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Collection is open for research with the exception of one file contained within the correspondence series that is restricted until January 1, 2035 at the request of the donor.","to original media, photographic negatives, and slides contained within this collection is restricted; reformatted access copies of these materials may exist, or researchers may request digital access copies be made.","Please contact the Special Collections Reference Desk before visiting the James Madison University Special Collections Library to use this collection (library-special@jmu.edu).","Digital images of nineteenth-century correspondence and papers are available upon request.","The collection is arranged in seven series:","Correspondence, 1830-2011\n      Personal Papers, 1857-2016\n      Ephemera, 1856-2004\n      Photographs, circa 1861-1989\n      Scrapbooks, 1862-1931\n      2020-0121 Accession, 1930s-2019\n      2020-0702 Accession, 1882-2020","Murr, Erika, L., ed., A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.","The Blackley Family Papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, and Nix families of mostly Texas and Staunton, Virginia between 1830 and 2016. James Scott (1799-1856) was a Tennessee native and former Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice who married Sarah Lane (1803-1880) and settled in Anderson, Texas. James was a prominent Texas judge who was friends with Davie Crockett. While in Mississippi and Texas, James and Sarah had six children. The eldest, Elizabeth \"Lizzie\" (1833-1917), was born in Mississippi in 1833, Sarah \"Sallie\" (1843-1914), born April 9, 1843 in Texas, and one of their brothers, Garrett (1838-1862), born in 1838, contribute the most to this collection of letters.","Lizzie married William H. Neblett (1826-1871), a farmer and attorney, in 1852. He eventually left her to go fight for the Confederacy. Her domestic struggle on the home front during the Civil War is the subject of Erika L. Murr's book, A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 (2001).","In 1862, Sallie married Robert Houston \"R.H.\" Bassett (1836-1870). R.H. went on to enlist and serve in the famed Hood's Texas Brigade from 1861 to his wounding in 1864. He worked briefly as the adjutant general to Major General John Bell. While leading the regiment, he was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga by an artillery shell fragment that lodged in his shoulder. This would effectively end his role in the war. Following the conclusion of the conflict and his recovery from the wound, R.H. tried his hand at politics in a bid to represent Grimes County, Texas in Congress. Their first child, Robert, died tragically in 1864 at only eight months old. R.H. died in 1870 because of health complications that appear related to edema.","R.H.'s brother, Noah (1839-1886), also served in the Texas Brigade. The correspondence between R.H., Sallie, and Noah provides a lucid account of the Army of Northern Virginia's major campaigns and operations, including developments related to the Battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga.","Garrett Scott, Sallie Scott's brother, died in action at the Battle of Antietam September 17, 1862 while serving in the Texas Brigade. His letters from the early years of the war offer yet another perspective of campaign and camp life.","R.H. and Sallie's daughter, Barbara \"Belle\" Bassett (1865-1958), married William Mason Blackley (1863-1898) in 1884 and lived in Staunton, Virginia before moving to Washington, D.C. Research suggests they only had one child, Belle Blackley (1890-1967), whom never married and lived out her life in Washington, D.C. However, an 1888 letter contained in this collection written by Ida Carter, the Blackley's \"Black Mamy,\" is addressed to a Col. Bassett Blackley, in care of W. M. Blackley. Carter begins the letter \"Dear Little Bassett.\" This letter seems to suggest that the Blackleys did in fact have another child, Bassett Blackley, prior to Belle. If that is the case, Bassett Blackley may have died in childhood.","The bulk of the twentieth-century material was created by or concerns William Mason Blackley's nephew, Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. (1909-1999), his wife Catherine Matthews Blackley (1914-2010), and their son and daughter-in-law Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley (b. 1951) and Patricia Fry Blackley (b. 1952).","Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1909. His parents died from the Spanish Flu when he was 10. Their deaths required Chas and his sister Mary Gilkeson Blackley to move in with their aunt, Fannie Blackley Cushing in Staunton. These materials cover his travels throughout the Pacific and Asia aboard a \"tramp steamer\" with boyhood friend, George Earman in 1930, his 1927-1929 military training in the little discussed Citizens Military Training Camps (CMTC), time at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), his 1934 travels in Europe, World War II military service, and ownership and operation of WSVA, the first radio station in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Chas sold his share in WSVA and moved to Staunton, Virginia where he started the WTON radio station. Beyond his official jobs, Chas spent much of the early 1930s as an amateur playwright and author. Chas and Catherine Matthews were married in 1938.","While traveling Europe via train in 1934, Chas met David Kahn, a young Presbyterian judge of Indian descent. They would become lifelong friends. Mr. Kahn went on to become a governor of an Indian province under British rule and later head the Department of Sanitation for Calcutta. He and his wife visited their children, who had moved to the United States, and Mr. and Mrs. Blackley often until his health would not allow it. Evidence of their lifelong friendship can be found most clearly in this collection's correspondence and photographs.","Chas' WWII experience saw him drafted at age 35 and shipped to Camp Crowder, Missouri for training. He would eventually be transferred to Washington, D.C. where he worked as a private in the basement of the Pentagon. According this son, his superiors frequently called him upstairs to request autographed photos of American Broadcasting Company (ABC) celebrities. He was able to oblige them because of WSVA's status as an ABC affiliate.","Catherine Matthews Blackley was originally from Cambridge, Maryland and came to the Shenandoah Valley to attend the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg (now James Madison University). She graduated in 1935 with a degree in home economics. For a short time she taught in Norfolk, Virginia before marrying Chas Blackley in 1938 and buying a home on Port Republic Road in Harrisonburg. After Chas was drafted and shipped to Camp Crowder, Mrs. Blackley traveled to Neosho, Missouri to be with her husband. While in Missouri, she volunteered with the Red Cross to help care for wounded soldiers. She continued this service after Mr. Blackley was transferred to Washington, D.C. After the war, they returned to the Valley and Catherine became a member of the Staunton School Board and was very active in volunteer work.","Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley Jr. was a professional engineer and graduate of Virginia Tech. He provided services in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. Chuck married Patricia Fry in 1971. At the time he sold his office it was the largest engineering company in the region outside of Richmond, Roanoke, and Northern Virginia.","Patricia Fry Blackley graduated from James Madison University in 1987 and became a licensed real estate appraiser. After Chuck stepped away from his engineering office he teamed up with his wife and the couple became full-time photographers and writers. Their work can be found in hundreds of magazines, books, and calendars.","The collection as a whole required only limited preservation treatment. Some of the correspondence and papers did require Mylar sleeves. The 3D objects are housed together in one box with special housings created to protect them long-term. Most of the nineteenth-century letters required flattening to make them more accessible and to allow for proper digitization as per the donor agreement. Also, many of the diplomas and older photographs were removed from their frames for proper storage. Original order of materials was maintained wherever possible, taking into account provenance, storage needs, and accessibility for researchers.","Charles C. Phillips Civil War Papers. MS 0327. Virginia Military Institute Archives.","Murr, Erika, L., ed., A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.","Lizzie Scott Neblett Papers, 1848-1935, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.","Yourself and family are invited to attend the feast of Mondamin corn festival. n.p.: Staunton, Va.: J. Harry Drechsler, pr., [1890], 1890. JAMES MADISON UNIV's Catalog, EBSCOhost (accessed May 2, 2017).","The Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia.","All published monographs have been cataloged individually and placed in Special Collections' rare book collection. Catherine Matthews Blackley's Schooma'am yearbooks were removed and housed with the yearbook collection. They are retained due to heavy annotations.","The copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).","The Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. 