Civil War letters [manuscript] 1861-73.

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Civil War letters [manuscript] 1861-73.

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Primarily letters exchanged among Mary Ann Randolph Custis (Mrs. Robert E. Lee), Margaret Randolph (Mrs. Francis Asbury Dickins), and Mrs. Anna Maria Fitzhugh, describing civilan life in northern Virginia during the Civil War; also records of expenditures made by George Wythe Randolph while he was Confederate envoy to Europe to procure supplies, and later correspondence concerning his pardon; one group of letters by Jane Hollins Nicholas "Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Randolph" of "Edgehill", Albemarle County, Virginia, to a cousin concerning the hardships of the war and reconstruction at her farm.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Lee, Mary Randolph Custis, 1807-1873

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Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (b. Oct. 1, 1807, Boyce, VA–d. Nov. 5, 1873, Lexington, VA) was descended from several colonial and Southern families, including the Parke Custises, Fitzhughs, Dandriges, Randolphs, Rolfes, and Gerards. She is a descendant from Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, making her a descendant of Charles II of England and Scotland and of William Fitzhugh. She was the only surviving child of George Washington Parke Custis, President George Washington's step-grandson and...

Randolph, George Wythe, 1818-1867

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Confederate secretary of war. From the description of Letter : to Bettie D. George, Charlottesville, Va., 1862 September 25. (Charlottesville-Albemarle History Collection). WorldCat record id: 29536517 Army general and Secretary of War for the Confederate States of America. From the description of George Wythe Randolph letter, 1862 July 17. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 259801913 ...

Kirk, Page Taylor, Mrs.,

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Fitzhugh, Anna Maria.

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Dickins, Margaret Randolph, 1815-1891.

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Randolph, Jane Hollins Nicholas, 1798-1871

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