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American Civil War Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0074
Scope and Contents

This collection contains approximately 90 miscellaneous items connected with the government and people of the Confederate States of America, including correspondence, official orders, almanacs, bonds, paper money, sheet music, memorabilia, and clippings.

Dates: Inclusive 1861-1865

Elisha Franklin Paxton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0273
Scope and Contents The Elisha Franklin Paxton Papers are comprised primarily of the personal correspondences, business and military papers of Elisha F. Paxton between 1845 and 1863. The core of the personal letters are written from Paxton to his wife Elizabeth White Paxton during their courtship in the 1850s and during the American Civil War, 1861-1863, while he served as an officer in the Confederate States Army’s 27th Virginia Infantry, a member of the staff of General Stonewall Jackson, and general in...
Dates: Inclusive 1845-1897; Majority of material found within Bulk 1854-1863

Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. Civil War manuscript collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0785
Content Description

This collection consists of original manuscript materials, documents, and ephemera related to the Paxton family of Rockbridge County, Virginia and the American Civil War.

Dates: circa 1852-1887, 1930

South Carolina Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0086
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of papers from South Carolina, including: two letters, January 11 and January 14, 1865, from Major General Joseph Wheeler to General Braxton Bragg; printed 1833 broadside of a restrictive bill concerning slavery in South Carolina; other Civil War documents.

Dates: Inclusive 1795-1867

"The Battle Rainbow" Broadside

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0310
Scope and Contents

This broadside of the poem 'The Battle Rainbow' by John R. Thompson was printed for the June 1862 Southern Literary Messenger.

Dates: 1862

Thomas Connors Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0299
Scope and Contents

Contains 19th and early 20th century British and American theater memorabilia, including autographs of major actors, writers, and managers; and letters, broadsides, and photographs.

Dates: Inclusive 1805-1923

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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) 5
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Paxton, Elisha Franklin 2
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Anne Smith Academy 1
Bank of Rockbridge (Lexington, Va.) 1
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