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The eldest, Elizabeth \"Lizzie\" (1833-1917), was born in Mississippi in 1833, Sarah \"Sallie\" (1843-1914), born April 9, 1843 in Texas, and one of their brothers, Garrett (1838-1862), born in 1838, contribute the most to this collection of letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLizzie married William H. Neblett (1826-1871), a farmer and attorney, in 1852. He eventually left her to go fight for the Confederacy. Her domestic struggle on the home front during the Civil War is the subject of Erika L. Murr's book, A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 (2001).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1862, Sallie married Robert Houston \"R.H.\" Bassett (1836-1870). R.H. went on to enlist and serve in the famed Hood's Texas Brigade from 1861 to his wounding in 1864. He worked briefly as the adjutant general to Major General John Bell. While leading the regiment, he was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga by an artillery shell fragment that lodged in his shoulder. This would effectively end his role in the war. Following the conclusion of the conflict and his recovery from the wound, R.H. tried his hand at politics in a bid to represent Grimes County, Texas in Congress. Their first child, Robert, died tragically in 1864 at only eight months old. R.H. died in 1870 because of health complications that appear related to edema.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eR.H.'s brother, Noah (1839-1886), also served in the Texas Brigade. The correspondence between R.H., Sallie, and Noah provides a lucid account of the Army of Northern Virginia's major campaigns and operations, including developments related to the Battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGarrett Scott, Sallie Scott's brother, died in action at the Battle of Antietam September 17, 1862 while serving in the Texas Brigade. His letters from the early years of the war offer yet another perspective of campaign and camp life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eR.H. and Sallie's daughter, Barbara \"Belle\" Bassett (1865-1958), married William Mason Blackley (1863-1898) in 1884 and lived in Staunton, Virginia before moving to Washington, D.C. Research suggests they only had one child, Belle Blackley (1890-1967), whom never married and lived out her life in Washington, D.C. However, an 1888 letter contained in this collection written by Ida Carter, the Blackley's \"Black Mamy,\" is addressed to a Col. Bassett Blackley, in care of W. M. Blackley. Carter begins the letter \"Dear Little Bassett.\" This letter seems to suggest that the Blackleys did in fact have another child, Bassett Blackley, prior to Belle. If that is the case, Bassett Blackley may have died in childhood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe bulk of the twentieth-century material was created by or concerns William Mason Blackley's nephew, Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. (1909-1999), his wife Catherine Matthews Blackley (1914-2010), and their son and daughter-in-law Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley (b. 1951) and Patricia Fry Blackley (b. 1952).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1909. His parents died from the Spanish Flu when he was 10. Their deaths required Chas and his sister Mary Gilkeson Blackley to move in with their aunt, Fannie Blackley Cushing in Staunton. These materials cover his travels throughout the Pacific and Asia aboard a \"tramp steamer\" with boyhood friend, George Earman in 1930, his 1927-1929 military training in the little discussed Citizens Military Training Camps (CMTC), time at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), his 1934 travels in Europe, World War II military service, and ownership and operation of WSVA, the first radio station in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Chas sold his share in WSVA and moved to Staunton, Virginia where he started the WTON radio station. Beyond his official jobs, Chas spent much of the early 1930s as an amateur playwright and author. Chas and Catherine Matthews were married in 1938.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhile traveling Europe via train in 1934, Chas met David Kahn, a young Presbyterian judge of Indian descent. They would become lifelong friends. Mr. Kahn went on to become a governor of an Indian province under British rule and later head the Department of Sanitation for Calcutta. He and his wife visited their children, who had moved to the United States, and Mr. and Mrs. Blackley often until his health would not allow it. Evidence of their lifelong friendship can be found most clearly in this collection's correspondence and photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChas' WWII experience saw him drafted at age 35 and shipped to Camp Crowder, Missouri for training. He would eventually be transferred to Washington, D.C. where he worked as a private in the basement of the Pentagon. According this son, his superiors frequently called him upstairs to request autographed photos of American Broadcasting Company (ABC) celebrities. He was able to oblige them because of WSVA's status as an ABC affiliate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCatherine Matthews Blackley was originally from Cambridge, Maryland and came to the Shenandoah Valley to attend the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg (now James Madison University). She graduated in 1935 with a degree in home economics. For a short time she taught in Norfolk, Virginia before marrying Chas Blackley in 1938 and buying a home on Port Republic Road in Harrisonburg. After Chas was drafted and shipped to Camp Crowder, Mrs. Blackley traveled to Neosho, Missouri to be with her husband. While in Missouri, she volunteered with the Red Cross to help care for wounded soldiers. She continued this service after Mr. Blackley was transferred to Washington, D.C. After the war, they returned to the Valley and Catherine became a member of the Staunton School Board and was very active in volunteer work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley Jr. was a professional engineer and graduate of Virginia Tech. He provided services in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. Chuck married Patricia Fry in 1971. At the time he sold his office it was the largest engineering company in the region outside of Richmond, Roanoke, and Northern Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePatricia Fry Blackley graduated from James Madison University in 1987 and became a licensed real estate appraiser. After Chuck stepped away from his engineering office he teamed up with his wife and the couple became full-time photographers and writers. Their work can be found in hundreds of magazines, books, and calendars.