Marshall McDonald papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-0169

Staff Only

This collection consists of the papers (approximately 90 items) of Marshall McDonald. The papers include primarily correspondence (1861-1892), notes, scientific reports, and documents. Among the correspondents are several VMI alumni and faculty members and Civil War officers, including:

Scott Shipp
Francis H. Smith
Edward Cunningham
Wilfred E. Cutshaw
John W. Lyell
James H. Morrison
Mark B. Hardin
Daniel W. Flowerree
General Dabney H. Maury
Hunter McGuire

Correspondence topics include McDonald's service in the Engineer and Ordnance Depts, glimpses of wartime and postwar life at VMI (in the Smith and Shipp letters), and McDonald's professional concerns.

Dates

1861-1892

Creator

McDonald, Marshall, 1835-1895 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions

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Extent

0.5 Linear Feet (Approximately 90 items)

Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

Marshall McDonald was born in 1835 in Romney, West Virginia. He graduated VMI in 1860. During the Civil War he was a Confederate Army engineer and ordnance officer stationed at the Selma, Alabama arsenal. From 1866 to 1872 he was a VMI faculty member (Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology). McDonald died in 1895.