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Christian, John B., fl. 1815-1828. Ledgers of John B. Christian, 1815-1828, 1878.

Title: Ledgers of John B. Christian, 1815-1828, 1878.

Papers of John B. Christian consist of a volume of grocer's accounts, 1815-1818, with copies of letters and miscellaneous memoranda; an Augusta and Rockbridge County merchant's account book, 1823-1828; and a volume of minutes, 1827-1828, of the Greenville Polemic society, John B. Christian, secretary. The minute book also contains a register, 1878, giving John D. Imboden's C.S.A. command, plus lists of Stuanton lawyers, merchants, physicians.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57239934 View

McDowell, William George, 1850-1921. Papers, 1910-1914.

Title: Papers, 1910-1914.

Includes sketches of 41 Washington and Lee Alumni who served in the Civil war, compiled for a proposed memorial volume; letters to McDowell answering his request for information; orderly book of the Liberty Hall Volunteers.

ArchivalResource: ca. 100 items (10 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23956141 View

Weather Bureau

Title: Weather Bureau

ArchivalResource:

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Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895. Papers of John D. Imboden [manuscript], 1831-1895.

Title: Papers of John D. Imboden [manuscript], 1831-1895.

Correspondence and other papers of General John D. Imboden concerning his political, legal, railroad and other interests. Also, Imboden Day book, 1853-1854, (1 v.): Legal accounts of General John D. Imboden (Staunton). cf. Annual report of the Archivist, University of Virginia Library, 5th, 1934-35, p. 5; and, 8th, 1937-38, p. 23.

ArchivalResource: 1000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647883202 View

Imboden, George W. (George William), 1836-1922. Civil War letters of George W. Imboden, 1864 May 29-Dec. 11.

Title: Civil War letters of George W. Imboden, 1864 May 29-Dec. 11.

Eight letters, four with postal covers, written by Col. George W. Imboden to his wife Mollie (Mary F. Tyree Imboden), documenting his participation in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71129330 View

Davidson, James D. (James Dorman), 1810-1882. Papers, 1805-1885.

Title: Papers, 1805-1885.

Papers of Davidson, a lawyer of Lexington, Virginia, including correspondence, personal financial records, legal accounts, travel diaries, and memoranda concerning his court cases. Also included are correspondence and records of members of his immediate family, especially two of his sons who practiced with their father until Greenlee was killed at Chancellorsville in 1863 and Charles A. died in 1879; and ledgers of Dorman and Davidson, kept by Davidson and his cousin, Charles P. Dorman, while they were partners, 1832-1841.

ArchivalResource: 31.4 c.f. (74 archives boxes and 13 volumes); plusadditions of 0.4 c.f.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787585 View

[Im]boden's Cavalry fight in the morning June 5th 1864.

Title: [Im]boden's Cavalry fight in the morning June 5th 1864. [1864?]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms. ; 25 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55046203 View

Bailey, J. M. Papers relating to John Imboden and the Tinsalia Coal and Iron Company [manuscript], 1882-1984, (bulk 1882-1884).

Title: Papers relating to John Imboden and the Tinsalia Coal and Iron Company [manuscript], 1882-1984, (bulk 1882-1884).

The collection contains the Eleutherian Mills inventory of the records of the Penn Virginia and Westmoreland Coal companies, and a descriptive history of the Tinsalia Coal and Iron Company, prepared by Christopher T. Baer. The collection also contains an annual report of the South Atlantic and Ohio Railroad Co., a copy of the Virginia General Assembly acts in 1882 pertaining to various Virginia railroads, and coal and iron companies, and a report on transportation, 1884, by J.M. Bailey defending the growth of railroads without state regulation.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647821035 View

Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895. Papers, 1847-September 2, 1892.

Title: Papers, 1847-September 2, 1892.

This collection contains letters and papers of John Daniel Imboden, who served as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. There are also miscellaneous receipts, surveys, several Confederate loan agreements, certificates, and accounts.

