Papers, 1855-1862.

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Papers, 1855-1862.

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Papers, 1855-1862, including a series of letters, 1855-1863, arranged chronologically; and the series clippings and genealogical notes, arranged chronologically. In the letters numerous subjects are discussed among the several correspondents, including family matters, especially illnesses and deaths, the purchasing of real estate in Ala. and the use of power-of-attorney, business matters, crops, especially corn and wheat, in King William's Co., Va.; local events, such as the weather, marriages, deaths, and other events in Va. and in Haynesville and Hickory Grove, Lowndes Co., Ala.; local Ala. politics, settling in Kansas and the trouble there, in the 1856 Aug. 8 letter; the corn mill in Va.; a slave insurrection, in the 1856 Dec. 22 letter; the scarcity of specie in Va., in the 1858 Jan. 19 letter; the mercantile business of Byrd G. Pollard in Ayletts, Va.; the raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry, Va., in the 1859 Nov. 13 letter; the reaction in Va. to Abraham Lincoln's election, in the 1860 Nov. 12 letter; the secession movement in the South, in the 1861 Mar. 22 letter; the military experiences, not in detail, of William Martin Clements, George N. Powell, L. Cottnell, Leroy Y. Clements; the death of Claudius Clements, in the letter of 1861 May 10; and the death of Leroy Clements, in the letter of 1862 Apr. 15. The primary correspondents, in order of the letters they sent or received, included Thomas Wilson Clements, George Clements, William M. Clements, Young J. Clements, Byrd G. Pollard, C. Washington Powell, Eugene V. Clements, Leroy V. Clements, L. Cottnell, George N. Powell, and Eliza R. Clements. There are several other correspondents. In addition, the papers contain some genealogical information on the Clements family, the Timberlake family, and the Powell family, primarily in Va., a clipping, undated, on Eliza R. Clements, and a power-of-attorney, 1862 Jan., in which Young J. Clements appointed Boyd G. Pollard as his attorney.

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Clements, Young J., 1798-1885.

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Clements family.

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Pollard, Byrd G.

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Clements, W.M. (William Martin), b.1840.

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Powell, C. Washington (Claudius Washington), 1827-1861.

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Clements, Leroy Y. (Leroy Young), 1837-1862.

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Clements, Eugene V., b.1844.

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Clements, Claudius, d.1862.

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Clements, George.

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Brown, John, 1800-1859

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John Brown (May 9, 1800, Torrington, Connecticut – December 2, 1859, Charles Town, Virginia) was born in Connecticut in 1800 before migrating with his family at an early age to the Connecticut Western Reserve. He failed at several business ventures and land speculations before devoting his life to the abolition of slavery. Brown was executed in 1859 following his failed attempt to incite a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Edwin Coppoc, a native of Salem, Ohio, joined Brown in his rai...

Clements, Leroy (Leroy Young), 1837-1862.

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Powell family.

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Clements, Eliza R. (Eliza R. Timberlake Powell), 1802-1862.

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Clements, Thomas W. (Thomas Wilson), 1838-1863.

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Powell, George N., b.1829.

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Timberlake family.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...