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American Civil War Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0074
Scope and Contents
This collection contains approximately 90 miscellaneous items connected with the government and people of the Confederate States of America, including correspondence, official orders, almanacs, bonds, paper money, sheet music, memorabilia, and clippings.
Dates:
Inclusive 1861-1865
Elisha Franklin Paxton Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0273
Scope and Contents
The Elisha Franklin Paxton Papers are comprised primarily of the personal correspondences, business and military papers of Elisha F. Paxton between 1845 and 1863. The core of the personal letters are written from Paxton to his wife Elizabeth White Paxton during their courtship in the 1850s and during the American Civil War, 1861-1863, while he served as an officer in the Confederate States Army’s 27th Virginia Infantry, a member of the staff of General Stonewall Jackson, and general in...
Dates:
Inclusive 1845-1897; Majority of material found within Bulk 1854-1863
Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. Civil War manuscript collection
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0785
Content Description
This collection consists of original manuscripts, documents, military orders, illustrations, photographs, and ephemera of the era of the American Civil War collected by Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. Key themes of the collection are the Paxton family of Lexington and Rockbridge County, Virginia, Shenandoah Valley history, the Army of Northern Virginia and Stonewall Brigade of the Confederate States Army, Washington College (later Washington and Lee University) (VA), and Robert E. Lee. The...
Dates:
circa 1852-1887, 1930
South Carolina Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0086
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of papers from South Carolina, including: two letters, January 11 and January 14, 1865, from Major General Joseph Wheeler to General Braxton Bragg; printed 1833 broadside of a restrictive bill concerning slavery in South Carolina; other Civil War documents.
Dates:
Inclusive 1795-1867
"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