| 1775-1935 |
| paper (originals); digital images of Civil War letters |
| RESTRICTED: the originals of the Civil War letters do not circulate; use ciriculating copies only. |
| Contact the Department of Special Collections for location. |
| Voss and Knox family papers: family correspondence, land records, court records, business accounts, plats, photographs, and newspaper clippings relating to the Voss family of Baltimore and the Knox family of Culpepper, Va. Collection includes the letters of Frank Voss to his family, ca. 1860-1863, relating his experiences as a student at the University of Virginia and as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War (initially enlisting as a private in the First Maryland Infantry, Company C, Voss subsequently served with Morgan's Raiders); letters of Samuel Sullivan to the Voss family concerning Frank's death during the war, giving a description of his uniform; several early nineteenth century letters written by women in the family concerning family life; administration papers from the estates of W. H. and C. K. Neilson; and letters concerning land transactions involving the Voss holdings in the early nineteenth century. NOTE: transcriptions of the Civil War letters appear in: A Marylander in the Confederacy: The Civil War Letters of Benjamin Franklin Voss, Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. 98, 3, (Fall 2003). |
| This collection came to the Archives in 1991 through the generous donation of Thomas H. Voss. Processing and intellectual access provided by Samuel Voss, through a 1992 internship coordinated by Dr. Papenfuse, State Archivist, and Nancy M. Bramucci, Director of Special Collection. |
