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Henry Kyd Douglas Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-023
Abstract

The collection contains a letter from Henry Kyd Douglas, Hagerstown, Maryland attorney and former Confederate staff officer, to William P. Maulsby, judge and lawyer of Frederick, Maryland, regarding the case of Fiery et al v. Emmert et al.

Dates: 1871

George F. Doyle Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-096
Abstract

Patriotic Union scrapbook compiled by George F. Doyle, resident of Charlestown, Massachusetts, in the first year of the American Civil War, containing songsheets, mourning cards, patriotic covers, and cartes-de-visite.

Dates: n.d.

Eliza Duncan Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2025-030
Abstract

The collection includes two letters written by Eliza Duncan, written in 1861. One being written to her son before the American Civil War, the other was sent during the war asking about her sons whereabouts.

Dates: 1861

L. S. Durham Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-070
Abstract

Letter from L. S. Durham, private in Company B, 34th Virginia Infantry, during the American Civil War. Written to Durham's wife from Camp Randolph, Virginia.

Dates: 1863

William B. Durie Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-145
Abstract

The William B. Durie Letters were written from Burkesville Junction, Virginia, by Durie, a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, to his sister Maggie E. Durie in New Providence, New Jersey, on April 15th and 16th, 1865. The letters contain information on Durie's guarding of Confederate prisoners and the assassination of president Abrham Lincoln.

Dates: 1865

J. K. Dustin Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-087
Abstract

Letter from J. K. Dustin, a Union soldier serving as clerk at Hammond Hospital (Beaufort, North Carolina) during the American Civil War, to his father.

Dates: 1864

G. Lyman Dwight Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-101
Abstract

Three letters written by Gamaliel Lyman Dwight (1841-1875) of Batteries A and B, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery during the American Civil War, written from camps in Maryland and Virginia to close friend "St. Helena" (Sarah H. Whitman) and focusing on literature, poetry, art, nature, and mutual acquaintances.

Dates: 1861 - 1863

Joseph Eames Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2018-019
Abstract

The collection contains a letter written by Joseph Eames to the Confederate Secretary of War, April 20, 1863 in regards to petitioning the secretary to reassign his son, Pope Eames, to the Danville Gun Factory on account of Pope's being to sick to serve in the field.

Dates: 1863

David Earhart Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2002-017
Abstract This collection consists of thirty letters written by David Earhart while serving in the Stonewall Jackson Brigade, 4th Virginia Infantry, Company L. Correspondents include his wife Mary Elizabeth Caddell Earhart, his parents, people he enslaved, and his sister Mag. Also included are a letter to Mary Earhart after David Earhart was killed at Chancellorsville, images (probably ambrotypes) of Mary and David Earhart), a later cartede visite of Mary Earhart, and additional family...
Dates: 1862 - 1863

John Early Confederate Army Receipt for the Work of Fletcher, an Enslaved Person

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-037
Abstract

This collection contains a partially printed receipt for the labor of an enslaved person delivered to Chief Engineer Lt. Col. William H. Stevens in charge of Confederate fortifications outside of Richmond, Virginia, on November 11, 1862. The receipt notes that Stevens received one enslaved person by the name of Fletcher from John Early.

