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Brock Collection: Virginia railroads collection, 1828-1894.

Title: Brock Collection: Virginia railroads collection, 1828-1894.

Chiefly correspondence of the companies' officers and employees, with miscellaneous documents.

ArchivalResource: Approx. 2000 pieces.13 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122383340 View

Ewell, M. Louise,. Electoral ticket, map, and telegram, 1848, 1864, and [n.d.].

Title: Electoral ticket, map, and telegram, 1848, 1864, and [n.d.].

This collection consists of an electoral ticket, 1848 Nov. 7, of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore; a telegram, 1864 April 28, from Fitzhugh Lee, Fredericksburg, to James Ewell Brown Stuart, Orange, C.H., regarding a scout's report of Burnside's troops' movement; and a map and profile of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad drawn by August Faul.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122556096 View

Bernard, Reuben F., fl. 1865. Civil War muster rolls, 1864-1865.

Title: Civil War muster rolls, 1864-1865.

The muster roll of Company B, Second Regiment U.S. Cavalry, October 31-December 31,1864, was compiled by 1st Lt. James Cahill. The Company was camped near Middletown, Va., and participated in General Wesley Merritt's Loudoun Valley and Gordonsville raids. The muster roll of Company C, of the Battalion of U.S. Engineers, October 31-December 31, 1864, was compiled by 1st Lt. Garnett J. Lydicker. The company countermined at Ft. Stedman until November 19, built winter quarters, and went on reconnaissance December 10. The muster roll of Company F, 1st Regiment, U.S. Cavalry, February 28-April 30,1865, was compiled by Captain David Perry. The Company was present at the battle of Waynesboro; occupied Charlottesville and Scottsville, where they spent March 6-12 destroying the canal and Orange and Alexandria Rail Road to Beaverdam; marched to Dinwiddie Court House where they charged and captured 80 prisoners; attacked at Five Forks, and followed the retreating Confederate Army to Appomattox. The muster roll of Company J, 1st Regiment, U.S. Cavalry, February 28-April 20, 1865, was compiled by 1st Lt. Reuben F. Bernard. The Company was present at the battle of Waynesboro; marched thorugh Chharlottesville, Howardsville, Scottsville, Columbia and Beaverdam; crossed the Pamunkey and the James, fought at Five Points, and followed the Confederate Army to Appomattox, encountering and engaging twice. Served as General Sheridan's escort after the surrender. The muster roll of the 5th Regiment, U.S. Cavalry, February 28-April 30, 1865, was compiled by 1st Lt. Gustavus [Urban?]. The regiment charged a defensive earthwork at the South Anna bridge, participated in Five Forks where Captain Drummond was mortally wounded, and pursued and engaged at Farmville and Appomattox Court House.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50443066 View

Slaughter, Philip, 1808-1890. Correspondence of Llewellyn Hoxton and Llewellyn Griffin Hoxton [manuscript] 1865, 1915.

Title: Correspondence of Llewellyn Hoxton and Llewellyn Griffin Hoxton [manuscript] 1865, 1915.

Letter, 1865 Nov. 20, Llewellyn Hoxton to the Rev. Philip Slaughter seeking position on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad as he has been "deprived of my profession in consequence of the unexpected termination to the war & the loss of our glorius cause." He further comments "God had a purpose in scourging us which I cannont now see, but it will doubtless be revealed in the future." Letter, 1915 May 3, Elmer Irving Carruthers to L. G. Hoxton regarding raise in salary of $50 a year as a University of Virginia professor of physics.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647947557 View

Hagley Museum and Library. Regional Economic History Research Center. Map project data files, Transportation in the Middle Atlantic States, 1750-1860.

Title: Map project data files, Transportation in the Middle Atlantic States, 1750-1860.

The Map Project Data Files include all the work undertaken by the project team, including much that was excluded from the final publication.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122397685 View

Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company. [Virginia railroad and transportation pamphlets].

Title: [Virginia railroad and transportation pamphlets]. 1850-1946.

