White, Wellford, Taliaferro, and Marshall family papers, 1743- 1927 [microfilm manuscript].

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White, Wellford, Taliaferro, and Marshall family papers, 1743- 1927 [microfilm manuscript].

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Letters, diaries, writings, and other papers of Susan (Taliaferro) Wellford of Gloucester County, Va.; her husband, Beverley Randolph Wellford (b. 1828) of Fredericksburg and Richmond, Va., lawyer, secessionist, chief clerk of the Confederate war department, and judge; her brother, Edwin Taliaferro (1835-1867), professor at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., and Confederate Army officer serving in northern Virginia and in Macon, Ga.; and her son-in-law, Henry Alexander White (d. 1926), theologian at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., and Columbia Theological College, South Carolina. Volumes include minutes, 1777-1835, of the Saint David's Society of Society Hill, S.C., organized to maintain a school in Darlington District, S.C.; diary of Dr. Robert Wellford, 1794, as surgeon to Virginia troops supressing the Whiskey Rebellion, and his personal diary, 1800-1819; journal of Edwin Taliaferro while traveling in Europe, 1856-1857, and his Civil War journal, 1863, as an ordnance officer with McLaws's Division in Virginia; Berverley Randolph Wellford's diary, 1865, of the flight of the Confederate cabinet; and other items. James Alexander Seddon, Confederate secretary of war, was a relative and frequent correspondent. Included are a play and several accounts, essays, and anecdotes, many discussing Virginia plantation life and events during the Civil War.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Marshall family.

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Seddon, James A. (James Alexander), 1815-1880

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Representative from Virginia; Confederate Secretary of War. From the description of Autograph letter in pencil signed : [n.p.], to R.J. Walker, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270633277 Confederate Secretary of War. From the description of Letter to Dr. [Lewis] [manuscript], 1853 November 9. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647986794 From the description of Papers, 1862-1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20313944 ...

Taliaferro, Edwin, 1835-1867.

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College of William and Mary.

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Wellford, Beverley Randolph, 1828-1911.

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Richmond, Va., physician and officer of the Virginia Historical Society. Dr. Wellford collected autographs and documents of prominent Virginia historical figures, with a special interest in the periods of the American Revolution and Civil War. From the description of Papers : collected by Beverley Randolph Wellford, 1773- 1907 (bulk 1852-1866). (Virginia Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 30372622 ...

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White family.

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Saint David's Society (Florence, S.C.)

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Educational association for Chesterfield, Darlington, and Marlboro Counties, South Carolina. The Saint David's Society of the Parish of St. David's was created to establish and found public schools for educating the youth of all Protestant denominations in Latin and Greek languages, writing, mathematics, arithmetic, and other useful branches of literature. From the description of Saint David's Society minutes, 1777-ca. 1920. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id...

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Wellford, Susan Taliaferro, fl. 1848-1863.

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White, Henry Alexander, 1861-1926

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Taliaferro family.

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Wellford, Robert, 1753-1823

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