Ted Barclay Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0002

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Includes autographed letters signed and typed copies of Barclay's letters to his family in Lexington, Virginia during the American Civil War. The letters include: information about the activities of the Liberty Hall Volunteers of the Stonewall Brigade in major battles within Virginia; accounts of life in Confederate camp; information about food, clothing, diseases, religious services, attractive women, and deaths of friends while serving with the Volunteers; and accounts of his life as a Union prisoner at Fort Delaware. These letters have been published in a volume edited by Charles Turner, Ted Barclay, Liberty Hall Volunteers: Letters from the Stonewall Brigade (1861-1864).

Dates

1861 - 1864

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Biographical / Historical

Ted Barclay was a Lexington, Virginia native and a member of Washington College (later known as Washington and Lee University) Class of 1861. He then served in the Liberty Hall Volunteers of the Stonewall Brigade (4th Infantry) for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War (1861-1864) and later was a trustee of Washington and Lee University.