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George Bouton Letter to Mollie Bouton

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Identifier: SC 00617
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Letter from Captain George Bouton to his seven-year-old daughter Mollie from Yorktown, Virginia during the American Civil War. He describes the condition of Yorktown as "an old and dilapidated town", General Daniel Harvey Hill as a commander, describing some of the local families in Yorktown including the Fry family, and having a "free Negro from Madison County for a servant, a very indifferent cook & indifferent servant [in] everyday."

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Jay W. Johns, Jr. Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 74 J64
Scope and Contents The collection contains mostly personal and business correspondence of Jay Winston Johns, Jr., including papers of the Atlas Fuel Corporation of New York, New York and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Lee-Jackson Memorial, Inc.; the Virginia Trust for Historic Preservation; and "Ash Lawn," now owned by the College of William and Mary.The correspondence of Johns includes correspondence with Virginia Democratic Party figures such as Albertis S. Harrison, William M. Tuck, Mills Godwin,...
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Joseph E. Johnston Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 39.1 J63
Scope and Contents Papers of Joseph E. Johnston, C.S.A. General during the American Civil War, including correspondence which reflect his long military career and interest in his nephews, John Warfield Johnston and John Preston Johnston. The papers include a diary, 1857, of Johnston's survey of the southern boundary of Kansas and eighteen volumes of Civil War dispatches and telegrams. The collection also includes a diary, 1 May-31 July 1864, of Thomas B. Mackall; letters received by...
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  • Names: Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889 X

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Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 2
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893 1
Bouton, George 1
Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876 1
Brooks, Phillip, 1835-1983 1
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Custis, George Washington Parke, 1781-1857 1
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Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1
Edwards family 1
Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894 1
Gallatin, Albert (1761-1849) 1
Gantt, Thomas T. (Thomas Tasker), 1814-1889 1
Gorgas, Josiah, 1818-1883 1
Hampton, Wade, 1818-1902 1
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 1
Johns, Jay Winston Jr. 1
Johnston, George Ben, 1853-1916 1
Johnston, Joseph Eggleston, 1807-1891 1
Longstreet, James, 1821-1904 1
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 1820-1891 1
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