Letter, William Leonard to Mother, Camp Near Washington, July 4-6, 1865 (Ms2011-106)
Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865
Civil War
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Leonard, William A., b. abt. 1843
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English
Letters
Letter, William Leonard to Mother, Camp Near Washington, July 7, 1865 (Ms2011-106)
Letter, William Leonard to Mother, Camp Near Washington, July 9, 1865 (Ms2011-106)
Letter, William Leonard to Mother, Camp Near Washington, July 12, 1865 (Ms2011-106)
Letter, William Leonard to Mother, Camp Near Readville Ma., July 18, 1865 (Ms2011-106)
Letter, William Leonard to Mother, Camp Near Readville Ma., July 21, 1865 (Ms2011-106)
Diary, William Leonard, August 17, 1864 to April 30, 1865 (Ms2011-106)
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."
Diaries
Letter, William Vinson to Wife and Children, Richmond Va., January 28, 1854 (Ms2008-048)
Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
This collection contains a letter written by Virginia House of Delegates member William Vinson to his wife and children in Wayne County, (West) Virginia. After noting his homesickness, Vinson proceeds to write of the possibility of the general assembly session being extended, then makes note of health conditions in the Richmond area ("the has bin Right smart feever in this plase and small pox...") and describes his personal health. Addressing his son, Richard, Vinson extols at length the value of a good education. He then expresses delight at recent news about the birth of his new son ("Jane after i heard that you had that Whig Boy i enlisted my frends to come to my Room that Nite and that it was my treat..."). Vinson makes some mention of his own endeavors in the general assembly on behalf of his constituents, including his attempts to get a mail route and road up the Tug Fork River and a road up Twelve Pole Creek. Vinson concludes by noting that he has won more than $100 and an expensive pen and pencil set through local lotteries. William Vinson, son of James Vinson and Rhoda Sperry, was born about 1819 in Lawrence County, Kentucky. He married Jane Chambers, of Wyoming County, (West) Virginia in September 1835. The couple lived in Wayne County for some time and had several children. Vinson served in the Virginia House of Delegates for one session (1853-1854). One source indicates that he served as a captain in the 14th Kentucky Infantry, though no further record of his service could be found. Vinson died in 1883 in Lawrence County, Kentucky.
Vinson, William
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Letter, Everett Hutchins to Sister, Lookout Valley Tn., January 3, 1864 (Ms2009-014)
Letter from Everett Hutchins to his sister, written January 3, 1864 at Lookout Valley, Tennessee. Everett discusses winter quarters, the regiment's recent march to Knoxville and back, and various family members.
Hutchins, Everett
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Letter, Everett Hutchins to Sister, Lookout Valley Tn., April 3, 1864 (Ms2009-014)
Letter from Everett Hutchins to his sister, written on April 3, [1864], at Lookout Valley Tennessee. Everett discusses at length brother Warren's term of military service, expressing the opinion that Warren will have to serve out his three-year enlistment regardless of when his battery's term of enlistment ends.
Letter, 'B' (Sunny Manse) to 'Pa & Ma,' January 3, 1868 (Ms2010-060)
Bosworth family, Randolph County, Va. (now WV)
Bosworth, Squire, Dr.
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Letter, Isaac Cox to Wife, Taswill (Tazewell) County Va., June 29, 1862 (Ms2012-071)
Tazewell County (Va.)
A letter from Isaac Cox to his wife (probably in Saltville), written in Tazewell County, Virginia, June 29, 1862. Cox writes of marching to Princeton (West Virginia) and back in recent days, as well as news of "Bill." The paper on which the letter was composed includes detailed cutouts in a folk art style and came to Special Collections backed on blue cloth. Isaac C. Cox (1843-1925) enlisted as private in the 29th Virginia at Saltville, Va., on April 3, 1862. He was promoted corporal during the war. The 29th fought primarily in Western Virginia and Kentucky during their service until they joined the Army of Northern Virginia at Cold Harbor and Bermuda Hundred in May 1864. He and his wife, Charlotte Newman Cox (1834-1911), lived in Carroll County, Virginia after the war. They had five children, two of whom where born during the war. The couple are now buried in Newman Cemetery, Riverhill, Virginia.
