Papers of the Twyman family of Albemarle County, Virginia, 1835-1865.

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Papers of the Twyman family of Albemarle County, Virginia, 1835-1865.

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The papers consist of correspondence of the Twyman family with friends and relatives. The papers include letters, 1861-1865, from Walker G. Twyman, with the 19th Virginia Infantry, describing battles, marches and conditions in Virginia camps and Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond, Virginia. Specific Civil War topics include Charlottesville troops at Harper's Ferry; Camp Pickens; battle at Fairfax Court House; execution of spies; 1st Manassas; rumors, picket duty; Seven Days' Battles; prisoners dying of typhoid at Chimborazo; sending of food and supplies to soldiers; and fighting at Gordonsville. Other topics include the settlement of an estate in Albemarle County, Va.; a Virginia Central Railroad Company report on inability to pay a dividend; a baptism in an Earlysville Baptist church; an ailing child with "curved spine"; the sale of slave in poor health; and bail for Charles [Watts?] in Lexington, Ky. James Lawrence Cabell is a correspondent. The collection also contains a death notice for John C. Wilhoit.

190 (ca.) items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7665906

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Cabell, J. L. (James Lawrence), 1813-1889

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Confederate physician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "General Hospital, Charlottesville," to Surgeon R. Kidder Taylor, 1863 Nov. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133389 Confederate hospital head, professor and chairman of the faculty at the University of Virginia. From the description of James Lawrence Cabell papers, 1876-1877, [Charlottesville, Virginia] (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35004506 University of Virginia profe...

Twyman, Walker G.,

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Twyman, Joseph W., fl. 1840-1867,

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Twyman, William R., fl. 1856-1864,

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Watts, Martha Twyman, fl. 1839,

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Twyman family.

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Confederate states of America. Army

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Twyman, Walker G., d. 1862,

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Chimborazo Hospital (Richmond, Va.)

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Wilhoit, John C., d. 1862.

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Virginia Central Railroad Company

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Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 19th

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Watts, Garrett, fl. 1837-1851,

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Twyman, Joseph W.

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