Rockbridge County (Va.)

Scope and Content Confederate soldier in the 1st Rockbridge Artillery in the Civil War; later a Presbyterian minister in Rockbridge County, Virginia, and a high school principal. Papers include four letters, written July 5 and September 18, 1864, from camp near Petersburg, Virginia, to his future wife. Writes about the chaplaincy in the CSA Army, sitting with a dying man in his last hours, the freedom he had before the war, and news from the front in Mobile, Alabama. Refers to the shelling of Petersburg and...

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The collection consists of a letter from Joseph G. Dill to Daniel C. E. Brady, written from Richmond, Virginia, on May 30, 1862. Dill writes Brady on a variety of topics including recent war news, the challenges of sending mail through conflict zones, a recent fishing party, the warther, and the price of goods.

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Correspondence and financial/ legal papers of the Alexander McNutt Glasgow family of Rockbridge County, Virginia.

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Confederate major in the Civil War. Letter, April 6, 1863, from Paxton in Salem, Virginia, to Major William McLaughlin suggesting he consider being a candidate for the Confederate State Senate from Lexington and Rockbridge, Virginia.

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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.