Papers, 1872-1915.

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Papers, 1872-1915.

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Letters, 1885-1915, written to J. Ogden Murray, chiefly concerning his book about the Immortal Six Hundred, and including as correspondents William Edwin Allen (of Bristol, Va., concerning his father, Alphonso S. Allen, a prisoner at Johnson's Island, including names of other prisoners), Jay Guy Cisco (Tennessee newspaper editor, concerning Tennessee politics ca. 1908-1909), T.S. Doyle (of Staunton and Basic City, Va., concerning his prison experiences, especially the education he received from fellow prisoners), historian Lamar Fontaine (of Lyon, Miss., concerning his views on Abraham Lincoln), Junius L. Hempstead (of Jennings and New Orleans, La., concerning Confederate veterans' affairs), Stephen D. Lee (of Columbus, Miss., concerning sources for information on death rates among Confederate prisoners), and historian Marcus J. Wright; minutes, 1905-1906, of the Society of the Immortal Six Hundred and miscellaneous papers, 1886-1914, pertaining to Murray's membership in other veterans' groups; and writings about Civil War subjects by Murray, including essays on Confederate soldiery, Robert E. Lee, and the history of Winchester, Va., and Civil War reminiscences and diaries of Murray, Junius L. Hempstead, Samuel Thompson Anderson, and others.

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Anderson, Samuel Thompson, 1838-1894.

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Murray, J. Ogden

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Allen, William Edwin, b. 1861.

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