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Military history

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

J. Ditzler to Robert E. Lee, 1866-07-17

 Item — Box 8: [Barcode: 0000003982], Folder: 81
Scope and Contents

J. Ditzler asks Robert E. Lee how he can contact Professor Albert Taylor Bledsoe. He also offers to lecture at Washington College and send Lee a copy of his history book.

Dates: 1866-07-17

John Lewis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0196
Scope and Contents This collection includes general tax and purchase receipts, IOU's, and letters. The receipts date from 1860-1879 and the letters from 1861-1863 when Lewis served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Included among the letters are those to and from his father and his wife, Cary Lewis. Written on the back of one of John Lewis' letters is another letter from Eli Lewis to his wife, Elizabeth. Also includes two letters from William Neay (surgeon) to Lewis' wife and mother...
Dates: Inclusive 1847-1879

Wade Hampton to Robert E. Lee, 1866-07-21

 Item — Box 8: [Barcode: 0000003982], Folder: 82
Scope and Contents

Wade Hampton informs Robert E. Lee that he has gathered data from his old officers for Lee's proposed volume on the American Civil War.

Dates: 1866-07-21