Cox, Isaac Carroll, 1843-1925
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Land Survey, Montgomery County, Virginia, 1784 (Ms2011-023)
Montgomery County (Va.)
The collection consists of a manuscript map survey of land in Montgomery County, Virginia, belonging to Philadelphia merchant Levi Hollingsworth. The acreage, divided into thirty-two tracts of one thousand acres each, is situated on the Guyandotte River, a tributary of the Ohio, in present day West Virginia. The surveyor, Dorsey Pentecost, attests to the agreeable location of the land, which he says is in a fertile area, abundant in game, well-timbered, and producing crops of tobacco, among others. He also notes that Mr. Hollingsworth's land is 'situated near the extensive and fertile settlement of Caintucky.' The map is of Montgomery County as is was in 1784, not the modern-day Montgomery County. Levi Hollingsworth, the youngest son of Zebulon Hollingsworth and Anne Maulden, was born in 1739 in Head of Elk, MD. The family, settled into Philadelphia, establishing themselves as a wealthy family of landholders in Maryland and Delaware. Levi became a merchant at the age of eighteen, building one of the most successful merchantile firms in Philadelphia. He specialized in the sell of grains, whiskey and flour. Levi Hollingsworth's death in 1824 coincided with the decline of Philadelphia as the center for the flour industry. Levi Hollingsworth was a resolute patriot throughout the Revolution, serving under George Washington as the first quartermaster of the Light Horse of the City of Philadelphia and participating in the battles of Princeton and Trenton. Marrying Hannah Paschall, daughter of a business partner, in 1768. They had eight children: Stephen Paschall, Lydia, Paschall, Margaret, Mary, Sarah, Henry, and Stephen. The surveyor, Dorsey Pentecost was one of the leading citizens in southwestern Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary period . He is first listed in Frederick County, Virginia in 1768. In 1769, he acquired land in Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County, and likely moved there with his wife, Catherine Beeler, soon after their 1770 marriage. In 1777, he moved to what is now Linden, North Strabane Township, Washington County. He represented Washington County in the Supreme Executive Council from 1781-1783, and was a judge from 1783-1786. Pentecost's name appears in many civil and military records. He was involved in land transactions from Illinois to Virginia. A full account of his life is given in Mary A. F. Diener's The Honorable Dorsey Pentecost, Esquire (Fresno, Calif: Pioneer Pub. Co., 1978). She was unable to find data on Pentecost's death. Best evidence is that he died in Kentucky in the spring of 1793. In the 1790 census Pentecost was living in (North) Strabane Township. On November 4, 1790, the sheriff sold his farm to Levi Hollingsworth, Pentecost's land partner. When the 1793 tax list was made about December 1792, he was taxed for 1500 acres, 4 horses, 2 cows. The last of many civil actions involving Dorsey Pentecost is dated March 1793, when his attorney appeared for him.
Pentecost, Dorsey, Surveyor
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1784
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Maps
Manuscript Book, How to Cook a Husband, c.1880 (Ms2010-079)
History of Food and Drink
The collection contains a single hand-made ribbon-bound manuscript entitled, A Novel Recipe “How to Cook a Husband.” The book’s recipe instructs newlywed women on how to treat their husbands well with metaphors that compare wifely duties and cooking. It starts off with the lines, “A good many husbands are utterly spoiled by mismanagement in cooking and are so not tender and good.” Although the creator of the original story is unknown, the story is thought to have originated in New England in the early 1880s.
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c. 1880
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Cookbooks
Letter, Clarence Derrick to President Andrew Johnson, Fort Delaware, June 17, 1865 (Ms2012-014)
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.
Derrick, Clarence, 1837-1907
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Letter, John P. Allison and Benjamin F. Henigar to William H. Allison, Abingdon, Va., May 6, 1862 (Ms2011-060)
Letter from Benjamin F. Henigar and John P. Allison, enlisted in Company F, 63rd Virginia Infantry, to William H. Allison,written on May 6, 1862, from Abingdon, Va. The letter requests that William bring five dollars for each of the men as soon as possible.
Allison, John P
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Surgeon's Note for William H. Allison, Saltville, Va., April 12, 1863 (Ms2011-060)
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.
