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William George McDowell Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0076

Scope and Contents

This collection includes manuscript and typecript sketches of 41 Washington and Lee Alumni who served in the American Civil War. The materials were compiled for a proposed memorial volume which was never completed. Included are letters to McDowell from veterans, descendants of veterans, and associates answering his request for information.

Dates: Inclusive 1910-1914

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

William H. Davis Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0276

Scope and Contents

The collection contains transcripts and copies of William H. Davis's letters home to his wife Millie, from Monterey, Petersburg, and other Confederate army posts in Virginia. The material is a record of a common, unlettered man pouring out his homesickness to his wife.

Dates: 1861

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

William Lyne Wilson Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0029

Scope and Contents Includes letters from the American Civil War period; correspondence of Wilson while he was Congressman from West Virginia, Postmaster General under Cleveland, and President of Washington and Lee University; 3 bound, indexed volumes (not orginals) of Wilson's official correspondence as Postmaster General; 6 diaries; miscellaneous papers and printed speeches; 38 letters from the University of West Virginia collection (microfilm); photograph; correspondence with Isidor Straus concerning...

Dates: Inclusive 1852-1980

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

William P. Parker Diary

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0457

Scope and Contents

In this diary Parker writes from Tennessee about his experiences as a soldier during the American Civil War. A list of captains and members of certain companies is recorded in the front of the diary.

Dates: Inclusive 1861-1862

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

William Poindexter Moore, Jr. collection

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0026

Scope and Contents This collection primarily includes correspondence written between 1791-1913 to different ancestors of William Poindexter Moore. The letters written to Andrew Reid by his son-in-law, Andrew Moore, provide insight into what was happening in the United States during Moore's time in Congress. His November 26, 1791 letter mentions concern for Western troops at the hands of Indigenous populations, some of whom were receiving goods imported by the British West Indies. His letter dated...

Dates: 1779-1913

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Withrow Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0164

Scope and Contents

Contains genealogies of Lucy Johnson Withrow; correspondence of Louie Moran to Margaret Withrow, 1919; licences and receipts for John Withrow's general store, 1882-1920; also includes 3 ALS of M. H. Johnson to Fanny Withrow concerning Burnside's bombardment of Fredericksburg and maneuvers in the Valley of Virginia, 1862 November 16-30.

Dates: Inclusive 1852-1932

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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William George McDowell Papers

William H. Davis Correspondence

William Lyne Wilson Papers

William P. Parker Diary

William Poindexter Moore, Jr. collection

Withrow Family Papers

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