1 50 1 https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/2784/Ms2012_014_DerrickClarenceLetter_1865_0617a.jpg 1d159a6c427909eb653983c11f48f01c https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/2784/Ms2012_014_DerrickClarenceLetter_1865_0617b.jpg 2b5b6571db17d0b383ec1ce89795271f https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/2784/Ms2012_014_DerrickClarenceLetter_1865_0617_transcript.jpg 5e3b100ed286f4eb353b71b17d607ef4 https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/2784/Ms2012_014_DerrickClarenceLetter_ServiceRecord.jpg 6f57ec70efab6ae2a68e717992df9152 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The American Civil War Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context AmericanCivilWar Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter, Clarence Derrick to President Andrew Johnson, Fort Delaware, June 17, 1865 (Ms2012-014) Subject The topic of the resource Civil War United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Description An account of the resource The collection consists of a single letter from Lt. Colonel Clarence Derrick (1837-1907), 23rd Battalion, Virginia Infantry, to President Andrew Johnson (which Derrick misspells as "Johnston"), dated June 17, 1865. Derrick writes to petition his release from Fort Delaware, following the end of the war and his signing the amnesty oath. Derrick was released on June 24, 1865, though whether because of the petition or not is unknown. The letter was forwarded on Derrick's behalf to President Johnson by Brigadier General Albin Schoepf, commander of Fort Delaware. Clarence Derrick was born in Washington, DC, in September 1837. He attended the U.S. Military Academy from 1857 to 1861, graduated in June 1861, and was promoted briefly into the U.S. Army. He resigned his Corps of Engineers commission and was dismissed in July 1861. He enlisted in the Confederate Army almost immediately. He worked as General John Floyd's adjutant with the 51st Regiment, Virginia Infantry. The regiment was later reorganized as the 23rd Battalion, Virginia Infantry. Derrick was a Lieutenant Colonel and in command of the battalion by April 1862. He was captured at Winchester, September 1864 and released from Fort Delaware June 1865. Following the war, he was a lawyer (and possibly a professor of mathematics) in Marion, Alabama. He continued to practice law in Greensboro, Alabama, and eventually established a cotton plantation. By 1880, he was livingin Greensboro with his first wife's (Fannie Peay) family. After 1900, he appears to have retired to Pennsylvania. He died in 1907, while on a visit to Greensboro, survived by his third wife, Alice Paschall Darlington Derrick. He did not have any children. Sources: Ancestry.com Scott, J. L. 1991. 23rd Battalion Virginia Infantry. Lynchburg, VA: H. E. Howard. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Derrick, Clarence, 1837-1907 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01008.xml" target="_blank">See the Finding aid for the Clarence Derrick Letter</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1865-06-17 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.vt.edu/files/thumbnails/spec_forms/PubPermission.doc">Permission to publish material from the [collection name] must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Letters Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ms2012_014_DerrickClarenceLetter Bibliographic Citation A bibliographic reference for the resource. Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible. Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Clarence Derrick Letter, Ms2012-014, Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va. Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. <a href="http://spec.lib.vt.edu/">Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech</a> archived