Box 2
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Warren Seymour Lurty correspondence, 1865-1895
File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Identifier: id78635
Scope and Contents
Warren Seymour Lurty, uncle of Adam Empie Potts, served as a captain in the Confederate army over the Virginia Horse Artillery Battery, which was involved in the Shenandoah Valley campaign. The battery was nearly annihilated and Lurty was captured at Ninevah, Virginia in 1864 and was a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware. Lurty served as a lawyer before and after the Civil War. He was US District Attorney of western Virginia from 1877-1882. This folder, which mainly consists of...
Dates:
1865-1895
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
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Adam Empie Papers