Thomas Booth Correspondence,
Scope and Content Note
The Thomas Booth Correspondence contains one eight page letter datelined Yorktown 9 June 1861 and addressed to "My Little Darling." The letter contains brief descriptions of cavalry scouting activites and troop movement, reports from the battlefield, camp life, and the citizens on the homefront. Booth remarks that the Confederate scouts "laugh and talk about chasing the Yanks as I would about running a fox."
Dates
- Creation: 1861 - 1861
Creator
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish material from Thomas Booth Correspondence must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Biographical Note
Thomas Boisseau Booth, born 1840, was a private in the 3rd Virginia Cavalry. He was an 1860 graudate of VMI and enlisted in the 3rd Virginia Calvary in May 1861. He died July 29, 1923.
Full Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet (1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Thomas Booth Correspondence contains one eight page letter datelined Yorktown 9 June 1861. The letter contains brief descriptions of cavalry scouting activites, camp life, and the citizens on the homefront.
Arrangement
The Thomas Booth Correspondence is arranged in chronological order.
Acquisition Information
The Thomas Booth Correspondence was purchased by Special Collections in 2010.
Processing Information
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Thomas Booth Correspondence was completed in September 2010.
- Title
- A Guide to the Thomas Booth Correspondence, 1861
- Status
- Completed
- Subtitle
- A Collection in Speacial Collections
- Author
- Kimberly Staub
- Date
- ©2010 By Virginina Polytechnic Institute and State University. All rights reserved.
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections, Virginia Tech Repository
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308
specref@vt.edu