Papers, 1862-1936.

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Papers, 1862-1936.

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Correspondence, account books, scrapbooks, and other papers of members of the Powell family of Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, W. Va. Included are letters to John Simms Powell (1818-1889) concerning his service with the Confederate Quartermaster General; and an account book, 1864-1896, of Powell & Lee, tobacco merchants, containing later household accounts and recipes. The collection also includes correspondence, 1926- 1936, of Sally Lee Powell (1861-1961), chiefly concerning the efforts of the West Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to construct a memorial to Robert E. Lee at the Sharpsburg/Antietam battlefield, and including a letter from Matthew Page Andrews opposing the creation of a memorial to John Brown at Harpers Ferry, W. Va.; and a commonplace book and scrapbook, ca. 1880s-1890s, containing poetry. The commonplace book was previously used as an account book, 1850-1851, by Henry Bedinger (1812-1858) of Shepherdstown, lawyer and diplomat.

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Confederate States of America. Army. Quartermaster General's Office

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Bedinger, Henry, 1812-1858

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United Daughters of the Confederacy. West Virginia Division.

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Powell, John Simms, 1818-1889.

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Powell, Sally Lee, 1861-1961.

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Powell family.

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Sharpsburg-Lee Memorial (Md.)

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Andrews, Matthew Page, 1879-1947

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Brown, John, 1800-1859

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John Brown (May 9, 1800, Torrington, Connecticut – December 2, 1859, Charles Town, Virginia) was born in Connecticut in 1800 before migrating with his family at an early age to the Connecticut Western Reserve. He failed at several business ventures and land speculations before devoting his life to the abolition of slavery. Brown was executed in 1859 following his failed attempt to incite a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Edwin Coppoc, a native of Salem, Ohio, joined Brown in his rai...

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 ...