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Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Arthur G. Sinclair Letters, Ms1992-034, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
The Arthur Sinclair Letters were purchased by Special Collections and University Libraries in 1992.
The processing and description of the Arthur Sinclair Letters commenced and was completed in October, 2023.
Arthur Sinclair was born in Norfolk, Virginia, November 29, 1819. According to his obituary, Sinclair entered the U. S. Navy as a midshipman at age 12. By 1861, Sinclair had reached the rank of commander; upon the outbreak of the Civil War, he resigned from the U. S. Navy and was appointed a commander in the Confederate States Navy later that year. The
This collection contains two letters questionably attributed to Arthur Sinclair, a commander in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. The two letters, both written at Richmond, Virginia, to a friend, focus largely on the writer's views of marriage and women, in anticipation of his own forthcoming wedding. In the first letter, written March 7, 1864, the correspondent also discusses his boats, "or as they are termed here my iron clads. I tell you they have seen a pretty rough time. This has been a very destructive campaign with them ... Applications come in occationally [sic] for the use of them[;] a young man expects to run the blockade soon, [and] says I must let him have them." In the second letter, dated February 24, 1864, the writer mentions a recent raid on Richmond by Union forces.
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