ArchivalResource: 6 v. ; 23-24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173264967 View

Bush & Lobdell. Letters addressed to Bonny & Bush, later Bush & Lobdell of Wilmington, Delaware [manuscript] 1834-1865.

Title: Letters addressed to Bonny & Bush, later Bush & Lobdell of Wilmington, Delaware [manuscript] 1834-1865.

Letters from companies in Virginia which provided pig iron or which were purchasing products. They sold locomotives, drill machine for wheat, railroad parts, etc. Letters written from Conomingo Furnace, E. Fontaine, Stump & Jackson, George T. Hupp and John L. Hupp of Strasburg, Virginia, South Side Railroad Company, Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad Company, Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company, Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Company, Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company.

ArchivalResource: 28 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647962904 View

Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company. Records, 1855-1867.

Title: Records, 1855-1867.

Correspondence, legal files, and other records.

ArchivalResource: .1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28409349 View

Morton-Halsey Papers, ca. 1786-1938

Title: Morton-Halsey Papers ca. 1786-1938

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00494.xml View

Grimes, James F., fl. 1864. James F. Grimes letter to Sarah Jones [manuscript], 1864 April 29.

Title: James F. Grimes letter to Sarah Jones [manuscript], 1864 April 29.

Grimes, Camp near Nokesville, Va., writes to Jones about their relief by a Negro portion of the Corps to which the Orange and Alexandria railroad supervisor objects and the recent killing of M. W. Flannery who had a concealed certificate identifying him as a member of Mosby's Partisan Rangers. He would like to send a captured pistol home and closes by encouraging Sarah, sending some flowers picked near the railroad (impressions left on letter paper) and looking forward to the future.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/435542539 View

Imlay, Richard, 1784-1867. Papers, 1836-1858.

Title: Papers, 1836-1858.

The papers consist of twenty-three items relating to Imlay's subsequent marketing of his patent rights, particularly on southern railroad lines. They include testimonials, instructions for computing royalty charges, and lists of railroads that had settled with Imlay. One item concerns J. T. England's improvement in car-couplings.

ArchivalResource: 23 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86119434 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

Alexandria (Va.) Common Council. Records [manuscript], 1785-1877.

Title: Records [manuscript], 1785-1877.

Records, 1785-1877, of the Alexandria, Va., Common Council, providing information on licenses (to sell alcohol, to maintain a private house of entertainment, to sell lottery tickets [1831], to provide auctioneering services, and to operate a circus or provide horsemanship shows [1865]). Topics also include taxes and bonds posted by such local officials as Inspectors of Tobacco, Hay, Wood and bark, Flour, Fish, the Keeper of the Poor and Workhouse, the Clerk of the Market and Market Stall accounts, the Superintendent of the Police, the Superintendent of the Night Watch, and the Keeper of the Powder House. Also include regulations concerning the Free School (1831) and the Female Free School (1849); street repairs and improvements; the board for public health and sanitation, especially with respect to conditions during the 1849 cholera epidemic; and transportation (a right of way negotiated with the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, 1849; and a comparison of lumber transport by water and rail, 1856). Topics also include regulations concerning public utilities (Washington and New Orleans Telegraph Company, 1949; and gas works, 1853); and results of local elections. Printed material, chiefly newspaper clippings reporting election results, dominate the post 1865 section. Some undated items appear at the end of the second reel, including a photograph of an unidentified freshman football team, ca. 1910.

ArchivalResource: 2 reels : positive ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647850984 View

Virginia. Board of Public Works. Manassas Gap Railroad Company records 1850-1870.

Title: Manassas Gap Railroad Company records 1850-1870.

Contains letters sent to the board, reports, lists of stockholders, and certificates of stock subscriptions.

ArchivalResource: 2 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261411715 View

Peticolas, A. B. (Alfred Brown), 1838-1915. Drawing book : of A.B. Peticolas, 1857-1859.

Title: Drawing book : of A.B. Peticolas, 1857-1859.

