Address to the freedmen of Alabama and correspondence, [1868], 1869, 1912, 1916.

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Address to the freedmen of Alabama and correspondence, [1868], 1869, 1912, 1916.

In his [1868] address [1 page fragment], Tutwiler begins to discuss the privilege of voting, and recounts how he always treated his own slaves justly. A typed transcript of the address is included. The collection also contains a letter, 1869 April 8, Lexington, Va. from Robert E. Lee to Tutwiler concerning a note of thanks to George Long for a presentation copy of his translation of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antonius, a 1912 letter from John Shelton Patton to Thomas McCovey thanking him for his paper on Tutwiler and two 1916 letters from Thomas Fitzhugh concerning the loan of Tutwiler's letters and the use of an article on Tutwiler.

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University of Virginia. Library

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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 ...

McCovey, Thomas C.,

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Long, George, 1800-1879

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Chair of Department of Ancient Languages, University of Virginia. From the description of Letters of George Long [manuscript], 1862-1868. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647847635 English scholar, editor, lecturer, and professor at the University of Virginia, 1824-1831; from Foulton, Lancashire, England. From the description of Papers, 1831-1879. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19902988 ...

Fitzhugh, Thomas, 1862-1957

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Patton, John S. (John Shelton), 1857-1932

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Editor, public official, librarian and author. Superintendent of Charlottesville schools, secretary to the University of Virginia chairman, librarian of the University of Virginia. From the description of Papers of John Shelton Patton [manuscript] ca. 1900-1911. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647965772 ...

Tutwiler, Henry, 1807-1884

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Tutwiler was born on 1807 Nov. 16 at Harrisburg, Rockingham Co., Va., to Henry and Margaret Lorchbaugh Tutwiler. In 1825 He entered the University of Va., graduating in 1829, being the first student there to receive the A.M. degree. From 1831-1837 he was professor of ancient languages at the University of Ala., marrying Julia Ashe in 1835, and from 1837-1839 was the chair of mathematics at Marion College. During 1839-1847 he became professor of mathematics and chemistry at LaGrange College in no...