ArchivalResource: 141 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63542025 View

Bowmaster, Patrick A. Papers of Patrick A. Bowmaster, 1994-1995.

Title: Papers of Patrick A. Bowmaster, 1994-1995.

THe papers contain "A Confederate Cavalryman at War: The Diary of Sergeant Jasper Hawse of the 14th Regiment Virginia Militia, the 17th Virginia Cavalry Battalion, and the 11th Virginia Cavalry," edited by Bowmaster together with pertinent correspondence, and a master's thesis "Confederate Brig. Gen. B.H. Robertson and the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign" also by Bowmaster. Topics of interest include the Imboden-Jones 1863 West Virginia raid, the Gettysburg campaign, Brandy Station and fighting in the Loudoun Valley, Va., area in 1863.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34336560 View

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1809-1884. Correspondence and subject file, 1788-1939.

Title: Correspondence and subject file, 1788-1939.

Papers of McCormick, inventor of the reaper and a Chicago industrialist, comprising correspondence, memoranda, and letterbooks concerning the growth of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in both the domestic and foreign fields, and dealing with McCormick's many other interests, particularly the Presbyterian Church and several charities; his activities as a member of the state and national Democratic party; and his investments, chiefly in Chicago real estate, railroads, and mines. Also included are deeds, contracts, investment proposals, and other documents. Some of the letters are to or from McCormick's wife Nettie Fowler, their son Cyrus, Jr., and others associated with the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. The earliest dated items were written or received by Cyrus' father, Robert McCormick, and by other family members.

ArchivalResource: 84.6 c.f. (192 archives boxes, 50 card boxes, and 8 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145788280 View

Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895. John Daniel Imboden papers, 1833-1892.

Title: John Daniel Imboden papers, 1833-1892.

This collection contains letters and papers of John Daniel Imboden, who served as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 137 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13482051 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Perry, Elizabeth. Papers of the McCue, Martin, and Perry families [manuscript] ca. 1800-1930.

Title: Papers of the McCue, Martin, and Perry families [manuscript] ca. 1800-1930.

There is a partial chronological listing in the control folder, and an incompleted slip list. McCue family papers include a sermon book, 1800-10, of John McCue; correspondence of John Howard McCue and his wife S.C.E. McCue regarding efforts to release their son John Willis McCue from prison-- for a killing while with Mosby's rangers-- the defense of young McCue by Milton Whitney, 1865 May 12 [16 l. transcript (typewritten)] Correspondents includes John Minor Botts, John Daniel Imboden, James Lawson Kemper, Alexander Rives, William Cabell Rives, and Henry Alexander Wise. Papers of William T. McCue include business and political correspondence, and materials pertaining to the Va. Democratic Party, 1890-1910. Correspondents include: William Jennings Bryan, John Warwick Daniel, James Taylor Ellyson, Henry Delaware Flood, Andrew Jackson Montague, Claude Augustus Swanson, and Henry St. George Tucker. Martin family papers are personal letters within the family, 1854-87; correspondents including: J. Thomas R. Martin, confederate soldier, his parents John S. Martin and Susan P. Martin, and sister Harriet R. Martin Perry, also Beall Martin who writes of Europe in 1919. Perry family papers include letters, 1850-70 of Rev. William Perry of Maryland to his wife Harriet R. Martin Perry, and a diary, 1868-69. Correspondence between Mrs. Perry, her husband and children: Susan Perry, Russell Perry, William Willie Perry and John Martin Perry who describes life at U.Va. in 1887. The collection contains a few, infrequent references to slaves including a letter, 1856 December 29, from Lexington mentioning "excitement about some fears lest there should be a Negro riot"; and a letter from a Confederate soldeir, 1864 July 17, requesting his uncle to trade him a slave for a good horse. Also, albums, account books, receipts, bills, wills and deeds belonging to all three families. Marriage licenses, 1805-09 [6 items]--Literary digest liberty map of the Western front ... of the great World War, 1918 [Cloth. with index].

