virginia. Military papers document the career of James Allen, a captain in the 6th Regiment, Virginia Militia, 1824-1828, and include orders, returns, and rosters, as well as one earlier forage abstract from the Virginia Militia under John Hartwell Cocke in the War of 1812. Religious papers chiefly involve Southfarnham Parish in Essex County, and include a hymnbook, a letter from Alexander Spotswood, 1716, re a suspension from ministerial office and an Act for the Better Support of the Clergy, 1727. University of Virginia notebooks of James Allen Latané and George Magruder cover mathematics, the moral philosophy lectures of William Holmes McGuffey, junior law lectures of John Barbee Minor, and senior law lectures of James P. Holcombe. There is also a children's arithmetic book, ca. 1721, of Henry Latané. Miscellaneous items include an 1812 issue of the "Virginia Argus," and a 1781 issue of the "Virginia Herald," an address delivered to the Jefferson Society of the University of Virginia in 1853, an 18th century music book, and Virginia currency notes, 1757-1778.

ArchivalResource: 710 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647830757 View

Bohn, Casimir. Photographs of Casimir Bohn engravings of the University of Virginia faculty [manuscript], 19??

Title: Photographs of Casimir Bohn engravings of the University of Virginia faculty [manuscript], 19??

Photographs of engravings of the University of Virginia faculty published by C. Bohn of Washington, D.C. with A. B. Walter as engraver. The engravings were inserted in University of Virginia autograph albums published by Bohn in 1859. Also included is one image of the Honorable Henry A. Wise, Govenor of Virginia and former member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 16 photos.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647911271 View

University of Virginia. Chairman of the Faculty. Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty [manuscript], 1827-1864.

Title: Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty [manuscript], 1827-1864.

