Local/Regional History and Appalachian South

Subject

Subject Source: Local sources

Scope Note: Use this for collections relating to Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Southwest Virginia, West Virginia, and Appalachia.

Found in 1734 Collections and/or Records:

West Virginia Civil War Correspondence

Collection — Folder 1

Identifier: Ms-1989-006

Scope and Content

Two letters on one sheet from two girls in Western Virginia (now West Virginia) to their aunt. They write of war on the home front and the destruction caused by the Yankee soldiers to their farms.

Dates: 1861 - 1861

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

Western Lunatic Asylum [Staunton, Virginia] Collection

Collection

Identifier: Ms-2016-021

Abstract

The Western Lunatic Asylum Collection includes correspondence and a final year report relating to the Western Lunatic Asylum in Staunton, Virginia, dating from 1841 to 1903.

Dates: 1841 - 1903

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

F. N. Whaley Letter

Collection — Folder 1

Identifier: Ms-1992-007

Scope and Content

Student at the Union Theological Seminary in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Letter written on May 13, 1847, to his friend James H. Orbison encouraging him to attend the seminary and suggesting they meet at Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County, Virginia.

Dates: 1847 - 1847

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

Whisner Memorial Methodist Church Records,

Collection

Identifier: Ms-1964-003

Abstract

Collection consists of records generated by the Methodist Church located in Blacksburg, Virginia from 1857 through 1975.

Dates: 1857 - 1975

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

Isaac White Letters

Collection

Identifier: Ms-1997-013

Scope and Content Information The Isaac White papers consist of letters written mostly by White to his wife, Mary Virginia Day White, while he served with the Confederate Army as an assistant surgeon during the Civil War. He refers to her as Jinnie in the letters. Many of the letters are written while encamped along the Shenandoah Valley. Other papers include literature gathered by Bess Duvall White Snead, Isaac White's grand-daughter, in her search for military information about Isaac White. The "Contents...

Dates: 1861 - 1938

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech