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"A Card to the People of Rockbridge County," broadside

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0312
Scope and Contents

Candidate James B. Dorman appeals to Rockbridge County's voters for support as candidate for the Virginia Commonwealth's Attorney General . He outlines his platform and explains his voting record on key issues during his previous political appointments.

Dates: 1879
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Alexander White Pitzer Speech

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0223
Scope and Contents

This collection is a handwritten copy of a speech given by Alexander White Pitzer to the Synod of the Virginias at Charles Town, West Virginia in 1873 about the history of Washington and Lee University.

Dates: 1873
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Blain Family Papers

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-7
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0066
Scope and Contents This collection consists of personal papers of the Blain family of Albemarle County and Williamsburg, Virginia, including the Civil War period diary (1861-63) of school teacher Mary Randolph Blain. The diary, written near the York River in Gloucester County, Va. provides a picture of civilian life both in that area and in Williamsburg, Va. where her parents lived during the period. Also included are two letters written from Randolph Harrison Blain, brother of the diarist and a member of the...
Dates: Inclusive 1861-1905; Majority of material found within Bulk 1861-1864
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Cabinet Photograph of Unknown Mountain and Valley Scene

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0040
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one cabinet photo of a field and a creek bed with mountains in the distance. It is likely taken of Virginia or West Virginia.

Dates: 1880 - 1920
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Callaghan House Register

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Identifier: WLU-Coll-0297
Scope and Contents

This register records the guests who visited the Callaghan House from 1866-1869. The many prominent signatures in the register include Robert E. Lee (September 3, 1868).

Dates: Inclusive 1866-1869
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Contemporary Copy of Earlier Photograph of Confederate Veterans in Romney, West Va.

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0092
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a single 8 x 6 photograph of eleven Confederate veterans standing in front of a home in Romney, West Va. The veterans are identified, and included is the inscription from the reverse of the original photograph. It says, 'Entertained at the home of John J. Cornwell and wife in honor of J. D. Parsons and his ex-confederate comrades, March 1915.'

Dates: Creation of original
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

General Drug Store Ledger

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Identifier: WLU-Coll-0415
Scope and Contents

This ledger from the General Drug Store in Huntsville, West Virginia was recorded during the 1840s.

Dates: 1840
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

George Argabright Farm Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0020
Dates: Unknown
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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

Giles B. Cooke Papers

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Identifier: WLU-Coll-0191
Scope and Contents This collection contains the following correspondence: Letter to Rev. Cooke from G. T. Bearnegan (1874) thanking Cooke for his journal with reference to Petersburg in 1866; letter to Mr. Cooke from U.A. Jackson (1895) asking Cooke for information about Stonewall Jackson for the republishing of U.A. Jackson's book; letter from Rev. Cooke to Mrs. H.B. Lee (1924) asking for information about an incident in the life of General Lee that was similar to the incident that took the life of Stonewall...
Dates: 1874 - 1929
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

James Noah Hess Scrapbook

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Identifier: WLU-Coll-0413
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a scrapbook, entitled 'My Memory Book, W.I.H.S.' and accompanying material from James Noah Hess, Washington and Lee University class of 1930. W.I.H.S stands for Washington Irving High School in Clarksburg, West Virginia.

Dates: Inclusive 1920-1940
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

John DeHart Ross Papers

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Identifier: WLU-Coll-0120
Scope and Contents This collection contains principally wartime correspondence from John DeHart Ross to his wife, Agnes Reid Ross. The correspondence relates to action at the West Virginia front (Cheat Mt. campaign) in 1861-1862, Jackson's Valley campaign in 1862, Gettysburg in 1863, and the siege of Richmond in 1864-1865. It also includes one letter from Samuel McDowell Reid to Agnes Ross and one letter from Ross to his mother. Additionally there are photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and Ross...
Dates: Inclusive 1856-1912
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

John H. D. McGill Diary

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0259
Dates: 1864
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

John W. Davis Papers

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Identifier: WLU-Coll-0106
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a typescript of a speech delivered at Martinsburg, West Virginia (January 4, 1905); law license (1895); statements of assets (1904-1917); correspondence, and a legal document for the purchase of real estate (1898-1930).

Dates: Inclusive 1895-1930
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Photographic Postcard, "Lee's Tree"

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0105
Content Description

The photographic postcard is postmarked 1933, has a note written on the back from J. R. Goff to Henry Boley of Lexington, VA. The postcard is a photograph of 'Camp site of Gen. Robert E. Lee during a period of Civil War. Route 60 near Rainelle, West Virginia.'