Allison, William Henry
John Strother Pendleton, M.D.
Certificates
Letter, John P. Allison to David Allison, Camp near Chattanooga, TN, September 24, 1863 (Ms2011-060)
Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863
Letter from John P. Allison to his father, David Allison, informing him that their brother and son, William Henry "Bozier" Allison, had been killed in the Battle of Chickamauga on September 20, 1863.
Letter, John P. Allison to Father, Catoosa Hospital, Griffin, GA, November 14, 1863 (Ms2011-060)
Letter from John P. Allison written to his father on November 14, 1863 from Catoosa hospital in Griffin, Georgia, where he was being treated for chronic diarrhea.
Letter, James Polk Allison to Father and Mother, Richmond, VA, November 13, 1864 (Ms2011-060)
Allison, James Polk, b. abt. 1843
Generations of Women Leaders at Virginia Tech
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
University History
Women
Women in higher education
A booklet published in 1996 commemorating the 75th anniversary of female enrollment at Virginia Tech. The booklet includes a history and profiles of many early female graduates.
Clara B. Cox (writer and editor)
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1996
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Books
Blacksburg (Va.)
Blacksburg Free Press
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Alternative publications
Alice, Volume 6, No. 4, November 6, 1969
Alice, Volume 7, No. 2, February 6, 1970
Final Report of the Task Force on Homosexuality, October 10, 1969 (RG 4/2, Records of the Office of the Executive Vice-President, William James McKeefery)
Sexual minorities
University Archives
A Report from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare on homosexuality, dated October 10, 1969. This report was given to Vice President William McKeefery and included in a file with documentation regarding the decision to accept or reject the Gay Student Alliance as an official student group.
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
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Health Services and Mental Health Administration
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Administrative records
Memorandum, from Executive Assistant to President T. Marshall Hahn, Jr., Regarding Recognition of the Gay Student Alliance, June 9, 1971 (RG 4/2, Records of the Office of the Executive Vice-President, William James McKeefery)
Memorandum from Executive Assistant to the President and General Council Walter H. Ryland to University President Dr. T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. regarding the Gay Student Alliance, dated June 9, 1971. Included is statement written by Ryland to president Hahn about the decision, dated June 8, and a photocopied memorandum written from Ryland to Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. James W. Dean regarding objections to the constitution of the Gay Student Alliance, dated May 24. This document was given to Vice President William McKeefery and included in a file with documentation regarding the decision to accept or reject the Gay Student Alliance as an official student group.
Walter H. Ryland, Executive Assistant to the President and general council
Letter, from Gay Alliance President Robert A. Frye to Dean for Student Programs, June 30, 1971 (RG 4/2, Records of the Office of the Executive Vice-President, William James McKeefery)
A letter from Gay Student Alliance president Robert A. Frye to Martha Harder, Dean for Student Programs, regarding the University Council decision to not recognize the Gay Alliance as an official student organization, dated June 30, 1971. This document was given to Vice President William McKeefery and included in a file with documentation regarding the decision to accept or reject the Gay Alliance as an official student group.
Robert A. Frye, president of The Gay Student Alliance
Letter, from Vice President William McKeefery to Robert Frye, President of the Gay Alliance, July 22, 1971 (RG 4/2, William McKeefery Records)
A letter from Vice President William McKeefery to Robert Frye, President of the Gay Student Alliance, dated July 22, 1971, in response to Frye's letter to the Dean for Student Programs, dated June 30, regarding the decision not to recognize the Gay Alliance as an official student organization.
McKeefery, William James, 1918-
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Diary, Benjamin M. Peck, 1864 (Ms2015-003)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Diaries.
The 1864 leather bound, preprinted diary contains two daily entries per page with cash accounts and notes sections in the back of the diary. In 1864 Benjamin M. Peck was the Captain of Company B in the 141st Regiment PA Volunteers. Due to absences, injuries, and illness of other officers he was placed in command of the regiment before being assigned to lead the 1st United States Sharp Shooters. Brigadier General Byron R. Pierce saw fit to place him in charge of the three companies of sharpshooters and he remained in this position until the end of the war. Peck describes battles, skirmishes, picket lines, commands, and other military assignments and engagements in great detail. He notes the various marches and travel routes of his company and records his travels between the Virginia front and his home in Towanda, PA. As part of the Army of the Potomac, Peck recounts the regiments campaign in Virginia and the Siege of Petersburg. He lists his men who were wounded or killed in battle, describes court martial proceedings, and even gives an account of the execution of a Union soldier for desertion. Following the 1864 presidential election he enumerates each candidate's results within the division, which Lincoln won convincingly.
