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Joseph Fauber Shaner Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0201
Scope and Contents

The collection consists mainly of photocopies of American Civil War letters written to and from Joseph Shaner and his family. It also includes a portion of Shaner's 1862 diary, his service records, one photograph, obituaries, history, reminiscences, and genealogies (1754-1978) pertaining to the Shaner family and other Rockbridge County families.

Dates: 1861 - 1865

Joseph Martin Letter

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0220
Scope and Contents

This collectin is a photocopy of a letter written by Joseph Martin informing a friend that the friend's son was killed during a military engagement at William Mann's mill. The letter was written from Fort Young. There is also a typed transcription of the letter.

Dates: 1763-09

L. A. and Lizzie Harper correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0087
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the correspondence of L. A. Harper and his wife, Lizzie, while he was stationed at James Island, South Carolina during the siege of Charleston and later during the Virginia campaigns of 1864. Topics include camp life, Harper's court-martial, domestic affairs, sanitary conditions, and supplies. The collection also includes muster rolls, other documents, and typed transcriptss of the correspondence.

Dates: 1862-1864

Lee Monument Association Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0532
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a copy of 'Organization of the Lee Monument Association, and the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia, Richmond, Va., Nov. 3rd and 4th, 1870'. A second copy is cataloged under E547 .L47 in Special Collections Rare. The printed invitation to the unveiling of the Robert E. Lee statue on May 29, 1890 in Richmond, VA is also included, in two pieces.

Dates: Inclusive 1870, 1890

Lewis F. Powell Jr. Papers

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS 0001
Dates: 1921-1998

"Liberty Hall Volunteers" Orderly Book

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0625
Content Description This collection consists of a pocket sized leather bound notebook used initially by William A. Anderson, Orderly or First Sergeant of the 'Liberty Hall Volunteers,' Washington College's military company organized in April 1861 for service in the Confederate army. The notebook was used to keep the daily rolls of the company and documents such things as absences, sick lists, accoutrement details, and police lists of its original members. Anderson carried the notebook from the formation of...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1861-04 - 1861-09

McFarland Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0384

Michael Reid Hanger Diary

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0173
Scope and Contents This typescript of a diary by Private Michael Reid Hanger of the Rockbridge Rifles, which was part of the 4th, 5th, and 27th Virginia Infantry regiments at different times during the American Civil War, includes descriptions of military action within the Shenandoah Valley and Fairfax County, as well as the First Battle of Bull Run. Stonewall Jackson, Rockbridge County citizen and soldier James K. Edmondson, and several Washington College alumni are mentioned. Text of the diary is...
Dates: Inclusive 1861

Photo Views Company Postcards

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0041
Scope and Contents

This collection contains postcards by the Photo Views Company in Oak Hill, Virginia. Included are postcards of Michie's Tavern near Charlottesville, Hot Springs, Falling Springs Branch between Hot Springs and Covington, Route 39 near Afton, and a view from Route 60, Route 60 Bridge near Covington, and Blue Ridge Terrace in Afton.

Dates: 1930 - 1940

Poague Family Agricultural Account Book and Slave Register

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0476
Scope and Contents This account book documents agricultural operations for a southern Rockbridge County farmer between April 1863 and June 1867. The compiler is possibly Johnathan Poague, whose son, John William Poague, signed the book on the inside front cover. John William Poague attended Washington College in 1868 for one year. Contents include expenditures and receipts for day to day farm operations, crop production numbers, and diary - like entries. Contents of specific note include a registry of names of...
Dates: Inclusive 1861-1867; Majority of material found within Bulk 1863-1867

Postcard of Miller's Mill, Lexington, Va.

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0063
Dates: Majority of material found within 1950 - 1960

Raymond J. Kirby collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0365
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of three scrapbooks and sets of photographs taken by Raymond J. Kirby. The scrapbooks contain photographs and newspaper clippings related to the flooding that occurred as a result of Hurricane Camille in August 1969. The photographs document damage from both Rockbridge and Nelson Counties and the City of Lexington. The collection also includes approximately 170 photographs of the construction of the Route 11 corridor bypass around Lexington, Virginia.

Dates: 1953-1956, 1969

Robert E. Lee Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0064
Scope and Contents 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: Inclusive 1792-1935; Majority of material found within 1833 - 1870

Rockbridge Historical Society files on regional forests

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-3
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0050
Scope and Contents

This collection contains newspaper clippings and papers about forests in the Shenandoah Valley.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1873 - 1925

Sallie White Bruce Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0426
Scope and Contents

This manuscript is a memoir by Sallie White Bruce about her family's life in the Lexington area during the American Civil War and their involvement with Washington College. It references Hunter's Raid in 1864.