ArchivalResource: 630 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647937969 View

Hobbs, T. Gibson. Research collection, 1960-2002 1974-2000

Title: Research collection, 1960-2002 1974-2000

Research notes, 1960-2002, including correspondence, publications, newsletters, maps, photographs, clippings, maps. 1. GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH includes information on the Bolling family of Virginia, the Hobbs family, and the Imboden family, especially Gen. John Daniel Imboden (1823-1895), Francis Marion Imboden (1841-1929), and Jacob Peck Imboden (1846-1899). 2. MT. ATHOS (Campbell County, Va.) includes information on the formation of the Mount Athos Regional Museum and Information Center, Inc., and the designation of Mount Athos and Fort Riverview as historic properties. It also includes writings by Hobbs on the various families associated with Mount Athos, especially the Bolling, Cabell, Lewis, and Robertson families. 3. IRON-WORKS, ENGINEERS and ENGINEERING includes information on Oxford Furnace (Campbell County, Va.) and other iron furnaces in the area. 4. WATERWORKS and PUBLIC WORKS includes miscellaneous notes on water supply for Lynchburg, Va. 5. FLOUR-MILLS includes information on mills of the Lynchburg (Va.) area, including the Lynchburg Milling Company and Piedmont Mills, as well as genealogical information on the Langhorne family who established mill in Lynchburg. 6. JAMES RIVER AND KANAWHA CANAL includes miscellaneous notes on the canal as well as manuscript copies of Check roll (1851), Memo book (1860-1862), Account book of James M. Harris, Field notes (1871-1878) and Daybooks (1877-1878) 7. RAILROADS includes miscellaneous notes on the railroads of Virginia, including the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, and annual reports of the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad Company (1881-1888). 8. MISCELLANEOUS RESEARCH NOTES includes notes on a variety of Lynchburg (Va.) history topics, as well as miscellaneous photographs of family and friends, canals, Lynchburg scenes, and the packet boat Marshall. 9. WRITINGS (PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED) includes publication data and correspondence on the book, Historical Sketches from the Iron Worker, written with William R. Dunn for the Lynchburg bicentennial celebration. 10. MEMBERSHIPS (COMMITTEES AND ORGANIZATIONS) includes minutes, clippings, brochures, miscellaneous notes from a variety of committee assignments and organization memberships, especially the U.S.S. Enterprise CV-6 Association (Enterprise Bulletin), the Virginia Engineering Foundation of the University of Virginia, and the Sarah Winston Henry Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.

ArchivalResource: 24 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30065940 View

Graeme, John, Jr. Correspondence of John Graeme, Jr. with John D. Imboden, J.B. Lippincott & Company, and Henry Holt [manuscript] 1870-1885.

Title: Correspondence of John Graeme, Jr. with John D. Imboden, J.B. Lippincott & Company, and Henry Holt [manuscript] 1870-1885.

ArchivalResource: 31 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647966231 View

Imboden, John Daniel, 1823-1895. Signature clipped from the register of Brown's Hotel : Washington, [n.d.].

Title: Signature clipped from the register of Brown's Hotel : Washington, [n.d.].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (narrow 16mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269555514 View

Smiley, Thomas M.,. Papers of the Smiley family of Moffat's Creek, Augusta County, Virginia [manuscript] 1750-1959.

Title: Papers of the Smiley family of Moffat's Creek, Augusta County, Virginia [manuscript] 1750-1959.