Dates: November 11, 1862

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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 824
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields Maps 169
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Women -- History 49
Correspondence 43
Montgomery County (Va.) 35
Diaries 26
Folk, historical, and patent medicine 22
Confederate States of America 21
Virginia -- History 19
Medicine 17
History of Food and Drink 16
Petersburg (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 16
Blacksburg (Va.) 14
Medicine, Military -- History 14
African Americans -- History 10
University History 10
Wythe County (Va.) 9
Faculty and staff 8
Petersburg (Va.) -- History -- Siege, 1864-1865 8
Railroad 8
Virginia -- Maps 8
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Homefront 6
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Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 5
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Botetourt County (Va.) 4
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Desertions 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Poetry 4
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Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 3
Augusta County (Va.) 3
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Cocktail History Collection 3
Gettysburg Campaign, 1863 3
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Poems 3
Pulaski County (Va.) 3
Scrapbooks 3
Shenandoah County (Va.) 3
Slavery -- United States 3
Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864 3
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Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864 3
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Atlanta Campaign, 1864 2
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Clarke County (Va.) 2
Cloyds Mountain, Battle of, Va., 1864 2
Confederate States of America -- Social Life and Customs 2
Five Forks, Battle of, Va., 1865 2
Genealogy 2
Giles County (Va.) 2
Lynchburg (Va.) 2
Montgomery White Sulphur Springs (Va.) 2
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1775-1865 2
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Politicians -- United States 2
Railroad -- Maps 2
Staunton (Va.) 2
Traditional medicine 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental Histories -- Wisconsin 2
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Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Siege, 1863 2
Winchester, 3rd Battle of, Winchester, Va., 1864 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
Account books 1
Agriculture 1
Authors, American -- 20th century 1
Baltimore (Md.) -- 1860-1910 1
Bath County (Va.) 1
Battle of Cross Lanes, Virginia, August, 1861 1
Beaufort (S.C.) 1
Buena Vista (Va.) 1
Businesspeople 1
Campbell County (Va.) 1
Campbell County (Va.) -- Maps 1
Carroll County (Va.) 1
Cemeteries 1
Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863 1
Cocktails -- History 1
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Names
Heilig, Vicki 27
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 19
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 16
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 11
Harvey, G 6
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Confederate States of America. War Department 5
Kunstler, Morton, b.1931 5
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896) 5
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 5
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 4
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 4
Kurtz, Louis, 1835-1921 4
Troiani, Don 4
Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 4
Baughman, Greer H. (Greer Harry), 1840-1907 3
Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875 3
Elder, John Adams, 1833-1895 3
Libby Prison 3
Prechtel, Don 3
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 3
Walter, Adam B., 1820-1875 3
Wickham, Williams Carter, 1820-1888 3
Baughman, Emilius A. (Emilius Allen), 1844-1915 2
Baughman, Mary Amelia (Minnie), 1847-1917 2
Black, Harvey, 1827-1888 2
Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865 2
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 2
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry Regiment, 4th 2
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 15th 2
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 21st 2
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 57th 2
Confederate States of America. Department of the Treasury 2
Davis, Varina Anne, 1864-1898 2
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 2
Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863 2
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877 2
Gnatek, Michael, Jr. 2
Graves, Jeremiah White (Pittsylvania County, Va.) 2
Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.) 2
Hawkins, Charles N., c.1845-? (22nd Regiment, Virginia Infantry (1st Kanawha Regiment)) 2
Hill, A. P. (A. Powell) 2
Hughes, Alfred, 1824-1880 2
Hughes, Mary, 1832-1909 2
Johnson, Hannibal Augustus, 1841-1913 2
Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891 2
Lane, James H., 1833-1907 2
Longstreet, James, 1821-1904 2
Lucas, Virginia (Virginia Bedinger), 1838-1865 2
Minor, Charles L. C., 1835-1903 2
Richmond (Va.). Department of Public Works 2
Richmond Civil War Centennial Committee 2
Robertson, James I., Jr. 2
Rocco, Keith 2
Rock, George W. (22nd Regiment, Virginia Infantry (1st Kanawha Regiment)) 2
Stevens, W. H., Colonel (Chief Engineer, D.N.V.) 2
Stivers, Don 2
Stuart, Jeb, 1833-1864 2
Turner family (Franklin County, Virginia) 2
United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 101st (1861-1865) 2
A. W. Luster 1
Adams, Richard Henry (5th Regiment, Alabama Infantry) 1
Adams, Richard Henry, Jr. 1
Akers, Peter B. 1
Alexander, Henrie H., d.1916 1
Allen, A. M., Major 1
Allen, Frank (Franklin L.), 1843-1938 1
Alley, Anderson 1
Allison, James Polk, b.1843(?)-1863 1
Allison, John P. 1
Allison, William Henry, d.1863 1
Amiss, Edwin 1
Anchy (enslaved person) 1
Anderson, D. H. 1
Anderson, Joseph R. (Joseph Reid), 1813-1892 1
Andrews, N. S. 1
Angle, L. C., Jr. 1
Apperson family 1
Apperson, Alex 1
Apperson, Elizabeth Black 1
Apperson, Harvey Black, 1890-1948 1
Apperson, John Samuel, 1837-1904 1
Apperson, Mary 1
Arbuckle, David 1
Armistead, Mary Frances 1
Armstrong, Edward H. (Edward Hall), 1841-1864 1
Ash, William (3rd Regiment, Vermont Infantry) 1
Atkinson, Archibald, Jr., 1832-1903 1
Auner, A. W. (Alfred Witman), 1826-1895 1
Babcock, H. O. 1
Babcock, Willis A., b. abt. 1840-? 1
Badger, Constantine C. 1
Bailey, Pattie Dobson Talley, b.1888 1
Baker family 1
Baker, Joseph J., abt.1841-1931 (54th Regiment, Virginia Infantry) 1
Baldwin family 1
Baldwin, Asa, 1834-1902 1
Baldwin, R. F. 1
Ballantine, William Duncan 1
Barnard, James W., 1844-1923 (Patrick County, Va.) 1
Barnard, Jehu, 1840-1933 (Patrick County, Va.) 1
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