Virginia Military Institute
Organization
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
Anderson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0001
Scope and Contents
This collection contains items of the Anderson and Alexander families including correspondence dealing with legal business, family matters, and Lexington, Virginia affairs. Consists largely of the family correspondence of William Alexander Anderson, Francis T. Anderson, and Mary Anne Alexander Anderson; includes letters to and from Virginia Governor John Letcher, and two letters from Mildred Lee, daughter of Robert E. Lee. Other correspondents include William A. Glasgow, George Hutcheson...
Dates:
1755 - 1958
Antebellum Days - History in and Around
File — Container: RHS Collection #0078, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
This file consist of a bound copy of the paper "Antebellum Days in and Around Lexington" by Mary Edgar McClung of Lexington High School. No date.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1818 - 1991
C. G. Freuman to Robert E. Lee, 1866-03-13
Item — Box: 7A, Folder: 46
Scope and Contents
This letter was written by C. G. Freuman from Eminence, Kentucky on March 13, 1866 to Robert E. Lee. Freuman requests that Lee send him a catalog for the "military institute" which Lee is head of, mistakenly assuming Lee is the head of Virginia Military Institute also in Lexington, VA.
Dates:
1866-03-13
Charles O. DeLahoussaye to Robert E. Lee, 1866-02-10
Item — Box: 7A, Folder: 38
Scope and Contents
This letter was written by Charles O. DeLahoussaye in New Orleans, Louisiana on February 10, 1866 to Robert E. Lee. In the letter, DeLahoussaye writes requesting that Lee send a catalog for Virginia Military Institute, as he desires to send his nephew to atttend school. DeLahoussaye potentially erroneously ascertained that Lee was the president of VMI.
Dates:
1866-02-10
Clifton, 1933
File — Box: 1, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents
This file consists of a typescript paper on the ownership of the Clifton House on the corner of McDowell and Jefferson streets. Also includes a handwritten note on the Clifton house and its relationship to the Alexander family.
Dates:
1933
Contracts with VMI for Meats, 1919 - 1923
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
File consists of contract for meat at Virginia Military Institute from January 1st, 1920. Signed by then V.M.I. superintendent E.W. Nichols and H.L. Walker.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1919 - 1923
Correspondences, 1866 - 1868
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
This folder contains letters written by and to members of the Shields family.
Dates:
1866 - 1868
Correspondences, 1870 - 1875
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
This folder contains letters written by and to members of the Shields family.
Dates:
1870 - 1875