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George Washington Nelson Papers
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-16
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0643
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of letters primarily between George Washington "Wash" Nelson, Jr., of Hanover County, Virginia and his cousin and future wife Mary “Mollie” Nelson Scollay of Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Nelson commanded the Hanover Light Artillery (Va.) and was a staff officer of General William Nelson Pendleton, the Chief of Artillery of the Confederacy’s Army Northern Virginia, during the American Civil War. Nelson was captured in October 1862 and spent the remainder of the war...
Dates:
1863 - 1903; translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: Majority of material found within 1863 - 1865
William Beverley Pettit Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0199
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of correspondence between William B. Pettit and his wife Arabella ('Bell') with scattered letters from other friends and relatives. The letters that date from 1850 to March 1862 include correspondence between husband and wife while Pettit was away on business. The war letters begin in March 1862 and end with Pettit's last war letter to his wife on March 3, 1864. After that date there are letters from Pembroke, the Pettit's son, while he attended school at Ashland, Va....
Dates:
Inclusive 1850-1918