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Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 2001 Special Collections Department Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Descriptive Summary Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Zirkle Family Papers 1855, 1961 10878 There are 3 items in this collection. English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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 Preferred Citation

Zirkle Family Papers, 1855, 1961, Accession #10878, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

 Acquisition Information

These copies were given to the Library by Mrs. Robert Henry of Indian Trail, North Carolina, on October 19, 1989.

 Scope and Content Information

This collection consists of electrostatic copies of two newclippings (1961 and undated) and a letter from John G. Zirkle, White Hall, New Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia, to his brother Benjamin Zirkle, Jefferson County, Tennessee, February 9, 1855.

In his letter, John G. Zirkle discusses family health, visits from friends, their difficulties with the Manassas Gap Railroad Company who exercised eminent domain and located their railroad tracks across the family farm splitting it in two without adequate compensation, and the shortage of grain due to the earlier drought.

One of the newsclippings concerns the sixty-fifth wedding anniversary of Mollie Bozman and Walter L. Allen of Wylie, Collin County, Texas, married in 1896. The other newsclipping includes an interview with Charles F. Allen (1840-1907) of Wylie, Collin County, Texas, a Confederate veteran born near Lazy Springs, Rockingham County, Virginia, and his obituary.

Charles F. Allen enlisted in Company C, 3rd Tennessee Regiment, under Colonel John C. [Vaughn ?] and fought at First and Second Manassas, Winchester, Seven Pines, Battle of the Wilderness and Chancellorsville.