Charlottesville, Va., miscellany [manuscript], 1903-1944.

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Charlottesville, Va., miscellany [manuscript], 1903-1944.

The collection contains a program from the Charlottesville Christian Church, June 4, 1944; the Annual War Fund Drive brochure of the Albemarle County Chapter of the American Red Cross, March, 1944; an issue of College Topics, January 27, 1944, a program for the Confederate Memorial Exercises in McIntire Amphitheatre, University of Virginia, June 4, 1944, at which Alexander Archer Vandegrift the World War Cross of Military Service, together with a typed summary "Memorandum of Facts for an Award of a Cross of Military Service" listing the war service of A.A. Vandegrift amd the Confederate Service of his grandfather Robert Carson Vandegrift of the 19th Virginia; minutes of the forty-eighth annual convention of the Virginia Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Roanoke, Va., 1943, October 5-7, containing a tribute to Sallie Doswell;

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SNAC Resource ID: 7936310

University of Virginia. Library

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Vandegrift, A. A. (Alexander Archer), 1887-1973

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General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, USMC (March 13, 1887 – May 8, 1973) was a United States Marine Corps four-star general. During World War II, he commanded the 1st Marine Division to victory in its first ground offensive of the war, the Battle of Guadalcanal. For his actions on August 7 to December 9, 1942, in the Solomon Islands campaign, he received the Medal of Honor. Vandegrift later served as the 18th Commandant of the Marine Corps. He was the first four-star general on active duty in th...

American Red Cross. Albemarle County Chapter.

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Charlottesville Christian Church (Charlottesville, Va.)

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United Daughters of the Confederacy. Virginia Division

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Doswell, Sallie J., 1857-1943

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Vandegrift, Robert Carson, fl. 1861-1865.

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