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Title A name given to the resource Nelson Family Papers, 1783-1872 (Ms1989-021) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ms1989-021 Subject The topic of the resource Civil War Local/Regional History and Appalachian South Description An account of the resource This collection consists of papers from the Nelson family of Clarke County, Virginia. The papers consist of correspondence among the family members, particularly between Hugh and Adelaide Nelson of Long Branch Plantation in Millwood and their daughter Nannie, as well as the Civil War letters between prisoner of war G. Washington "Wash" Nelson and Mollie Scollay of Shepardstown, Virginia. G. Washington Nelson was captured in 1863 and held at Johnson's Island, Ohio, Point Lookout, Maryland, and Fort Delaware, Delaware. Civil War papers also include muster rolls, one of them signed by J.E.B. Stuart, of Captain Hugh Nelson's company, the Clarke County, Company D., Sixth Cavalry Volunteers. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nelson family Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01279.xml" target="_blank">See the Finding Aid for the Nelson Family Papers</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1783/1872 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Permission to publish material from the Nelson Family Papers must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech. 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: Nelson Family Papers, Ms1989-021, Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ms1989_021_NelsonFamily_ToWashFromMolly_1865_0423 Title A name given to the resource April 23, 1865, Letter to Capt. G.W. Nelson (P.O.W.), from Mollie Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1865-04-23 Description An account of the resource Two letters in one Envelope, April 28, 1865 and April 23, 1865 Type The nature or genre of the resource Letters Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01279.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">See the Finding Aid for the Nelson Family Papers</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Permission to publish material from the Nelson Family Papers must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech. 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: Nelson Family Papers, Ms1989-021, Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. Subject The topic of the resource Civil War Local/Regional History and Appalachian South Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nelson family Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Va. archived https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/0404102e4d2cf827fb3650acff586467.jpg b057fc332d33b1aee61562319f683e75 PDF Text Text No 3 Park two miles from Burksville [Burkeville, VA] Apr 23 Dear Mother, I will again write you a few lines to let you know we are still laying in the same place, as when I last wrote, but I dont think we will stay here long for they are sending all the stuf away, I think we will go towards Washington before long. Our Col. is going to try + get our Regt home by the 12th of June and I guess he will for it is the oldest Mass Regt. in the field now. I think it will depend all on what Johnson does. they say he has Surrendered but I guess they dont know any thing Official about it. Any way you need not worry much about our haveing much fighting to do. It is to bad that 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/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1865-04-23 https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/f2dc6489df638980a51bbb3aa466ee28.jpg def2c96120d5c3472100a22a0ea38769 PDF Text Text the President is Killed. cant be helped. I am more uneasy about getting home now than I was before. seems as if I could not wait. I dont like to be laying in Camp, time drags so. Seven of us the other day got an old hand Car and put it on the track + went up to Rice Station about seven miles + back for the fun of it the Cars dont run between here + farmsville [Farmville, VA], they only altered the track up as Burke Station. the track is wider than our track. there is a Picket on now so we cant leave Camp. got the old hand Car up a steep bank about thirty feet, fun was it not. I hear the 9th Corps have gone to Washington. Would it not be nice to march through Boston what will the folks do North with all us Soldiers when we get home. wont be room for us will there. I ant a bit sorry I came, be you, I hant got much news to write dont get many papers write soon, does me good to get letters. Willie 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/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1865-04-23 https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/a24c81a22c2c36af2caa0071220c3b3f.jpg ed43e5e657b32b85c68ecb5c89fa418b PDF Text Text I wrote Mr. Walker a letter the other day. this makes seven letters I have wrote since we stoped here. How does Charleyhorse, the Cow, hens Willie Weaver + all the rest get along. Tell Nora it wont be many years before she will see her Big Brother. Give my love to all enquireing friends. I hope Mother you will get rid of that cold of 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/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1865-04-23 https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/70258bf336a4faa88704bd2bab2f772f.jpg f95a4f85e06b3566159da74e4f87fd62 PDF Text Text yours. Keep up good Spirits. it is all comeing out all right. when I come home can say we have whipd them. Good bye, From W. A. L. No 3 1865 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/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1865-04-23 https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/563ee70dac1eb4f0aff4daca581771ce.jpg 4907d622953593ca5234aac966e99079 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 William A. Leonard Papers, 1864-1865 (Ms2011-106) Subject The topic of the resource Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865 United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Diaries. