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A., Jim - Aylett Family Papers
A., Jim, Letters, 1864. 2 items. Photocopies. Mss2A1b. This collection contains photocopies of two letters home from a member of the 30th Virginia...
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Abner - Aylett
[Abner, C?], letter, 1859. 1 p. Mss2Ab722a1.Written at Charleston, S.C., to E. Kingsland, this letter of 18 November 1859 describes a visit to the...
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About the Environmental History Resources Guide Project
Unlike previous guides focused on significant portions of the Virginia Historical Society’s manuscripts collections, this finding aid was envisioned...
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Acknowledgements
An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia is a signature program of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American
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Acree, Sallie Ann – Avary, Myrta Lockett
Acree, Sallie Ann, Scrapbook, 1868–1885. 1 volume. Mss5:7Ac764:1.Sallie Anne Acree (1837–1873) kept this scrapbook while living at Forest Home in...
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Aftermath
"From the political point of view, the murder of John Brown . . . would impart to the Union a creeping fissure that at the
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An Eyewitness Account of Stonewall Jackson's Wounding
On the second day of the battle of Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia experienced its
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Appendix: African American Family Records
The following is a supplementary list of African American birth, death, and marriage records in the holdings of the Virginia Historical Society...
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Bachtel, Jacob – Byrd Family
Bachtel, Jacob, Marriage register, 1857–1862. 14 pp. Mss2B1257a1. Includes signed copies of certificates of marriage solemnized by Jacob Bachtel (1812...
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Backus - Byrd
Backus family papers, 1757–1807. 7 items. Mss2B1286b. Photocopies.Include advertisements, indentures, and receipts concerning the purchase and sale of...
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Bacon, John Lyddall - Byrd, Samuel Master Hankins
Bacon, John Lyddall, Letter, 1865. 1 item. Photocopy. Mss2B1346a1. A letter, 4 April 1865, from John Lyddall Bacon (1812–1887) of Richmond, describing...
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Before the War
Born into a Virginia family whose members had for generations assumed public leadership roles, Robert E. Lee followed the
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Beginnings of Black Education
Few black Virginians received a formal education until public schools were widely established during Reconstruction. Public
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Broadsides Pertaining to Women
Updated 2016 1615 : 2 o.s. A declaration for the certaine time of drawing the great standing lottery ... Indian woman depicted in drawing 1620 : 1 o.s...
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Brown I and Brown II
In 1950 the NAACP decided that it would no longer file lawsuits seeking equal educational facilities, but only those that
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Byrd Family
A man driven by enormous ambition, William Byrd II of Westover was an exceptional figure in colonial America. Educated in
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Cabell - Cyrus
Cabell, Abraham Joseph (1800–1831), papers, 1824–1834. 22 items. Mss2C1111b.Primarily, the papers of a planter of Jefferson County, Fla. Collection...
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Cabell Family – Currie, Lydia G. Hinckley
Cabell Family Papers, 1808–1935. ca. 1,500 items. Mss1C1118cFA2.Chiefly correspondence, financial, legal, and miscellaneous papers of the Cabell...
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Cabell Family Papers - Cuthbert, C. A.
Cabell Family Papers, 1774–1941. 886 items. Mss1C1118a. Microfilm reels C543–545.This collection contains the papers of members of the Cabell family...
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