Papers of Beverley Dandridge Tucker [manuscript] 1853-1964.

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Papers of Beverley Dandridge Tucker [manuscript] 1853-1964.

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Letters, 1853 April ? and May 27, and 1861 April 16 Jefferson Davis to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker offer regrets at failure to obtain a position, request Tucker's political affiliations, and speak of the press of official duties. A letter 1856 November 12, Paris, John Young Mason to Tucker, concerns a debt. A letter, 1861 August 7, "Camp on Valley Mountain" [Va.], John Augustine Washington to his daughter, Anna Maria Washington Tucker (Mrs. Rt. Rev. Beverley Dandridge Tucker), concerns his service as aide de camp to Robert Edward Lee, including a possible exchange of prisoners. A letter, 1861 September 14, "Camp on Valley Mountain" [Va.], Robert E. Lee to Anna Maria Washington Tucker concerns the death of John A. Washington. A letter [18--] July 25, "Mt. Vernon", Va., Eleanor Love Seldon Washington (Mrs. John Augustine Washington) to Mary L. Page, Georgetown, District of Columbia, discusses family news. The collection also contains "The Washington family," a speech by Beverly D. Tucker to the Society of the Cincinnati, 1964 October.

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Washington family

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Prominent Virginia families of Stafford and Spotsylvania counties. Augustine Washington (1694–1743) was a Virginia planter and the father of George Washington. He had a total of ten children by two wives. His son Augustine II (1720-1762) had four children but only one son, William Augustine (1759-1810). William Augustine had nine children, among them his eldest son Augustine (1780-1798); his sixth child, George Corbin Washington (1789-1854), was a Congressman from Maryl...

Society of the Cincinnati

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The Society of the Cincinnati was formed on 10-13 May 1783 by American Revolutionary Army officers who met at Mount Gulian, the American Army's cantonment on the east bank of the Hudson River. After resigning his post as General, George Washington (1732-1799) accepted an invitation to become the society's first president. Major General Henry Knox (1750-1806) was the secretary and for years the guiding spirit of the organization. Membership extended to those officers of the Continental Army and N...

Washington, Eleanor Love Selden, 1824-1860

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:Eleanor Love Selden Washington was born 1824 and died 1860. She was the wife of Colonel John Augustine Washington....

Tucker, Anna Maria Washington, 1851-1927,

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Tucker, Beverley Dandridge, Bishop, 1882-

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Washington, John Augustine, 1821-1861

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John Augustine Washington III was the great-grand nephew of George Washington and the last private owner of Mount Vernon. He was born on May 3, 1821 to John Augustine Washington II and Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington. His young childhood was spent at Blakeley Plantation near Charles Town, WV. After the death of Bushrod Washington and his wife, the family moved to Mount Vernon. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840 and returned to Mount Vernon to manage it for his mother, event...

Turner, Edward, 1778-1860

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Edward Turner was a judge and planter of Natchez, Mississippi. From the description of Edward Turner and family papers, 1767-1878. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 122467806 ...

Mason, John Y. (John Young), 1799-1859

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John Young Mason, from Greensville County, Va., was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia, 1831-1837; served as secretary of the Navy, 1844-1845 and 1846-1849; was attorney general of the United States, March 1845-September 1846; and served as United States minister plenipotentiary to France, 1854-1859. From the guide to the John Y. Mason Papers, 1843-1898, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection...

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

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Mary Ann Lamar Cobb (1818-1889), wife of Gen. Howell Cobb (1815-1868). From the description of Letter to Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, 1888 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476494 Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was born in Kentucky. He attended Transylvania University for a short time before enrolling at West Point in 1824, at the age of 16. He graduated in 1828 and immediately joined the First Infantry. His regiment was engaged in the Blackhawk War of 1831. In 1833, he became a...

Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley, 1820-1890

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American consul at Liverpool. From the description of Correspondence of Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, 1837-1888. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 30793573 Confederate agent, editor, and diplomat. Often known as Beverley Tucker. From the description of Nathaniel Beverley Tucker correspondence, 1859-1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980655 ...

Tucker, Beverley Dandridge, 1882- ,

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Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...

Page, Mary Leland, 1783-

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