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Ovid T. Simmons Letter Book
Arthur G. Sinclair Letters
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.
Sketch History of Captain B. F. Bentons Company (K Co., 1st Texas Infantry)
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Sketch Map of the Seven Days Campaign of 1862
Sketch map of the battlefield for the Seven Days Campaign, 1862. Drawn in 1923.
Leonard A. Slater Letter
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.
Charles W. Sleeper Letter,
The collection includes a letter from Charles W. Sleeper, private and later Quartermaster Sergeant with the 7th Independent Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery, to his cousin, written from Yorktown, August 24, 1862.
Jacob W. Smiley Diary,
This collection includes a diary kept by Jacob Wallace Smiley that spans from the time of he was drafted in August 1863, until he was killed in action on May 4, 1864. Smiley chronicled the travels and activities of his unit, the 7th Company, 1st Battalion, New York Sharpshooters, in the Northern Virginia region. The diary also includes a CDV of Smiley and his wife, Melissa.
Abel Smith Jr. Letter
Official communication from Abel Smith Jr. (1839-1863), lieutenant colonel commanding the 165th New York Infantry during the American Civil War, written on March 20, 1863, to Captain Felix Agnus, demanding an explanation for allowing a first lieutenant to hold a subordinate position to a second lieutenant during the morning battalion drill.
Augustus Smith Family Collection
The Augustus Smith Family Collection consists of two letters--one (1864) from Smith in Greenville, Tennessee, to his mother, and another (1866) to General Alex E. Smith, his father, in Rural Mount, Virginia, from an unknown person, as well as newspaper clippings and genealogy materials concerning the American Civil War and other topics.
Smith Family Letters
The collection contains forty-nine Civil War-era letters written by four brothers of Carroll County, Virginia: James R., Stephen Mitchell, William Alexander, and Barton Pierce Smith. All four served in Confederate units from Virginia. The collection also includes a family history and notes by Frederick R. Smith.