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1853-1885
Confederate States of America. Generals
Confederate generals born in Virginia: 34 letters & docs [decimalized]
[decimalized 02461.01-02461.34]
GLC02461
7 November 1861
Ashby, Turner, 1828-1862
to unknown
State inferred from content. General Ashby reports, "Mr. Duke who has been arrested as a spy and upon his own evidence has done acts that will establish beyond doubt his felony... He is a dangerous person..." A pencil note at the bottom of the page...
GLC02461.01
14 May 1861
Beale, Richard Lee Tuberville, 1819-1893
to John Letcher
Requests that Letcher, Governor of Virginia, authorize the ordnance department to purchase guns for use in Captain T.S. Garnett's company. Mentions Colonel Ruggles (possibly Daniel Ruggles). Also signed on verso is a note signed by secretary P.F...
GLC02461.02
29 May 1861
Chilton, Robert Hall, 1816-1879
to Robert Seldon Garnett
Chilton writes to Colonel Garnett, Adjutant General of Virginia forces in Richmond, Virginia. Relates, "I have the honour, in consequence of appointment in Army of the Confederate States, to resign my commission as Colonel of Cavalry in the...
GLC02461.03
7 August 1861
Colston, Raleigh Edward, 1825-1896
to Henry Toole Clark
Written near Tanners Creek. Colston, Colonel of the 16th Regiment, Virginia Volunteers. Mentions that he previously sent his Quartermaster Lieutenant A. T. Culpeper (possibly Alexander T. Culpepper) to request a grant of muskets from Clark....
GLC02461.04
22 January 1862
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894
to Lieutenant Colonel Cummings
Orders Cummings' regiment to focus all their work "on the breast work in front of my quarters." The works have been taking too long to finish, and Early demands that "the whole of your regiment fit for duty except the guard...get all the axes spades...
GLC02461.05
22 March 1853
Floyd, John Buchanan, 1806-1863
to Robert McClelland
Floyd, a member of the Virginia state legislature, writes to McClelland, United States Secretary of the Interior. Recommends the appointment of General Douglas B. Layne for the post of Marshall of the Western District of Virginia. Writes, "He is at...
GLC02461.06
13 March 1865
Fry, Birkett Davenport, 1822-1891
to J. M. Otey
General Fry, in command of the Augusta District, writes to Lieutenant Colonel J. M. Otey (possibly John M. Otey), Assistant Adjutant General. Has just received a dispatch directing the extension of a courier line from Columbia to Winnsboro, South...
GLC02461.07
29 April 1861
Heth, Henry, 1825-1899
Randolph Harrison applies to Virginia Governor John Letcher for the position of Captain in the Quartermaster's Department of the State of Virginia. Lieutenant Colonel Heth endorses Harrison's request, from the Quartermaster General's Office in...
GLC02461.08
8 June 1862
Hill, Ambrose P., 1825-1865
to Robert Hall Chilton
General Hill writes to Colonel Chilton, Assistant Adjutant General serving under Robert E. Lee, to discuss an endorsement on an enclosed application [not present]. Hill desires a detail for the applicant as a clerk in the adjutant general's office of...
GLC02461.09
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