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Stephen R. Kelsey Diary and Notes 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Kelsey, Stephen R.
Diary maintained by Stephen R. Kelsey between January and May, 1865, while in New York and Virginia with Battery I, 5th U. S. Artillery, during the American Civil War, with entries discussing the occupation of Petersburg, Virginia, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the capture of Jefferson Davis. Accompanied by a typescript biographical essay by Ernest Flint Kelsey, Stephen Kelsey's nephew, commenting on his uncle's military service.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Strawn Family Papers 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Strawn family
Papers (consisting largely of correspondence) of the extended Strawn and Bumbarger families of Madison County, Iowa, with letters written from Iowa, Colorado, Kansas, and Wyoming.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Sturtevant Family Letters 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

Sturtevant family (Illinois)
There are 145-pages worth of letters from the Sturtevant family in this collection ranging from 1858-1884. Most of the letters include information about family births and deaths, illnesses and daily happenings. The letters that were written during the American Civil War also contain information on the members of the Sturtevant family in the Union Army. Family members include Ann Maria Sturtevant and Owen Sturtevant. Content Warning: Some letters from the collection include racist language and references to slavery.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Sutton-Martin-Mason Family Papers 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

Sutton family (Pulaski County, Va.)
This collection consists of the papers of a Pulaski County, Virginia family, largely consisting of letters received by Rachel Louisa Sutton (later married to David H. Martin) from friends and family during the 1860s. Also contains deeds, family financial records, poetry, photographs and assorted ephemera. A small collection of materials belonging to the Martins' granddaughter, Elinor Mason, completes the collection.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Thomas Morris Burns Letters 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

Burns, Thomas Morris
Letters written to family members by Thomas Morris Burns of Richmond, Ohio, a private in Company G, 52nd Ohio Infantry during the American Civil War. Also contains two photographs of Burns and a letter from John B. McCarel, also of the 52nd Ohio, to Burns' father.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Thomas Robinson Sharp Papers 0.5 Cubic Feet 1 box

Sharp, Thomas Robinson, 1834-1909
This collection consists of journals, notebooks, scrapbooks, and letter copy books of Thomas Robinson Sharp, a Confederate military railroad superintendent during the American Civil War and colonel and official of several railroad companies in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Thomas W. Colley Collection, 1.3 Cubic Feet 3 boxes

Colley, Thomas W., 1837-1919
The Thomas W. Colley Collection contains correspondence, financial documents, such as ledgers, receipts, and deeds, temperance society sermons, electoral cards, a Veteran's Meeting minute book, Civil War reminiscences, and a roll for the First Virginia Company D Volunteer Cavalry's wounded and dead for 1861. The majority of the collection dates from 1860 to 1920.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Turner Family Papers 0.6 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

The Turner Family Papers consists of multiple sets of correspondence to members of generations of the extended Turner family written between 1830 and 1944. The bulk of the collection is letters between Lexie Fox and his wife, Bessie, written during World War I.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tyler-Ellis-Marye Family Collection 0.3 Cubic Feet 1 box; 1 oversize folder

Marye, Madison E. (Madison Ellis), 1925-2016
The Tyler-Ellis-Marye Family Collection contains the family papers of President John Tyler, his second wife, Julia Gardiner Tyler, and descendants, mostly through the couple's daughter, Pearl Tyler Ellis. The collection includes letters written to the Tylers from family and friends; a letter written by the Tyler's son, David G. Tyler; an autograph book used at the 1868 Democratic National Convention; a published memorial to Mary L'Hommedieu Gardiner Horsford; photographs of Pearl Tyler Ellis; Ellis and Marye family-related newspaper clippings; photographs and American Civil War prisoner parole of Confederate Major William Gordon Anderson.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Dr. Harvy Black Chapter Records 4.4 Cubic Feet 7 boxes and 1 oversize folder

United Daughters of the Confederacy. Dr. Harvy Black Chapter (1896-2009) (Blacksburg, Va.)
This collection contains the records of Dr. Harvy Black Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy. It contains files devoted to local Confederate veterans, as well as chapter financial records, minute books, membership records, printed materials and scrapbooks.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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