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Box 20

 Container

Contains 48 Results:

Gift list, undated

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 30
Identifier: id179766
Scope and Contents

Gift list and cover addressed to Jackson's Reserve Artillery, near Bowling Green, Caroline County

Dates: undated

Commission Book, undated

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 31
Identifier: id179767

Commission from the Commonwealth of Virginia, undated

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 32
Identifier: id179768
Scope and Contents From the File:

Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.

Dates: undated

Receipt for supplies, undated

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 33
Identifier: id179769
Scope and Contents From the File:

Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.

Dates: undated

Printed calling cards of John Thompson Brown in cover, undated

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 35
Identifier: id179771
Scope and Contents From the File:

Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.

Dates: undated

Two leather pocket packets, undated

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 36
Identifier: id179772
Scope and Contents From the File:

Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.

Dates: undated

Terrain map, undated

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 37
Identifier: id179773
Scope and Contents From the File:

Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.

Dates: undated

John Thompson Brown II, Petersburg, to his "Aunt Lockie" (Brown Irvine), 1844 November 20

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 1
Identifier: id179729
Scope and Contents

Lists the courses in school taken by a nine year old boy and his two brothers, Wilicox, 11 years old, and Peronneau, 13 years old.

Dates: 1844 November 20

A report of "repeated bleeding in Italy"., undated

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 3
Identifier: id179731
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Correspondence, commissions, receipts, etc., of Colonel John Thompson Brown II, killed in action on May 6, 1864; his drafts of speeches in defense of slavery. This box contains the papers from the period after the death of John Thompson Brown, and concern John Thompson Brown II, born in 1835, some 18 months before the death of his father. One letter (November 20, 1844) lists the courses studied by boys at the ages of 9, 11, and 13; a travel book gives an interesting picture of Europe (May 4,...
Dates: undated

Promissory note, N. M. Lewis to William J. Chick, 1859 January 1

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 4
Identifier: id179732
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Correspondence, commissions, receipts, etc., of Colonel John Thompson Brown II, killed in action on May 6, 1864; his drafts of speeches in defense of slavery. This box contains the papers from the period after the death of John Thompson Brown, and concern John Thompson Brown II, born in 1835, some 18 months before the death of his father. One letter (November 20, 1844) lists the courses studied by boys at the ages of 9, 11, and 13; a travel book gives an interesting picture of Europe (May 4,...
Dates: 1859 January 1

Thomas P. August, Colonel 1st Regiment, Virginia Volunteers, 1859 December 1

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 5
Identifier: id179733
Scope and Contents

Certifies that John Thompson Brown II was elected Second Lieutenant by viva voce vote of the members of his company.

Dates: 1859 December 1

Draft of speech in favor of the Southern position, circa 1860

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 6
Identifier: id179734
Scope and Contents

References to Douglas and the threat to slavery.

Dates: circa 1860

Draft of speech opposing abolition, circa 1860

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 7
Identifier: id179735
Scope and Contents

Concerns the raid on Harper's Ferry by John Brown, October 19, 1859, and the treatment of him as a martyr in the North. 5 pages. Autographed draft.

Dates: circa 1860

Speech at the dedication of an Armory, circa 1861

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 8
Identifier: id179736
Scope and Contents

"I greatly fear that the time has passed when great questions of State equality are to be settled in the Halls of Congress...this settlement requires powder and ball..."

Dates: circa 1861

M. C. Selant and Co. bill for coal to John Thompson Brown II, 1861 January 5

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 9
Identifier: id179737
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Correspondence, commissions, receipts, etc., of Colonel John Thompson Brown II, killed in action on May 6, 1864; his drafts of speeches in defense of slavery. This box contains the papers from the period after the death of John Thompson Brown, and concern John Thompson Brown II, born in 1835, some 18 months before the death of his father. One letter (November 20, 1844) lists the courses studied by boys at the ages of 9, 11, and 13; a travel book gives an interesting picture of Europe (May 4,...
Dates: 1861 January 5

C. H. D. Chine, Poe's Farm, to the Court, and Corp. M. Terrell to the Court, 1862 June 19

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 14
Identifier: id179742
Scope and Contents

2 items. Court Martial action taken for refusal to do guard duty, by a trooper under the command of Colonel John Thompson Brown II.

Dates: 1862 June 19

Colonel John Thompson Brown II to Brig. General William Nelson Pendleton, 1862 September 29

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 16
Identifier: id179744
Scope and Contents

Request for transfer, with his command, to the Division of General D. H. Hills, so that he might be more actively engaged.

Dates: 1862 September 29