Peck, Benjamin M.
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Diary, Benjamin M. Peck, 1865 (Ms2015-003)
The 1865 leather bound, preprinted, pocket diary contains one entry per day with cash accounts and notes listed in the back of the book. This diary continues with the 141st PA Volunteers camped outside of Petersburg in their winter quarters and continues through the end of the war and Peck's return home. He recounts the fall of Petersburg, the Union pursuit of Lee's Army of Virginia across the state, and Lee's ultimate surrender at Appomattox Court House. Peck was assigned to preside over several court martial proceedings and gives details regarding these proceedings and punishments, which include a botched execution of a Union soldier. As in the first diary, Peck provides an account of the daily movement of Union troops and supplies. He also gives detailed lists of captured soldiers and artillery, as well as Union wounded and casualty records. As the war nears its conclusion Peck was in charge of mustering out soldiers and kept thorough records of the process. He also recounts receiving the news of Presidents Lincoln's assassination and describes the mood of the men upon hearing the President was killed. The entries end in July of 1865 with Peck practicing law in his home town of Towanda, PA.
Photograph, Panorama of Spring Commencement at Lane Stadium, Virginia Tech Campus, May 1995
Rick Griffiths, Photographer
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Photographs
Photograph, Panorama of Gazebo and the Duck Pond, Virginia Tech Campus, 1995
Bob Veltri, Photographer
1995
Photograph, Panorama of Foyer Ceiling, War Memorial Hall, Virginia Tech Campus, May 1995
Photograph, Panorama of West End Market Interior 1, Virginia Tech Campus, October 2000
Photograph, Panorama of West End Market Interior 2, Virginia Tech Campus, October 2000
Photograph, Panorama of Cassell Coliseum and Lane Stadium, Virginia Tech Campus, October 1995
Photograph, Panorama of Newman Library, Bookstore and Eggleston Hall, Virginia Tech Campus, October 1995
Photograph, Panorama of Hotel Roanoke, October 1995
Hotel Roanoke
Photograph, Panorama of Hahn Horticulture Garden, Virginia Tech Campus, May 1995
Horticulture
Photograph, Panorama of the Drill Field, Virginia Tech Campus, May 1995
Diary, Enoch Stephens, 1865 (Ms2014-001)
Enoch Stephens's diary from his time in the 5th NY Veteran Volunteers from January 1st, 1865 to December 26th, 1865. Most entries describe the weather and the time of daily drills and dress parades, but the diary also documents such events as the fall of Richmond, the surrender of General Robert E. Lee, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Stephens' time guarding the Lincoln Conspirators and witnessing the executions, and the paying off of several regiments. Enoch Stephens (born ~1835) enlisted on June 30th, 1861 in Brooklyn, New York as a 1st Sergeant. During his time in the military, Stephens seems to have participated in the 84th Regiment, New York Infantry, the 5th Regiment, New York Veteran Infantry, and the 4th Regiment, US Veteran Volunteer Infantry. Prior to 1865 he was promoted to major.
Stephens, Enoch
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William S. Tippett Letter, 1864 (Ms2013-060)
The collection consists of a single letter from Sgt William S. Tippett to his wife, Maggie. Written from a parole camp in Annapolis, Maryland, the letter opens with Tippett's comments on news from home. A majority of the letter, however,details his stay in Belle Island prison (Richmond) from September 1863 until early March 1864. In particular, he describes the food (or lack of) and the poor conditions.
Tippett, William S.
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Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
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Sherwood Anderson Correspondence with Llewellyn Jones, 1916-1924, n.d. (Ms2015-044)
Authors, American--20th Century
Correspondence
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Letter, Sherwood Anderson to Llewellyn Jones, July 27, 1916
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