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Blackley Family Papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, and Nix families of mostly Texas and Staunton, Virginia between 1830 and 2016. James Scott (1799-1856) was a Tennessee native and former Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice who married Sarah Lane (1803-1880) and settled in Anderson, Texas. James was a prominent Texas judge who was friends with Davie Crockett. While in Mississippi and Texas, James and Sarah had six children. The eldest, Elizabeth \"Lizzie\" (1833-1917), was born in Mississippi in 1833, Sarah \"Sallie\" (1843-1914), born April 9, 1843 in Texas, and one of their brothers, Garrett (1838-1862), born in 1838, contribute the most to this collection of letters.","Lizzie married William H. Neblett (1826-1871), a farmer and attorney, in 1852. He eventually left her to go fight for the Confederacy. Her domestic struggle on the home front during the Civil War is the subject of Erika L. Murr's book, A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 (2001).","In 1862, Sallie married Robert Houston \"R.H.\" Bassett (1836-1870). R.H. went on to enlist and serve in the famed Hood's Texas Brigade from 1861 to his wounding in 1864. He worked briefly as the adjutant general to Major General John Bell. While leading the regiment, he was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga by an artillery shell fragment that lodged in his shoulder. This would effectively end his role in the war. Following the conclusion of the conflict and his recovery from the wound, R.H. tried his hand at politics in a bid to represent Grimes County, Texas in Congress. Their first child, Robert, died tragically in 1864 at only eight months old. R.H. died in 1870 because of health complications that appear related to edema.","R.H.'s brother, Noah (1839-1886), also served in the Texas Brigade. The correspondence between R.H., Sallie, and Noah provides a lucid account of the Army of Northern Virginia's major campaigns and operations, including developments related to the Battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga.","Garrett Scott, Sallie Scott's brother, died in action at the Battle of Antietam September 17, 1862 while serving in the Texas Brigade. His letters from the early years of the war offer yet another perspective of campaign and camp life.","R.H. and Sallie's daughter, Barbara \"Belle\" Bassett (1865-1958), married William Mason Blackley (1863-1898) in 1884 and lived in Staunton, Virginia before moving to Washington, D.C. Research suggests they only had one child, Belle Blackley (1890-1967), whom never married and lived out her life in Washington, D.C. However, an 1888 letter contained in this collection written by Ida Carter, the Blackley's \"Black Mamy,\" is addressed to a Col. Bassett Blackley, in care of W. M. Blackley. Carter begins the letter \"Dear Little Bassett.\" This letter seems to suggest that the Blackleys did in fact have another child, Bassett Blackley, prior to Belle. If that is the case, Bassett Blackley may have died in childhood.","The bulk of the twentieth-century material was created by or concerns William Mason Blackley's nephew, Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. (1909-1999), his wife Catherine Matthews Blackley (1914-2010), and their son and daughter-in-law Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley (b. 1951) and Patricia Fry Blackley (b. 1952).","Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1909. His parents died from the Spanish Flu when he was 10. Their deaths required Chas and his sister Mary Gilkeson Blackley to move in with their aunt, Fannie Blackley Cushing in Staunton. These materials cover his travels throughout the Pacific and Asia aboard a \"tramp steamer\" with boyhood friend, George Earman in 1930, his 1927-1929 military training in the little discussed Citizens Military Training Camps (CMTC), time at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), his 1934 travels in Europe, World War II military service, and ownership and operation of WSVA, the first radio station in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Chas sold his share in WSVA and moved to Staunton, Virginia where he started the WTON radio station. Beyond his official jobs, Chas spent much of the early 1930s as an amateur playwright and author. Chas and Catherine Matthews were married in 1938.","While traveling Europe via train in 1934, Chas met David Kahn, a young Presbyterian judge of Indian descent. They would become lifelong friends. Mr. Kahn went on to become a governor of an Indian province under British rule and later head the Department of Sanitation for Calcutta. He and his wife visited their children, who had moved to the United States, and Mr. and Mrs. Blackley often until his health would not allow it. Evidence of their lifelong friendship can be found most clearly in this collection's correspondence and photographs.","Chas' WWII experience saw him drafted at age 35 and shipped to Camp Crowder, Missouri for training. He would eventually be transferred to Washington, D.C. where he worked as a private in the basement of the Pentagon. According this son, his superiors frequently called him upstairs to request autographed photos of American Broadcasting Company (ABC) celebrities. He was able to oblige them because of WSVA's status as an ABC affiliate.","Catherine Matthews Blackley was originally from Cambridge, Maryland and came to the Shenandoah Valley to attend the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg (now James Madison University). She graduated in 1935 with a degree in home economics. For a short time she taught in Norfolk, Virginia before marrying Chas Blackley in 1938 and buying a home on Port Republic Road in Harrisonburg. After Chas was drafted and shipped to Camp Crowder, Mrs. Blackley traveled to Neosho, Missouri to be with her husband. While in Missouri, she volunteered with the Red Cross to help care for wounded soldiers. She continued this service after Mr. Blackley was transferred to Washington, D.C. After the war, they returned to the Valley and Catherine became a member of the Staunton School Board and was very active in volunteer work.","Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley Jr. was a professional engineer and graduate of Virginia Tech. He provided services in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. Chuck married Patricia Fry in 1971. At the time he sold his office it was the largest engineering company in the region outside of Richmond, Roanoke, and Northern Virginia.","Patricia Fry Blackley graduated from James Madison University in 1987 and became a licensed real estate appraiser. After Chuck stepped away from his engineering office he teamed up with his wife and the couple became full-time photographers and writers. Their work can be found in hundreds of magazines, books, and calendars."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, SC 0232, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, SC 0232, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection as a whole required only limited preservation treatment. 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Most of the nineteenth-century letters required flattening to make them more accessible and to allow for proper digitization as per the donor agreement. Also, many of the diplomas and older photographs were removed from their frames for proper storage. Original order of materials was maintained wherever possible, taking into account provenance, storage needs, and accessibility for researchers."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cextref type=\"simple\" actuate=\"onRequest\" show=\"new\" href=\"http://archivesspace.vmi.edu/repositories/3/resources/780\"\u003eCharles C. Phillips Civil War Papers. MS 0327. Virginia Military Institute Archives.\u003c/extref\u003e  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMurr, Erika, L., ed., \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eA Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864\u003c/emph\u003e. 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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.","Lizzie Scott Neblett Papers, 1848-1935, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.","Yourself and family are invited to attend the feast of Mondamin corn festival. n.p.: Staunton, Va.: J. Harry Drechsler, pr., [1890], 1890. JAMES MADISON UNIV's Catalog, EBSCOhost (accessed May 2, 2017)."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAll published monographs have been cataloged individually and placed in Special Collections' rare book collection. Catherine Matthews Blackley's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSchooma'am\u003c/emph\u003e yearbooks were removed and housed with the yearbook collection. They are retained due to heavy annotations.