Dates: Inclusive 1940s

Shenandoah National Park Trading Card Set

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0042
Scope and Contents

    This collection consists of:
  • an image of the 'Seven Bends of the Shenandoah River'
  • an image of the Appalachian Trail seen from the Shenandoah National Park
  • an image of the Luray Singing Tower
  • an image of a view of Skyline Drive North from Hawkbill Mountain at Shenandoah National Park, Va.
  • an image of Mountain laurel in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
  • an image of Upper Falls, White Oak Canyon, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

Dates: 1950 - 1960

"The Battle Rainbow" Broadside

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0310
Scope and Contents

This broadside of the poem 'The Battle Rainbow' by John R. Thompson was printed for the June 1862 Southern Literary Messenger.

Dates: 1862

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

Virginia Tourism Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0614
Scope and Contents

This collection contains 10 different advertisement pieces dating from the 2nd half of the 20th Century that are from Luray Caverns, Natural Bridge, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and Rockbridge County, Virginia in general.

Dates: 1906 - 2000

Walter E. Hoffman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0015
Dates: 1954-1999

Welsh Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0203
Scope and Contents

This collection is primarily general family correspondence including Civil War letters (dated 1862-1864) from John P. Welsh, a Confederate infantry officer, and James L. Welsh. There are also 34 family letters on microfilm, 12 of which were written by John P. Welsh during his confinement in a Federal prison.

Dates: Inclusive 1817-1886

William H. Davis Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0276
Scope and Contents

The collection contains transcripts and copies of William H. Davis's letters home to his wife Millie, from Monterey, Petersburg, and other Confederate army posts in Virginia. The material is a record of a common, unlettered man pouring out his homesickness to his wife.

Dates: 1861

Withrow Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0164
Scope and Contents

Contains genealogies of Lucy Johnson Withrow; correspondence of Louie Moran to Margaret Withrow, 1919; licences and receipts for John Withrow's general store, 1882-1920; also includes 3 ALS of M. H. Johnson to Fanny Withrow concerning Burnside's bombardment of Fredericksburg and maneuvers in the Valley of Virginia, 1862 November 16-30.

Dates: Inclusive 1852-1932

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Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives 45
Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives 3
 
