Confederate States of America
Organization
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Manson Crutchfield Collection of Memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0088
Scope and Contents
Includes 82 items collected by Charles Manson Crutchfield, including 38 photographs some of which are of Confederate generals and were taken by Michael Miley, postcards and printed materials, most of which concern Washington and Lee University and the surrounding city of Lexington, Virginia during the 1880's
Dates:
Inclusive 1882-1914; Majority of material found within Bulk 1880-1889
Confederate Notes Carried by Robert E. Lee at Appomattox, 1865-04-10
Item — Box 5: [Barcode: 0000003979], Folder: 33a
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains primary and secondary resources pertaining to Robert E. Lee and the Lee family. Included are correspondences from, to, and about Lee and various family members; memorabilia, pamphlets, photographs, reminiscences, miscellaneous personal papers, family history and genealogy. The collection includes materials acquired from the Lee family and items donated to and purchased and compiled by W&L University since Lee's tenure as president of Washington College from 1865...
Dates:
1865-04-10
Correspondence, 1861-02-01 - 1861-02-28
File — Box 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Folder four contains documents and letters from February 1861 as Confederate South Carolinians prepared for an attack on Fort Sumter. The folder includes a letter from General Arthur Manigault South Carolina’s Ordnance Bureau urging that supplies be sent to the forts in Charleston harbor. Also included are numerous military reports related to the pending attack on Fort Sumter, placement of military regiments, and construction of forts and batteries. Other interesting contents from this...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1861-02-01 - 1861-02-28
David Flavel Jamison papers
Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1-10
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0056
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence while Jamison was Secretary of War of South Carolina, 1861; scattered letters and papers pertaining to the South Carolina Secession Convention of which he was president, and papers related to his tenure as presiding judge of the military court of Gen. Beauregard's Corps, 1862-1864. Robert Woodward Barnwell and Lawrence Massillon Keitt are among the correspondents.
Dates:
Inclusive 1860-1864
Frank Smith Reader Diary
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0019
Scope and Contents
Description of the march up the Valley of Virginia, the burning of VMI, taking trophies in Lexington, and the march to Lynchburg.
Dates:
Inclusive March 10,1863- June 23, 1864
General History Related Ephemera, 1893 - 1935
File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000007677], Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
This folder contains various printed ephemera relating to US history, US presidents, and a few farmers almanacs.
Dates:
1893 - 1935
Joseph Eggleston Johnston Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0069
Scope and Contents
Includes Johnston's Order No. 18, April 27, 1865, to his troops after his surrender to Gen. William T. Sherman; a letter, Jan. 24, 1884, from Johnston to [James F. Rogers?] concerning some letters from Gen. R. E. Lee; autographed photograph of Johnston.
Dates:
Inclusive 1865-1884
Lee-Jackson Foundation Collection
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0170
Scope and Contents
This collection consists 115 total items. Box one consists of eighty-six letters written by members of the Lee Family of Virginia, including Robert E. Lee; his wife, Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee; his children, his father-in-law, George Washington Parke Custis; and Lees of the 18th through early 20th century. Box two consists of twenty-nine items, most written by and/or received by individuals connected to the Lee and/or Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson military and family circles. Prominent...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1847 - 1905; Majority of material found within Bulk dates 1847-1869
Letters, No Date, fragments
File — Box 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Folder ten contains miscellaneous four undated items or fragments of papers. Included is a narrative description of a floating structure for the defense of Charleston Harbor, a resolution for filling vacancies in the South Carolina or Confederate provisional congress; a proclamation giving the governor power to commission officers of coastal military companies; a letter from Thomas J. Glover asking for the Edisto rifles to be part of the infantry; and a letter fragment concerning political...
Dates:
No Date, fragments
South Carolina military court cases, 1863 - 1864
File — Box 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Folder nine contains documents concerning the Confederate military court of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida in 1864 including a multipage fragment of a running list of military courts martial cases listing defendant’s names, charges, specific details of the charge, and witnesses. There are two letters by Jamison concerning court martial procedure. Also included are brief essays presumably in Jamison’s hand, titled “The Origins of Artillery”, “New trial”, and “The Military Courts of the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1863 - 1864
South Carolina state ordinances and related correspondence, 1862-01-06 - 1862-12-27
File — Box 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Folder seven contains David F. Jamison’s personal copies of government ordinances enacted during his time as Confederate provost marshal and letters from Jamison’s tenure as head of South Carolina’s secession convention.
Dates:
1862-01-06 - 1862-12-27
Thomas J. Neel Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0454
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of five letters, four of which are written by Neel to his friends and family. In a letter to his mother dated June 22, 1864, Neel writes about receiving orders to travel to Lynchburg to meet Union General Hunter's forces, which had just moved through Lexington, Virginia. In the letter to Hicks, Neel requests for Captain Hicks to speak on his behalf as he is a candidate for the Commissioner of Revenue in Bland County, Va. In a letter dated September 1861, Neel...
Dates:
Inclusive 1863-1865
Washington Hall Ephemera Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0629
Dates:
1800 - 1965
William Lyne Wilson Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0029
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from the American Civil War period; correspondence of Wilson while he was Congressman from West Virginia, Postmaster General under Cleveland, and President of Washington and Lee University; 3 bound, indexed volumes (not orginals) of Wilson's official correspondence as Postmaster General; 6 diaries; miscellaneous papers and printed speeches; 38 letters from the University of West Virginia collection (microfilm); photograph; correspondence with Isidor Straus concerning...
Dates:
Inclusive 1852-1980
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- Collection 9
- Archival Object 6
- Subject
- American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) 9
- Correspondence 6
- United States -- Confederate States of America 4
- Photographs 3
- Diaries 2
- Shenandoah Valley Campaign (May-August, 1864) 2
- American Confederate voluntary exiles 1
- American Revolution (1775-1783) 1
- Armies -- Officers 1
- Boundaries 1
- Condolence notes 1
- Delaware -- Fort Delaware 1
- Destruction and pillage 1
- Family -- Conduct of life 1
- Genealogy 1
- Generals 1
- Land value taxation 1
- Legal documents 1
- Liberty Bell 1
- Maryland -- Hagerstown 1
- Mexican War (1846-1848) 1
- Mexico 1
- Military campaigns 1
- Military courts 1
- Military orders 1
- Military participation -- African American 1
- Personal narratives 1
- Personal narratives -- Confederate 1
- Political science 1
- Portraits 1
- Postcards 1
- Presidents -- U.S. states 1
- Printed ephemera 1
- Prisoners of war -- Conduct of life 1
- Prisoners of war -- Family relationships 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Secession 1
- South Carolina 1
- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Fort Sumter 1
- Spanish-American War (1898) 1
- Speeches, addresses, etc., American 1
- Tariff 1
- Texas 1
- Textile fabrics 1
- Venezuala 1
- Virginia -- Augusta County 1
- Virginia -- Bland County 1
- Virginia -- Lexington 1
- Virginia -- Lynchburg 1
- Virginia -- Mount Vernon (Estate) 1
- Virginia -- Reeling Springs 1
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