Fitzhugh letters, 1864, 1910.

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Fitzhugh letters, 1864, 1910.

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Letter from Frank Fitzhugh, Barboursville, Virginia, to his brother Catlett Conway (or Catlett Fitzhugh?), 1864 August 15 and letter from D.M. Pattie, Madison, Virginia, to J.S. Fitzhugh, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1910 August 9. The Fitzhugh letter, a negative photocopy, describes Fitzhugh's Civil War activities during the summer of 1864, including his sickness and hospitilization and action at the Battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania and afterwards. (Portions of this letter are extracted in the Madison News newspaper found in MSS 4448 at the University of Virginia Special Collections Library.) Fitzhugh also discusses family matters in the letter. The Pattie letter mentions that enclosed are "the old letters written by my old comrade and friend (your I believe now sainted father)" and says that "no braver truer soldier ever wore the gray."

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Fitzhugh family.

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Fitzhugh, Frank C. (Francis Conway), 1838-1910.

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Frank Fitzhugh, Orange County private in Carrington's Charlottesville Artillery and Barger's Staunton Artillery. Information extracted from "Confederate Soldiers" (detailed on a genealogy website) indicates he was wounded in the left thigh at Chancellorsville and was in and out of hospitals for various ailments during his army service. In September 1864, he returned to duty and was paroled at Appomattox, April 9, 1865. From the description of Civil War papers of Frank C. Fitzhugh. 18...

Pattie, D. M.,

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