Dates: Creation of the postcard ; Creation of the writing, stamped date on the postcard
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Printed volume, "Sportsmen's Association of Cheat Mountain"

 Item — Container: RHS Collections #0060 - #0076
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0060
Scope and Contents A guide and the by - laws of the "Sportsmen's Association of Cheat Mountain", which was a privately owned hunting and fishing preserve in Randolph County, West Virginia founded in 1887. This small volume was published in 1889. It is inscribed by William S. Edwards of Charleston, West Virginia, who was a member of the board of directors of the association. The volume includes printed maps of the vicitiniy of the preserve. Found in the volume is a segment of a photograph of a hunting party and...
Dates: 1889
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Robert E. Lee to Louisa Washington letters

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-7
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0669
Scope and Contents This collection consists primarily of six letters written from Robert E. Lee to Louisa Washington between September 1861 and December 1868. Louisa Washington was the eldest child of John Augustine Washington, III of Fauquier County, Va., the last Washington family descendant and private individual to own the Washington family estate Mount Vernon. A key subject of select letters is Colonel John A. Washington’s death on September 13, 1861 while serving on the staff of General Robert E. Lee as...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1861 - 1868
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge Rifles records

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0462
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a manuscript copy of the company's constitution and bylaws, which mentions that they quelled a rebellion at John Brown's raid. There is also a circa 1860 imprint of this document.

Dates: Inclusive 1859-1860
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Schoenbrun Collection of Virginia Historical Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0394
Scope and Contents This collection includes individual or small collections of letters to the Custis, Lee, Davidson, McDowell, Reid, and Hale families. Subjects include the Custis family involvement in the American Colonization Society, John Brown's Raid as recounted by V.M.I. cadet Charles A. Davidson of Lexington, Va., Henry "Lighthorse Harry" Lee's life, Lee family genealogy, Anne Lee Marshall's death, the Markoe family of Baltimore, Md.,Edgar Allan Poe, and Washington College (Va.) history including a...
Dates: 1813-1895
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Unidentified travel diary

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0328
Scope and Contents This manuscript copy of a diary dated May 26 through August 15, 1835 was kept by an unidentified traveller journeying by railroad, boat, and stagecoach from New York to the springs of Virginia (and the present-day West Virginia) and then on to Cincinnati, Ohio and Lexington, Kentucky before returning to New York. The traveller made stops in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Fredericksburg. Most of the journal's accounts deal with the period when the writer was at White Sulphur...
Dates: 1835
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Virginia Hot Springs Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0271
Scope and Contents

This collection contains records, mostly in printed pamphlet form, of the Virginia Hot Springs Company, formed in 1892 from the Southern Improvement Company, with Decatur Axtell as its president. Also included in the collection are several pamphlets about other springs, e.g. Healing, Warm, and White Sulphur: information about automobile travel in western Virginia circa 1913, and a few letters to and from Mr. Axtell.

Dates: Inclusive 1860-1913; Majority of material found within Bulk 1892-1903
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 4
Argabright, George 1
Averell, William Woods, 1832-1900 1
Axtell, D. B. (Decatur Boynton) 1
Bearnegan, G. T. 1
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Blain, Daniel, 1838-1906 1
Blain, Mary Randolph, 1840-1939 1
Blain, Randolph H. (Randolph Harrison), 1842-1929 1
Blain, Susan Harrison, 1806-1891 1
Brown, John 1
Callaghan House (Callaghan, W. Va.) 1
Chew, Louisa Fontaine Washington, 1844-1927 1
Confederate States of America. Army 1
Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Rockbridge Rifles 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Artillery. Kanawha Artillery. Captain Thomas E. Jackson's Battery 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry Regiment, 11th 1
Cooke, Giles B. 1
Cornwell, John J. 1
Davis, John W. (John William) 1
Dorman, J. B. 1
Edwards, William S. 1
Freeman, Douglas Southall 1
General Drug Store (Huntsville, W. Va.) 1
Goff, J.R. 1
Goldsborough, Natta Lee 1
Hess, James Noah 1
Hull, Cordell 1
Hunter, David, 1802-1886 1
Jackson, Thomas E. 1
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) 1
Jackson, U. A. 1
Lee, Edwin 1
Lee, H. B. 1
Lee, Rebecca B. 1
Massie, Charlotte Louise Cazenove, 1841-1914 1
McGill, John H. D (Harry Duncan), 1844-1924 1
Mortimer, Viser, Mrs. 1
Nelson, George Washington , Jr. (G. Washington "Wash" Nelson), 1840-1903 1
Parsons, James Donaldson 1
Pitzer, A. W. (Alexander White) 1
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Synod of the Virginias 1
Reid, Samuel McDowell 1
Ross, Agnes Reid 1
Ross, John DeHart 1
Scollay, Mary (Mary "Mollie" Scollay Nelson), 1850-1923 1
Shenandoah Valley Railroad 1
Sportsmen's Association of Cheat Mountain 1
United States. Army. West Virginia Cavalry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865) 1
Virginia Hot Springs Company 1
Washington College (Lexington, Va.) 1
Washington Irving High School (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1
Washington and Lee University 1
Washington, John Augustine, 1821 - 1861 1
Whig Party (Va.) 1
Wilson, Woodrow 1
Woods, Micajah, 1844-1911 1
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