Papers of the Dabney family, 1718-1936.

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Papers of the Dabney family, 1718-1936.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32136217

The bulk of the collection consists of letters from Robert Lewis Dabney to family members. Chief topics include Louisa County, Va., Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Virginia, and the Civil War. Of interest is an account of the trial of Joseph G. Semmes, the University of Virginia student accused of killing Professor John A.G. Davis. There are also speeches written during Dabney's student days, an autobiographical account of his life to the 1890s, and a large group of transcripts of the papers of Stonewall Jackson including items pertaining to Kernstown, Gaines Mill and A.P. Hill used by Dabney in his biography of General Jackson. Additional papers relate to other members of the Dabney family including correspondence among his sons concerning rights to his writings, new editions and a biography of him by T. Cary Johnson; pamphlets by Charles W. Dabney, president of the University of Cincinnati; pamphlets on Presbyterian seminaries; and a incomplete paper bound set of Dabney's life of Stonewall Jackson.

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