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Material"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["All published monographs have been cataloged individually and placed in Special Collections' rare book collection. Catherine Matthews Blackley's Schooma'am yearbooks were removed and housed with the yearbook collection. They are retained due to heavy annotations."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu)."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_e73d9f92cf4c9d321a4666b26feddd80\"\u003eThe Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["The Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia."],"corpname_ssim":["James Madison University Libraries Special Collections","State Teachers College at Harrisonburg (Harrisonburg, Va.) -- Students","United States. War Department. Citizens' Military Training Camps","Virginia Military Institute -- Students","Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Brigade","Virginia Polytechnic Institute -- Students","WTON (Radio station : Staunton, Va.)","WSVA (Radio station : Harrisonburg, Va.)"],"names_coll_ssim":["State Teachers College at Harrisonburg (Harrisonburg, Va.) -- Students","United States. War Department. Citizens' Military Training Camps","Virginia Military Institute -- Students","Confederate States of America. Army. 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Collection is open for research with the exception of one file contained within the correspondence series that is restricted until January 1, 2035 at the request of the donor.","to original media, photographic negatives, and slides contained within this collection is restricted; reformatted access copies of these materials may exist, or researchers may request digital access copies be made.","Please contact the Special Collections Reference Desk before visiting the James Madison University Special Collections Library to use this collection (library-special@jmu.edu).","Digital images of nineteenth-century correspondence and papers are available upon request.","The collection is arranged in seven series:","Correspondence, 1830-2011\n      Personal Papers, 1857-2016\n      Ephemera, 1856-2004\n      Photographs, circa 1861-1989\n      Scrapbooks, 1862-1931\n      2020-0121 Accession, 1930s-2019\n      2020-0702 Accession, 1882-2020","Murr, Erika, L., ed., A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.","The Blackley Family Papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, and Nix families of mostly Texas and Staunton, Virginia between 1830 and 2016. James Scott (1799-1856) was a Tennessee native and former Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice who married Sarah Lane (1803-1880) and settled in Anderson, Texas. James was a prominent Texas judge who was friends with Davie Crockett. While in Mississippi and Texas, James and Sarah had six children. The eldest, Elizabeth \"Lizzie\" (1833-1917), was born in Mississippi in 1833, Sarah \"Sallie\" (1843-1914), born April 9, 1843 in Texas, and one of their brothers, Garrett (1838-1862), born in 1838, contribute the most to this collection of letters.","Lizzie married William H. Neblett (1826-1871), a farmer and attorney, in 1852. He eventually left her to go fight for the Confederacy. Her domestic struggle on the home front during the Civil War is the subject of Erika L. Murr's book, A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 (2001).","In 1862, Sallie married Robert Houston \"R.H.\" Bassett (1836-1870). R.H. went on to enlist and serve in the famed Hood's Texas Brigade from 1861 to his wounding in 1864. He worked briefly as the adjutant general to Major General John Bell. While leading the regiment, he was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga by an artillery shell fragment that lodged in his shoulder. This would effectively end his role in the war. Following the conclusion of the conflict and his recovery from the wound, R.H. tried his hand at politics in a bid to represent Grimes County, Texas in Congress. Their first child, Robert, died tragically in 1864 at only eight months old. R.H. died in 1870 because of health complications that appear related to edema.","R.H.'s brother, Noah (1839-1886), also served in the Texas Brigade. The correspondence between R.H., Sallie, and Noah provides a lucid account of the Army of Northern Virginia's major campaigns and operations, including developments related to the Battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga.","Garrett Scott, Sallie Scott's brother, died in action at the Battle of Antietam September 17, 1862 while serving in the Texas Brigade. His letters from the early years of the war offer yet another perspective of campaign and camp life.","R.H. and Sallie's daughter, Barbara \"Belle\" Bassett (1865-1958), married William Mason Blackley (1863-1898) in 1884 and lived in Staunton, Virginia before moving to Washington, D.C. Research suggests they only had one child, Belle Blackley (1890-1967), whom never married and lived out her life in Washington, D.C. However, an 1888 letter contained in this collection written by Ida Carter, the Blackley's \"Black Mamy,\" is addressed to a Col. Bassett Blackley, in care of W. M. Blackley. Carter begins the letter \"Dear Little Bassett.\" This letter seems to suggest that the Blackleys did in fact have another child, Bassett Blackley, prior to Belle. If that is the case, Bassett Blackley may have died in childhood.","The bulk of the twentieth-century material was created by or concerns William Mason Blackley's nephew, Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. (1909-1999), his wife Catherine Matthews Blackley (1914-2010), and their son and daughter-in-law Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley (b. 1951) and Patricia Fry Blackley (b. 1952).","Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1909. His parents died from the Spanish Flu when he was 10. Their deaths required Chas and his sister Mary Gilkeson Blackley to move in with their aunt, Fannie Blackley Cushing in Staunton. These materials cover his travels throughout the Pacific and Asia aboard a \"tramp steamer\" with boyhood friend, George Earman in 1930, his 1927-1929 military training in the little discussed Citizens Military Training Camps (CMTC), time at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), his 1934 travels in Europe, World War II military service, and ownership and operation of WSVA, the first radio station in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Chas sold his share in WSVA and moved to Staunton, Virginia where he started the WTON radio station. Beyond his official jobs, Chas spent much of the early 1930s as an amateur playwright and author. Chas and Catherine Matthews were married in 1938.","While traveling Europe via train in 1934, Chas met David Kahn, a young Presbyterian judge of Indian descent. They would become lifelong friends. Mr. Kahn went on to become a governor of an Indian province under British rule and later head the Department of Sanitation for Calcutta. He and his wife visited their children, who had moved to the United States, and Mr. and Mrs. Blackley often until his health would not allow it. Evidence of their lifelong friendship can be found most clearly in this collection's correspondence and photographs.","Chas' WWII experience saw him drafted at age 35 and shipped to Camp Crowder, Missouri for training. He would eventually be transferred to Washington, D.C. where he worked as a private in the basement of the Pentagon. According this son, his superiors frequently called him upstairs to request autographed photos of American Broadcasting Company (ABC) celebrities. He was able to oblige them because of WSVA's status as an ABC affiliate.","Catherine Matthews Blackley was originally from Cambridge, Maryland and came to the Shenandoah Valley to attend the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg (now James Madison University). She graduated in 1935 with a degree in home economics. For a short time she taught in Norfolk, Virginia before marrying Chas Blackley in 1938 and buying a home on Port Republic Road in Harrisonburg. After Chas was drafted and shipped to Camp Crowder, Mrs. Blackley traveled to Neosho, Missouri to be with her husband. While in Missouri, she volunteered with