MSA SC 213-1-1
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1927/04/25
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Copy of form letter from Charlotte O. Woodbury, Historian General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Louisville, Kentucky, April 25, 1927, requesting materials, memorabilia, and written recollections concerning the Confederacy. These materials were to be forwarded to politician and historian Claude G. Bowers to write a history of Reconstruction.
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MSA SC 213-1-2
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1861
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Copies
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00/10/02/24
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Letter written after the Battle of Manassas, July 27, 1861 and then added to on August 10, 1861. Copied on November 11, 1863. Most likely from a town near Manassas, Virginia. The author discusses the fathers who were going to Richmond after Battle of Manassas to find their sons. Mr. Willoughby went to look for eldest son William. Dead were Edward Foutaine (sp) and Captain Wickham. Mr. Newton (sp) carried a letter from William Willoughby, which mentions Lee (General). Mentions General Beauregard and his aide and President Davis. Soldiers were Mississippians, Carolinians, and Alabamians. Mr. Ely Meuches (sp) of Congress was a POW. Also mentions Mr. Pryer, Dr. Ray, and the Washington Battery from New Orleans.
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MSA SC 213-1-3
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1865
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00/10/02/24
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Copied excerpts from diary of young girl “about time of the surrender of Lee”. Entries from April 2, 4, 9, 16, 1865 and May 28, 1865. Mentions General Lee, General Thomas, General Gregg and that General Lomax asked for breakfast while heading to defend Lynchburg.
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MSA SC 213-1-4
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1857-1869
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00/10/02/24
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Typed copy with handwritten additions of “A True Account of the Arrest of Col. John Henry Waring and His Family at Bald Eagle, Prince George’s County” by Julia V. Waring Bowie. Bald Eagle originally called Washburn’s Rest. The recollection is of the family’s capture and journey and then release from Point Lookout which happened sometime after 1862. Author’s mother was daughter of Judge W. D. D. Worthington. Also mentioned are Mssrs. Gustave Lurman, George Elder, John Post, Mrs. Izzard from S.C., as well as Mr. Sam Sterrett, Captain George E Mack, Robert Bowie Warind, (author’s brother). Also General Johnson and Major Harding advised author’s brother to go home to school. Hon. Reverend Johnson, Governor Robert Bowie tried to get author’s brother home. Drs. Mackubbin and Skinner are mentioned. Sisters of the author are Mrs. Duckett, Priscilla and Alice. Also mentioned are; friend Emma Biscoe, George Chew, Walter Bowie and Mr. Hume. Lizzie Wooten, Henry Brooke, Miss Clagett, John Bowling, Judge R.B.B. Chew, John Turner, Dawes Holliday, Christine and Margaret Key, Sunny Dorsett, Dick Sasser, Captain Charles Baugher, Captain Duvall, Mrs. Thomas F. Bowie are mentioned. Col. Steiner, Mrs. Lockwood, Fred Stuart, Governor and Mrs. Pratt, General and Mrs. Lockwood, Mrs. Grafton Tyler, Mrs. William Casein, General Thornton, Judge Crain are mentioned. Also mentioned, Gilmer House in Baltimore and Company B First Maryland Calvary, Andrews Battery.
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MSA SC 213-1-5
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1861-1865
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Copied form a scrapbook
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00/10/02/24
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Hand copied account entitled “ Daring Exploit and Murder of Lieutenant Walter Bowie, Copied from Scrapbook”. This discusses account of the Bowie family identified in folder number 4. Most likely after September 1863. Letter is signed by Allen Bowie and mentions Colonel Mosby, the younger Bowie brother. Places named; Port Tobacco, Sandy Springs, Washington, Brookville, Stanley’s Church in Prince Georges County.
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MSA SC 213-1-6
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1864
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00/10/02/24
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“A Cattle Raid” St Petersburg VA 1864. Author discusses skirmish or battle near Petersburg initiated by a cattle raid on the Union Army. Involved are General Grant and General Lee, the Tenth Georgia Regiment, and Company A stationed at Sycamore Church near plantation of Edmund Ruffin. One sergeant named Henry Harris, discovered large number of cattle near where Grant was camped and reported that to General Wade Hampton and General Lee. Also mentioned are General Rosser, Deerings’ Brigade, Greggs Division of Federal Calvary, Young’s Brigade, Sixth South Carolina Calvary, and the Calvary of the District of Columbia..
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MSA SC 213-1-7
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00/10/02/24
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Mrs. Charles K. Clairborne, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, reminiscences about war and her experiences bringing her brother home. Her brothers volunteered, one was in 1st S.C. Sharpshooters in April 1861. She discusses experiences bringing home her brother who was wounded in second battle of Manassas September 1862. General Winder is involved. Places named are; Culpepper, Richmond, Gordonville, Rapidan River, Warrington, Spartanburg Female College. She mentions men from Baltimore, as well as William Bonner, Catherine Williamson, Mr. Payne the Warrington Town Marshall, and Jack Bishop.
