Letter of Mary Lewis Berkeley to her grandsons, Portland, Or. [manuscript] ca. 1897.

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Letter of Mary Lewis Berkeley to her grandsons, Portland, Or. [manuscript] ca. 1897.

Discusses her family's experiences in Virginia during the Civil War mentioning her husband Richard Cox and her brothers Edmund Berkeley, William Noland Berkeley, Norborne Berkeley and Charles Fenton with reference to Robert Edward Lee. She stayed successively at Georgetown Heights, Md.?, Redclyffe, Va., Aldie, Loudon Co., Va., Evergreen, Loudon Co., Va., and Danville, Va.

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Cox, Mary Lewis Berkeley.

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Berkeley, William Noland, 1826-1907.

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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 ...

Berkeley, Edmund, 1823-1915.

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Berkeley, Norborne, 182?-

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Cox, Richard, fl. 1865.

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Fenton, Charles, fl. 1864.

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