the Red Cross to help care for wounded soldiers. She continued this service after Mr. Blackley was transferred to Washington, D.C. After the war, they returned to the Valley and Catherine became a member of the Staunton School Board and was very active in volunteer work.","Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley Jr. was a professional engineer and graduate of Virginia Tech. He provided services in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. Chuck married Patricia Fry in 1971. At the time he sold his office it was the largest engineering company in the region outside of Richmond, Roanoke, and Northern Virginia.","Patricia Fry Blackley graduated from James Madison University in 1987 and became a licensed real estate appraiser. After Chuck stepped away from his engineering office he teamed up with his wife and the couple became full-time photographers and writers. Their work can be found in hundreds of magazines, books, and calendars.","The collection as a whole required only limited preservation treatment. Some of the correspondence and papers did require Mylar sleeves. The 3D objects are housed together in one box with special housings created to protect them long-term. Most of the nineteenth-century letters required flattening to make them more accessible and to allow for proper digitization as per the donor agreement. Also, many of the diplomas and older photographs were removed from their frames for proper storage. Original order of materials was maintained wherever possible, taking into account provenance, storage needs, and accessibility for researchers.","Charles C. Phillips Civil War Papers. MS 0327. Virginia Military Institute Archives.","Murr, Erika, L., ed., A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.","Lizzie Scott Neblett Papers, 1848-1935, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.","Yourself and family are invited to attend the feast of Mondamin corn festival. n.p.: Staunton, Va.: J. Harry Drechsler, pr., [1890], 1890. JAMES MADISON UNIV's Catalog, EBSCOhost (accessed May 2, 2017).","The Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia.","All published monographs have been cataloged individually and placed in Special Collections' rare book collection. Catherine Matthews Blackley's Schooma'am yearbooks were removed and housed with the yearbook collection. They are retained due to heavy annotations.","The copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).","The Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia.","James Madison University Libraries Special Collections","State Teachers College at Harrisonburg (Harrisonburg, Va.) -- Students","United States. War Department. Citizens' Military Training Camps","Virginia Military Institute -- Students","Confederate States of America. Army. 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Collection is open for research with the exception of one file contained within the correspondence series that is restricted until January 1, 2035 at the request of the donor.","to original media, photographic negatives, and slides contained within this collection is restricted; reformatted access copies of these materials may exist, or researchers may request digital access copies be made.","Please contact the Special Collections Reference Desk before visiting the James Madison University Special Collections Library to use this collection (library-special@jmu.edu)."],"altformavail_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eDigital images of nineteenth-century correspondence and papers are available upon request.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"altformavail_heading_ssm":["Other Formats Available"],"altformavail_tesim":["Digital images of nineteenth-century correspondence and papers are available upon request."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is arranged in seven series:\u003c/p\u003e    ","\u003clist numeration=\"arabic\" type=\"ordered\"\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003eCorrespondence, 1830-2011\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003ePersonal Papers, 1857-2016\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003eEphemera, 1856-2004\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003ePhotographs, circa 1861-1989\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003eScrapbooks, 1862-1931\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003e2020-0121 Accession, 1930s-2019\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003e2020-0702 Accession, 1882-2020\u003c/item\u003e\n    \u003c/list\u003e\n  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is arranged in seven series:","Correspondence, 1830-2011\n      Personal Papers, 1857-2016\n      Ephemera, 1856-2004\n      Photographs, circa 1861-1989\n      Scrapbooks, 1862-1931\n      2020-0121 Accession, 1930s-2019\n      2020-0702 Accession, 1882-2020"],"bibliography_html_tesm":["\u003cbibref\u003eMurr, Erika, L., ed., \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eA Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864\u003c/emph\u003e. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.\u003c/bibref\u003e\n  "],"bibliography_heading_ssm":["Bibliography"],"bibliography_tesim":["Murr, Erika, L., ed., A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Blackley Family Papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, and Nix families of mostly Texas and Staunton, Virginia between 1830 and 2016. James Scott (1799-1856) was a Tennessee native and former Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice who married Sarah Lane (1803-1880) and settled in Anderson, Texas. James was a prominent Texas judge who was friends with Davie Crockett. While in Mississippi and Texas, James and Sarah had six children. The eldest, Elizabeth \"Lizzie\" (1833-1917), was born in Mississippi in 1833, Sarah \"Sallie\" (1843-1914), born April 9, 1843 in Texas, and one of their brothers, Garrett (1838-1862), born in 1838, contribute the most to this collection of letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLizzie married William H. Neblett (1826-1871), a farmer and attorney, in 1852. He eventually left her to go fight for the Confederacy. Her domestic struggle on the home front during the Civil War is the subject of Erika L. Murr's book, A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 (2001).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1862, Sallie married Robert Houston \"R.H.\" Bassett (1836-1870). R.H. went on to enlist and serve in the famed Hood's Texas Brigade from 1861 to his wounding in 1864. He worked briefly as the adjutant general to Major General John Bell. While leading the regiment, he was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga by an artillery shell fragment that lodged in his shoulder. This would effectively end his role in the war. Following the conclusion of the conflict and his recovery from the wound, R.H. tried his hand at politics in a bid to represent Grimes County, Texas in Congress. Their first child, Robert, died tragically in 1864 at only eight months old. R.H. died in 1870 because of health complications that appear related to edema.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eR.H.'s brother, Noah (1839-1886), also served in the Texas Brigade. The correspondence between R.H., Sallie, and Noah provides a lucid account of the Army of Northern Virginia's major campaigns and operations, including developments related to the Battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGarrett Scott, Sallie Scott's brother, died in action at the Battle of Antietam September 17, 1862 while serving in the Texas Brigade. His letters from the early years of the war offer yet another perspective of campaign and camp life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eR.H. and Sallie's daughter, Barbara \"Belle\" Bassett (1865-1958), married William Mason Blackley (1863-1898) in 1884 and lived in Staunton, Virginia before moving to Washington, D.C. Research suggests they only had one child, Belle Blackley (1890-1967), whom never married and lived out her life in Washington, D.C. However, an 1888 letter contained in this collection written by Ida Carter, the Blackley's \"Black Mamy,\" is addressed to a Col. Bassett Blackley, in care of W. M. Blackley. Carter begins the letter \"Dear Little Bassett.