The book includes drawings of Amherst Court House, Lynchburg (including Lynchburg College), Petersburg, and Stapleton (on the James River and Kanawha Canal), Va., and Memphis, Tenn.; construction and bridges of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company and South Side Rail Road Company; and a caricature of William Walker.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (24 leaves) : hand drawn ; 6 x 9 3/4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29553095 View

Locher, Charles Hess, 1821-1889. Ledger for the James River Cement Works [manuscript], 1854-1879.

Title: Ledger for the James River Cement Works [manuscript], 1854-1879.

The volume contains accounts, 1854-1856, with the James River & Kanawha Canal Compnay; Charles Irving, editor of the Lynchburg Republican; the Farmer's Bank of Lynchburg; Phoenix Foundry; Daily Richmond Whig; Blue Ridge Railroad; James River & Kanawha Canal Co.; North River Navigation Company; James River Quarry; Virginia Central Railroad; Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company; Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad; Orange and Alexandria Railroad; York River Railroad; and the Virginia Military Institute. There are also pages of accounts for "Negroes" [no individual names] including labor, insurance and clothing, 1854, 1855, 1856. There is a separate account on page 38 for "Ned Hudson Free Negro." In 1878 and 1879 the last half of the volume was reused as a general store and family account book.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/776906781 View

Transportation in Virginia [manuscript], 1937 ca.

Title: Transportation in Virginia [manuscript], 1937 ca.

Typescript article summarizes a history of Virginia transportation from the colonial period to the 1930's, providing names of numerous railroad companies, some steamship companies, ferries motor companies, and aviation companies; major highways and waterways are noted as well as legislation dealing with transportation. An index and bibliography are included.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647873955 View

Shaw, Thomas J., b. 1810. Papers, 1818-1874.

Title: Papers, 1818-1874.

Collection contains correspondence, 1862, of Thomas J. Shaw with his wife Frances Pendleton (Stanard) Shaw, of Orange County, Va., concerning daily activities, work, and family life; and diaries, 1856-1862, kept by Shaw while a civil engineer for the Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company and while farming in Orange County, Va. Also, include a volume containing the records, 1833 February 5-1835 October 30, of the Philomathean Society, a debating society, of Winchester, Va., including the constitution and minutes of meetings; and the diary of Jaqueline Plummer Taliaferro kept while a school teacher at Orange Court House, Va., and a law student at the University of Virginia, 17 March 1838-24 November 1839.

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56999351 View

Virginia. Board of Public Works. Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company records, 1836-1885.

Title: Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company records, 1836-1885.

Contains letters received by the compny, field notes, reports, minutes of company meetings, certificates of stock subscriptions, petitions, and contracts.

ArchivalResource: 10 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/262473068 View

Archer, William Segar, 1789-1855,. Argosy collection [manuscript], 1795-1893.

Title: Argosy collection [manuscript], 1795-1893.

Letters, papers, portraits of Revolutionary and nineteenth century statesmen. Subjects dealt with in the letters include slavery, the currency question, agriculture, land grants, politics and government, the silver question, education, and religion.

ArchivalResource: 103 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647893815 View

Papers about Virginia [microform], 1762-1951.

Title: Papers about Virginia [microform], 1762-1951.

Include manuscript copy of the minutes, 1762-1859, of the Broad Run Baptist Church, Fauquier County, Va., with references to Afro-American congregation members; bound volumes of the minutes, 1818-1852, of the Fauquier County School Commissioners; and a copy of tavern rates set by the Fauquier County Court in 1819. Also include two letters, 1862 and 1864, from Lieutenant L.C. Lindsley, 49th Va. Regiment, to his wife concerning camp life, advice on managing the plantation, and unit casualties in the Battle of Cold Harbor; and two letters, 1951, relating to the location of the railroad station at Rappahannock County, Va., providing service for the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. Also include articles, ca. 1948, pertaining to Lt. John R. Meigs' death in the Civil War and Jesse Thomas' ride to warn Baron von Steuben during the Revolutionary War; and five photographs, n.d., of historic sites at Appomattox, Va.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel : positive ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32672008 View