Armistead, Blanton, and Wallace family papers, 1827-1919.

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Armistead, Blanton, and Wallace family papers, 1827-1919.

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Includes accounts, 1860s (43 items), of Jesse Scott Armistead concerning the management of Woodville plantation in Cumberland County, Va.; correspondence and accounts of his son, Charles James Armistead, also of Cumberland County; and accounts and correspondence of his daughter, Nancy Miller (Armistead) Blanton (1829-1902), describing life in Richmond during the Civil War. Includes letters, 1861, of J.S. Armistead's son-in-law, John Bolling, concerning his service in the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia; the diary of Thomas P. Wallace (b. 1836) while traveling in England, Scotland, and France in 1886; the diary of Walter Bernard Wallace (b. 1875), serving as a YMCA official with the U.S. Army in England and France, 1918-1919; and typescript excerpts from the diary, 1842-1857, of Frances Scott Miller of Prince Edward County, Va., dealing with management of her boarding house, her domestic slave staff, her boarders (students from Hampden-Sydney College and Union Theological Seminary), and social functions.

96 items.

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Hampden-Sydney College

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Hampden-Sydney College is a liberal arts college for men located in Hampden-Sydney, Virginia. Founded in 1775, Hampden-Sydney is the 10th oldest college in the United States and one of only three four-year, all-men's liberal arts colleges in the United States. From the guide to the Lottery Ticket, 1777, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) ...

Blanton, Nancy Miller Armistead, 1829-1902.

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Miller, Frances Scott.

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Armistead family.

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Blanton family.

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Wallace family.

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Armistead, Charles James, 1835-1911.

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Union Theological Seminary in Virginia.

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Wallace, Thomas P., b. 1836.

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Wallace, Walter Bernard, b. 1875.

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Bolling, John L.

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Armistead, Jesse S., 1795-1869

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