This folder contains: - Letter to Mary Ackerly Mar 12, 1931 from Mrs. Chs Schaadt of Virginia Division UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy (apparently with regard to request for grave marker forms (address listed as County Court House, Lexington, VA); she asks the question “Is that the R.R. station”? - Letter from W. Horace Lackey to Dora (Mrs. H.L.) Mitchell (as local UDC Secretary) informing her that Mrs. Lackey cannot accept Presidency of Mary Custis Lee Chapter UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy to which she was recently elected: “She has been in the Hospital for the past ten days and is not yet able to answer for herself” Apr. 22, 1931 - Handwritten copy of accounting form dated Apr. 5, 1932 for UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy su - 3 cancelled checks related to grave markers Mar. 9, Apr. 6, and Apr. 13 1931 and a receipt for deposits to Confederate Memorial Assn acct at The Peoples National Bank of Lexington Apr. 28, 1931 - Shipping receipt for grave markers Mar. 24, 1931 Louisville & Nashville RR Co. - Memo concerning “Markers Tablets for Confederate Graves” from Virginia Division of UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy (references “Act approved Feb 26, 1929” “Secretary of War, Major General B. F. Cheatham” and “Hon. P. H. Drewry”) - Unsigned draft inquiry about Confederate Grave Marker forms Oct. 18, 1929 - Undated note on need to fill out UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy grave marker forms “even when Government blanks and markers are used” (references 1932) - Notarized letter dated June 15, 1932 from Adjutant Generals Office, War Department, Washington: C.H. Bridges, Major General, to A. Shields, Rockbridge County Clerk’s Office “The records show that James W. Engleman. Private. Company E, 46 Battalion Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States Army, enlisted Sept. 15, 1863, in Bath County. The master roll of that company for September and October 1864, last on file, shows him absent, sick in hospital, and no later record has been found.” - Postcard to Mrs. D. E. Strain responding to apparent application for pension “for Miss Sutherland” – “when there is a vacancy I will endeavor to get her name of the list” – Mrs. Chas E. (P.C.) Bolling, Chairman Relief Committee VA Division UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy Sept. 2, 1933 - Status inquiry postcard to Mrs. D. E. Strain from Mattie Sutherland Nov. 28, 1933 - Thank you note to Mary Custis Lee Chapter UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy dated Apr. 3, 1933 for expression of sympathy regarding bereavement - Letter to Daughters of Confederacy Charlottesville, VA from Miss Mattie Sutherland Mar 6, 1932 “Please send me an application blank to fill out for a pension for a Confederate soldier’s unmarried sister (marked answered 4/12/33) - Letter to Mrs. D.E. Strain from Mattie Sutherland apparently enclosing completed pension form Apr. 20, 1933 “My oldest brother A. W. Sutherland joined the 10th VA Cavalry Company F … He served faithfully and with honor the whole period of the Confederate War… I had 2 other brothers A.V. and J.H. Sutherland who served the full period of the War Between the States. I do not know the regiment or the company in which they enlisted” - Form letter concerning the availability of “a motion picture, entitled ‘The Conquered Banner,” which depicts the origin and development of the Confederate Flags” from Mrs. Chas Schaadt, President, Elliott Grays Chapter UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy Richmond Dec. 6, 1933 LOCATION: AC 112 RHA Ackerly Papers (Box 9) Folder 4 - Letter from Brigadier General James F. McKinley, Adjutant General’s Office War Department Washington Feb. 24, 1933 to Mrs. Harry Quisenberry, Lexington, VA “The records show that John C. Shields, 1 Lieutenant, Capt. R.M. Anderson’s Company, Virginia Light Artillery (1st Company Richmond Howitzer’s Virginia Artillery), Confederate States Army, was appointed April 21, 1861 and promoted to Captain May 10, 1861…. He was appointed Lieutenant Colonel, Provisional Army Confederate States, to take rank June 20, 1862, from the State of Virginia, and appointed Colonel to take rank November 13, 1862, when he was transferred to the Adjutant General’s Department, but the last appointment was not confirmed and he reverted to his former grade of Lieutenant Colonel.” - Letter from Brigadier General James F. McKinley, Adjutant General’s Office War Department Washington May 13, 1933 to Mrs. Harry Quisenberry, Lexington, VA “The records on file in this office show that Andrew A. Sutherland, 1st Sergeant, Company F, 10th Regiment Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States Army, enlisted May 13, 1862, at Richmond, Virginia… He was surrendered by General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A., and paroled at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 9, 1865” - Postcard of Memorial Day, Confederate Cemetery, Johnson’s Island, Ohio (June 1934) - Two summaries of activities of Mary Custis Lee Chapter of UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy for 1934 including statements that “Jackson Memorial Hospital is full to overflowing and we anticipate building another wing this summer… A total of 1319 persons were treated during the past year of which 234 were charity patients” and “Jackson Memorial Hospital is still in a flourishing condition. So much so that we are adding another wing. We admitted 1430 patients.” There is also a reference to “Lee-Jackson-Maury Day” - Letter to Mrs. D.E. Strain from Mattie Sutherland Mar 5, 1934, indicating that she had received a pension check for $8.75 dated Jan 15, 1934” but had not gotten anything since that time” - Postcard Jan. 4, 1934 to Mrs. D.E. Strain from Mrs. Chas E. Bolling indicating she was adding the name of Miss Mattie Sutherland of Fairfield, VA to the Pension Roll - Postcard Dec. 7, 1934 to Mrs. D.E. Strain from Mrs. Chas E. Bolling indicating there “are 40 names on the waiting list now and no possibility of getting all on the pension roll for at least a year or it may be longer… quite a large number from 77 to 81” - Letter to Mrs. D.E. Strain from John T. Goolrick offering a wreath for Stonewall Jackson’s grave on Confederate Memorial Day composed of “flowers gathered from the spot where he fell wounded at Chancellorsville” May 14, 1934 - Letter from T. Sutton Jett to Mts. E. D. Strain apparently enclosing prints of pictures taken on Memorial Day (no pictures are attached or in the file) June 4, 1934 - Thank you letter to Mrs. E. D. Strain for courtesy extended to National Park Service on visit to Lexington for Confederate Memorial Day wreath laying at tomb of Stonewall Jackson from John T. Goolrick, Historical Assistant, Fredericksburg, VA June 8, 1934.