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Civil War Petersburg (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. Description An account of the resource The collection includes William A. Leonard's letters home from February-July 1865, as well as his diary from August 1864-April 1865. Leonard served as an ambulance driver in and around the siege at Petersburg, which is the focus of his short diary entries. His early letters focus on war news and rumors, daily life, and news from home. Letters following Lee's surrender emphasize Leonard's experiences while stationed around Washington, DC, daily life (including the growing frustrations of soldiers wanting to get home) and his complaint's about the rumors and delays of his regiment's discharge and payment. All the letters in this collection were written home to Leonard's parents, usually his mother. He continually reassures her not to worry about him, requests various things from home (especially stamps), and talks about his daily life. He frequently writes about plans for when he gets home. Leonard's religious sentiments also recur throughout his correspondence. He also includes war news and who he has seen, though he reveals his priorities and lack of interest in being a soldier, saying in March 1865: "we have got a good man to steer the machine, that fellow they call U. S. Grant. Sheridan & Sherman are giving them fits. I have seen Grant & Mede a number of times this summer I had a great deal rather see you + Pa. I dont want to see Nora because she wanted me to go soldiering" Although battle descriptions are not necessarily the focus of Leonard's letters, his 1864 correspondence contains details of being fired upon a Petersburg, of picket duty, and later, of transporting injured men. In June 1865, he writes several letters detailing the sight of unburied dead men and horses and the sound of fighting from the front at Petersburg. In May 1865, he writes of the incompetence of the doctors: "The Doctors here dont have any thing fit to give any one and the bigest of them dont know how to doctor a hen anyway. They take the wounded men legs and arms off half the time. when there is no need of it, do it practice there has been a number of times I have heard of that...The Doct of the Regt was a clerk in an apothecary shop..." Leonard's diary begins in August 1864, apparently when he was appointed to drive an ambulance. His entries are short and refer mostly to his daily activities: who or what he was conveying to and from the hospital at City Point outside Petersburg; what letters he sent or received; war news; or when he attended religious meetings. Shortly before the diary ends in April 1865, he notes the firing of guns and cannons "for the death of abram Lincoln President of the U.S. who was shot by a man by the name of Booth." He refers to the death of Lincoln and its effect on the soldiers in several letters, as well. Leonard's own correspondence suggests he kept a previous diary--in August 1864, he inquires if his mother has received the one he sent home--but it is unknown if this diary still exists. William A. Leonard was born about 1843 to Joel A. (b.1817) and Sophia Leonard (1816-d. before 1880). His parents were both natives of Vermont who moved to Massachusetts. William and his two sisters, Leonora (b. abt. 1852; and who William calls "Nora" in his letters and is later listed as "Mary" in a least one set of census records) and Roselia (b. abt. 1859) were all born in Great Barrington, Berkshire County. It is unknown what line of work William Leonard was in prior to the war, though he was living at home with his family. He was drafted into service in July 1863 for a three year term with Company F, 16th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry. In mid-July 1864, the 16th Infantry mustered out. Existing veterans and recruits, Leonard included, were transferred to the 11th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry. From at least August of 1864 until Lee's surrender, Leonard served as an ambulance driver, transporting wounded from battlefield to hospital. His unit spent nearly a year in and around Petersburg. While stationed outside Washington, DC, waiting to muster out, Leonard also drove civilians in and around the city. He particularly makes mention of taking family members to hospitals to get news of soldiers. Leonard returned home to Great Barrington in July 1865. In 1880, he was living at home with his father, Leonora and her husband, and Leonora's brother-in-law. At the time, he was employed at a woolen mill. In 1894, he purchased a plumbing and steam fitting business from a former employer. Later census records suggest he was married to a woman named Hattie (probably Henrietta; b. abt. 1863), but it is unknown when. They had daughter, Nellie, in June 1897. Sources: Ancestry.com Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, National Park Service. The Metal Worker, vol. XLI, January to June 1894. New York: David Williams, 1894. Via Google Books, November 2011. Abstract A summary of the resource. The collection includes William A. Leonard's letters home from February-July 1865, as well as his diary from August 1864-April 1865. Leonard served as an ambulance driver in and around the siege at Petersburg, which is the focus of his short diary entries. His early letters focus on war news and rumors, daily life, and news from home. Post-surrender letters emphasize Leonard's experiences while stationed around Washington, DC, daily life (including the growing frustrations of soldiers wanting to get home) and his complaint's about the rumors and delays of his regiment's discharge. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Leonard, William A., b. abt. 1843 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00953.xml">See the Finding Aid for the William A. Leonard Papers</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1864/1865 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 William A. Leonard Papers must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ms2011-106 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: William A. Leonard Papers, Ms2011-106, 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, Virginia Tech</a> 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, William Leonard to Mother, Near Burkeville Va., April 23, 1865 (Ms2011-106) Subject The topic of the resource Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865 United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Civil War 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: William A. Leonard Papers, Ms2011-106, Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00953.xml">See the Finding Aid for the William A. Leonard Papers</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1865-04-23 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 William A. Leonard Papers must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Letters Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Leonard, William A., b. abt. 1843 Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. <a href="http://spec.lib.vt.edu/">Special Collections, Virginia Tech</a> Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ms2011-106_LeonardWilliam_B1F2_Letter_1865_0423 archived