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Box 3

 Container

Contains 31 Results:

Horace Stringfellow, Rector, St. Martin's Parish, Verdon, Hanover County, Virginia, to Nina L. Powell, Winchester, Va.?, 1863 July 21

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Identifier: id177248
Scope and Contents

States that Nina Powell has been recommended to him to take care of his children as well as tutoring them; requests response to his offer.

Dates: 1863 July 21

? L. ?, "White Marsh," Gloucester County, Virginia, to Hattie Powell, 1863 July 24

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Identifier: id177249
Scope and Contents

Discusses pillaging by the Union troops; comments on men who have given their lives for the southern cause; family news.

Dates: 1863 July 24

Horace Stringfellow, Verdon, Hanover County, Virginia, to Nina L. Powell, Winchester, Virginia?, 1863 August 3

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Identifier: id178326
Scope and Contents

Comments on scarcity of various staples; offers her $300 to come and teach his children.

Dates: 1863 August 3

Emily Powell?, Cousin, Richmond, Virginia, to Hattie Powell, 1863 August 4

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Identifier: id178327
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Discusses "keeping house" and how much it costs to do so; family news; comments on the Battle of Manassas.Including note from ?, , to Hatty sic Powell, , undated, discussing delivery of enclosed note to Custis Lee.

Dates: 1863 August 4

Horace Stringfellow, Hanover County, Virginia, to Miss Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia?, 1863 August 14

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Identifier: id178328
Scope and Contents

Attempts to appease Nina's apprehensions about coming to Hanover County if the enemy is there; wants her to begin working the first of October.

Dates: 1863 August 14

Charles Leven Powell, Sr.?, to ?, 1863 August 17

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Identifier: id178329
Scope and Contents

Offer to substitute himself for William Henry Fitzhugh Lee as a Northern prisoner of War.

Dates: 1863 August 17