Correspondence of James McDowell, Governor of Virginia, 1843-1845 and congressman, 1846-1851, and of his daughter, Sally Preston Campbell McDowell [manuscript] 1802-1895.

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Correspondence of James McDowell, Governor of Virginia, 1843-1845 and congressman, 1846-1851, and of his daughter, Sally Preston Campbell McDowell [manuscript] 1802-1895.

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The letters deal with her education and social activity in Washington, supervised by her aunt and uncle, Senator Thomas Hart Benton, and Elizabeth McDowell Benton; her marriage to Gov. Francis Thomas of Maryland, 1841; the divorce in 1845 and libel suit on him in 1847; her second marriage to Rev. John Miller, founder of Millerites, Confederate Veteran, and Presbyterian minister at Petersburg, Va. and Princton, N.J. Some letters of James McDowell, Jr. as student at Univ. of Virginia, 1838-40. Miller's Civil War experiences. Correspondents include: Senator & Mrs. Benton, Arthur S. Breckenridge, Elizaebeth H. Carrington, P.R. Fendall, Edward Hobbs, Susanna S. McDowell, Sarah S. Preston, William Cabell Preston, L.P. Taylor, William Taylor. C. Van Reneselaer and Robert White.

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Benton, Elizabeth McDowell, 1794-1854

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Carrington, Elizabeth H.,

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McDowell, Susanna S.,

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Miller, Sally Preston Campbell McDowell.

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McDowell family.

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Preston, William Cabell,

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Preston, Sarah

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McDowell, James L.

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Breckenridge, Arthur S.,

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Taylor, L. P.,

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Taylor, William Charles

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White, Robert,

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Van Reneselear, C.,

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Miller, John, 1819-1895

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