Correspondence of Thomas M. Smiley, a Confederate soldier, discusses camp life, battles and campaigns including Romney, Yorktown, Cedar Mountain, Castleman's Ferry and Chancellorsville, and prison life at Ft. Delaware, Delaware. Post-war letters pertain to business and veterans' reunions. Correspondence of other members of the Smiley and related Hogshead, Earheart, and Fulton families contains references to the Healing Spring health resort, Richmond in 1865, the Hampton Roads peace conference, 1865, and the Augusta Female Institute (later Mary Baldwin College). Business and legal papers including surveys, accounts, receipts, deeds, taxes, and promissory notes chiefly concern William Smiley's land in Randolph Co., W. Va. The collection also contains a trustee's ledger for the Brownsburg Academy, Rockbridge Co., and the notebook of school-girl Mary A. Smiley. John Daniel Imboden and Mary J. Baldwin are correspondents.

ArchivalResource: 390 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647950640 View

Sigel, Franz, 1824-1902,. Battle ground of June 5th 1864.

Title: Battle ground of June 5th 1864. [1864?]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms. ; 25 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55046204 View

Barney, Charles E., fl, 1865-1875,. Papers of the Barney, Cooke, McClew and Neilson families, 1820-1905.

Title: Papers of the Barney, Cooke, McClew and Neilson families, 1820-1905.

The collection consists mainly of letters, 1865-1875, between Charles D. Barney and Laura E. Cooke, daughter of financier Jay Cooke. Barney, writing chiefly from Sandusky, Ohio and Philadelphia, Pa., discusses their love and future marriage; religious beliefs, church services and sermons; family and friends; social events particularly games, rides, concerts, and dances, as well as a mass meeting addressed by B.F. Wade, a reading by Harriet E. Kimball, and a veterans' parade in Philadelphia. He describes the ruins of the Chicago fire and briefly notes work in the firm of Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers. People mentioned include Wiliam W. Newton, Jay Cooke, Jay Cooke, Jr., and William White Harding. Letters of Laura Cook to Barney discuss her love for him; her family and social life; reading; wedding plans, and travels including trips to Kentucky, the grand falls of the Potomac, Fall River, Mass., Newport, R.I., Michigan, Cape May, N.J., Gibraltar and Sandusky, Ohio, She notes church attendance and sermons or services by Alfred Lee, Henry Ward Beecher, John Philip Newman, Charles Edward Cheney and Heman Dyer. There are comments on the Presidential election of 1868, travel on the steamer "Jay Cooke, " her father's fishing, and family productions of "Cricket on the hearth." There are very brief mentions of Julia Grant, Hugh Lenox Bond, Benjamin Butler, Lewis B. Gunckel, and John H. Martindale. The collection also contains a programme for an 1868 performance of "Drummer Boy!" in Sandusky, Ohio, annotated with notes on the performance [by Laura Cooke?]. Letters to Barney and Cooke from family and friends include a letter from Harry E. Cooke, traveling in Italy in 1869; a letter from Jay Cooke arranging a position in his firm for Barney; and a letter from Charles B. Dennis, Office Mustering Dept., 4th Army Corps, Chattanooga, 1864 July 13, giving news of friends briefly mentioning Charles Cruft, General Jefferson C. Davis, Charles G. Harker, John D. Imboden, [Isaac Minor?] Kirby, John I. Morrison, Lew Wallace, and Kenesaw Mountain. The letters also contain letters to emigrant Charles McClew of Montgomery County, N.Y. from relatives in Scotland, 1822-1940, conveying news of family and friends. Topics include college life in Glasgow, economic distress, and religious unrest. Miscellaneous correspondence unrelated to the rest of the collection includes : an 1841 letter describing a visit to Richmond, Va., by William Henry Harrison and John Tyler that also mentions Thomas Ritchie and Thomas Walker Gilmer; an 1889 letter from Bloomingburgh, N.Y. concerning rowing, fishing, and hunting; 1890 correspondence of Alfred Kean Moe, Jersey City, concerning a student who had dropped out of school; and a 1904 letter from an unknown University of Virginia student concerning James B. Green, a blind tutor at the U. Va. School of Law, Betty Burwell Page Cocke, Betty Page Cocke, and "Raleigh" the Cocke's servant at their boarding house.

