<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<itemContainer xmlns="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5 http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5/omeka-xml-5-0.xsd" uri="https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1863-04-12&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CTitle&amp;sort_dir=a&amp;output=omeka-xml" accessDate="2026-03-15T21:23:30+00:00">
  <miscellaneousContainer>
    <pagination>
      <pageNumber>1</pageNumber>
      <perPage>50</perPage>
      <totalResults>2</totalResults>
    </pagination>
  </miscellaneousContainer>
  <item itemId="22529" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="29174">
        <src>https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/fcad1523c63cb60d623dec52ac418ed7.pdf</src>
        <authentication>6d8252afde13dff0e7f0c742c0c835df</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="299">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>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/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="293050">
                  <text>Fenwick Civil War Materials Collection, 1861-1865 (Ms2001-042)</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="49">
              <name>Subject</name>
              <description>The topic of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="293051">
                  <text>Civil War</text>
                </elementText>
                <elementText elementTextId="293052">
                  <text>United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="41">
              <name>Description</name>
              <description>An account of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="293053">
                  <text>This Fenwick Civil War Materials Collection is a small collection of American Civil War-related materials, containing the correspondence of John Newton Smith, a private in Company I, 13th Virginia Cavalry and the sketchbook of Charles Gulager, a private in Company A, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry. The materials were collected by Fenwick family members.</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="39">
              <name>Creator</name>
              <description>An entity primarily responsible for making the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="293054">
                  <text>Smith, John Newton, 1843-1863</text>
                </elementText>
                <elementText elementTextId="293055">
                  <text>Gulager, Charles, 1826-1898</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="48">
              <name>Source</name>
              <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="293056">
                  <text>&lt;a href="https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_2175.xml&amp;amp;chunk.id=&amp;amp;toc.depth=1&amp;amp;toc.id=&amp;amp;brand=default"&gt;See the finding aid for the Fenwick Civil War Materials Collection.&lt;/a&gt;</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="40">
              <name>Date</name>
              <description>A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="293057">
                  <text>1861-1865</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="47">
              <name>Rights</name>
              <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="293058">
                  <text>The items in this collection are protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use these items in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). &lt;a target="_blank" href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/?language=en" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/&lt;/a&gt;</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="44">
              <name>Language</name>
              <description>A language of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="293059">
                  <text>English</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="51">
              <name>Type</name>
              <description>The nature or genre of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="293060">
                  <text>Letters</text>
                </elementText>
                <elementText elementTextId="293061">
                  <text>Sketchbooks</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="43">
              <name>Identifier</name>
              <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="293062">
                  <text>Ms2001-042_</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="114">
              <name>Bibliographic Citation</name>
              <description>A bibliographic reference for the resource. Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible.</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="293063">
                  <text>Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Fenwick Civil War Materials Collection, Ms2001-042, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="125">
              <name>Rights Holder</name>
              <description>A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource.</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="293064">
                  <text>Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="1">
      <name>Document</name>
      <description>A resource containing textual data.  Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="129">
          <name>Viewer</name>
          <description>Select which type of viewer is needed for the files</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="296964">
              <text>PDF</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>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/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="43">
            <name>Identifier</name>
            <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="296891">
                <text>Ms2001-042_018</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="296892">
                <text>John Newton Smith to Sister, April 12, 1863</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="40">
            <name>Date</name>
            <description>A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="296893">
                <text>1863-04-12</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="41">
            <name>Description</name>
            <description>An account of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="296894">
                <text>Letter sent from John Newton Smith to his sister instructing her where to send her letters since he had moved camp,</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="51">
            <name>Type</name>
            <description>The nature or genre of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="296895">
                <text>Letters</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="104">
            <name>Is Part Of</name>
            <description>A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="296896">
                <text>Ms2001-042, Box 1, Folder 2</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="39">
            <name>Creator</name>
            <description>An entity primarily responsible for making the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="296897">
                <text>Smith, John Newton, 1843-1863</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="49">
            <name>Subject</name>
            <description>The topic of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="296898">
                <text>Civil War</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="48">
            <name>Source</name>
            <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="296900">
                <text>&lt;a href="https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_2175.xml&amp;amp;chunk.id=&amp;amp;toc.depth=1&amp;amp;toc.id=&amp;amp;brand=default" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;See the finding aid for the Fenwick Civil War Materials Collection&lt;/a&gt;</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="47">
            <name>Rights</name>
            <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="296901">
                <text>This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). &lt;a target="_blank" href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/?language=en" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/&lt;/a&gt;</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="114">
            <name>Bibliographic Citation</name>
            <description>A bibliographic reference for the resource. Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible.</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="296902">
                <text>Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Fenwick Civil War Materials Collection, Ms2001-042, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="44">
            <name>Language</name>
            <description>A language of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="296903">
                <text>English</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="125">
            <name>Rights Holder</name>
            <description>A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource.</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="296904">
                <text>Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="2786" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="4837">
        <src>https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/Allison_Family_Correspondence_1862-1864_[Ms2011-060]/Ms_2011_060_AllisonFamily_1863_0412/Ms_2011_060_AllisonFamily_1863_0412.jpg</src>
        <authentication>3ed403f3883dd4b676ca7c779353b89f</authentication>
        <elementSetContainer>
          <elementSet elementSetId="1">
            <name>Dublin Core</name>
            <description>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/.</description>
            <elementContainer>
              <element elementId="43">
