Albemarle County Collection of the United Daughters of the Confederacy [manucript], 1942-1948.

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Albemarle County Collection of the United Daughters of the Confederacy [manucript], 1942-1948.

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The collection contains a history of the Albemarle Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy by Isabelle H. Goss containing names of officers, 1894-1944, and biographical sketches of several members. "A Confederate history of Albemarle County," 1942, by Isabelle H. Goss, contains a mixture of oral reminiscences and extracts from printed sources on Charlottesville during the Civil War, particularly the hospitals and Sheridan's raid in March of 1865. The collected reminiscences of Confederate veterans and Confederate women compiled by Isabelle H. Goss and Almera McPherson, contain interviews with General C. B. Linney, W. C. Webb, W. L. Beasley, Nat Terrell, William H. Ponton, William Garrison, Gillie Hill on her father "Top" Hill and Walter Bowie, L. Wesley Cox, and Anne Humphreys Dyer on Dr. Milton W. Humphreys. The collection also contains later copies of assorted minutes, 1894-1944, including the 1902 "Plea for impartial histories in Southern schools" by Kate Noland Garnett; a biographical sketch of Sallie Doswell, the first female secretary at the University of Virginia; histories of Albemarle Chapter no. 1 and the Ladies' Confederate Memorial Association; and various papers presented at meetings.

50 (circa) items.

University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7936618

University of Virginia. Library

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Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

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Anti-slavery advocate. From the description of Circular and letter, 1848 Jan. 21, Boston, to Rev. Mr. Russell, South Hingham. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 231311718 Abolitionist and reformer William Lloyd Garrison was founder of the Boston abolitionist paper, The Liberator, and the New England Anti-Slavery Society. From the description of Papers, 1835-1873 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007257 Abolitionist and lectur...

Cox, Leroy Wesley, 1845-1938.

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Doswell, Sallie J., 1857-1943

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Ponton, William H. 1844-

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Ladies' Confederate Memorial Association.

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Humphreys, Milton W. (Milton Wylie), 1844-

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Humphreys was a Civil War soldier and faculty at Washington and Lee University and the University of Virginia. From the description of Letters : to Mrs. Winifred Brent Russell, 1915-1919. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 122465527 Milton Wylie Humphreys earned his MA in 1869, from Washington College and a LLD in 1914, from Washington and Lee University, where he was a classics professor from 1866-1875. In his later years he was a professor at Vanderbilt Universi...

Goss, Isabelle H. (Isabelle Hunter), -1947

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Beasley, W. L., 1846-

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McPherson, Almera Josephine Cox. d. 1967.

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Dyer, Anne Humphreys.

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Hill, Top.

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Garnett, Kate Noland, b. 1849.

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Hill, Gillie.

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Webb, W. C., 1837-

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Linney, Charles Beale, 1845-

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Bowie, Walter Strange.

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Terrell, Nat, fl. 1861-1931.

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