Scope and Contents From the Collection: 37 letters, mostly during the Civil War era, written by Andrew J. Weeks, of Brooklyn, New York, to his sister, Hannah Weeks of Merrick, Long Island, New York. He was a 1st sergeant of Co. D., 10th Regiment of the New York infantry Volunteers. He wrote from Fort Monroe, Virginia, Gosport Navy Yard, Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, Point Lookout, Maryland, Beaufort, North Carolina and Riker's Island, New York. On March 9, 1861, Weeks states the Merrimac has sunk the Cumberland and the Ericcson...

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Documents illustrating John Tabb Duval's (husband of Mollie Wellford Taliaferro Duval) descent from Richard Henry Lee and Pocahontas.

Autographs of John Strode Barbour, Thomas Henry Bayley, John Warwick Daniel, and Charles Triplett O'Ferrall.