Burwell-Catlett papers, 1794-1887.

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Burwell-Catlett papers, 1794-1887.

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Correspondence, 1794-1887, of the Burwell family of Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi. Includes letters of Mary Cole Turnbull Burwell and her children including Armistead Burwell, Benjamin Powell Burwell, Frances King Burwell Catlett, Robert Burwell, William T. Burwell (at the United States Military Academy), Charles Blair Burwell, and concerning these children and her other children Elizabeth Margaret Burwell Putnam and Anne Burwell Garland. Subjects include family, courtship and marriage, religion, setting up and teaching schools in Virginia, North Carolina, and Alabama, economics, travel, sickness, childbirth, and slavery. Includes a poem concerning love between two slaves. There are letters from John Walker Carter Catlett to his wife Frances King Burwell Catlett. Catlett had children by an earlier marriage, some of whom are mentioned in the letters.

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Burwell, Benjamin Powell.

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United States Military Academy

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West Point, N.Y., was originally utilized as a strategic defense location during the American Revolution. West Point is geographically located on a 100 ft. plateau overlooking the Hudson River. After the American victory Congress created a Corps of Invalids (veterans) that were transferred to West Point for the purpose of instructing candidates for commission. In 1802 Congress legally established the United States Military Academy at West Point. The Academy produced many leaders of American forc...

Garland, Anne (Burwell)

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Burwell, Robert.

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Catlett, Frances King Burwell, 1814-1903.

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Burwell, Mary Cole Turnbull.

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Burwell, Charles Blair.

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Burwell, William R. (William Ronald)

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Catlett, John Walker Carter, 1803-1883.

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Burwell, John, d. 1887.

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Burwell, Armistead, b. 1811 or 2.

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Catlett family.

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Putnam, Elizabeth Margaret Burwell, b. 1823.

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Burwell family.

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