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Box 3

 Container

Contains 173 Results:

Letters from unknown persons, 1784-1934

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Identifier: id181396
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 1 includes letters arranged alpabetically by writer. A uniform entry has been adopted for each name, and persons of the same name have been identified and distinguished from each other by indicating their relationship to Benjamin S. Ewell or other persons. For example, the entry Brown (Harriot S.) is used for letters signed H. S. Brown and Hattie, and the entry Ewell (Elizabeth), daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell, is used for letters signed Lizzy Ewell or simply Lizzy.

Dates: 1784-1934

Brown (Campbell) papers, 1862, 1885

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Identifier: id181535
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 2 includes papers from various sources

Dates: Majority of material found in 1862, 1885

Ewell (Charlotte) papers, 1824 March 3

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 13
Identifier: id181588
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a single document: Power of attorney given by Charlotte Ewell to her brother, William Ewell, authorizing him to manage his property held by her as trustee.

Dates: 1824 March 3

Letters, Stoddert, W.-Sweet, D. , 1829-1883, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 1
Identifier: id181116
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 1 includes letters arranged alpabetically by writer. A uniform entry has been adopted for each name, and persons of the same name have been identified and distinguished from each other by indicating their relationship to Benjamin S. Ewell or other persons. For example, the entry Brown (Harriot S.) is used for letters signed H. S. Brown and Hattie, and the entry Ewell (Elizabeth), daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell, is used for letters signed Lizzy Ewell or simply Lizzy.

Dates: 1829-1883, undated

Letters, Taliaferro, J.-Turner, H. , 1836-1885, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Identifier: id181263
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 1 includes letters arranged alpabetically by writer. A uniform entry has been adopted for each name, and persons of the same name have been identified and distinguished from each other by indicating their relationship to Benjamin S. Ewell or other persons. For example, the entry Brown (Harriot S.) is used for letters signed H. S. Brown and Hattie, and the entry Ewell (Elizabeth), daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell, is used for letters signed Lizzy Ewell or simply Lizzy.

Dates: 1836-1885, undated

Ewell's Division at Front Royal, 1862

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 6, Item: 1
Identifier: id181537
Scope and Contents

1 item. First draft of the article on the first battle of Winchester.

Dates: 1862

The First Manassas, 1885

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 6, Item: 2
Identifier: id181539
Scope and Contents

1 item. 8 pages. 23 cm.Printed pamphlet. Correspondence between Generals R. S. Ewell and G. T. Beauregard, to which are added extracts from a letter of Gen. Fitz Lee. Nashville, Tennessee, Wheeler, Osburn, and Duckworth.

Dates: 1885

Return of Captain Henry D. Dickerson's Company, 32nd Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, C.S.A., 1860 July

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 8, Object: 1
Identifier: id181542
Scope and Contents

Colonel Benjamin S. Ewell, for the month of July 1860. (See Tucker Papers.)

Dates: 1860 July

Letter from Benjamin S. Ewell, 1861 July 6

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 9, Object: 3
Identifier: id181545
Scope and Contents

The letter acknowledges his promotion to the rank of colonel in the Virginia Volunteers and gives a copy of an order to muster six companies of volunteers from James City and the adjoining counties and a list of companies mustered.

Dates: 1861 July 6

Statement of property belonging to or managed by Benjamin S. Ewell, 1868 December 12

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 8, Object: 2
Identifier: id181548
Scope and Contents

1 item.

Dates: 1868 December 12

Certificate of appointment of Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, Col. Randolph Harrison, and Capt. R. A. Wise as examiners , 1871 July 24

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 9, Object: 5
Identifier: id181549
Scope and Contents

Certificate of appointment of Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, Col. Randolph Harrison, and Capt. R. A. Wise as examiners under an act to provide for the reorganization of the militia for Williamsburg and James City County. Signed Gilbert C. Walker.

Dates: 1871 July 24

Will of Benjamin S. Ewell, 1873 December 10

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 8, Object: 3
Identifier: id181550
Scope and Contents

1 item.

Dates: 1873 December 10

Deed from Benjamin S. Ewell to John B. Fitzgerald and W. B. Breen, 1883 December 15

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 8, Object: 4
Identifier: id181554
Scope and Contents

The deed covers a portion of the Rock Smith Farm in Prince William County, Virginia.

Dates: 1883 December 15

A circular letter from Benjamin S. Ewell, Lt. Col. of Virginia Volunteers, [1862]

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 8, Object: 7
Identifier: id181563
Scope and Contents

The letter asks the citizens of James City, York, and Warwick Counties for labor and implements for the construction of defenses on the peninsula.

Dates: [1862]

Notes on General John Magruder by Benjamin S. Ewell, Undated

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 10, Object: 1
Identifier: id181564
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 2 includes papers from various sources

Dates: Undated

Reminisces of General Magruder and events around Williamsburg, Undated

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 10, Object: 2
Identifier: id181566
Scope and Contents

Full title: Reminisces of General Magruder and events around Williamsburg, written by Benjamin S. Ewell for the Magruder-Ewell Camp of Confederate Veterans. Copy.

Dates: Undated

Notes on Mexico by Benjamin S. Ewell, undated

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 8, Object: 8
Identifier: id181568

Notes on the origin of Virginia Counties, by B. S. Ewell, undated

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 8, Object: 9
Identifier: id181569
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 2 includes papers from various sources

Dates: undated

Notes on General Joseph E. Johnston and General Robert E. Lee., undated

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 8, Object: 10
Identifier: id181571

Deed given by Benjamin S. Ewell and his sister Elizabeth S. Ewell, to William Stoddert, 1883 September

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 8, Object: 5
Identifier: id181586
Scope and Contents

The deed covers a tract of land called Stony Lonesome and woodland on the Rock Smith Farm in Prince William County, Virginia. The deed is not signed by Elizabeth S. Ewell.

Dates: 1883 September

Will of Rebecca L. Ewell, 1860 July 9

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 17, Object: 2
Identifier: id181598
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 2 includes papers from various sources

Dates: 1860 July 9