\" This letter seems to suggest that the Blackleys did in fact have another child, Bassett Blackley, prior to Belle. If that is the case, Bassett Blackley may have died in childhood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe bulk of the twentieth-century material was created by or concerns William Mason Blackley's nephew, Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. (1909-1999), his wife Catherine Matthews Blackley (1914-2010), and their son and daughter-in-law Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley (b. 1951) and Patricia Fry Blackley (b. 1952).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1909. His parents died from the Spanish Flu when he was 10. Their deaths required Chas and his sister Mary Gilkeson Blackley to move in with their aunt, Fannie Blackley Cushing in Staunton. These materials cover his travels throughout the Pacific and Asia aboard a \"tramp steamer\" with boyhood friend, George Earman in 1930, his 1927-1929 military training in the little discussed Citizens Military Training Camps (CMTC), time at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), his 1934 travels in Europe, World War II military service, and ownership and operation of WSVA, the first radio station in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Chas sold his share in WSVA and moved to Staunton, Virginia where he started the WTON radio station. Beyond his official jobs, Chas spent much of the early 1930s as an amateur playwright and author. Chas and Catherine Matthews were married in 1938.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhile traveling Europe via train in 1934, Chas met David Kahn, a young Presbyterian judge of Indian descent. They would become lifelong friends. Mr. Kahn went on to become a governor of an Indian province under British rule and later head the Department of Sanitation for Calcutta. He and his wife visited their children, who had moved to the United States, and Mr. and Mrs. Blackley often until his health would not allow it. Evidence of their lifelong friendship can be found most clearly in this collection's correspondence and photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChas' WWII experience saw him drafted at age 35 and shipped to Camp Crowder, Missouri for training. He would eventually be transferred to Washington, D.C. where he worked as a private in the basement of the Pentagon. According this son, his superiors frequently called him upstairs to request autographed photos of American Broadcasting Company (ABC) celebrities. He was able to oblige them because of WSVA's status as an ABC affiliate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCatherine Matthews Blackley was originally from Cambridge, Maryland and came to the Shenandoah Valley to attend the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg (now James Madison University). She graduated in 1935 with a degree in home economics. For a short time she taught in Norfolk, Virginia before marrying Chas Blackley in 1938 and buying a home on Port Republic Road in Harrisonburg. After Chas was drafted and shipped to Camp Crowder, Mrs. Blackley traveled to Neosho, Missouri to be with her husband. While in Missouri, she volunteered with the Red Cross to help care for wounded soldiers. She continued this service after Mr. Blackley was transferred to Washington, D.C. After the war, they returned to the Valley and Catherine became a member of the Staunton School Board and was very active in volunteer work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley Jr. was a professional engineer and graduate of Virginia Tech. He provided services in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. Chuck married Patricia Fry in 1971. At the time he sold his office it was the largest engineering company in the region outside of Richmond, Roanoke, and Northern Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePatricia Fry Blackley graduated from James Madison University in 1987 and became a licensed real estate appraiser. After Chuck stepped away from his engineering office he teamed up with his wife and the couple became full-time photographers and writers. Their work can be found in hundreds of magazines, books, and calendars.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Blackley Family Papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, and Nix families of mostly Texas and Staunton, Virginia between 1830 and 2016. James Scott (1799-1856) was a Tennessee native and former Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice who married Sarah Lane (1803-1880) and settled in Anderson, Texas. James was a prominent Texas judge who was friends with Davie Crockett. While in Mississippi and Texas, James and Sarah had six children. The eldest, Elizabeth \"Lizzie\" (1833-1917), was born in Mississippi in 1833, Sarah \"Sallie\" (1843-1914), born April 9, 1843 in Texas, and one of their brothers, Garrett (1838-1862), born in 1838, contribute the most to this collection of letters.","Lizzie married William H. Neblett (1826-1871), a farmer and attorney, in 1852. He eventually left her to go fight for the Confederacy. Her domestic struggle on the home front during the Civil War is the subject of Erika L. Murr's book, A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 (2001).","In 1862, Sallie married Robert Houston \"R.H.\" Bassett (1836-1870). R.H. went on to enlist and serve in the famed Hood's Texas Brigade from 1861 to his wounding in 1864. He worked briefly as the adjutant general to Major General John Bell. While leading the regiment, he was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga by an artillery shell fragment that lodged in his shoulder. This would effectively end his role in the war. Following the conclusion of the conflict and his recovery from the wound, R.H. tried his hand at politics in a bid to represent Grimes County, Texas in Congress. Their first child, Robert, died tragically in 1864 at only eight months old. R.H. died in 1870 because of health complications that appear related to edema.","R.H.'s brother, Noah (1839-1886), also served in the Texas Brigade. The correspondence between R.H., Sallie, and Noah provides a lucid account of the Army of Northern Virginia's major campaigns and operations, including developments related to the Battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga.","Garrett Scott, Sallie Scott's brother, died in action at the Battle of Antietam September 17, 1862 while serving in the Texas Brigade. His letters from the early years of the war offer yet another perspective of campaign and camp life.","R.H. and Sallie's daughter, Barbara \"Belle\" Bassett (1865-1958), married William Mason Blackley (1863-1898) in 1884 and lived in Staunton, Virginia before moving to Washington, D.C. Research suggests they only had one child, Belle Blackley (1890-1967), whom never married and lived out her life in Washington, D.C. However, an 1888 letter contained in this collection written by Ida Carter, the Blackley's \"Black Mamy,\" is addressed to a Col. Bassett Blackley, in care of W. M. Blackley. Carter begins the letter \"Dear Little Bassett.\" This letter seems to suggest that the Blackleys did in fact have another child, Bassett Blackley, prior to Belle. If that is the case, Bassett Blackley may have died in childhood.","The bulk of the twentieth-century material was created by or concerns William Mason Blackley's nephew, Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. (1909-1999), his wife Catherine Matthews Blackley (1914-2010), and their son and daughter-in-law Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley (b. 1951) and Patricia Fry Blackley (b. 1952).","Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1909. His parents died from the Spanish Flu when he was 10. Their deaths required Chas and his sister Mary Gilkeson Blackley to move in with their aunt, Fannie Blackley Cushing in Staunton. These materials cover his travels throughout the Pacific and Asia aboard a \"tramp steamer\" with boyhood friend, George Earman in 1930, his 1927-1929 military training in the little discussed Citizens Military Training Camps (CMTC), time at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), his 1934 travels in Europe, World War II military service, and ownership and operation of WSVA, the first radio station in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Chas sold his share in