Civil War

This collection consists of a Confederate pay and discharge certificate and short biography of David Harrison Gordon. He enlisted as a private in Company L of the Confederate Army's 4th Virginia Infantry on April 16, 1861, in Blacksburg, Virginia, and was discharged after his death due to disease at Staunton on April 18, 1862.

Letter written to mother with instructions to distribute photographs Gray recently had taken of himself.

This is a letter most likely written by Marshall F. Gravely in 1862 to his sister. He talks about army service, conditions, and social class.

The collection includes two letters by Peyton B. Gravely: one to a sister and another to a friend, written during 1863. Gravely served with the 42nd Regiment, Virginia Infantry. The letters includes details of a regimental review by Jefferson Davis, recent war news, comments on the latest from home, and his desire to join the navy.

The Jeremiah W. Graves Collection includes a cash book, correspondence, receipts and ledger pages, newspaper clippings, and genealogy materials relating to the personal and business activities of Captain Jeremiah White Graves (1801-1878), a farmer and financial advisor/real estate broker/slave broker in Cedar Hill, Pittsylvania County, Virginia,

Genealogical materials in the collection relate to the histories for branches of the Graves, Whitehead, Hunt, and Jones families.

The collection consists of a microfilm copy of Graves' extensive diary, and a typescript manuscript of selected transcribed passages from that diary. In his diary, Graves refers to working his farm, the sale of Negroes in the area, and his children's schooling. During the Civil War years Graves mentions the fighting and the war's end. After the war he comments that Negroes could vote while he could not.

Materials, including biographical sketches and speech texts, relating to William F. Graves, native of Pittsylvania County, Virginia and major in the 2nd Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War.

Soldier in Company C, 4th Ohio Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War. Letter to his brother, July 13-14, 1861, giving an account of his part in the Union advance on Beverly, Virginia (now West Virginia), and a report on the Battle of Rich Mountain.

The collection includes correspondence by Henry L. Gray, written primarily between 1863-1865. There are also some official documents from Gray's military activities.

Newspaper editor (most notably of the New York Tribune) and political leader. Best known for his famous phrase "Go west, young man." One page manuscript letter from Greeley, written February 10, 1865, to Reuben E. Fenton, U.S. Senator from New York. Greeley asks Fenton to consider Col. L.W. Boadly(?) for the post of Emmissary General of Ordnance, for the war effort.