Miscellaneous papers [manuscript], 1818-1945.

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Miscellaneous papers [manuscript], 1818-1945.

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Include a tax list, 1818, of property owned by James Bell of Wythe County, Va.; letter, 1819 March 2, Francis Walker Gilmer to Leslie Combs, Lexington, Ky., regarding a Revolutionary War veteran's petition to the legislature; and letter, 1853 May 24, Hiram Putnam, Syracuse, N.Y., to Joseph Slocum concerning investigation of a Virginia gold mine near The Wilderness. Also include letter, 1869, George Long, Buckingham Road, London, to "Platt" regarding sale in the U.S. of a book by Long; a carte-de-visite of Dutch Gap Canal, ca. 1870; and a letter and three related items, 1945, from Desmond T. Doss, the first conscientious objector to win the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Doss, Desmond T.

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Combs, Leslie, 1793-1881

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American soldier and politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to C.E. Lester, 1845 Dec. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270527027 Public official of Kentucky. From the description of Leslie Combs papers, 1831-1848. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453976 Lawyer, politician, and soldier. From the description of Letters, 1831-1874. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49200558 ...

Bell, James.

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Putnam, Hiram

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Hiram Putnam (1786-1874) was born in Danvers, Mass. He went to sea in 1802 and was involved with various aspects of shipping and the China trade until 1827, including time on the ships Aurora and Rising Empire. For ten years he was the captain of the ship China, of Salem, owned by Joseph Peabody. He married Elizabeth Osgood in 1816. They moved to Syracuse, N.Y. in 1829. Elizabeth died in 1848. Their daughter, Lucy Blythe, married Dudley Post Phelps (1817-1880) on Sep. 3, 1845. From t...

Slocum, Joseph R.

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Long, George, 1800-1879

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Chair of Department of Ancient Languages, University of Virginia. From the description of Letters of George Long [manuscript], 1862-1868. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647847635 English scholar, editor, lecturer, and professor at the University of Virginia, 1824-1831; from Foulton, Lancashire, England. From the description of Papers, 1831-1879. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19902988 ...

Gilmer, Francis Walker, 1790-1826

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Virginia lawyer and educator. From the description of Notebook and journal, 1815-1822. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19647035 Francis Walker Gilmer was born 9 October 1790 at "Pen Park" in Albemarle County, Virginia, to George Gilmer (1742-1795) and Lucy Walker Gilmer (1751-1800). He received some of his education at Monticello from Martha Jefferson Randolph (1772-1836) and at a school run by James Ogilvie (1760-1820). Gilmer attended the College of William ...