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Stewart, D. Boston.

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

D. Boston Stewart Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0470
Overview

David Boston Stewart (1826-1915), a farmer from Monongalia County, West Virginia, who served with the 48th Virginia Infantry and the 20th Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War and was a member of the Virginia Legislature from 1863 to 1864. Collection primarily consists of letters written to D.B. Stewart between 1862 and 1864 and between 1894 and 1906 that concern Stewart's time as a Confederate prisoner of war during the Civil War, and his personal life in the 1890s and early 1900s.

Dates: 1782-1919; Majority of material found within 1862-1906

William E. Brooks (1875-1960), Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0485
Overview Civil War materials collected by Dr. Brooks in writing his biographies of Grant and Lee. Included are pamphlets, scrapbooks, newspapers, photographs, and originals and copies of soldiers' letters, journals, and military reports. There are typed copies of a journal, 3 November-2 December 1863, of a civilian observer in Tennessee, who was at Grant's headquarters at the Battle of Chattanooga; letters, 1861-1864, of William Ludwig, a private in the Thirty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in...
Dates: ca. 1825-1944

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Beverly (W. Va.) 1
Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
Camp Chase (Ohio) 1
Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863 1
Civil War - OH 34th. Inf. 1