WSVA and moved to Staunton, Virginia where he started the WTON radio station. Beyond his official jobs, Chas spent much of the early 1930s as an amateur playwright and author. Chas and Catherine Matthews were married in 1938.","While traveling Europe via train in 1934, Chas met David Kahn, a young Presbyterian judge of Indian descent. They would become lifelong friends. Mr. Kahn went on to become a governor of an Indian province under British rule and later head the Department of Sanitation for Calcutta. He and his wife visited their children, who had moved to the United States, and Mr. and Mrs. Blackley often until his health would not allow it. Evidence of their lifelong friendship can be found most clearly in this collection's correspondence and photographs.","Chas' WWII experience saw him drafted at age 35 and shipped to Camp Crowder, Missouri for training. He would eventually be transferred to Washington, D.C. where he worked as a private in the basement of the Pentagon. According this son, his superiors frequently called him upstairs to request autographed photos of American Broadcasting Company (ABC) celebrities. He was able to oblige them because of WSVA's status as an ABC affiliate.","Catherine Matthews Blackley was originally from Cambridge, Maryland and came to the Shenandoah Valley to attend the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg (now James Madison University). She graduated in 1935 with a degree in home economics. For a short time she taught in Norfolk, Virginia before marrying Chas Blackley in 1938 and buying a home on Port Republic Road in Harrisonburg. After Chas was drafted and shipped to Camp Crowder, Mrs. Blackley traveled to Neosho, Missouri to be with her husband. While in Missouri, she volunteered with the Red Cross to help care for wounded soldiers. She continued this service after Mr. Blackley was transferred to Washington, D.C. After the war, they returned to the Valley and Catherine became a member of the Staunton School Board and was very active in volunteer work.","Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley Jr. was a professional engineer and graduate of Virginia Tech. He provided services in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. Chuck married Patricia Fry in 1971. At the time he sold his office it was the largest engineering company in the region outside of Richmond, Roanoke, and Northern Virginia.","Patricia Fry Blackley graduated from James Madison University in 1987 and became a licensed real estate appraiser. After Chuck stepped away from his engineering office he teamed up with his wife and the couple became full-time photographers and writers. Their work can be found in hundreds of magazines, books, and calendars."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, SC 0232, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, SC 0232, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection as a whole required only limited preservation treatment. Some of the correspondence and papers did require Mylar sleeves. The 3D objects are housed together in one box with special housings created to protect them long-term. Most of the nineteenth-century letters required flattening to make them more accessible and to allow for proper digitization as per the donor agreement. Also, many of the diplomas and older photographs were removed from their frames for proper storage. Original order of materials was maintained wherever possible, taking into account provenance, storage needs, and accessibility for researchers.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The collection as a whole required only limited preservation treatment. Some of the correspondence and papers did require Mylar sleeves. The 3D objects are housed together in one box with special housings created to protect them long-term. Most of the nineteenth-century letters required flattening to make them more accessible and to allow for proper digitization as per the donor agreement. Also, many of the diplomas and older photographs were removed from their frames for proper storage. Original order of materials was maintained wherever possible, taking into account provenance, storage needs, and accessibility for researchers."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cextref type=\"simple\" actuate=\"onRequest\" show=\"new\" href=\"http://archivesspace.vmi.edu/repositories/3/resources/780\"\u003eCharles C. Phillips Civil War Papers. MS 0327. Virginia Military Institute Archives.\u003c/extref\u003e  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMurr, Erika, L., ed., \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eA Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864\u003c/emph\u003e. 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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.","Lizzie Scott Neblett Papers, 1848-1935, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.","Yourself and family are invited to attend the feast of Mondamin corn festival. n.p.: Staunton, Va.: J. Harry Drechsler, pr., [1890], 1890. JAMES MADISON UNIV's Catalog, EBSCOhost (accessed May 2, 2017)."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. 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He was married to Ella Letitia Vanlear Fishburne and they had three children. During the American Civil War he fought for the Confederacy in Company E of the 1st Virginia Cavalry, which fought in the battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863. According to published biographical information on Fishburne, he served as 3rd Sergeant for his regiment. After the war, Fishburne opened his own general merchandise store, \"Fishburne's Cheap Cash and Trade Store\" in Millboro Springs, Virginia. Shortly thereafter, he moved the business to its established location on Main Street in downtown Waynesboro, where it operated primarily as a drugstore until it was demolished in 1979. Fishburne died in Waynesboro on February 25, 1906. James Abbott Fishburne (1856-1923), Fishburne's brother, founded the Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro in 1879.","The collection consists of two handwritten documents by E.G. Fishburne: one memoir and one letter. The letter, dated April 1, 1886, is six pages and addressed to \"Maj. H.B. McClellan,\" a fellow Confederate veteran who served as officer and adjutant general for Company G, 3rd Virginia Cavalry. As requested, Fishburne relates his recollection of the regiment's experience during the battle of Gettysburg. In addition, he offers both praise and corrections for McClellan's \"book.\" Fishburne writes, \"You ask if I have discovered any mistakes? So I will name or one or two as corrections . . . I like your book very much – read it with much interest. Have sold 20 copies only – I suppose they have sold many more in Staunton.\" Although Fishburne does not give the book title, he is presumably referring to McClellan's The Life and Campaigns of Major-General J.E.B. Stuart, published in 1885.","The undated memoir is two pages and contains the title \"The 1st VA Cavalry at Gettysburg. July 3, 1863\" written at the top of the document. 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The letter, dated April 1, 1886, is six pages and addressed to \"Maj. H.B. McClellan,\" a fellow Confederate veteran who served as officer and adjutant general for Company G, 3rd Virginia Cavalry. As requested, Fishburne relates his recollection of the regiment's experience during the battle of Gettysburg. In addition, he offers both praise and corrections for McClellan's \"book.\" Fishburne writes, \"You ask if I have discovered any mistakes? So I will name or one or two as corrections . . . I like your book very much – read it with much interest. Have sold 20 copies only – I suppose they have sold many more in Staunton.\" Although Fishburne does not give the book title, he is presumably referring to McClellan's The Life and Campaigns of Major-General J.E.B. Stuart, published in 1885.","The undated memoir is two pages and contains the title \"The 1st VA Cavalry at Gettysburg. July 3, 1863\" written at the top of the document. 