Launcelot Minor Blackford papers, [circa 1960].

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Launcelot Minor Blackford papers, [circa 1960].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173863221

The collection consists of papers of Launcelot Minor Blackford from ca. 1960. The papers include two versions of the manuscript of Blackford's unpublished work relating to Frank Robertson's service on the staff of Jeb Stuart during the Civil War. The collection also includes multiple versions of the accounts of several Civil War battles and miscellaneous photoprints relating to the manuscript.

.5 linear ft. : (1 box)

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6927237

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Robertson, Frank Smith.

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Blackford, Launcelot Minor, 1894-1964

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Dr. Launcelot Minor Blackford (1894-May 5, 1964) was born in Alexandria, Virginia, the son of L. Minor Blackford, a principal of Episcopal School, Alexandria and the grandson of Mary Beckeley Blackford, a Southern abolitionist, whose biography Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory was written by Dr. Blackford and was published by the Harvard University Press. Dr. Blackford attended the University of Virginia and graduated from its Medical School in 1923 and interned at John Hopkins and at Mayo's. He was...

Stuart, Jeb, 1833-1864

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James Ewell Brown (Jeb) Stuart, soldier, was born 6 February 1833, on "Laurel Hill" plantation, Patrick County, Virginia. He died 12 May 1864 and is buried in Richmond, Virginia. Stuart graduated from the U.S. Military Academy (1850); received his commission (1854); and transferred to the Cavalry (1855). He married Flora Cooke, a colonel's daughter, in 1855, and the couple had three children. Stuart became Robert E. Lee's aide (1859) and resigned from the U.S. Army to be commissioned a lieutenan...