Papers of Thomas L. Rosser and the Rosser, Gordon and Winston families, 1774-1983 (bulk 1843-1942).

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Papers of Thomas L. Rosser and the Rosser, Gordon and Winston families, 1774-1983 (bulk 1843-1942).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53966351

Major subjects in the correspondence are the Civil War and post-war controversies over battles; construction of the Northern Pacific railroad; the battle of Little Big Horn; local, state and national politics in the post-war South, Reconstruction, and populism; the Spanish-American war and Cuban land speculation; life in Charlottesville, Va.; the University of Virginia; Rosser family genealogy and Rosser family businesses. Other subjects include slavery; the Washington Artillery in New Orleans, 1861; missionary work and zoological expeditions in China, 1920s and 30s; American life as seen by an 1880s Swedish immigrant; an 1887 European tour and an 1896 lecture tour. Smaller topics include life as a West Point cadet, 1856; enmity towards Jeb Stuart, 1864; Jubal Early's responsibility for defeat at Tom's Brook, 1864; a patent for canal and railroad combination locks; blacks in Reconstruction Montgomery, Ala.; a land investment proposal to assist Jefferson Davis, 1889; a monument to Confederate dead in Charlottesville, 1890; black soldiers in the Spanish-American War; a black political meeting in Charlottesville Va., 1901; labor troubles, 1917; a Charlottesville Ku Klux Klan march, 1924; bootlegging University of Virginia professors, 1925. Financial and legal papers contain wills; a slave receipt; Mrs. Rosser's book "Housekeepers' and Mothers' manual"; and a patent issued to Rosser. Miscellaneous material includes speeches and reminiscences of Rosser, an article and a thesis about him, a report to Robert E. Lee on Malvern Hill, drawings, a sketchbook containing a drawing of a Confederate camp, childrens school reports, Spanish American War papers, genealogical material, clippings, memorabilia, and maps. Photographs include stereoscopic views, particularly "Montana through the stereoscope," family tintypes and photographs, and photographs of railroad construction. Bound volumes consist chiefly of diaries and memoranda books of Rosser family members as well as a time book of the Monticello Wine Company. Oversize items include plans and maps from Rosser's real estate speculations in Cuba and Charlottesville, Va.; group photographs of University of Virginia fraternities and of a Northern Pacific reunion.

6000 items.

swe,

eng,

University of Virginia. Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7673959

University of Virginia. Library

Related Entities

There are 35 Entities related to this resource.

Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6233khc (person)

P.G.T. Beauregard was a Confederate States Army general from New Orleans, Louisiana. The Aztec Club was organized in 1847 as a fraternal society for officers serving under General Winfield Scott's command in Mexico City. Several officers later became major Civil War leaders. From the description of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard letter, 1892 Dec. 29. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 70294149 Former Confederate general and resident of New Orleans. At the t...

Rosser, Thomas Lafayette, 1836-1910

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69z99jk (person)

Confederate States of America general. From the description of Portrait of Thomas Lafayette Rosser [manuscript], ca. 1858. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806656 From the description of Photograph of Thomas Lafayette Rosser, ca. 1898. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 64431642 Confederate general during Civil War; resident of Charlottesville, Va. From the description of Papers, 1861-1867. (Duke University Library). WorldCat r...

Rosser, John, 1797-1877,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m349tf (person)

Bacock, John B., 1843-1909.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wq1jqj (person)

Democratic Party (Va.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6575pbf (corporateBody)

Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Democratic Party of Virginia">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Democratic Party of Virginia</a>. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Democratic Party (Va.)">http://scrc...

Republican Party (Va.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m36xg5 (corporateBody)

Rosser family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hv1nsn (family)

Ku Klux Klan 1915-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x38p5s (corporateBody)

The Ku Klux Klan was formally incorporated under the laws of the state of Georgia on Dec. 4, 1915. The incorporated organization is a continuance of the earlier post Civil War Reconstruction Era unincorporated Ku Klux Klan and of the Knights of the White Camellia. Women of the Ku Klux Klan was incorporated at a late date as a separate entity. The stated purpose of the KKK was to promote an all White, Protestant United States, excluding all other races and religions. From the descript...

Winston family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62p41qp (family)

Bow, Clara, 1905-1965

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w670861z (person)

Monticello Wine Company (Charlottesville, Va.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60p66bz (corporateBody)

O'Ferrall, Charles T. (Charles Triplett), 1840-1905

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pn9j4d (person)

Charles Triplett O'Ferrall was Governor of Virginia in 1894-1898. From the description of Papers of Charles Tiplett O'Ferrall, 1873-1899, (bulk 1894-1897). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 228721186 Charles Triplett O'Ferrall was born in Frederick County, Va. 21 October 1840. He served in the Confederate cavalry. He graduated from the law department of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) and practiced law i...

Alderman, Edwin Anderson, 1861-1931

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k35rzp (person)

Educator and orator. From the description of Letter to a former student [manuscript], 1920 June 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647976354 From the description of Edwin Anderson Alderman papers [manuscript], 1881-1950. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647925708 University of Virginia president. From the description of Sketch of Edwin Anderson Alderman [manuscript], ca. 1925. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 64781...

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xk8d2z (person)

Mary Ann Lamar Cobb (1818-1889), wife of Gen. Howell Cobb (1815-1868). From the description of Letter to Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, 1888 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476494 Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was born in Kentucky. He attended Transylvania University for a short time before enrolling at West Point in 1824, at the age of 16. He graduated in 1828 and immediately joined the First Infantry. His regiment was engaged in the Blackhawk War of 1831. In 1833, he became a...

Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x45mg6 (person)

Custer's paternal ancestors, Paulus and Gertrude Küster, came to the North American English colonies around 1693 from the Rhineland in Germany, probably among thousands of Palatines whose passage was arranged by the English government to gain settlers in New York and Pennsylvania. According to family letters, Custer was named after George Armstrong, a minister, in his devout mother's hope that her son might join the clergy. Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, to Emanuel Henry Custer (1806...

Blanton, Wyndham Bolling, 1890-1960

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60s14mv (person)

Physician, of Richmond, Va. From the description of Papers of Wyndham Bolling Blanton [manuscript] 1920-50. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647938760 Richmond, Va., physician. From the description of Papers of Wyndham Bolling Blanton [manuscript] 1920-1950. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647938505 ...

Atkinson, Edward, 1827-1905

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pg2bjx (person)

Economist. From the description of Papers of Edward Atkinson, 1882-1887. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449908 Edward Atkinson was an American economist and underwriter. From the description of Edward Atkinson letters, 1868-1898. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122575952 From the guide to the Edward Atkinson letters, 1868-1898, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) American author, industrialist, and economist. ...

Rosser, Elizabeth Barbara Winston, 1844-1915,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x65346 (person)

Battle, George Gordon, 1868-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fx7w5t (person)

Mahone, William, 1826-1895

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gx4qn6 (person)

Confederate Army officer, railroad administrator, politician. From the description of Papers, 1853-1895; (bulk 1876-1892). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 23371607 Politician and senator, leader in "Readjuster" movement to readjust state debt. From the description of Letter : Petersburg, to Merideth Watson, Nottoway County, 1880 April 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122539121 James Barron Hope was born 23 March 1829 in Norfolk, Virginia...

Ladies Confederate Memorial Association (Charlottesville, Va.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zh20gq (corporateBody)

Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61838zw (person)

Confederate general. From the description of Autograph manuscript : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270742671 James Barron Hope was born 23 March 1829 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was the grandson of James Barron and son of Wilton and Jane A. (Barron) Hope. James Barron Hope graduated from the College of William and Mary. He practiced law and was commonwealth's attorney for Norfolk. He married Anne Beverley Whiting. The couple had two daughters, Jane A. Barron (Jane...

Northern Pacific Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dn7z44 (corporateBody)

These documents are duplicate copies from the papers of George A. Brackett, now part of the Northern Pacific Railroad collection at the Minnesota Historical Society. From the description of Papers. 1864-1914. (Tri-College Library). WorldCat record id: 18832082 Isaac "Ike" Gravelle was born in Canada in October 1871. He came to the United States in 1886. He was sent to the Montana State Prison in May 1891 on a conviction for horse stealing. After his release in 1893 he worked...

Rosser, Elizabeth Winston.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hb0m45 (person)

Stuart, Jeb, 1833-1864

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f1918m (person)

James Ewell Brown (Jeb) Stuart, soldier, was born 6 February 1833, on "Laurel Hill" plantation, Patrick County, Virginia. He died 12 May 1864 and is buried in Richmond, Virginia. Stuart graduated from the U.S. Military Academy (1850); received his commission (1854); and transferred to the Cavalry (1855). He married Flora Cooke, a colonel's daughter, in 1855, and the couple had three children. Stuart became Robert E. Lee's aide (1859) and resigned from the U.S. Army to be commissioned a lieutenan...

Populist Party (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6323rrj (corporateBody)

Rosser, Thomas Lafayette, 1867-1942,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6515cr1 (person)

Rosser, Barbara Winston, 1896-1984,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vm5td0 (person)

Gordon family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hn47xj (family)

Bates, Charles Francis, 1862-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vd7rgr (person)

Charles F. Bates (1862-1943), who was born in Monroe, Michigan and lived in Bronxville, New York, pursued first a military career and then set up a legal practice. He spent most of his life researching George Armstrong Custer. From the description of Charles F. Bates papers, 1866-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702127281 Charles Francis Bates, born December 25, 1862, in Monroe, Michigan, received a law degree from Columbia University in 1892. He pursued a m...

United States. Army. Cavalry, 5th

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sr3h0w (corporateBody)

Cavalry unit in the United States Army that participated in the campaigns against the Indians of the American West. From the description of Correspondence and orders, 1864-1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122699624 From the guide to the United States Army 5th Calvary correspondence and orders, 1864-1881, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

United States Military Academy

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67x01xt (corporateBody)

West Point, N.Y., was originally utilized as a strategic defense location during the American Revolution. West Point is geographically located on a 100 ft. plateau overlooking the Hudson River. After the American victory Congress created a Corps of Invalids (veterans) that were transferred to West Point for the purpose of instructing candidates for commission. In 1802 Congress legally established the United States Military Academy at West Point. The Academy produced many leaders of American forc...

Carnegie Land Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qk2qpm (corporateBody)

Bayard, Thomas F. (Thomas Francis), 1828-1898

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s75kzv (person)

American statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Wilmington, Del., to [Henry Morrison] Flagler, 1884 Sept. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672065 Epithet: American statesman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x000223 Diplomat and statesman; U.S. senator (1869-1885); U.S. secretary of state (1885-1888); of Wilmington, Del. From the descriptio...