University of Virginia students' letters and diary [manuscript] 1860-69.

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University of Virginia students' letters and diary [manuscript] 1860-69.

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Letters to their families and friends from U. Va. students and other visitors to Charlottesville, Va., describing student life, holidays in Richmond and other parts of Va., and Civil War incidents. Of particular interest are the letters, 1862-1864, of University student Gratz Cohen of Savannah, Ga., discussing religion and philosophy and the Jewish-gentile situation including the apathy of the Jews and the ingratitude and lack of appreciation by the gentiles. There are detailed accounts of events, holiday visits with friends and relatives in Richmond and other parts of Virginia, two Union raids on Charlottesville (May 1863 and 1864), and courses. Cohen also describes the death of Carnot Posey, entertainment for J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry, his status with the Charlottesville draft board and individual students and courses. Correspondents include: Gratz Cohen of Ga., William Henry Lenoir of Tenn., Henry St. John Dixon of Miss., and Peter Stuart Harllee and Robert Armstrong Harllee, brothers from S. C. There is also a diary, 1863-69, kept by Cornelius Dabney at his home in King William Co., Va., and at the University of Virginia.

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Stuart, Jeb, 1833-1864

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James Ewell Brown (Jeb) Stuart, soldier, was born 6 February 1833, on "Laurel Hill" plantation, Patrick County, Virginia. He died 12 May 1864 and is buried in Richmond, Virginia. Stuart graduated from the U.S. Military Academy (1850); received his commission (1854); and transferred to the Cavalry (1855). He married Flora Cooke, a colonel's daughter, in 1855, and the couple had three children. Stuart became Robert E. Lee's aide (1859) and resigned from the U.S. Army to be commissioned a lieutenan...

Dabney, Cornelius, 1844-1874.

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Cornelius Dabney, University of Virginia student and school teacher, was the son of William Winton (b. 1816) and Martha Ann Bosher Dabney of Richmond, and later Enfield, King William County, Va. From the description of Cornelius Dabney diary, 1863-1869 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23107428 Cornelius Dabney (1844-1874) was the son of William Winton Dabney (b. 1816) and Martha Ann Bosher Dabney (fl. 1863-1865) of Richmond, and later Enfield, King William Coun...

Posey, Carnot, 1813-1863

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Lenoir, William Henry, 1839-1861,

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University of Virginia

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University of Virginia student from Lexington, Ky.; afterwards a Presbyterian minister and missionary to Brazil. From the description of Diploma awarded to John Rockwell Smith [manuscript], 1866 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647905124 Lt., C.S.A.; teacher, Norwood School, Nelson County, Va.; principal Select School, New York, N.Y. From the description of Diplomas of Waller Holladay [manuscript], 1858-1872. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

Dixon, Henry St. John, 1843-

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Harllee, Robert Armstrong,

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Cohen, Gratz, 1844-1865,

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Harllee, Peter Stuart.

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