Taliaferro family. White, Wellford, Taliaferro, and Marshall family papers, 1743- 1927 [microfilm manuscript].
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White, Wellford, Taliaferro, and Marshall family papers, 1743- 1927 [microfilm manuscript].
Letters, diaries, writings, and other papers of Susan (Taliaferro) Wellford of Gloucester County, Va.; her husband, Beverley Randolph Wellford (b. 1828) of Fredericksburg and Richmond, Va., lawyer, secessionist, chief clerk of the Confederate war department, and judge; her brother, Edwin Taliaferro (1835-1867), professor at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., and Confederate Army officer serving in northern Virginia and in Macon, Ga.; and her son-in-law, Henry Alexander White (d. 1926), theologian at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., and Columbia Theological College, South Carolina. Volumes include minutes, 1777-1835, of the Saint David's Society of Society Hill, S.C., organized to maintain a school in Darlington District, S.C.; diary of Dr. Robert Wellford, 1794, as surgeon to Virginia troops supressing the Whiskey Rebellion, and his personal diary, 1800-1819; journal of Edwin Taliaferro while traveling in Europe, 1856-1857, and his Civil War journal, 1863, as an ordnance officer with McLaws's Division in Virginia; Berverley Randolph Wellford's diary, 1865, of the flight of the Confederate cabinet; and other items. James Alexander Seddon, Confederate secretary of war, was a relative and frequent correspondent. Included are a play and several accounts, essays, and anecdotes, many discussing Virginia plantation life and events during the Civil War.
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