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Allen Shortledge Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2021-007
Abstract This collection contains a letter written by Captain Allen Shortledge of the First Delaware Infantry of Union Army during the American Civil War. He describes enlisting in Wilmington, Delaware, and his posting at Camp Hamilton, near Fort Monroe, Virginia. Attached to the letter is a page containing an engraved image of Fort Monroe and an engraved map of the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. Shortledge was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1820 and fought in the Civil War, achieving the rank of...
Dates: 1862

Showacre Family Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-030
Abstract

The Showacre Family Papers consists of a handwritten copy of a eulogy for Charles Showacre by Reverend William Runyan and given on May 22, 1864, and an acceptance letter dated September 23, 1873, admitting George D. Showarce to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College.

Dates: 1864, 1873

George W. Shue Diary Pages

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-088
Abstract

This collection contains the diary of George W. Shue, an American Civil War soldier from Wisconsin.

Dates: 1862 - 1863

Siege of Vicksburg

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Art-007

Anthony K. Simmons Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-011
Abstract

The collection contains a letter from Anthony K. Simmons describing the health of son Ed, a private in Company A, 28th Virginia Infantry recently wounded in the Battle of Gaines' Mill, and relating Americna Civil War news from Manchester, Virginia.

Dates: 1862

Ovid T. Simmons Letter Book

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-082
Abstract The Ovid T. Simmons Letter book is a bound book of letters written by Simmons during the American Civil War. Ovid Simmons served as manager of the Ulster Iron Works in Saugerties, New York and there are many letters concerning the business dealings of the Iron Works. The subjects of other letters range from the purchase of a boat to marital problems. There are several letters about or written by Ovid Simmons's father, John Simmons, who also worked as manager at the Ulster Iron Works and...
Dates: 1862 - 1864

Arthur G. Sinclair Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1992-034
Abstract

Two 1864 letters attributed to Arthur Sinclair (1810-1865), an officer in the Confederate States Navy, focusing largely on the writer's views on marriage and women but also mentioning a recent Union raid on Richmond, Virginia, and the condition of ironclad boats under the writer's command.

Dates: 1864

Sketch History of Captain B. F. Bentons Company (K Co., 1st Texas Infantry),

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-021
Abstract Sketch History of Captain B. F. Bentons Company (K Co., 1st Texas Infantry) is a first hand account of the deeds and actions of the Confederate Army's K Company, 1st Texas Infantry during the Civil War. Written by O. T. Hanks, a member of K Company, the history discusses the formation of the company in July 1861 and gives detailed accounts of several battles the company participated in throughout the war. The document concludes with an account of the K Co.'s final battle...
Dates: 1861 - 1865

Sketch Map of the Seven Days Campaign of 1862

 Collection — Object: 1
Identifier: Map-0685
Abstract

Sketch map of the battlefield for the Seven Days Campaign, 1862. Drawn in 1923.

Dates: 1923

Leonard A. Slater Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-052
Abstract

The collection consists of a letter written by Dr. Leonard A. Slater to his father, John Slater, on October 10, 1862. At the time of the letter Leonard A. Slater was serving as a surgeon in the 15th Virginia Calvary at General Hospital No. 23 in Richmond, Virginia.

Dates: 1862

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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 831
Civil War 829
Local/Regional History and Appalachian South 178
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields Maps 169
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Diaries 68
Women -- History 49
Correspondence 43
Montgomery County (Va.) 37
Diaries 26
Confederate States of America 22
Folk, historical, and patent medicine 22
Virginia -- History 19
History of Food and Drink 17
Medicine 17
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.) 10
Faculty and staff 8
Petersburg (Va.) -- History -- Siege, 1864-1865 8
Railroad 8
Virginia -- Maps 8
Maps (documents) 7
Virginia, Southwest 7
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 6
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Homefront 6
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental Histories 6
Diseases 5
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 5
Presidents -- United States 5
Richmond (Va.) 5
Students and alumni 5
Autobiographies 4
Botetourt County (Va.) 4
Ledgers (account books) 4
Letters 4
Rockbridge County (Va.) 4
Slavery -- United States 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Desertions 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Poetry 4
Virginia 4
Abingdon (Va.) 3
Advertisements 3
Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 3
Augusta County (Va.) 3
Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863 3
Cocktail History Collection 3
Gettysburg Campaign, 1863 3
Photographs 3
Poems 3
Pulaski County (Va.) 3
Scrapbooks 3
Shenandoah County (Va.) 3
Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864 3
United States -- Navy -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
Washington County (Va.) 3
West Virginia 3
Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864 3
World War, 1914-1918 3
Atlanta Campaign, 1864 2
Cedar Creek, Battle of, Va., 1864 2
Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 2
Christiansburg (Va.) 2
Clarke County (Va.) 2
Cloyds Mountain, Battle of, Va., 1864 2
Confederate States of America -- Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. 2
Confederate States of America -- Social Life and Customs 2
Ephemera 2
Five Forks, Battle of, Va., 1865 2
Genealogy 2
Giles County (Va.) 2
Harper’s weekly 2
Lynchburg (Va.) 2
Montgomery White Sulphur Springs (Va.) 2
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1775-1865 2
New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865 2
Politicians -- United States 2
Radford (Va.) 2
Railroad -- Maps 2
Receipts (financial records) 2
Staunton (Va.) 2
Traditional medicine 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental Histories -- Wisconsin 2
United States -- Maps 2
University Archives 2
Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Siege, 1863 2
Winchester, 3rd Battle of, Winchester, Va., 1864 2
World War, 1939-1945 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
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
Confederate States of America. War Department 5
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 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
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
Radford, John Taylor, 1838-1864 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
Shelby, Isaac 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
Wharton, Gabriel C. (Gabriel Colvin), 1824-1906 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
Altizer, William R., b.1826(?)-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