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Reeve, Edward Payson, 1832-1898. Edward Payson Reeve papers, 1852-1948 [microfilm manuscript].

Title: Edward Payson Reeve papers, 1852-1948 [microfilm manuscript].

Mainly the Civil War and postwar correspondence of Reeve of Richmond, Va., as a captain in the 1st Virginia Regiment, C.S.A., discussing camp life, including religious activities, military actions, and his imprisonment in April 1865; and as president of the Association of Survivors of Pickett's Division. Also included are Reeve's reminiscences and a family history.

ArchivalResource: 503 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24639129 View

Baird family. Baird family papers, 1656-1922.

Title: Baird family papers, 1656-1922.

Collection includes papers, 1656-1848, concerning Essex County, Va. including land records and wills, many of which relate to the Rowzee family. Many of the records date from the seventeenth century. The collection also includes correspondence, 1830-1920, of members of the Baird family including letters, 1859-1911, of Edward R. Baird while attending the University of Virginia, serving in Pickett's Division and as superintendent of schools in Essex County. There are also letters of William Baird while attending the University of Virginia and business correspondence of the family with publishers and with cigar manufacturers. The collection also includes papers, 1835-1897, of members of the Hunter family including R. M. T. Hunter.

ArchivalResource: 3,312 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21123031 View

Pullen, Lorin,. Lorin Pullen letters : Michigan Bar, Calif., to parents, Kingfield, Me., 1854-1863.

Title: Lorin Pullen letters : Michigan Bar, Calif., to parents, Kingfield, Me., 1854-1863.

Handwritten letters (5 letters, 15 p.) from a gold miner seeking his fortune in California to his parents in Maine. Three of the letters are written from Michigan Bar, California. Two letters are addressed from Yankee Hill, California. He writes of his trip to California via Nicaragua, the status of his mining claims, and operations. In the last letter (March 13, 1856) he writes of his efforts to make his fortune, "doubtless you would like to know what has been the overall result so far? I will answer you in one short sentence...a succession of bitter disappointments." Also includes a handwritten list (1 p.) of "Prices of provisions at Michigan Bar, Calif." and one envelope addressed to his father, Stephen Pullen, in Kingsfield [i.e. Kingfield] Maine. Handwritten letter (2 p. ; circa 1863), signed by A. Mason, of a man writing to his children of events and circumstances in northwestern Minnesota. He writes that he plays the flute often and some clarinet too, has a boarder who plays the violin, and can hear steamboat whistles from the Mississippi River seven miles away like they were a railroad station. He also writes of "depridations [sic] " by Sioux Indians and notes the presence army troops and "Picketts Skirmishers" who "are getting ready for a kind of annhilation or exterpating [sic] the whole race of the troublesome parts of the tribe...." He expresses hope for news of a Union victory soon at Vicksburg, [Mississippi] and disdain for the "damned rebels."

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/756875765 View