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Virginia -- Lynchburg

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Douglas MacLeod Virginia Canal History Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0404
Scope and Contents

Secondary sources compiled by historian Doug Macleod on the history of Virginia canals and river navigation with a focus on the James River from Lynchburg, Va. and west. The collection includes three binders compiled of early newspaper article scans mentioning canal development. Also included are eight 20th century magazines related to or including information on canal history.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1950 - 2012

Frank Smith Reader diary and transcription

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0019
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a diary kept by Frank Smith Reader between March-June 1864. In it, he describes the march up the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, the burning of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), the pillaging that took plage in Lexington, and the march to Lynchburg. Reader also documented the weather, his daily duties, the conduct of officers, the 9th West Virginia Cavalry, the 5th West Virginia Cavalry, Ringgold Battallion, and Averell's Division. He also compares the...
Dates: 1864 March 10-June 23, circa 1964

General John Pope letter to General G. B. McClellan

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0451
Scope and Contents This collection contains an autographed letter signed from General John Pope to General George B. McClellan at the headmaster's Army of Virginia, Washington, D.C. July 4, 1862. Pope writes that he will be able to offer military help against the confederate forces and sights specific numbers for General Irvin McDowell's troops, one division of which he says are at Fredericksburg. He also writes that his troops have broken up the depots on the Ohio River and he hopes to destroy the railroad...
Dates: 1862 July 4

Lynchburg

 Collection — Box RHS Collections #0079 - #0082
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0081
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of records related to the history of Lynchburg, including Lynchburg Historical Society - Museum Papers.

Dates: 1900

Postcard of the Lynchburg, Virginia YMCA Playground

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0027
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a color postcard of the YMCA island playgrounds in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Dates: ca. 1915