Miscellaneous Virginia letters [manuscript] : including 6 letters of the Slater family, 3 Civil War and Reconstruction letters, a letter of William Branch Giles, and a letter pertaining to electromedical machinery, 1827-1867.

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Miscellaneous Virginia letters [manuscript] : including 6 letters of the Slater family, 3 Civil War and Reconstruction letters, a letter of William Branch Giles, and a letter pertaining to electromedical machinery, 1827-1867.

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The collection contains a letter, 1827 March 9, William Branch Giles, Richmond, to Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Baltimore, concerning the gentlemen Ellicott, Lorman, and Patterson who had business in Richmond, possibly pertaining to the Baltimore and Ohio. Letters of the Slater family of Loudoun County, Va., and Muskingum County, Ohio, convey news of family, friends, estate settlement, a slave sale, and crops. Of interest is an 1855 letter describing a trip through western Virginia including a Fourth of July celebration at Harpers Ferry. A letter, 1847 September 6, T. Stanley Beckwith, Petersburg, Va., to Charles S. Morgan, Richmond, Va., concerns the medical cases of two patients and the use of electromedical machinery. A letter, 1862 October 15, Robert Hill, 106th New York, New Market, to his father mentions prisoners from Jackson's army. Letters, 1866, 1867, Jackson Martz, Rockingham County, Va., to Dorilas Martz, Galva, Ill, discuss his feelings about Reconstruction, states rights, destruction of barns and crops in 1864, and family news. A toast derogatory to Yankees, Thaddeus Stevens, Afro-Americans, German-Americans, and the Freedman's Bureau is included.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832

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Patterson, William, 1752-1835

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Beckwith, T. Stanley, fl. 1847,

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Morgan, Charles Tigg, 1850-1924

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Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868

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Lawyer from Pennsylvania who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1859 and served as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. After the war, he led the Radical Republicans, opposing both Lincoln and then Andrew Johnson, endorsing military occupation of the South. When Johnson opposed ratification of the 14th Amendment, Stevens led the call for his impeachment. From the description of Letter, Dec. 7, 1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record i...

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Slater family.

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Branch, William Giles, 1762-1830,

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Martz, Jackson, fl. 1866-1867,

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves ...