Tarleton family papers, 1830-1888 (inclusive), 1861-1869 (bulk).

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Tarleton family papers, 1830-1888 (inclusive), 1861-1869 (bulk).

Correspondence, autograph album, genealogical notes, photographs and miscellaneous papers of the Tarleton and Lightfoot families of Alabama. The major figures represented in the collection are Robert Tarleton, his wife Sarah Bernard Lightfoot Tarleton, and Sarah Bee Ross Lightfoot. Most letters were written by Robert Tarleton and date from the Civil War period. The papers also contain an 1834 letter from Marquis de Lafayette to the President of the French Chamber of Peers.

.5 linear ft. (1 box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8022591

Yale University Library

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Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...

Lightfoot family.

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Cleburne, Patrick Ronayne, 1828-1864

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Confederate general. From the description of Papers, 1864. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 32452526 ...

Yale University.

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Lightfoot, Sarah Bee Ross.

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Tarleton, Robert, 1838-1868.

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Lightfoot, William B.

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Tarleton family.

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Robert Tarleton (1838-1868): doctor; studied medicine in New York City; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; taken prisoner and escaped, 1864. From the description of Tarleton family papers, 1830-1888 (inclusive), 1861-1869 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702166958 ...

Brack, William.

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Tarleton, Sarah Bernard Lightfoot.

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Cole, Susan Tarleton.

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