ArchivalResource: 175 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647879764 View

Confederate States of America. Army. Records of a general court martial [manuscript], 1864 April 9.

Title: Records of a general court martial [manuscript], 1864 April 9.

This collection consists of records of a general court martial, 1864 April 9, at Harrisonburg, Va., of four soldiers (David Harmon, Eli Bodkin, Leonard Mitchell, C.C. Benn) of the 62nd Virginia Mounted Infantry under the command of Brigadier General John D. Imboden.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793453 View

Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895. Letter, 1864 July 15 [to]Maj. Gen. D. Hunter, Harper's Ferry, Va.

Title: Letter, 1864 July 15 [to]Maj. Gen. D. Hunter, Harper's Ferry, Va.

Autographed manuscript signed. Biographical sketch of author included.

ArchivalResource: 4 p. ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12170558 View

Penn Virginia Corporation. Records, 1864-1981.

Title: Records, 1864-1981.

The records of Penn Virginia Corporation give relatively complete coverage of the development and operations of the Virginia Coal & Iron Company, a large southern Appalachian land company, with some important information on its immediate neighbors and local support facilities. There are also fragmentary collections of material on the other Leisenring/Wentz coal companies, both anthracite and bituminous. More complete descriptions of major subgroups may be found under related ID entries.

ArchivalResource: 117.3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122547690 View

Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895. Papers of John D. Imboden, 1861-1894.

Title: Papers of John D. Imboden, 1861-1894.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79451116 View

Baldwin, John Brown, 1820-1873,. Papers of the McCue family [manuscript], 1767-1944.

Title: Papers of the McCue family [manuscript], 1767-1944.

The collection contains correspondence, legal and business papers, legal case notes, genealogical material, school notebooks and bound volumes, accounts, and Confederate Army quartermaster records of McCue family members particularly the Rev. John McCue of Augusta County, Va.; Judge John Howard McCue, Lovingston, Va., lawyer and Confederate Army officer; and William T. McCue, Staunton, Va., lawyer and Democrat. Topics of general interest are life at Randolph-Macon College in the 1830s; slavery, including hires, pre-war emancipations, a law suit and sales; sectionalism and efforts to preserve the Union; professor William E. Peters and the University of Virginia; the Lynchburg Fire Hose Insurance Company; Claudius Crozet, railroad construction and inventions; Jedidiah Hotchkiss' plans for opening a school; the Civil War, particularly in western Virginia and the Valley, including John B. Floyd's retreat from Carnifex Ferry; and secession and reconstruction in Virginia, particularly in Nelson County. Prominent people mentioned include Claudius Crozet, John Buchanan Floyd, Horace Greeley, Jedediah Hotchkiss, Stonewall Jackson, William Mahone, and William E. Peters. Political papers include election returns, a secession resolution, a letter to the editor on African-American suffrage, and a Nelson County meeting on Andrew Jackson. The collection also contains marriage licenses, 1801-1803, for Augusta County, Va.; quartermaster records, 1861-1862, of the 51st Virginia regiment; letters, 1846-1889, of John Daniel Imboden; genealogical information on the McGlachlin, Moffett, and Trimble families; a copy of "The McCues of the Old Dominion," a Virginia oath of allegiance, 1777, clippings on Augusta County politics, ca. 1900-1905, and photographs, largely unidentified. Correspondents include John S. Barbour, Thomas Barry, Thomas S. Bocock, John Minor Botts, D. S. G. Cabell, Mayo Cabell, William C. Cabell, Claudius Crozet, Robert E. Cutler, R. L. Dabney, John W. Daniel, James B. Dorman, Lyman Draper, R. T. W. Duke, Dr. James A. Forbes, Edward Echols, John Echols, Thomas Walker Gilmer, Don P. Halsey, James Marshall Hanger, Col. A. W. Harman, John B. Imboden, James Lawson Kemper, Joseph L. S. Kirby, Shelton Leake, Robert E. Lee, John Letcher, John F. Lewis, John McCue, and John Howard McCue. Also John Howard McCue, Hudson Martin, John E. Massey, N. H. Massie, Matthew Fontaine Maury, John Newton, Royal Paris, John Paul, William E. Peters, Alexander Rives, William C. Rives, John Robertson, Roger A. Pryor, Leverett Saltonstall, C. Whittle Sams, Joseph Santini, Hugh Sheffey, James C. Southall, John Spiece, Alexander H. H. Stuart, Wiliam T. Sutherlin, Nicholas K. Trout, G. W. Truehart, James A. Walker, Robert Whitehead, Elisha E. Wills, William Withrow, Drury Wood, and Edgar Woods.

