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Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863. Civil War letters, 1862-1863.

Title: Civil War letters, 1862-1863.

Letter (29 Apr. 1862) addressed to Hon. G.W. Randolph (Confederate secretary of war) requesting to promote Col. John R. Jones to brigadier general, and citing examples of Jones' leadership abilities; letter (14 May 1862) from Jackson to Col. Turner Ashby, ordering him to proceed with cavalry attached to Gen. Richard S. Ewell's command and destroy the Manassas Gap Railroad; and letter (13 Mar. 1863) forwarded to Jackson from the 25th Virginia Infantry, Company I, requesting to deny the conscription of James Jackson into the company. Letter includes signatures of several members of Company I and Gen. John R. Jones, Gen. Stonewall Jackson, and Gen. Robert H. Chilton.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70973627 View

Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889. D. H. Hill papers, 1848-1951.

Title: D. H. Hill papers, 1848-1951.

Civil War and postwar correspondence of General D. H. Hill with high Confederate military and civil officers, with some letters from Robert Lewis Dabney (1820-1890), Virginia theologian and Confederate chaplain. There are also notes by Charles W. Dabney, who assembled the items, circa 1929-1931. Persons represented include Rufus Barringer, P. G. T. Beauregard, John C. Calhoun, Robert Hall Chilton, Robert Lewis Dabney, Jubal A. Early, William A. Graham, Wade Hampton III, Stonewall Jackson, Joseph E. Johnston, Washington Caruthers Kerr, Drury Lacy, James Henry Lane, Alexander Robert Lawton, Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, Alexander Peter Stewart, Robert Augustus Toombs, Joseph Wheeler, and William Henry Chase Whiting. Also included is a Hill family genealogy and a few other items. Some items are originals and others are copies (as noted in the finding aid).

ArchivalResource: About 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24864459 View

Chilton, R. H. (Robert Hall), 1816-1879. Papers, 1863-1864.

Title: Papers, 1863-1864.

Military correspondence of Robert H. Chilton (1816-1879), brigadier general in the Confederate Army.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41127592 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

Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870. Correspondence : with Jefferson Davis, 1862-1865.

Title: Correspondence : with Jefferson Davis, 1862-1865.

This is a collection of the confidential dispatches written by General Robert E. Lee to President Jefferson Davis during 1862-1865. Many items were included in Douglas S. Freeman's LEE'S CONFIDENTIAL DISPATCHES TO DAVIS, 1862-1865, and/or Clifford Dowdey and Louis H. Manarin's THE WARTIME PAPERS OF R.E. LEE. Several letters are from Lee to individuals other than Davis.

ArchivalResource: Letters: 309 p.Photocopies: 67 prints.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122464707 View

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

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

Title: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

A collection of images, manuscripts, and printed material, mostly relating to the Massachusetts soldiers and regiments in the American Civil War. Some material relates to other Union regiments and the Confederate States of America.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear feet (143 boxes, 2 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00124/catalog 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

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi00739.xml View