Box 1
Container
Contains 3 Results:
Correspondence, 1864-1865
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers of the Holmes family. Chiefly letters, 1842-1887, received by George Frederick Holmes, educator, concerning the College of William and Mary, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Virginia. Correspondents include William Campbell Preston, Andrew Steele Fulton, Robert Saunders and Charles Minnigerode. The collection also includes papers of the Floyd and Preston families; an album kept by Eliza Lavalette Floyd Holmes consisting of plant leaves, newspapers and memorials...
Dates:
1864-1865
Edward A. Holmes, Johnson's Island, Ohio, (Prisoner of War Camp), to his brother George Frederick Holmes, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 1864 September 27
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14, Object: 1
Identifier: id143526
Scope and Contents
Describes the circumstances surrounding his capture, his condition, and the regulations governing prisoner of war correspondence.
Dates:
1864 September 27
Edward A. Holmes, Johnson's Island, Ohio (Prisoner of War Camp), to his brother George Frederick Holmes, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 1865 July 5
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14, Object: 2
Identifier: id143527
Scope and Contents
Explains that Edward is well and in need of little except tobacco; relates his hope of being allowed to return to England and describes the condition of several other prisoners.
Dates:
1865 July 5