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William H. and Sarah McDowell Correspondence, 1862, 1865

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Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains two 1862 letters from William H. McDowell to his wife, Sarah McDowell, and a February 1865 letter from Sarah to her husband. The letters from William to Sarah were written on October 1 and October 3, 1862, from Fredericksburg, Virginia, while serving in the American Civil War. He describes camp life and food, Confederate and Union pickets sharing news and whiskey, and impending troop movements. The letter from Sarah to her husband dates to February 1865 and contains...
Dates: 1862, 1865

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Preston family (Solitude, Blacksburg, Va.) 256
Preston, Robert Taylor, 1809-1880 256
Ellett, Robert Thaddeus, 1836-1904 97
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Beauregard, G. T., General (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893 18
Carnahan, John Newton, 1824-1862 16
Longstreet, James, 1821-1904 11
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 7
Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863 5
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 2
Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company 2
A. W. Luster 1
Alexander, Henrie H., d.1916 1
Amiss, Edwin 1
Apperson, Alex 1
Apperson, Elizabeth Black 1
Apperson, Harvey Black, 1890-1948 1
Apperson, John Samuel, 1837-1904 1
Apperson, Mary 1
Babcock, H. O. 1
Baldwin family 1
Basham family (Franklin County, Va.) 1
Black, Harvey, 1827-1888 1
Black, Kent, active 1876-1890 1
Black, Mary Kent, b.1836 1
Blain, Daniel 1
Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875 1
Brough, John, 1811-1856 1
Brown family 1
Campbell, John P. E. (John Place Evans), 1835-1909 (50th Regiment, Virginia Infantry) 1
Cassel, Jacob 1
Caton, Louise 1
Charlton family 1
Cochran, Alexander 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Stonewall Brigade 1
Cox, Isaac Carroll, 1843-1925 1
Earhart, David G., 1834-1863 1
Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia 1
Frame, A. J. 1
Frame, Adolphus B. 1
Franklin, James C., 1836-? 1
Graves, Jeremiah White (Pittsylvania County, Va.) 1
Graves, William F., 1832-1923 1
Holliday, John (91st Ohio Volunteer Infantry) 1
Jamerson family (Franklin County, Va.) 1
Janney family 1
Janney, John, 1798-1872 1
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 1
Kent, Germanicus, 1791-1862 1
Lemon, Lewis 1
Lincoln, Charles F., d.1891 1
Look, Nathan L., 1819-1907 1
Look, Sarah A(nn). B(urt). Lincoln 1
Lucas, Daniel Bedinger, 1836-1909 1
Marion Foundry and Machine Works (Marion, Va.) 1
Martha L. Johnson family 1
Marye, Madison E. (Madison Ellis), 1925-2016 1
Preston and Olin Institute (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
Reynolds, Alexander W., 1817-1876 1
Ridgway, John Nichols 1
Sheffey, John Preston 1
Smith family (Carroll County, Va.) 1
Smith, Alexander, 1807(?)-1893 1
Smith, Barton Pierce, 1838-1863 1
Smith, Frederick R. 1
Smith, James R., 1831-1863 1
Smith, Stephen Mitchell, 1832-1913 1
Smith, William Alexander, 1835-1868 1
Snead, Bess Duvall White 1
Sommerville, Henry Clay 1
Southwestern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia (1887-1935) 1
Tarter family (Wythe County, Virginia) 1
Vallandigham, Clement L., 1820-1871 1
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896) 1
W. Stone & Son 1
Webster family (Franklin County, Va.) 1
White, Isaac, 1837-1889 1
White, Mary Virginia Day, 1840-1922 1
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