Scope and Contents From the Collection: Letters, 1875-1893, received by John William Jones, Richmond, Va. as secretary of the Southern Historical Society. Most of the letters concern the Civil War. Correspondents include Edward Porter Alexander, Jubal A. Early, Horace Edwin Hayden, Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Joseph E. Johnston, Charles Colcock Jones (concerning his A Roster of General Officers), Dabney H. Maury, Charles Landon Carter Minor, William Gordon McCabe, H. B. McClellan (concerning the twenty-fifth reunion at Gettysburg,...

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1790 March 26. Ed[ward] Carrington, Richmond, [Virginia], to Zachariah Johnston, Augusta [County, Virginia]. 2 pp. 1792 March 27, Henry Lee, Richmond, [Va.], to Zach[aria]h Johnston. 2 pp.

Scope and Contents Item 1: M. W. Sloan, Carthage, Tennessee, to Dr. S. B. Jennings, Conrad's Store, Rockingham County, Va., 1 July 1847.Item 2: S. S. Fahnestock, Warrenton, Va., to the Clerk of the County of Westmoreland, Westmoreland C[ourt] H[ouse], [Va.]., 12 January 1849.Item 3: S. S. Fahnestock, Fort Pike, L[ouisi]a[n]a, to W[illia]m C. Jennings, Rockingham Co[unty], Va., 5 June 1849.Item 4: M. W. Sloan, Nashville, Tenn., to Dr. S. B. Jennings, Conrad's Store,...

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Letters, 1881-1899, received by Bradley T. Johnson from former and fellow Civil War soldiers concerning the burning of Chambersburg, Pa., conflict between Jubal Early and William Mahone, and the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid. Correspondents are C.B. Dahlgren, John Warwick Daniel, Jubal A. Early, James W. Eldridge, Wade Hampton, Henry Brainerd McClellan, William E. Peters, and John H. Worsham.