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Contains ambrotype of William Booth Taliaferro. (A55)

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Checker set probably belonging to William Booth Taliaferro. (A67)

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Uncle of William Booth Taliaferro

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3 items. E.G. Booth, subpoena to William Booth Taliaferro, T.H. Taliaferro

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7 items. Typescript copies of letters written from Mexico by William Booth Taliaferro to relatives

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1 item. Diary of William Booth Taliaferro on voyage with troops to Mexico

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2 items. Diaries of William Booth Taliaferro

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2 items. Diaries of William Booth Taliaferro

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Account books (2) of William Booth Taliaferro

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Record of communications of William Booth Taliaferro

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5 items. Testimonials upon the death of William Booth Taliaferro

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Letters and notes pertaining to General William Booth Taliaferro, 1822-1898, and Mrs. Sally Lyons Taliaferro, 1828-1899

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25 items. Plate and visiting cards of Miss S.N. Lyons, later Mrs. William Booth Taliaferro

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Group I are the papers of William Booth Taliaferro. For the correspondence boxes, please note that there may be multiple items by the individuals listed in the folders.

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Photocopy of a January 26, 1895 handwritten document by William Booth Taliaferro as his last will and testament. Copied from Historical Collectible Auctions Catalog, January 23, 2003.

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10 items. Leah S. Taliaferro, W.T. Taliaferro, George T. Shackelford, William Booth Taliaferro's grandfather, brother of William Booth Taliaferro.

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10 items. [Chas. F. Beck?], John H. Tabb, T. Clayton, Mr. Dewey, B.B. Silliman, Thomas Grey, James A. Seddon, John P. Bristow, [Sally Taliaferro & William Booth Taliaferro]

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Legal account book of William Booth Taliaferro. Also includes General and Special orders given at Harper's Ferry, 1859

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In connection with the Presentation of the Portrait of Major Gen. William Booth Taliaferro, CSA, 1822-1898. Given by his daughter, Mrs. Nina Taliaferro Sanders.

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Bookmark size program, "Memorial Hour In Honor of General William Booth Taliaferro, C.S.A." Friday, May 8th, 3 p.m. at the Gloucester, Virginia Courthouse. Gives program of events with names of people participating. Handwritten date, 1925.

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6 items. S. Wheeler, William J. Cocke, Tazewell Taylor, George L. Pollard, J.M. Drewry, Maim[illia]n Herbert (Wheeler et al. committee for Democratic Party Mass Meeting, E.L.T. Taliaferro (brother of William Booth Taliaferro)

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34 items. Sister to brother, college teacher to coulsin William, Miss Franklin concerning Virginia brutality, James Lyons, George Walker, J. Thompson Brown, P.G. Tyler, C.A. Bohannon, Sally with William Booth Taliaferro, A.S. Rutherfoord, Mary C. Mann, Isaac M. Christian, John Coode, Isaac Carrington, William B. Pendleton, Thomas G. Jackson, William E. Tanner, C.F. Day

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26 items. A.D. Watkins, William W. Crump, William. H. Ruffner, Lizzie Mann, Anneld Ruffner (daughter writing for William H. Ruffner), Jno. W. Wilson, J.N. Stubbs, Sally L. Taliaferro, Mrs. [?] Eubank, William W. Crump, J.L. Taliaferro, power of attorney from M. B. Seawell to William Booth Taliaferro, M. L. Seawell, Carlton McCarthy

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Papers of General William Booth Taliaferro of Gloucester, Virginia relating to political, legal and business affairs including a number of items relating to his unsuccessful candidacy for Governor of Virginia in 1877. Includes a few items of his wife and printed pamphlets. 200 items. Also includes letter certifying William B. Taliaferro as an agent of the "American Colonization Society" dated October 25, 1865. See PDF inventory for the content of each of the six folders.

Scope and Contents 20 items. R.H. Temple, legal document drawn up by William Booth Taliaferro concerning English land, P. Goolrick to Dr. [William?] Taliaferro, J. Randolph Mordecai, A.W. Morton, J.A. Edmondson, John B. Minor to Taliaferro to Cousin H-------, [J. Edward?] Bird, Samuel E. Egerton Co., H.B. Catlett, Jno. H. Ellerson, Thomas H. Ellis, S.L. Taliaferro, Charles Mann, Beverley Randolph Wellford, Jr., Leopold & Cowper, receipt from W.T. Taliaferro [Sr.] to Dr. William Taliaferro, W.E. Stony, A.M....