Papers, 1830-1940.

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Black family. Papers, 1830-1940.

Papers, 1830-1940.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20439817

Blacksburg, Va. family. Dr. Harvy Black (1827-88) served in the Civil War as a surgeon for the Fourth Virginia Infantry Regiment and as surgeon in charge of the field hospital of the 2nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. Black assisted in the operation on General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson after he had been wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville. He was founder and was on the first Board of Visitors of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, now Virginia Tech. Papers include an account book of Alexander Black (ca. 1832-45); Mexican War diary and diary of a trip to Wisconsin of Dr. Harvy Black (1847-49), miscellaneous correspondence of Harvy Black (ca. 1850-85); Black's Civil War correspondence with his wife Molly (ca. 35 letters, 1861-64); an anatomy notebook of Dr. Kent Black (1876) and a quilt his patients made for him (ca. 1890); and miscellaneous business papers and genealogical notes of the Black family.

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