Collections : [University of Richmond]

University of Richmond

Rare Books and Special Collections
Boatwright Library
University of Richmond
28 Westhampton Way
Richmond, VA 23173
Primary Collecting Areas:
The University of Richmond's collections are eclectic and wide-ranging, but areas of particular strength include: Richmond and Virginia history; the Civil War; historic children's literature, civil rights, and the history of the book. Also included are collections related to the history of the University of Richmond, including student, faculty, staff, and alumni materials.
Description:
The University of Richmond's collections are eclectic and wide-ranging, but areas of particular strength include: Richmond and Virginia history; the Civil War; historic children's literature, civil rights, and the history of the book. Also included are collections related to the history of the University of Richmond, including student, faculty, staff, and alumni materials.
POC: Lynda Kachurek
Phone: (804) 289-8458
Fax: (804) 287-1840
Start Over Repository University of Richmond Subjects Journals (Diaries)
University of Richmond

Commander Horace Elmer Collection

1 Linear Feet 2 archival boxes.
This collection includes journals, scrapbooks, and photographs belonging to U. S. Naval Commander Horace Elmer (1846-98). He was an important naval figure who sailed on the USS Hartford's Asiatic mission, but significantly, the Monitor. This collection illustrates, through personal documentation, the experience of life at sea but also Elmer's immense skill and expertise in the US Navy in both mechanical and practical aspects. Information concerning his daughter, Edith Elmer Wood, a prominent progressive housing reformer, is also contained in the collection.
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Commander Horace Elmer Collection 1 Linear Feet 2 archival boxes.

Horace, Elmer, Commander, 1846-1898
This collection includes journals, scrapbooks, and photographs belonging to U. S. Naval Commander Horace Elmer (1846-98). He was an important naval figure who sailed on the USS Hartford's Asiatic mission, but significantly, the Monitor. This collection illustrates, through personal documentation, the experience of life at sea but also Elmer's immense skill and expertise in the US Navy in both mechanical and practical aspects. Information concerning his daughter, Edith Elmer Wood, a prominent progressive housing reformer, is also contained in the collection.
University of Richmond

Edward E. Reavely Journal, USS Chester

1 Volumes
This collection contains a journal written by Edward E. Reavley during his time on the USS Chester during World War I while serving in the Navy
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Edward E. Reavely Journal, USS Chester 1 Volumes

This collection contains a journal written by Edward E. Reavley during his time on the USS Chester during World War I while serving in the Navy
University of Richmond

Lt. Henry S. Kinsey Collection

.5 Linear Feet
Henry S. Kinsey was the Lieutenant of Company H of the 7th Iowa Veteran's Volunteer Infantry which fought for the Union during the Civil War. This collection contains the personal diary of Lt. Kinsey from 1864 depicting his and his infantry's experience. Most notably, his diary depicts General Sherman's successful campaign to take control of Atlanta. In addition to various written orders, this collection also contains Lt. Kinsey's records for clothing, equipment, arms, and ammunition from the 4th quarter of 1864 to July 1865 as the Company marched in Sherman's Savannah campaign and from there to Washington, D.C and back to Iowa once the war ended. Also documenting the end of the war are the company's muster-out rolls, a casualty summary, and records for a fund established and donated by the company to Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, for the education of children of wounded and deceased soldiers.
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Lt. Henry S. Kinsey Collection .5 Linear Feet

Kinsey, Henry S., Lt., 1836-1886
Henry S. Kinsey was the Lieutenant of Company H of the 7th Iowa Veteran's Volunteer Infantry which fought for the Union during the Civil War. This collection contains the personal diary of Lt. Kinsey from 1864 depicting his and his infantry's experience. Most notably, his diary depicts General Sherman's successful campaign to take control of Atlanta. In addition to various written orders, this collection also contains Lt. Kinsey's records for clothing, equipment, arms, and ammunition from the 4th quarter of 1864 to July 1865 as the Company marched in Sherman's Savannah campaign and from there to Washington, D.C and back to Iowa once the war ended. Also documenting the end of the war are the company's muster-out rolls, a casualty summary, and records for a fund established and donated by the company to Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, for the education of children of wounded and deceased soldiers.

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