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Alamby Miller Scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0137

Scope and Contents

This file consists of a scrapbook of works written by Washington College student Alamby Miller between 1864-1868. Included are Virginia university magazines, clippings from the Southern Collegian, and original poetry. There is also a scrapbook titled Alamby Millington Miller by Professor James W. Massie dated 1870. This scrapbook is a typed biography including a letter from Alamby to his sister.

Dates: 1864 - 1870

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Collection about John Alexander Graham

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0611

Scope and Contents

This collection contains newspaper clippings, memorial programs, and biographical sketches relating to the life of and memorialization of John Alexander Graham.

Dates: 1947

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Ellinor Porcher Gadsden Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0189

Scope and Contents This collection came from the estate of Ellinor Gadsden in 1985. Highlights of the collection include the letters of Alexander Swift(Sandie) Pendleton, a Washington College graduate who was a top aide to Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson during the American Civil War. These approximately 70 letters were a major source for the book. Sandie was the uncle of the Gadsden sisters. Included in the collection are also a few items of Gen. William Nelson Pendleton who was Robert E. Lee's friend and...

Dates: Inclusive 1839-1975

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Francis McFarland Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0053

Scope and Contents

This collection includes 54 miscellaneous letters, 1821-1866; diaries and financial records McFarland kept while he was a missionary and during his two pastorates, 1823-1836, and 1841-1871, at Bethel Presbyterian Church, Augusta County, Va.; lecture notes taken while a student at Princeton University; and printed biographical sketches and engravings of McFarland.Correspondents include Stonewall Jackson, George Junkin, William Spottswood.

Dates: Inclusive 1815-1871

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

George Washington Nelson Papers

Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-16

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0643

Scope and Contents This collection consists of letters primarily between George Washington "Wash" Nelson, Jr., of Hanover County, Virginia and his cousin and future wife Mary “Mollie” Nelson Scollay of Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Nelson commanded the Hanover Light Artillery (Va.) and was a staff officer of General William Nelson Pendleton, the Chief of Artillery of the Confederacy’s Army Northern Virginia, during the American Civil War. Nelson was captured in October 1862 and spent the remainder of the war...

Dates: 1863 - 1903; Majority of material found within 1863 - 1865

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Hugh Adams Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0373

Scope and Contents The Hugh Adams Papers archive is comprised of approximately 75 documents concerning the emancipation of nineteen slaves of the Adams estate and their estate imposed emigration to Careysburg, Liberia. Adams was actively involved for many years with the American Colonization Society ( A.C.S.) which promoted and engaged in the emigration process of free or freed African-Americans to Liberia on the west African coast. Included in the archive is an original handwritten copy of the will of Hugh...

Dates: 1857-1860

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Jonathan Daniels Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0206

Scope and Contents

This is a letter from Jonathan Daniels to Mr. Stubbs in which he discusses Daniels' recent book Prince of Carpetbaggers.

Dates: 1958

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Thomas McAdory Owen Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0093

Scope and Contents

This collection includes letters to and from Owen in connection with his efforts to compile a Robert E. Lee bibliography, several Lee family letters, pictorial representations of the Lees, speeches, and clippings.

Dates: Inclusive 1864-1920; Majority of material found within Bulk 1912-1920

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

William Beverley Pettit Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0199

Scope and Contents This is a collection of correspondence between William B. Pettit and his wife Arabella ('Bell') with scattered letters from other friends and relatives. The letters that date from 1850 to March 1862 include correspondence between husband and wife while Pettit was away on business. The war letters begin in March 1862 and end with Pettit's last war letter to his wife on March 3, 1864. After that date there are letters from Pembroke, the Pettit's son, while he attended school at Ashland, Va....

Dates: Inclusive 1850-1918

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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Alamby Miller Scrapbook

Collection about John Alexander Graham

Ellinor Porcher Gadsden Papers

Francis McFarland Papers

George Washington Nelson Papers

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Jonathan Daniels Correspondence

Thomas McAdory Owen Papers

William Beverley Pettit Correspondence

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