ArchivalResource: 10,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647825610 View

Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895. Papers of John D. Imboden [manuscript], 1880-1881.

Title: Papers of John D. Imboden [manuscript], 1880-1881.

Imboden informs E. K. Hyndman of Connelsville, Pa., that a continuation of the Bristol Coal and Iron Narrow Gauge Railroad has been chartered. Topics include the legality of the company's land titles in Wise County, problems with squatters, the history of the B.C. & I.N.G.R.R. and its conflict with General Mahone over ownership of the right of way particularly in regard to an old Virginia and Kentucky roadbed, the necessity for regrading the line's route, convict labor, and plans to take possession of disputed land. Abram Fulkerson is mentioned. The collection also includes a "Report on the lands of the Tinsalia Coal and Iron Co. in South-West Virginia" and "Prospectus and a charter of the Tinsalia Coal and Iron Company," with a geological report on the coal and iron.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647820542 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

Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895. Letters to Ezra Ayres Carmen, 1878-1880.

Title: Letters to Ezra Ayres Carmen, 1878-1880.

Letters from John Daniel Imboden to E.A. Carman containing his account of the capture of Harper's Ferry, together with newsclippings, photographs of Imboden and Harper's Ferry and letters from others addressed to Carman.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.16 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83176258 View

Baldwin, John Brown, 1820-1873. Papers of the McCue family, 1777-1920.

Title: Papers of the McCue family, 1777-1920.

The collection contains correspondence, legal and business papers, accounts, and Confederate Army quartermaster records of McCue family members particularly the Rev. John McCue of Augusta County, Va.; Judge John Howard McCue, Lovingston, Va., lawyer and Confederate Army officer; and William T. McCue, Staunton, Va., lawyer and Democrat. Topics of general interest are life at Randolph-Macon College in the 1830s; professor William E. Peters and the University of Virginia; the Lynchburg Fire Hose Insurance Company; Claudius Crozet and railroad construction; Jedidiah Hotchkiss' plans for opening a school; secession and reconstruction in Virginia, particularly Nelson County; and the University of Virginia chapel. The collection also contains marriage licenses, 1801-1803, for Augusta County, Va.; quartermaster records, 1861-1862, of the 51st Virginia regiment; letters, 1846-1889, of John Daniel Imboden; genealogical information on the McGlachlin, Moffett, and Trimble families; a copy of "The McCues of the Old Dominion," and a Virginia oath of allegiance, 1777.

ArchivalResource: 5000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50846051 View

Stuart, Alexander H. H. (Alexander Hugh Holmes), 1807-1891. Papers of Alexander H. H. Stuart and the related Stuart and Baldwin families [manuscript], 1776-1878 (bulk 1850-1861).

Title: Papers of Alexander H. H. Stuart and the related Stuart and Baldwin families [manuscript], 1776-1878 (bulk 1850-1861).

