Notebook of Robert Thruston Hubard [manuscript], 1860-1866.

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Notebook of Robert Thruston Hubard [manuscript], 1860-1866.

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The volume contains notes from the lectures, 1860-1861, on mercantile law, of James Philemon Holcombe, an analysis of the rules of pleading in "Stephen pleading," a catalog of his law library, and Hubard's Civil War reminiscences, 1865-1866, of service with the Cumberland Light Dragoons (Company G, Third Regiment Virginia Cavalry). Hubard's reminiscences give an overall account of the causes of the war and Virginia's entry and relates his own participation from events at the University of Virginia in 1861 through his wounding in the war's last week. Topics include winter camp life in 1861, and the battles of Big Bethel, Yorktown, Williamsburg, the Peninsular campaign, Antietam, Stuart's Dumfries Raid, Kellys Ford, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Rappahannock Bridge, Spotsylvania, Yellow Tavern, Cold Harbor, Wilson & Kautz's Petersburg Raid, Winchester, and Sheridan's Valley campaign, 1864-1865. The collection also contains a genealogy "The descendants of Robert Thruston Hubard (1808-1871) by William Stebbins Hubard, 1999,

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Hubard, Robert Thruston, 1808-1871

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Resident of Cumberland County, Va. From the description of Papers of Robert Thruston Hubard, 1827-1854. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50902537 Planter of Buckingham and Cumberland counties, Va.; member of the Virginia legislature. From the description of Papers of Robert T. Hubard, 1825-1874. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32672054 Tobacco farmer and lawyer of Buckingham and Cumberland counties, Va., and member of Virginia ...

Cumberland Light Dragoons.

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Stephen, Henry John, 1787-1864

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Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry Regiment, 3rd. Company G.

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Hubard, Robert Thruston, 1839-1921

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University of Virginia student from Buckingham County, Va.; afterwards Confederate adjt., lawyer, farmer, and member of the Virginia legislature. From the description of Notebook of law lectures at the University of Virginia [manuscript], 1861-1866 (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 191869463 Confederate officer in the 3d Virginia Cavalry, whose home was near Appomattox, Va. From the description of Reminiscences of the great four year war ... commencin...

Holcombe, James P. (James Philemon), 1820-1873

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Hubard, William Stebbins, 1923-

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