Showing Collections: 1 - 4 of 4
John H. D. McGill Diary
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0259
Dates:
1864-01-01 - 1864-12-31
Found in:
Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives
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
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
Filtered By
- Names: Hunter, David, 1802-1886 X
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Repository
- Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives 3
- Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives 1
- Subject
- Shenandoah Valley Campaign (May-August, 1864) 3
- Military campaigns 2
- Personal narratives 2
- Autobiography 1
- Condolence notes 1
- Correspondence 1
- Diaries 1
- Family -- Conduct of life 1
- Manuscripts 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Unionists (United States Civil War) 1
- Virginia 1
- Virginia -- Bland County 1
- Virginia -- Lexington 1
- Virginia -- Reeling Springs 1
- West Virginia 1 + ∧ less
- Names
- McGill, John H. D 2
- Averell, William Woods 1
- Bruce, Sallie White 1
- Confederate States of America 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 51st 1
∨ more