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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Primary Collecting Areas:
Local/regional history (Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Southwest Virginia, and Appalachian South); the American Civil War; Science and technology history (incl. aerospace, aeronautics, engineering, and speculative fiction); History of women in architecture (incl. the International Archive of Women in Architecture); Culinary history (incl. Virginia and southern cookery, children’s cookbooks and nutrition, food production and technology, and cocktail history); University Archives
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Start Over Repository Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Date range 1861

Caperton Family Papers 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Caperton family
Photocopied, typed transcripts of letters written by Mary Eliza Henderson Caperton to her husband George Henry, then serving in the Confederate Army, most written from Whitethorne, in Montgomery County, Virginia, between May and October, 1861, and concentrating on news of the Preston family, relatives, and mutual acquaintainces; fears of a slave rebellion; a fire at Whitethorne; and the deaths of Ann Barraud Taylor Preston and Col. James Francis Preston. Also includes typescript extracts from the diary of George H. Caperton.
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Carolina Rifles Coatee 3.1 Cubic Feet 1 box

This collection consists of a Caroline Rifles coatee possibly from c. 1861-1865. The coatee is a blue grey color and made of wool with a possibly quilted wool lining. The coatee has gold buttons with palmetto trees and "S.C." The back skirt is split in half with three buttons on each side and a black stripe under each button. On the sleeves there are three smaller buttons set on black strips that are scalloped on one side. Belt loops are present from the button flap. There is a metal numeral two pinned to the front of the black collar. The inside lining is marked "Carolina Rifles" and there is a pocket inside the jacket under the left arm. The coatee was possibly from the 1st South Carolina Rifle Regiment of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. The condition is fair with some stains, dirt, and moth holes. It was manufactured by Chestnut St., Philadelphia: Jacob Reed's Sons.
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Cases involving the Hopkins Brothers, Box 10, Folder 14

Missing Title
  1. Hopkins vs. John Smith—March 25, 1845; Baltimore
  2. Hopkins vs. Galloway—March 15, 1845; Baltimore
  3. Hopkins vs. Miller Bell—November 29, 1845; Baltimore
  4. Hopkins vs. Humphrey—December 16, 1845; Baltimore
  5. Hopkins vs. Taylor—1845; Baltimore
  6. Hopkins vs. Mc?—July 22, 1846; Baltimore
  7. Hopkins vs. MD Dirsh—December 19, 1846; Baltimore
  8. Hopkins letter—April 27, 1870; Waterford
  9. Hopkins letter—April 29, 1870; Baltimore
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  2. John Janney Papers,
  3. Correspondence,
  4. Court Cases,

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