Papers, 1764-1894; (bulk 1830-1870).

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Papers, 1764-1894; (bulk 1830-1870).

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Chiefly correspondence concerning personal and business affairs of the Penn family, engaged in the tobacco industry, of Henry and Patrick counties, Va. Several members of the family served in the Virginia General Assembly. Subjects include American Methodism, the Battle of Manassas, Confederate refugees, the Peninsular Campaign, Sherman's march to the sea, the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia politics in the 1840s, and politics in New Orleans in the 1870s. Persons represented include Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and members of the Childress, Rives (Reeve), Stoval (Stovall), and Waller families.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Waller family.

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Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...

Reeve family.

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Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863

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Stonewall Jackson (1824-1863) was a Confederate Army officer from Lexington (Rockbridge Co.), Va. From the guide to the Stonewall Jackson papers, 1855-1906, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) Confederate general. From the description of Stonewall Jackson papers, 1842-1898 (bulk 1861-1862) [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23186323 Confederate Army officer, from Lexington (Rockbridge Co.), Va. From the de...

Penn family.

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Stovall family.

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Penn, Green W.

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Childress family.

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