The collection contains the political correspondence of Alexander H.H. Stuart, particularly from 1850-1853, when he served in Fillmore's cabinet and from 1857-1861, when he was in the Virginia State Senate. The Whig Party is a major topic. Other topics include national and Virginia politics, the presidential elections of 1848, 1852, and 1868, the reestablishment of a national bank, the Virginia Reform Convention of 1850, the American Know-Nothing Party, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Also slavery, abolition, Southern conservative opposition to secession, Virginia elections of 1831, 1851, 1859, 1867, the aftermath of Nat Turner's rebellion, the use of statistics in government, the Confederate Congress, sectional reconciliation after the Civil War, the Readjustor controversy, political patronage, and internal improvements. Also mentioned are Revolutionary War pension claims, migration of free blacks to Liberia, affairs at the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indian Agency in 1851, California politics and Indians in 1851, the Tehuantepec Isthmus route, Iowa in 1851, San Francisco in 1854, New Orleans in 1861, West Virginia in 1861, the U.S.S. Princeton explosion, Dorothea Dix's efforts to establish hospitals for the mentally ill, building of the U.S. Capitol, the Virginia Central Railroad and the University of Virginia. Many letters convey local news in Staunton and Augusta County, Va., such as the development of Alum Springs, the establishment of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, smallpox cases and land sales and controversies in Virginia and Kentucky. Others refer to legal cases handled by Stuart, including suits involving the Bath Iron Works and Buffalo Forge, and the Wheeling Bridge. Several letters discuss family affairs including plans by a cousin to run a boarding house for young women in Athens, Greece. Only a few letters mention the Civil War and Reconstruction and include references to the military movements of Confederate general Robert S. Garnett. Topics in earlier Stuart and the related Baldwin family papers include ratification of the U.S. constitution, Jeffersonian party politics, political events during the administration of George Washington, Washington Academy, the University of Virginia and its honor system, Washington College, and William Wirt's biography of Patrick Henry. The papers also contain an architectural drawing of an unidentified house, an engraving of Alexander H.H. Stuart, insurance policies, stock certificates, indentures, wills, land plats, and speeches by Alexander H.H. Stuart. Military papers of Captain George M. Cochran, Jr., Quartermaster, 52nd Virginia Infantry, consist chiefly of requisitions and receipts. There are also two printed pamphlets, 1849, in French and German, on the potato blight.

ArchivalResource: 800 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647857203 View

Venable, Charles S. (Charles Scott), 1827-1900. Charles S. Venable papers, 1862-1894 (1863-1864) [manuscript].

Title: Charles S. Venable papers, 1862-1894 (1863-1864) [manuscript].

Official communications, mainly dated 1863-1864, addressed to R. E. Lee, and to Venable and other staff officers, from Confederate commanders in the Virginia theatre of war. Scattered postwar letters to Venable from former Confederate officers contain discussions of military actions and include letters from Venable to his wife and his son, Francis Preston Venable. Other correspondents include R. H. Anderson, P. G. T. Beauregard, Braxton Bragg, Jefferson Davis, Jubal A. Early, Richard S. Ewell, Wade Hampton, A. P. Hill, J. D. Imboden, Bradley T. Johnson, Fitzhugh Lee, W. H. F. Lee, F. T. Nicholls, George E. Pickett, Jeb Stuart, and T. M. Talcott. Volumes include lecture notes and a printed copy of Venable's 1874 "Address before the Society of the Alumni of Hampden-Sydney College."

ArchivalResource: 600 items (0.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25031617 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

Imboden, John Daniel, 1823-1895. Signature clipped from the register of Brown's Hotel : Washington, 1854 May 20.

Title: Signature clipped from the register of Brown's Hotel : Washington, 1854 May 20.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269555505 View

Letters to Ezra Ayres Carmen, 1878-1880.

Title: Letters to Ezra Ayres Carmen, 1878-1880.

Letters from theAmerican Civil War Confederate officer John Daniel Imboden containing his account of thecapture of Harper's Ferry to the American Civil War Union officer Ezra Ayres Carman.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.16 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01135/catalog View