Earlier volumes discuss a variety of University business involving the Board of Visitors, proctors, janitors, patrons, and hotel keepers. The earliest contain verbatim transcripts of the chairman's correspondence, student petitions, etc. Later volumes focus on student affairs. The chairman recorded faculty resolutions, withdrawals, dismissals and leaves of absence for students; refunding of fees; dispersal of monies for student purchases; admonishments to individual students for poor academic work and improper behavior (drinking, gambling, swearing, chewing, flute and horn playing, lighting fire crackers, food throwing, brandishing pistols and knives, cock fighting, appearing out of uniform, keeping dogs, playing ball on the Sabbath, firing tar barrels on the Lawn, failing to rise early, etc); student disturbances and disciplinary measures; course changes; student complaints, chiefly concerning food and lodging; names of ministers invited to preach; disrepair of facilities; a bequest of books by Christian Bohn, 1838; and Jefferson birthday and 4th of July celebrations. Specific incidents of student disturbances include: shooting dogs, 1831; the stealing of horses from worshippers at the Baptist Church for a race; attacking a local bookseller, 1831; hazing of new matriculates and exploding gunpowder at a professors' window 1833; visiting a house of prostitution, 1833; an altercation involving future Congressman A. H. Buckner, 1833; averting a duel involving future C.S.A. general Louis Wigfall, 1835; the non-fatal shooting of a student following a drunken party, 1837; the horsewhipping of Gessner Harrison by two former students, 1839 and the subsequent shooting of one of the two by a constable; and the setting of a fire by an insane student, 1863. There are frequent mentions of students' and professors' "servants" [i.e. slaves] in the earlier volumes and occasional mention of "University hands" in the later ones. Some of the incidents recorded include the flogging of "Thornton" for stealing, 1829; an assault on a female slave of Professor Patterson's, 1830; a free black washerwoman of bad character, 1830; "Thornton" and "Albert" gambling, 1831; Lewis Commodore, the bell ringer, "having proved a most valuable servant " was purchased by the University after he was "exposed to public sale in Charlottesville," 1832; student Merrit M. Robinson's Jefferson's Birthday oration mentioning abolition viewed unfavorably by students and faculty, 1832; student mistreatment of slaves, 1835-36; slaves supplying alcohol to students, 1837; dispute over hotel slaves doing errands in town for students, 1837; the beating of Lewis [Commodore] during a student prank, 1837; illegal keeping of hogs, 1838; ill slave necessitated student making own fire and carrying own water, 1838; the beating of "Fielding" for insolence by three students who also restrained Professor Bonnycastle from interfering, 1839; and the removal from the grounds of "Jackson," who had a white wife. Topics of interest in the history of the University include the Mosby-Turpin affair, 1853; attendance at Presidential inaugurals, 1856, 1860; typhoid epidemics of 1829 and 1857; deaths and funerals of faculty, officers and board members; denial of public space for Clay and Jackson political rallies, 1832; selection of chaplains, 1833; brawl between students and wagoneers, 1833; efforts to shut down Keller's, a confectionary that sold liquor to students, 1835; objections to a Christmas recess and to allowing preaching by a Baptist minister, 1835; formation of a military company and student possession of firearms, followed by a general student "rebellion," 1836; a legislative committee's investigation of affairs at the University, particularly in regard to student riots, admission of students expelled elsewhere and the keeping of student money by the Patron, 1846; and the death of a student in a brawl during a wild animal show, 1846. Civil War events include students volunteering in defense of the state after John Brown's Harper's Ferry raid, 1859; formation of the "Sons of Liberty" and "Southern Guard," 1860; Professor Holcombe's resignation to serve in the Virginia Secession Convention, 1861; raising the Confederate flag over the Rotunda; the expedition to seize the arsenal at Harper's Ferry with a listing of the rolls of the Sons of Liberty and Southern Guard, 1861; granting of Rober E. Lee, Jr., permission to form a military company and later permission to withdraw; attending the inauguration of Jefferson Davis; granting of leave to students to volunteer in the Confederate Army; storm damage to roofs and inability to repair from lack of tin; Confederate companies occupying the East Range and Observatory Mountain; rumor of a Federal advance on Stuanton, 1862; interments of Turner Ashby and Carnot Posey in the University Cemetery; wounded from the battle of Port Republic; submitting to the Secretary of War, statistics on the age and military status of the 45 students on the grounds; and the unauthorized leave of disabled officer and student Everett W. Early with seven other students to participate in the battle of Spotsylvania, 1864.

ArchivalResource: 12 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647976188 View

Pollock, Thomas Gordon, 1838-1863. Papers of Thomas Gordon Pollock [manuscript] 1838-1910.

Title: Papers of Thomas Gordon Pollock [manuscript] 1838-1910.

Chiefly the correspondence of Pollock while a student at Yale, U. Va. and a soldier commanding his company, the James River Rifles, in the brigade of Henry Alexander Wise. Considerable information about U. Va. and Yale student life appears in his letters and those of his friends to him, especially about Kappa Alpha fraternity at U. Va., and professor James Philemon Holcombe. Pollock moved to Shreveport, La., in 1860, to practice law, and then went in to the C.S.A. army. Correspondents are: among the Pollock family, Abraham David Pollock, his father and a Presbyterian minister of Leeton Forest, Fauquier Co., Va.; his mother, Elizabeth Gordon Lee Pollock, his brother Charles Lee Pollock; and friends and others, including, Edward C. Anderson, M. Boyce, Douglas French Forrest, Edward Livingston Martin, Meriwether Randolph, John Scott, and Robert I. Taylor Scott [189 items] -- Life in the exode [ca. 800 l. 32 cm. holograph] and Life and light in the New Testament [161 l. 32 cm. holograph] historical and theological commentaries on the Bible by A.D. Pollock -- Correspondence, 1900-04, of John Janney, a Leesburg, Va., attorney, on various matters including some legal papers [ca. 20 items. hand and typewritten].

ArchivalResource: 210 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647936937 View