Clayton G. Coleman papers

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Location of collection:
Virginia Military Institute Archives
Preston Library
Virginia Military Institute
345 Letcher Ave.
Lexington, VA 24450-0304
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Preferred citation:

Clayton G. Coleman papers, 1858-1863. MS 0021. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
4 items
Creator:
Coleman, Clayton G. (Clayton Glanville), 1840-1908
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Clayton G. Coleman papers, 1858-1863. MS 0021. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

The Clayton G. Coleman papers consist of three letters written to Coleman's sister Lucy during the Civil War, and an autograph album containing inscriptions written by his classmates at VMI, the University of Virginia, and the Medical College of Virginia (circa 1858-1861).

Biographical / historical:

Clayton Glanville Coleman was born in Roxbury, New Kent County, Virginia in 1840. He entered VMI in July 1856 as a member of the Class of 1859, but did not graduate. After leaving VMI in 1858, he attended the University of Virginia and the Medical College of Virginia, from which he was graduated in March 1861.

Coleman served as a Lieutenant Colonel, 23rd Virginia Infantry Regiment (1861-1862) and after September 1862 he was a physician in the Confederate Medical Department. After the Civil War, he continued the practice of medicine until 1871, when he became a civil engineer.

Coleman married Anna Sherrard Breedin, daughter of Enoch C. and Lucy Singleton Breedin, of Winchester Virginia. The couple had four children: Sherrard, Robert, Lucy, and Caroline. Coleman died on October 7, 1908 in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Physical location:
Manuscripts stacks