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David W. Sharpe Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2019-010
Abstract

The David W. Sharpe Collection consists of letters written by Sharpe to his brother, William Sharpe, his mother and his sisters from October 10, 1860 to May 10, 1865. The collection also includes a cabinet card of Private David W. Sharpe and an 1862 CSA almanac found at Yorktown.

Dates: 1860-10-10 - 1865-05-10

William Sneed Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms -2023-143
Abstract

The William Sneed Correspondence was written by William Sneed, who served in the 45th regiment, North Carolina infantry of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. The correspondence contains two letters during the Civil War that were written to a friend and a Miss Alice, and a tax collection letter.

Dates: 1862, 1864, 1873

William Avery Stratton Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-114
Abstract The collection contains correspondence to William Avery Stratton from friends and family. Letters date from as early as the American Civil War (1864) to the year after Stratton's death (1940). For the most part, letters are about social and family news, though some of the early letters contain Civil War and post-bellum news from the South. Letters from friends in Oregon, Colorado, and Nevada also provide details on Indian affairs, railroad growth, and cattle in the West. The collection also...
Dates: 1864 - 1940; Majority of material found within 1864 - 1880

Turner Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-004
Abstract

The Turner Family Papers consists of multiple sets of correspondence to members of generations of the extended Turner family written between 1830 and 1944. The bulk of the collection is letters between Lexie Fox and his wife, Bessie, written during World War I.

Dates: 1830 - 1944

James G. Turner Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2019-029
Abstract

The James G. Turner Correspondence contains 21 letters. 20 letters date from 1863-1864 written from Camp Taylor in Augusta County, VA. The letters detail regimental activities, camp life, war news, updates on family members who were also serving, rations, and hunting deserters. One letter is from 1871 which details updates on family members who were sick.

Dates: 1863-1864, 1871

William Gildersleeve Vardell Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1995-016
Abstract

William Gildersleeve Vardell (1829-1897) of South Carolina was a Major in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. This collection contains photocopies of 48 wartime letters from Vardell to his wife, and 1 letter from 1882 to Mrs. J. Jackson.

Dates: 1862-1863, 1882

N. B. White Letter to Darius White

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-053
Abstract

The collection consists of a single letter from N. B. White to his cousin, Darius, written from Boliver Heights, near Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, dated October 19, 1862....

Dates: 1862

Jacob S. Winans Correspondence,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-062
Abstract

The collection includes two letters and their original envelope from Jacob S. Winans to his father Dr. Isaac Winans. Both letters were sent in the same envelope. They were written after Winans's return to Camp Tennally (Tennallytown, Maryland) after serving picket at Great Falls, Virginia from September 9-16, 1861.

Dates: September 17-18, 1861

Woodstock, Virginia, Civil War Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-047
Abstract

This collection includes a letter dated May 13, 1864, from a Union soldier named Charley at a camp near Woodstock, Virginia, during the American Civil War. He writes about plans to return to Martinsburg, Virginia, and about General Sigel.

Dates: 1864

Yancey Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-059
Abstract

The Yancey Family Papers contains correspondence between members of the Yancey and Everett families, accounts, receipts, the will of Christopher Taliaferro, and a facsimile Confederate Ten Dollar note. The material dates from 1808 to 1912.

Dates: 1808-1912, n.d.

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Alley, Anderson 1
Benson, George W. 1
Beves family 1
Brady, Daniel C. E. (Daniel Charles Elliott), 1821-1878 1
Brown, Alice 1
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Charley (Union soldier during the American Civil War) 1
Chase, Hattie 1
Colville, James W., Captain 1
Conley, Caroline, 1836-1907 1
Conley, Isaiah, 1830-1901 1
Crosby, John F. 1
Curd, W. E. 1
Currier, Lottie (Charlotte?) Lewis 1
Deshields, Henry Clay, 1832-1884 1
Deshields, Sarah Furlong Wheelwright, 1833-1901 1
Dill, Joseph G., 1828-1886 1
Durie, William Brittin, 1840-1916 1
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1
Eddy family 1
Eddy, Ann Eliza, 1807-1887 1
Ewell, Richard Stoddert, 1817-1872 1
Fitzinger, George W. (8th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers (3 Months)) 1
Foster, Cecilia, 1875-1944 1
Foster, Cora E. (Cora Elizabeth Beves), 1856-1931 1
Foster, Dora B. (Dora Branch), 1889-1920 1
Foster, Mary E. (Mary Eleanor Wiatt), 1812-1894 1
Foster, William Edward, 1795-1843 1
Foster, William Edward, 1843-1906 1
Foster, Willie D. 1
Garrison, Edwin L., b. abt 1844/1845 - 1/28/1924 1
Given, Andrew, 1835-1913 1
Grebel, Sarah R. F. 1
Hebron, John L., 1842-1914 1
Heizer, James Francis, 1841-1930 1
Heizer, Phoebe Anne McCormick, 1845-1906 1
Hough, Benjamin F., d.1864 1
Hubbard, Albert Newell, 1833-1905 1
Hutchinson, W. F. 1
Johnson, Hannibal Augustus, 1841-1913 1
Johnston, Elliot, 1826-1901 1
Juliand, Sarah Stratton 1
Klumpp, Georg, 1832-? 1
Knox, Walter 1
Lawrence, Cecilia D. (Cecilia Dabney Foster), 1835-1894 1
Lawson, M. T. (Madison Thompson), 1827-1893 1
Libby Prison 1
Lyster, Henery 1
MacFarland, Alice Stratton, b.1864 1
MacFarland, Ira 1
McArdle, Eustace 1
Minnick, Mary A. (Mary Adaline), 1844 or 1845-1928 1
Moody, Charles H. (8th NY Cavalry) 1
Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916 1
Moser, William E. 1
Nields, Cheyney W., 1836-1864 1
Perdue, James Robert, 1837-1915 1
Potter, Thomas Corwin, 1842-1863 1
Powell, Marjorie 1
Radford, John Taylor, 1838-1864 1
Radford, William Moseley, 1840-1862 1
Robinson, Charles L. 1
Sharpe, David W., 1844-1926 (Co. B, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery) 1
Shelby, Isaac 1
Sneed, William (45th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry) 1
Stratton family (Oxford, New York) 1
Stratton, Edward L., b.1847 1
Stratton, George, 1823-1910 1
Stratton, Harvey J., b.1850 1
Stratton, Tracy Frink, b.1858 1
Stratton, William Avery, 1845-1939 1
Streitmatter, Rodger 1
Turner family (Franklin County, Virginia) 1
Turner, James G., d. 1865 1
United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 101st (1861-1865) 1
Vardell, William G. (William Gildersleeve), 1829-1897 1
Waldron, George W. 1
White, N. B. 1
Wiatt (Wyatt) family 1
William Edward Foster Family 1
Winans, Isaac, Dr., 1811-1877 1
Winans, Jacob S., 1838-1914 1
Yancey family 1
Yarborough family 1
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