Diary, 1864-1865.

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Diary, 1864-1865.

Kept by Edward Richard Archer while in London, England, Paris, France, Hamilton, Bermuda, Havana, Cuba, St. Marks, Florida, and Charlotte and Greensboro, North Carolina, this diary contains entries describing his journey through Europe, to Bermuda and Cuba, and finally to the United States. Included in the diary are entries concerning the surrender of the Confederate Army of Tennessee to the Union Army under the command of William Tecumseh Sherman in April 1865, and iron products manufactured at the Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond, Va.

1 v. (136 p.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7389481

Virginia Historical Society Library

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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

Confederate States of America. Army of Tennessee

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Principal Confederate army of the west, formed November 1862. From the description of Records, 1861-1864. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28447972 ...

Archer, Edward Richard, 1834-1918.

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Tredegar Iron Works (Richmond, Va.)

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