Papers of the Bledsoe family [manuscript], 1837-1951.

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Papers of the Bledsoe family [manuscript], 1837-1951.

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A letter, 1837, from Albert Taylor Bledsoe to his wife discusses a religious convention in Danville, Va. and of a review he has written. A letter, 1951, from Louise Herrick Wall to Elizabeth D. Halladay, concerns unfavorable comments about A.T. Bledsoe in Philip Alexander Bruce's History of the University of Virginia, and in an article by Edwin Mims. The collection includes a photograph of Sophia Childress Bledsoe.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Bruce, Philip Alexander, 1856-1933

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Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 1809-1877

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Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809-1877), a Confederate official, editor, and author, was the first-born son of Moses Ousley and Sophia Childress Taylor. A fellow student of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee at West Point Military Academy in 1830, Bledsoe performed military duty at western Indian forts. After graduating from Kenyon College in Ohio, he taught mathematics and French at Kenyon and later Miami University. He praticed law for ten years in Springfield, Illinois from 1838-48 but returned to t...

Bledsoe, Sophia Childress

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Bledsoe, Harriet C.

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Wall, Louise Herrick, 1866-

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Mims, Edwin, 1872-1959

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Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886-1953

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Newspaper editor and historian. From the description of Letter to Charles Lee Lewis, 1943 August 17. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53180098 Freeman was a Richmond, Virginia journalist and historian who wrote the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. From the description of Letters, 1934 July 14 and 1936 July 25 : to Miss Helen Webster. (Washington & Lee University). WorldCat record id: 567435277 Editor of the Richomd News Leader. ...

Halladay, Elizabeth Dinwiddie.

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Bledsoe family.

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