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Contains 3 Results:

Diary, 1862 August 2-1863 November 19

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents The first diary, with numbered pages, covers the period from August 1, 1862 to November 19, 1863, when the Army of Northern Virginia, under Robert E. Lee, achieved some of its most notable victories. She began it just after the Army of the Potomac, under George B. McClellan, had been withdrawn from the Peninsula. She reflects on Confederate victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and notes there had been a battle at Gettysburg, “but no official report, only Yankee news.” She writes...
Dates: 1862 August 2-1863 November 19

Diary, 1863 November 14-1871 November 5

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents The first diary, with numbered pages, covers the period from August 1, 1862 to November 19, 1863, when the Army of Northern Virginia, under Robert E. Lee, achieved some of its most notable victories. She began it just after the Army of the Potomac, under George B. McClellan, had been withdrawn from the Peninsula. She reflects on Confederate victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and notes there had been a battle at Gettysburg, “but no official report, only Yankee news.” She writes...
Dates: 1863 November 14-1871 November 5

Additional Items

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents Additional items in the collection:1. Three images in a white sleeve: one photo, marked “1544 Mrs. Cordie Banks”; one plate, bearing the images of a woman (not identified); one photo, marked “Cordie Banks at Raleigh Hotel Williamsburg, Virginia” 2. One handwritten poem 3. On Confederate States of America bond, dated February 17, 1864, promising the payment of $500 (two years after ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States) 4. One...
Dates: 1862-1871