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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) 35
Correspondence 21
Personal narratives -- Confederate 11
Diaries 9
Virginia 9
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Virginia -- Lexington 9
United States -- Confederate States of America 7
Virginia -- Rockbridge County 6
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Personal narratives 5
Photographs 5
Shenandoah Valley Campaign (May-August, 1864) 4
United States -- Shenandoah River Valley 4
Delaware -- Fort Delaware 3
Genealogy 3
Records 3
Scrapbooks 3
Virginia -- Richmond 3
Broadsides 2
Bull Run, 1st Battle of (Virginia : 1861) 2
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 2
Destruction and pillage 2
Manuscripts 2
Poetry 2
Postcards 2
Receipts (Acknowledgments) 2
Social history 2
United States 2
United States -- United States Highway 60 2
Virginia -- Augusta County 2
Virginia -- Natural Bridge 2
Virginia -- Winchester 2
Washington and Lee University 2
Washington and Lee University School of Law 2
West Virginia 2
Wilderness, Battle of the (Virginia : 1864) 2
Account books 1
Administration 1
Advertising fliers 1
African Americans 1
Agriculture 1
American Bar Association 1
American Bar Association. Young Lawyers Division 1
Armies -- Military life 1
Armies -- Officers 1
Armies -- Religious life 1
Autobiography 1
Bar associations 1
Biography 1
Bridges 1
Bulgaria 1
Chancellorsville, Battle of (Virginia : 1863) 1
Cheat Mountain, Battle of (West Virginia : 1861) 1
Civil war 1
Clergy 1
College students 1
Condolence notes 1
Confederate States of America. Army . Virginia Artillery. Hanover Light Artillery 1
Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia 1
Cookery, Military 1
Debates and debating -- Societies, etc. 1
Dreams 1
Employees -- Resignation 1
Engraving 1
Essays 1
Family -- Conduct of life 1
Family records 1
Forests and forestry 1
Fredericksburg, Battle of (Virginia : 1862) 1
General stores 1
Generals 1
Gettysburg, Battle of (Pennsylvania : 1863) 1
Golf courses 1
Government executives -- Selection and appointment 1
Governors 1
History 1
Homesickness 1
Hunton & Williams 1
Hunton, Williams, Anderson, Gay & Moore 1
Hurricane Camille (1969) 1
Impeachments 1
Johnson Island Prison 1
Land value taxation 1
Legal documents 1
Legislators 1
Logging 1
Lynchburg, Battle of (Virginia : 1864) 1
Manners and customs 1
Microfilms 1
Military leadership 1
Military orders 1
Mills and mill-work 1
Missionaries 1
Mountain laurel 1
Natural disasters -- Social aspects 1
North Carolina -- Kinston 1
North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
Note-taking 1
Obituaries 1
Pamphlets 1
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Confederate States of America. Army. Stonewall Brigade 4
Confederate States of America 3
Hunter, David, 1802-1886 3
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 3
Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia 2
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Confederate States of America. Army. Liberty Hall Volunteers 2
Edmondson, James K., Colonel 2
McFarland, Francis W., Reverend 2
Princeton Theological Seminary 2
Washington and Lee University 2
American College of Sofia 1
Anderson, William Alexander 1
Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial (Va.) 1
Association of the Army of Northern Virginia 1
Averell, William Woods, 1832-1900 1
Bank of Lexington (Lexington, Va.) 1
Bank of Rockbridge (Lexington, Va.) 1
Barclay, Ted, II (Alexander Tedford) 1
Bethel Presbyterian Church (Augusta County, Va.) 1
Blain, Daniel, 1838-1906 1
Blain, Mary Randolph, 1840-1939 1
Blain, Randolph H. (Randolph Harrison), 1842-1929 1
Blain, Susan Harrison, 1806-1891 1
Brockenbrough, John 1
Bruce, Sallie White 1
Bryan Family 1
Burks Family 1
Burnside, Ambrose Everett 1
Carson, William Waller 1
Confederate States of America. Army, Virginia Infantry Units, 27th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Arkansas Infantry Regiment, 3rd 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Rockbridge Rifles 1
Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 25th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Artillery. Kanawha Artillery. Captain Thomas E. Jackson's Battery 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry (Laurel Brigade) 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry Regiment, 11th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 10th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 4th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 51st 1
Cornell University 1
Cornwell, John J. 1
Davidson, Charles A. (Charles Andrew) 1
Davidson, James D. (James Dorman) 1
Davis, Millie 1
Davis, William H. 1
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1
Edmondson, Emily Jane Taylor 1
Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert 1
Forsberg, August (Lugwig August Forsberg) 1
Franklin Society and Library Company of Lexington (Lexington, Va.) 1
Graham, William A. (William Alexander) 1
Gregory, John Thomas 1
Hall, Danny 1
Hamilton, James Gilbreath, 1817-1893 1
Hanger, Michael Reid 1
Harper, L. A 1
Harper, Lizzie C. 1
Hicks, William T. 1
Hinholzer, J. 1
Hoffman, Walter E., c. 1907-1996 1
Hopkins, David Lawrence 1
Hopkins, Lou 1
Huffman, James 1
Huffman, Oscar Caperton 1
Humphreys, W. F., Reverend 1
Jackson, Thomas E. 1
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) 1
Johnson, M. H. 1
Jordan, Samuel Francis, 1805-1872 1
Kirby, Raymond J 1
Lee Monument Association 1
Lee, George Washington Custis 1
Letcher, John 1
Lexington Gazette. (Lexington, Va.) 1
Locher Family 1
Martin, Joseph 1
Massie, Charlotte Louise Cazenove, 1841-1914 1
McClure Family 1
McCorkle, William 1
McDonald, Cornelia Peake 1
McFarland family 1
McFarland, Francis W. 1
McFarland, James 1
McFarland, Mary 1
McGill, John H. D (Harry Duncan), 1844-1924 1
Miley, Michael, 1841-1918 1
Monroe Family 1
Moran, Louis 1
Mortimer, Viser, Mrs. 1
Neel family 1
Neel, Cyrus F. 1
Neel, Thomas J. 1
Nelson, George Washington , Jr. (G. Washington "Wash" Nelson), 1840-1903 1
Ohio--Logan County 1
Parsons, James Donaldson 1
Patterson Family 1
Paxton, Alexander Sterrett 1
Paxton, Elisha Franklin 1
Paxton, Elizabeth White 1
Paxton, James Gardiner 1
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