Civil War
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Use this heading for collections related to the American Civil War, including materials created after 1865 that have significant Civil War content. Also use the LCSH heading: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Ms-1974-003
Abstract
This collection contains the papers and artifacts of an interrelated family prominent in Blacksburg's history. It includes the American Civil War letters of Confederate surgeon Dr. Harvey Black, the Civil War diary of hospital steward John S. Apperson, cotton books and correspondence of Germanicus Kent, nineteenth-century account books of a Blacksburg general store, 1912 European travel diary, and the political scrapbooks of State Senator and Attorney General Harvey B. Apperson.
Dates:
1779 - 1984
Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers, 1779-1984 (Ms1974-003)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1974-003
Dates:
1779 - 1984
Caperton Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1991-034
Abstract
Photocopied, typed transcripts of letters written by Mary Eliza Henderson Caperton to her husband George Henry, then serving in the Confederate Army, most written from Whitethorne, in Montgomery County, Virginia, between May and October, 1861, and concentrating on news of the Preston family, relatives, and mutual acquaintainces; fears of a slave rebellion; a fire at Whitethorne; and the deaths of Ann Barraud Taylor Preston and Col. James Francis Preston. Also includes typescript extracts...
Dates:
1861-1862, n.d.