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Civil War

 Subject

Subject Source: Local sources

Scope Note: Use this heading for collections related to the American Civil War, including materials created after 1865 that have significant Civil War content. Also use the LCSH heading: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Found in 1309 Collections and/or Records:

Civil War Letters of Andrew Jackson Richardson,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-031
Abstract

Civil War Letters of Andrew Jackson Richardson is a bound compilation of correspondence, transcripts, and miscellaneous documents about Andrew Jackson Richarson's Civil War-era letters written to his unnamed wife.

Dates: 1861 - 1863

James B. Richmond Poetry Book,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-051
Abstract

Book of poetry and prose by James B. Richmond (1842-1910), who was a politician, lawyer, judge, and banker from southwest Virginia.

Dates: 1873 - 1883

George W. Ringlar Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-070
Abstract

Letter from Vermont native, living with a Virginia farming family during the Civil War, relating his attempt to join the army, unsuccessful due to illness. Also provides a contrasting description between the farms of Vermont and Virginia, instructs his father in handling his affairs during his absence, and denigrates newspapers as "liars by liars."

Dates: ca.1862

Joab Roberson Letter,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1976-005
Abstract

Photocopy of a letter from Joab Roberson, a private in Company I, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War, written from Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, to his wife, Nan.

Dates: 1862 - 1862

Robert B. Secrist Letters, 1862-1864 (Ms1991-010)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1991-010
Dates: 1862 - 1864

Robert E. Lee, Bust

 Collection
Identifier: Art-183
Scope and Contents

part of Billings collection?



Dates: n.d.

Robert E. Lee Collection, 1866-1870 (Ms2002-044)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2002-044
Dates: 1866 - 1870

Robert E. Lee Portrait

 Collection
Identifier: Art-218
Scope and Contents

Sold by the authority of the Lee Foundation for the purpose of erecting a monument at the tomb of Gen. L. Robert Jackson at Washington and Lee, Lexington, Va

Dates: n.d.

Robert E. Lee, Portrait

 Collection
Identifier: Art-137
Scope and Contents

VTF 3095

Dates: c.1880s

Robert E. Lee Speech, 1865 (Ms1964-005)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1964-005
Dates: 1865