Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
George B. McClellan, Civil War Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2967
Overview
A microfilm copy of the McClellan Papers, Vols. 12-14, held by the Library of Congress. There are letters to and from Gen. McClelland and his staff headquartered in Cincinnati. Also there are Confederate letters presumably captured during McClellan's first campaign into western Virginia. The rebel correspondence is between A.J. Wilson at Grafton and his family of Franklin and also orders from Richmond to Col. George Porterfield. Porterfield mentions the difficulty of raising Confederate...
Dates:
1861 May 15-30
Lyman Stedman, Farmer and Politician, Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2042
Overview
Diary of Lyman Stedman (1824-1916), a farmer and former member of the House of Delegates, 1877, from Brown's Island, Hancock County. Entries concern farm operation, Republican political activities on the district and county level, comments on state and national organizations, floods on the Ohio River, steamboat and barge traffic, Hopedale School, Methodist Episcopal Church, railroad travel, circuses and fairs, taxes and land valuations, and Memorial Day.
Dates:
1880-1885
Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0394
Scope and Contents
Photostats of letters written by Lee:
April 20, 1861 letters to Winfield Scott and Lt. Roger Jones, resigning his commission and explaining that "Save in the defense of my native state, I never desire again to draw my sword;"
January 8, 1863 to Mrs. Sarah A. Lawton;
August 24, 1865 to the Board of Trustees of Washington College concerning his election to the presidency of that school;
January 27 and July 7, 1866 letters to Reverdy Johnson respecting the...
Dates:
1861-1867
R.S. Rudd (b.1846) Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1162
Overview
Diaries, accounts, and statistical records of a schoolteacher from Montgomery and Campbell counties, Virginia, and Monroe County, West Virginia. These records list the schools in which Rudd taught, the homes where he boarded, and his friends and acquaintances. The records also cover his employment with the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad at Central Depot, Virginia, and with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at Allegheny Station. The third volume is a guest register of the White Sulphur...
Dates:
1839-1912
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- Diaries and journals. 2
- Education 2
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Campbell County (Va.) 1
- Charleston. 1
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Civil War - Richmond, Virginia. 1
- Civil War -- Confederacy 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Floods 1
- Franklin (W. Va.) 1
- Grafton. 1
- Hancock County (W. Va.) 1
- Hotels 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Land. 1
- Memorial Day 1
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
- Montgomery County (Va.) 1
- Ohio River 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. 1
- Richmond (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Steamboats 1
- Taxation 1
- Teachers 1
- Tennessee 1
- Transportation 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Virginia -- Governors 1 + ∧ less
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