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Cocke, Philip St. George, 1809-1861. Papers of Philip St. George Cocke [manuscript] 1859-1865.

Title: Papers of Philip St. George Cocke [manuscript] 1859-1865.

The papers contain correspondence of Cocke with Francis Henney Smith regarding V.M.I. and the outbreak of the Civil War, with Ballard Preston regarding business, from Edwin Gilliam Booth regarding a slave sale, from John Grant regarding wire fencing, and to John Bowdoin Cocke regarding cotton production the defense of the South, his resignation from the C.S.A. Army. The collection also contains a draft of an address arousing the South to action, 1860, notes on the government manufacture of arms, 1860, & a memorial resolution of his brigade on his death, 1861. There is also a pocket memoranda book, 1809-12, of John Hartwell Cocke, and a letter from Cary Charles Cocke to John B. Cocke regarding amnesty.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.

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Troye, Edward, 1808-1874. Correspondence with members of the Cocke family, 1858-1874.

Title: Correspondence with members of the Cocke family, 1858-1874.

The letters chiefly pertain to Troye's commission to paint portrait of General John Hartwell Cocke in military dress of the War of 1812 seated on his horse Roebuck. Other topics mentioned briefly include Philip St. George Cocke's Silver Creek property near Yazoo City, Mississippi, and the failure of his cotton crop; and Keene Richard's annual horse sale, in 1874, at which Major Thomas Doswell was present.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

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Cocke, John Bowdoin, 1836-1889. Papers of John Bowdoin Cocke [manuscript], 1859-1893.

Title: Papers of John Bowdoin Cocke [manuscript], 1859-1893.

The collection contains Cocke's military commissions, 1859 and 1861; his presidential pardon, 1865; inventories, 1860, including slaves, of Philip St. George Cocke's plantations "Beldale" and "Silver Creek"; and a circuit court summons, 1874. Items pertaining to Cocke's home "Belmead" and its sale, 1874-1893, include letters, 1874 and 1886, from Samuel M. Wilson and Charles Hartwell Cocke; a list of Cocke's books sold by his wife; notes on the financial status of "Belmead" and an 1893 clipping concerning the sale.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

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Cocke family. Letters of the Philip St. George Cocke family, 1846-[1860?].

Title: Letters of the Philip St. George Cocke family, 1846-[1860?].

The letters chiefly convey news of family members. Topics mentioned include the construction of Belmead, arrangements for a new courthouse in Powhatan County, planting and clearing at the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Surry County and a misunderstanding between Philip St. George Cocke and Richard Byrd Kennon.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

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Cocke, John Hartwell, 1780-1866. Additional papers [manuscript] 1820-64.

Title: Additional papers [manuscript] 1820-64.

Additional papers, 1820-1964, of Cocke include an account book, 18865-1866, and corrrespondence, chiefly with family members and freed slaves removed to Liberia. Correspondents include D. C. Barraud, T. C. Jennings, D.W.B. Towles, Thomas Meaney, John B. Cocke, Mrs. Louisa Cocke and Caaary Charles Cocke.

ArchivalResource: ca. 50 items.

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Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870. Letters of Robert E. Lee [manuscript] 1861 and 1865.

Title: Letters of Robert E. Lee [manuscript] 1861 and 1865.

Collection consists of one transcript and eight signed letters from April and May, 1861, from Lee to Philip St. George Cocke and Jubal Anderson Early detailing instructions on mustering in Virginia army volunteers, stationing troops at Manassas Gap Junction, Culpeper and Alexandria, and other problems surrounding the organization of the Virginia militia. There is also a letter to John B. Cocke thanking him for care of his horse.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

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Brent, Sally Faulcon Cocke, 1816-1879,. Papers of the Cocke family [manuscript] 1823-1866.

Title: Papers of the Cocke family [manuscript] 1823-1866.

The collection contains over 60 letters of Sally Faulcon Cocke Brent and Arthur Lee Brent from friends and family particularly Anne Blaws Cocke Cabell, John Boudoin Cocke, Philip St. George Cocke, John Hartwell Cocke, John Hartwell Cocke, Lucy Oliver Cocke, Thomas T.L. Brent, and William Brent. They convey news of family and friends, health, education of their children, daily routine and local events. Among special topics discussed are an 1823 wedding of Cocke slaves, the 1832 cholera epidemic, the training of a physician, the mishandling of James River & Kanawha Canal funds, an 1855 Episcopal Convention in Lexington, Va., the Union capture of Roanoke Island in 1862 and requisitioning of supplies for the Confederacy. A farm diary, 1853-57, of Arthur Lee Brent at Bremo Recess is included. Also of interest are a record of graves in the Cabell Cemetery at Liberty Hall, and a memo of medicine used in the treatment of diptheria.

ArchivalResource: 137 items.

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Cocke, Charles Hartwell, 1851-1896,. Papers of the Cocke family [manuscript] 1850-1895.

Title: Papers of the Cocke family [manuscript] 1850-1895.

Most of the papers consist of letters and receipts from John H. Powell, of the Richmond Female Institute, to John Bowdoin Cocke, and Betty Burwell Page Cocke, regarding tuition for their daughters. There are also letters from Charles Hartwell Cocke to M. Louise Cocke mentioning the burning of the Rotunda; from Philip St. George Cocke to John B. Cocke regarding an epidemic at U. Va., and a trip to Europe; and from Sally Elizabeth Courtney Bowdoin Cocke to Philip St. George Cocke and John Hartwell Cocke mentioning a reception for Zachary Taylor during a visit to Baltimore and Washington in 1850 and commenting on John Hartwell Cocke as "being at last weaned from the Yankees ..."

ArchivalResource: 35 items.

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Cocke family. Correspondence pertaining to the family and estate of Philip St. George Cocke [manuscript], 1850-1879.

Title: Correspondence pertaining to the family and estate of Philip St. George Cocke [manuscript], 1850-1879.

In a series of letters Cocke family and friends discuss the Civil War, including brief comments on the battles of Shiloh and Gettysburg; Reconstruction including problems with black labor and the franchise for newly freed slaves; tobacco marketing and prices; family news and finances; and the fate of Belmead.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

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Cocke, Philip St. George, 1809-1861. Letters from his wife, son, and daughter [manuscript] 1849-1856.

Title: Letters from his wife, son, and daughter [manuscript] 1849-1856.

Letters from Sally Elizabeth Courtney Bowdoin Cocke, John Bowdoin Cocke, and Louisiana Barraud Cocke discuss family travels, activities, illnesses, crops, and servants. Items of interest include the death of former slaves in Liberia, cholera and dysentery outbreaks and resulting deaths, a trip to Washington and Philadelphia, Bishop Meade, and the trial of Charles B. Christian for the murder of VMI cadet Thomas Blackburn.

ArchivalResource: 30 items.

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Cocke, Betty Burwell Page, 1841-1900,. Papers of the Cocke family [manuscript] 1846-1891.

Title: Papers of the Cocke family [manuscript] 1846-1891.

The collection consists almost entirely of letters between members of the Cocke family, particularly Bettie Burwell Page Cocke and John Bowdoin Cocke. The letters convey family news and comment on the difficulties of Reconstruction. One mentions the collapse of a portion of the state capitol and friends killed, and another from a captured officer reflects on the South's defeat, heroism of soldiers and the collapse of morale late in the war. Of interest are two 1871 letters from Mary Ann Randolph Custis Lee describing health, family activities, and life in Lexington, Va. The collection also includes a ledger, 1882-91, from Belmead plantation, and a clipping desribing Edgewood, Nelson Co., the home of Joseph C. Cabell.

ArchivalResource: 56 items.

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Cocke, Betty Page, 1872-1973,. Papers of the Cocke-Elliot family [manuscript], 1854-1992.

Title: Papers of the Cocke-Elliot family [manuscript], 1854-1992.

The collection contains personal and family correspondence, financial and legal papers, memorabilia, bound volumes, and genealogical and historical research material pertaining to the Cocke, Elliot and related Virginia families from the colonial period through the 20th century, as assembled by John Page Elliot. Correspondence consists chiefly of letters of sisters Betty Page Cocke and Lucy Hamilton Cocke Elliot. Other correspondents include John Hartwell Cocke, Philip St. George Cocke, John Bowdoin Cocke, John Tucker Bowdoin Cocke, Bettie Burwell Page Cocke, Mary Louise Cocke, Milton Courtwright Elliot, John Page Elliot, George H. Venable, and other Cocke and Elliot family members. Additional correspondents include Douglas Southall Freeman, Fiske Kimball, Thomas Nelson Page, U. Va. student Hermann Holst Swift, the Rev. Beverley D. Tucker, John Skelton Williams, and Edith Bolling Wilson. Topics in the correspondence includes the courtship of John Bowdoin Cocke and Bettie Burwell Page; a tour of Europe, Constantinople and Egypt, 1903; a tour to the western U.S., Canada and Alaska, 1905; a tour of England and continental Europe, 1937; the settlement of several Cocke family estates and an auction at "Bremo"; the suicide of a suitor of Betty Cocke; students who lived in Betty Cocke's boarding house; World War I, including life at the front and conditions in France, activities of an army doctor, offices of the American Fund for French Wounded, and the armistice; the life of Napoleon Drew, a former slave at "Belmead"; and the Japanese missionary work of the Rev. Beverley D. Tucker. Also Virginia politics and historic preservation particularly in regard to the Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Women's Liberty Loan Organization, the Women's Section of the State Council of Defense, the Albemarle County Historical Society, the Albemarle County Chapter of the Red Cross, the Women's Organization for Prohibition Reform, and the Virginia War History Commission. Briefer topics of interest include the release of Jefferson Davis from prison; the disposition of Edward Troye's equestrian portrait of General Winfield Scott; Alexander Galt's bust of Philip St. George Cocke; Episcopal High School; the Alfalfa Club; and Woodrow Wilson's opposition to moving the University of Virginia's medical school to Richmond. Topics in the financial and legal papers include family stock and real estate holdings; the estate settlement of John Bowdoin Cocke; Atlantic Coast Railroad Company liens and garnishments, 1933-1938; specifications for houses designed by Eugene Brady; and Betty Cocke's opposition to proposed parking spaces in front of the U. Va. Rotunda. There are also original financial and legal documents, 1773-1948, for the related Blow Family of Norfolk, Va., and Browne family of "Four Mile Tree," Surry County, Va. Items from the genealogical and historical files of John Page Elliot include building plans, photographs and correspondence regarding "Belmead" and its conversion to St. Emma Military Academy for young black men; Philip St. George Cocke's appointment as a visitor to the Virginia Military Institute; a pedigree for John Hartwell Cocke's horse "Seagull"; a Confederate bond; and a drawing of an oveseer's cottage at "Four Mile Tree"; and portraits and photographs of family members, friends, and servants. Additional families represented in the genealogical files include Barraud, Burwell, Carter, Corbin, Grice, Nelson, Page, and Tayloe. Miscellaneous items of interest include John Bowdoin Cocke's Civil War pardon; a photograph and autograph of Fitzhugh Lee; a souvenir from the Jamestown Exposition; a form letter sent by Franklin D. Roosevelt, to Democratic supporters in October 1932; an autograph album of University of Virginia scenes and various U. Va. pins and ribbons.

ArchivalResource: 15000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647839171 View