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Lawson Botts papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-0064

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous Civil War papers, including letter of commission; promotion order; order to assume duties of Provost Marshall in Winchester, VA; letter to Capt. O'Brien complaining about shortage of rations, etc.; furlough request; receipt.

Found in: Virginia Military Institute Archives

Mahone's Brigade Commissary Documents and Miscellaneous Other Virginia Civil War documents

Collection

Identifier: MS-0235

Scope and Contents The bulk of this collection consists of documents relating to commissary stores, provisions, and supplies handled by Major P. M. Slaughter, Brigade Commissary, Mahone's Brigade. Miscellaneous other documents include correspondence relating to the enlistment of Shelton Watts of Amherst County, Virginia, in Thomas Kirkpatrick's Battery; and two legal broadsides from District Court of Confederate States concerning sequestration of property of "alien enemies".

Found in: Virginia Military Institute Archives

Michael F. Rinker letter

Collection

Identifier: MS-0381

Scope and Contents Letter (ALS), May 17, 1864, from Confederate soldier Michael F. Rinker to his parents. Written from camp near Spotsylvania Courthouse; discusses battle at Spotsylvania, emphasizing enemy casualities; mentions Battle of New Market (Virginia).

Found in: Virginia Military Institute Archives

Michael G. Harman Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-0397

Scope and Contents Scope and Content Information

The papers consist of the Civil War letters (6 items; July-October 1861) of Lt. Col. Michael G. Harman, written from Headquarters, Staunton, Virginia, where Harman was Quartermaster. The letters were written primarily to General Henry R. Jackson, headquartered at Monterey. The correspondence concerns supplies of corn, clothing, horses and other items; transportation problems; and other Quartermaster Department problems.

Found in: Virginia Military Institute Archives

Nalle Family Civil War letters

Collection

Identifier: MS-0223

Scope and Contents One letter (January 15, 1865) written to Cadet G. B. Wallace Nalle by his father Philip Pendleton Nalle of Culpepper Co., Virginia; Mr. Nalle urges Cadet Nalle to remain at VMI rather than join the Confederate Army. Also one letter fragment from Cadet Nalle's mother, ca. 1865, in which Mrs. Nalle discusses the actions of Union troops in Culpepper Co. and other war news.

Found in: Virginia Military Institute Archives

Napoleon B. Brisbine Civil War Letters

Collection

Identifier: MS-0391

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of two Civil War letters written by Brisbine to his brother and sister. The items are dated September 16 and 24, 1864. In the first letter, Brisbine describes being held prisoner in Winchester, Virginia, where he was captured while caring for Union wounded. In the second, he describes the recapture of Winchester by Union troops and the Confederate retreat.

Found in: Virginia Military Institute Archives

R. Emmett Martin letter

Item

Identifier: MS-0406

Scope and Contents Civil War letter from Confederate soldier R. Emmett Martin to his wife, dated 3 July 1862. Letter is headed "Battlefield" and discusses Battle of Malvern Hill (Seven Days' Battle, Peninsular Campaign). Martin writes to "inform you of my safety after the hard fought battle of the lst inst." and disusses heavy casualties in his regiment.

Found in: Virginia Military Institute Archives

Richard H. Adams, Jr. papers, 1862-1866

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-0358

Scope and Contents Civil War papers (ca. 80 items) of Captain Richard H. Adams, Jr. Consist of manuscript diary kept while serving with the 5th Alabama Regiment in Virginia, April-June 1862, with accompanying typewritten transcription. Transcriptions only of two additional diary volumes (Sept. 1862-March 1863; and prison diary, 1864-1865); 47 original letters (Nov. 1863-Sept. 1866) to Lottie Putnam Adams, most written before their marriage while he was a prisoner of war; 23 original letters from Lottie to...

Found in: Virginia Military Institute Archives

Richard S. Ewell papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-0395

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous papers (3 items) of Richard S. Ewell. Includes a letter written while he was a cadet at West Point (June 17, 1838) to Benjamin S. Ewell of York, PA; and 2 Civil War dispatches (1862 and 1864). The collection also contains a map fo the Cedar Mountain battlefield drawn by Gen. Ewell.

Found in: Virginia Military Institute Archives

Robert A. Boyd Diary - Notebook

Collection

Identifier: MS-0092

Scope and Contents One volume notebook, ca. 45 pages, containing miscellaneous personal notes (Dec. 1864-April 1865) and brief diary entries (January 1; April 3-13, 1865). Diary portion covers activities of the 1st Engineers Regiment during the last few days of the war; mentions surrender at Appomattox and includes pencil sketch of surrender site. Notes concern supplies, furloughs and desertions, guard rosters; also maxims and quotations from books.

Found in: Virginia Military Institute Archives

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Lawson Botts papers

Mahone's Brigade Commissary Documents and Miscellaneous Other Virginia Civil War documents

Michael F. Rinker letter

Michael G. Harman Papers

Nalle Family Civil War letters

Napoleon B. Brisbine Civil War Letters

R. Emmett Martin letter

Richard H. Adams, Jr. papers, 1862-1866

Richard S. Ewell papers

Robert A. Boyd Diary - Notebook

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