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MSA SC 213-1-8
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1862
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00/10/02/24
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“An Episode of the Civil War” An account concerning the separation of a young family from Baltimore and Harper’s Ferry in 1862 and the generosity of certain Generals towards the family.
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MSA SC 213-1-9
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1864
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00/10/02/24
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“Some personal reminisces of the Battle of Monocacy fought July 9, 1864”, written by M.T. Gatehall, (Marmie Tyler Gatehall). Mentions Araby, the country seat of C.K. Thomas, and Alice Thomas, an “old colored Mammy”, Major Vredenberg, General G. S. B. Gordon, Colonel Lamer, Major Von Valkenberg, and Frederick City in Maryland.
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MSA SC 213-1-10
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1927/05/25
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00/10/02/24
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Recollections written on May 26, 1927 by John F. Green to Mrs. Paul Iglebark (sp), of the 21st Virginia Regiment. Written while living in the Confederate Soldiers House in Pikesville Maryland. Captain J. Lyle Clark, Captain Murray, Captain Dorsey, Company B, 1st Maryland Infantry U.S.A. under Colonel Kenley(sp), Battle of Manassas, General Stonewall Jackson. January 1 1862 – Colonel Gilhauer(sp), Company F., A.W. Ermal (sp) and E. Paylou(sp).
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MSA SC 213-1-11
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1912-1913
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00/10/02/24
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“Some of Harford County Part in the War Between the States” by L. Goldie M. Smith written 1912 or 1913. Persons mentioned include; General James J. Archer, Arthur Pue, Colonel Otho S. Lee of Bel Air while at General Fitzhugh Lee’s headquarters, Dr. Martin Jarrett, Doctor Charles A. Rutledge, J. P. Rutledge, Pendleton’s Battery, General Lee, Robert Lee, General Stonewall Jackson, General Joe Johnson, General O’Banner, General Kirby Smith, George Smith Norris, Alex Norris of Company C 1st Maryland Calvary. Also mentioned are Lieutenant Edwin Hill Dorsey Pue while in Leesburg, VA with Eppa Hunter(Hunton?), the 18th Virginia Regiment, G. R. Gaithers’ Company of Calvary, Colonel Agnus McDonald, Romney VA, J.E.B. Stuart. Pue was wounded at Spotsylvania, Gettysburg, Reams Station, and in the Valley of Virginia and was brother to Mrs. Walter W. Preston, president of U.D.C. Maryland Division. E. Nathan Woodhouse, General Ewell, General Longstreet, General Hampton, and President Davis are mentioned.
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MSA SC 213-1-13
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00/10/02/24
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Letter to Mrs. King from W. Kennedy Jenkins about his own recollections in Civil War. Discussing how Maryland boys are under-appreciated for their role in driving the federal army back and asking if Mrs. King would like more of his recollections. The actual recollections and experiences per the cover letter, appear to be missing. Noted 7/26/2004.
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MSA SC 213-1-14
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1912/11
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00/10/02/24
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Mrs. Henry Loughborough’s recollections about her experiences in Richmond during the Civil War, written in November 1912. Mentioned are: John Brown, Ossowotomie Brown, Bishop Wilmer, Colonel Fontaines, Colonel R.E. Lee, Andrew Hunter, Mr. Loughborough – author’s husband, Mr. McClelland – cousin to General McClelland and author’s uncle, Dr. Cabell, Mrs. Cary, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Miss Hartley Grahame, Captain Robert Caskie, Maggie Howel - President Davis’sister-in-law. Mentioned also were Mrs. Hallery, Mrs Semmes, Mrs. Fitzgerald and Mrs. Ives. Major General E. D. Keys, Major Van Eereke. References are made to the Bread Riots, Fort Sumter, First Battle of Bull Run, Montezuma Plantation. Major Maynard, John Mitchell, Daniel O’Connel, Hardemans Stuart, Father Bixio, General Hunter, General Echols, Colonel Strother, Governor Letcher, Colonel Walter Taylor, Mr. Merrick of Maryland and Mr. Rust of Delaware are discussed. Colonell Ould, Mr. Pyne – friend of Lincoln’s, Mrs. Keyes – wife of General E. D. Keyes, Admiral Porter, General Baker, Mrs. Bisssell, Mrs. Pulitzer – niece to President Davis, Captain McHenry. Marshall Kane, ConfederateV.P. Stephens, Colonel Mulford, and General De Trebriand. Mrs. Surrat, Ben Butler, Mr. Bradley are discussed.
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MSA SC 213-1-15
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1896/05/02
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00/10/02/24
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Letter, George Savage to Mrs. Thomas B. Graham, "account of the first meeting between George H. McClellan and Robert E. Lee during the Mexican War" First meeting between Generals Lee and McClellan as interpreted by George Savage through Mrs. Thomas Gresham of Baltimore for the Daughters of the Confederacy on May 19, 1896. This a second copy, typed. Mr. Savage indicated he had first copy. Dated May 2,1896. Mr. Thomas met McClellan in 1876 and they discussed the war, and his first encounter with Lee.
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