Broadsides
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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 manuscripts, documents, military orders, illustrations, photographs, and ephemera of the era of the American Civil War collected by Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. Key themes of the collection are the Paxton family of Lexington and Rockbridge County, Virginia, Shenandoah Valley history, the Army of Northern Virginia and Stonewall Brigade of the Confederate States Army, Washington College (later Washington and Lee University) (VA), and Robert E. Lee. The...
Dates:
circa 1852-1887, 1930