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Stanford E. Chaillé Collection 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

Chaillé, Stanford E., 1830-1911
The collection consists of letters, government issued documents, printed material, and two photo albums of Dr. Stanford E. Chaillé, Confederate surgeon during the American Civil War and dean of Tulane University's medical school. Significant topics include the Union occupation of New Orleans, postwar elections, Dr. Chaillé's medical career, and Chaillé genealogy. Materials cover the period shortly before the Civil War to the early twentieth century, and deal mostly with New Orleans.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Stearns Family Papers 1.4 Cubic Feet 4 boxes

Stearns family (Mansfield, Massachusetts)
The Stearns Family Papers consist of photocopies of transcripts and originals of correspondence, diaries, official documents, writings, and other genealogical documents (1714-1920) of the Stearns family, primarily of Massachusetts.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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

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

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