Box 4

Scope and Content From the Collection: The Papers of the Black, Kent, and Apperson Families of Blacksburg and Marion, Virginia, span the years 1779 to 1984, with the bulk of the material dating from 1821 to 1948. They are comprised of the Civil War letters of Dr. Harvey Black, the Civil War diaries of John Apperson, records and correspondence pertaining to nineteenth-century Blacksburg residents Edwin Amiss, his sister Arabella Amiss Kent, and her husband Germanicus Kent, cotton trader and Rockford, Illinois pioneer; and account...