Papers of Edmund Fontaine [manuscript] 1867-1869.

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Papers of Edmund Fontaine [manuscript] 1867-1869.

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The papers contain correspondence regarding the financing of the Virginia Central and C. & O. Railroad, particularly county subscriptions; the legal issues raised by the development of the Virginia Central into the C. & O.; and the running of his farm Colly Swamp. Letters from Robert E. (Robert Edward) Lee approve of the subscription project and ask whether the lines have gotten to Covington. There are also bills and accounts mainly regarding Colly Swamp, legal opinions regarding stock issuances, a rebuttal to a charge of sending a smallpox infected servant about the countryside, and a memorial to Edmund Fontaine, Jr. Other correspondents include Thomas Johnson Michie and John Brown Baldwin.

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Fontaine, Edmund, 1801-1869

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Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

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Baldwin, John Brown, 1820-1873

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Lawyer, Confederate representative, and Virginia state legislator. From the description of John Brown Baldwin papers, 1863-1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979939 ...

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 ...

Fontaine, Edmund, 1838-1861

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Michie, Thomas Johnson, 1795-1873

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Virginia Central Railroad Co.

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