                <name>Identifier</name>
                <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
                <elementTextContainer>
                  <elementText elementTextId="37782">
                    <text>Ms_2011_060_AllisonFamily_1863_0412</text>
                  </elementText>
                </elementTextContainer>
              </element>
              <element elementId="40">
                <name>Date</name>
                <description>A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource</description>
                <elementTextContainer>
                  <elementText elementTextId="37784">
                    <text>1863-04-12</text>
                  </elementText>
                </elementTextContainer>
              </element>
            </elementContainer>
          </elementSet>
          <elementSet elementSetId="7">
            <name>PDF Text</name>
            <description/>
            <elementContainer>
              <element elementId="126">
                <name>Text</name>
                <description/>
                <elementTextContainer>
                  <elementText elementTextId="37802">
                    <text>&lt;p&gt;I
certify that I have carefully&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;examined
Wm H. allison and find him&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;unable
to perform military duty on account&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;of
Disease of the liver I therefore recommend&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;an
extension of his furlough for seven (7)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;days&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Saltville
apr.12th 1863&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Jno.S.Pendleton
[John Strother Pendleton, M.D.]&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;apt
&amp;amp; actg. Surg. 63rd Va Regt&lt;/p&gt;</text>
                  </elementText>
                </elementTextContainer>
              </element>
            </elementContainer>
          </elementSet>
        </elementSetContainer>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="75">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>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/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="37682">
                  <text>Allison Family Correspondence, 1862-1864 (Ms2011-060)</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="49">
              <name>Subject</name>
              <description>The topic of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="37683">
                  <text>Civil War</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="41">
              <name>Description</name>
              <description>An account of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="37684">
                  <text>This collection contains four letters from members of the Allison family (John P and James Polk), as well as a surgeon's certificate for William H Allison. The letters include news from the war front, requests for money, and information about individual family members. Letters date from 1862 to 1864, and were written in Virginia and Georgia. One of the letters and the surgeon's certificate are photocopies of original materials.&#13;
James Polk Allison enlisted with Company K, 63rd Virginia Infantry on April 1, 1862. John P Allison enlisted with Company F on May 6, 1862. In August 1864 he transferred to Company K and was promoted to 1st Corporal. From February 1865 to June 1865 he was a P.O.W. and Point Lookout, Maryland. William H Allison enlisted with Company K on April 1, 1862.  He was killed in action at Chickamauga in September 1863. </text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="39">
              <name>Creator</name>
              <description>An entity primarily responsible for making the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="37685">
                  <text>Allison, James Polk, b. abt. 1843</text>
                </elementText>
                <elementText elementTextId="37686">
                  <text>Allison, John P</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="48">
              <name>Source</name>
              <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="37687">
                  <text>&lt;a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00904.xml"&gt;See the Finding aid for the Allison Family Correspondence&lt;/a&gt;</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="40">
              <name>Date</name>
              <description>A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="37688">
                  <text>1862/1864</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="47">
              <name>Rights</name>
              <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="37689">
                  <text>&lt;a href="https://omeka.lib.vt.edu/files/thumbnails/spec_forms/PubPermission.doc"&gt;Permission to publish material from the Allison Family Correspondence must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.&lt;/a&gt;</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="43">
              <name>Identifier</name>
              <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="37690">
                  <text>Ms2011-060</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="114">
              <name>Bibliographic Citation</name>
              <description>A bibliographic reference for the resource. Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible.</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="37691">
                  <text>Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Allison Family Correspondence, Ms2011-060, Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va.</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="125">
              <name>Rights Holder</name>
              <description>A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource.</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="37692">
                  <text>&lt;a href="http://spec.lib.vt.edu/"&gt;Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech&lt;/a&gt;</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="1">
      <name>Document</name>
      <description>A resource containing textual data.  Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.</description>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>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/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="37704">
                <text>Surgeon's Note for William H. Allison, Saltville, Va., April 12, 1863 (Ms2011-060)</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="49">
            <name>Subject</name>
            <description>The topic of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="37705">
                <text>Civil War</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="41">
            <name>Description</name>
            <description>An account of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="37706">
                <text>A surgeon's note written by John Strother Pendleton, M.D., surgeon to the 63rd Va. Regt., certifying that he has examined William H. Allison and found him unable to perform military duty due to "disease of the liver" and recommending he be granted a furlough of 7 days. </text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="39">
            <name>Creator</name>
            <description>An entity primarily responsible for making the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="37707">
                <text>Allison, William Henry</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="37708">
                <text>John Strother Pendleton, M.D.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="48">
            <name>Source</name>
            <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="37709">
                <text>&lt;a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00904.xml"&gt;See the Finding aid for the Allison Family Correspondence&lt;/a&gt;</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="40">
            <name>Date</name>
            <description>A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="37710">
                <text>1863-04-12</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="47">
            <name>Rights</name>
            <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="37711">
                <text>&lt;a href="https://omeka.lib.vt.edu/files/thumbnails/spec_forms/PubPermission.doc"&gt;Permission to publish material from the Allison Family Correspondence must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.&lt;/a&gt;</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="51">
            <name>Type</name>
            <description>The nature or genre of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="37712">
                <text>Certificates</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="43">
            <name>Identifier</name>
            <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="37713">
                <text>Ms_2011_060_AllisonFamily_1863_0412</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="114">
            <name>Bibliographic Citation</name>
            <description>A bibliographic reference for the resource. Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible.</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="37714">
                <text>Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Allison Family Correspondence, Ms2011-060, Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="125">
            <name>Rights Holder</name>
            <description>A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource.</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="37715">
                <text>&lt;a href="http://spec.lib.vt.edu/"&gt;Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech&lt;/a&gt;</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
</itemContainer>