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Patton was wounded twice in battle: at the Battle of Scary Creek in 1861, he suffered a shoulder wound and was captured after being left on the battlefield, and at the Giles Court House conflict in 1862, he was wounded in the stomach. By the time Patton joined the Jones-Imboden Raid, he had been promoted to full colonel and had served some time in a Union prisoner-of-war camp. He was killed in action at the Battle of Opequon, also known as the Third Battle of Winchester, in 1864, leaving behind his wife and four children.","William Thornton Glassell (January 15, 1831 - January 28, 1879), brother of Susan Thornton Glassell Patton, served as one of the world's first combat submariners. Born in Culpeper County, Virginia, he joined the U.S. Navy, serving as a midshipman in the late 1840s and early 1850s. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1855. When the Civil War erupted, Glassell was aboard a naval vessel in China. Upon his return to the U.S. in 1861, he refused to swear the oath of allegiance expected from Southerners, and was imprisoned at Fort Warren for eight months before being exchanged. The Confederate Navy immediately conferred a lieutenant's commission upon him with command of the ironclad CSS Chicora at Charleston Harbor.","On the night of October 5, 1863, Glassell and a crew of three piloted the torpedo boat CSS David in an attempt to destroy the ironclad USS New Ironsides by ramming a spar torpedo into it. The torpedo's explosion extinguished the David's fires, rendering her inoperable in a hail of small arms fire. Most of David's crew abandoned ship; while the pilot and firemen were eventually able to relight the engine, Glassell was captured and sent once again to Fort Warren. New Ironsides, originally presumed unhurt, was actually damaged enough to be put out of service for nearly a year. For his bravery, Glassell was promoted to commander. For a book about his exploits, please see the Separation note.","The collection includes letters from George Smith Patton, Sr. (June 26, 1833 - September 25, 1864), who was the grandfather of WWII hero George S. Patton, Jr., and served as a Confederate Colonel during the Civil War. There are letters Patton wrote to his wife, Susan Thornton Glassell Patton (1835-1883), during their courtship and during his military service. There are also letters from Susan and other members of her family, including her brother and Confederate Naval hero William T. Glassell (1831-1879); her father, Andrew Glassell (1793-1873); her son-in-law Thomas Buren Brown, a Los Angeles attorney who married Susan's daughter Eleanor (Nellie) Thornton Patton (1857-1937); and her aunt, Eleanor L. Thornton Gibbs. A contents list is below, followed by transcriptions of select portions of the letters.","Select transcriptions:","Letters from George S. Patton to his wife Susan (Sue) comprise a significant component of this collection, including three love letters written during their courtship (1854-1855, folder 1) and nine letters written during his service in the Civil War (1863, folder 2). In one of the love letters from George to Susan, he asks her to obtain her father's permission for them to wed, writing on 1854 September 26:","\"...Should your father approve our engagement I hope that my future life will not make him regret his consent, or you me your preference - And now may I ask another favor from you to add to the many, which you have been so kind as to grant me? Please seek an early opportunity to inform him of my suit, and request his assent. For until that assent is obtained I shall feel, even tho' blessed with a knowledge of your preference -- I shall feel as if I had no right to call you my own ... It is to me a very novel feeling 'to be in love' You are the first whom I have ever loved - my fancy has frequently been captivated; my heart has never been touched before -: and what an 'aching void' does Love fill -: a deep yearning for affection is every mans portion [?] - and he can never be happy until the yearning is satisfied ...\"","Apparently there was no word from Andrew Glassell regarding his permission, and on 1854 October 17, George wrote Susan:","\"...You cannot imagine how anxious I am to know, if you have heard from your father on a subject near to my heart, and I would fain [?] hope, to yours also - You can readily imagine the awkward, and constraining position in which I am placed. For while I have given you every assurance of love, you have, with very proper maidenly delicacy, never given me the promise of your hand - Now while I can but acknowledge the propriety of your course - yet I am often restrained in what I should like to say by the thought, that you might think, that I was presuming - Did I not have the most perfect and unquestioning confidence in you - I should be very unhappy - As it is I am very uneasy - altho I am sure that my little lady, would not disappoint me so bitterly without good and sufficient cause which Heaven forfend from ever rising on my part. ...\"","Susan's father finally gave his consent and the couple wed on 1855 September 8. These letters are not only touching and emotional, but pivotal in light of the fact that this union made possible the birth of one of America's most important military men of the twentieth century: their grandson, George Smith Patton, Jr. (1885-1945).","The series of nine letters from George to Susan in 1863 describe in vivid detail the Confederate raid into [West] Virginia led by Generals William E. \"Grumble\" Jones and John D. Imboden, during which Patton was a colonel in the 22nd Virginia Infantry. Patton describes the arduous campaign in a series of seven letters dating between 1863 April 14 and 1863 May 15, four of which are excerpted here; a fifth excerpted letter from December gives his final update. The letters read, in part:","1. On 1863 April 14 -- \"... will join Imboden's forces at Huttonsville [?] - and will be too strong for any force the Yankees are likely to have at Beverley - we hear by the way [?] that they have 150 contraband soldiers there - our boys all intent[?] on getting a body servant.\"","2. On 1863 April 28 -- \"We have been maneuvering so as to assist Gen Jones (of the Valley) in his attack on the Railroad - I have now every reason to believe from the movements of the enemy - that he has been entirely successful - The Yankees have evacuated both Philippee [Philippi] \u0026 Buckhannon and we advance on the Carter place in a few minutes - The prospect now is very bright and we have certainly put the bogus Enuisen/Generals [?] in a great pickle... Tell Andrew that Pa has got him a pretty Yankee hat - with a feather \u0026c.\"","3. On 1863 April 30, in camp near Buckhannon, [West] Virginia, Patton had sufficient time to describe the campaign in great detail, giving a day-by-day account of his movements \"in something like diary form\" in a lengthy letter which reads, in part:","\"On Sunday night [April 19?], I got orders by special courier from Gen Imboden - to proceed to Join him by way of Monterey [?] ... [on April 20] passing Huntersville [?] ruined \u0026 desolated by both armies, \u0026 particularly burned by the Yankees. A more perfect picture of the horror [?] of war could not be conceived - Once a flourishing country village of several hundred souls - now deserted save by three families - fences destroyed horses/houses [?] pillaged ...\"","His regiment marched on to Hightown, \"where the rest of the expeditionary force had assembled - road [?] on myself - to see the General - was rec'd very cordially. \u0026 liked him much as a man - What he was as a General remained to be proved.\" The force, now numbering 3,500, continued their northward march into the Alleghany Mountains:","\"Wednesday [April] 22 ... It was 18 miles across the mountains, and but one inhabited home on the road - got to camp just before dark - crossing the Greenbrier river - at the scene of the action there - Rain still increasing - camped on the wet ground - without shelter or supper, as our wagons did not come up - except some crackers for the men ... Everybody wet, hungry \u0026 cold --","Thursday [April] 23: No wagons came up, few crackers for breakfast - started at 7 A.M. to cross celebrated cheat mountain ... 18 miles across, 9 up, and 9 down - Road in miserable order ... At the top of the mountain passed the Yankee intrenchments [sic] - which are quite strong, and rendered almost impregnable by position ... Camped at the foot of the mountain having marched nearly 20 miles - no supper as our wagons were still behind ...","Friday [April] 24th - Started at 7 A.M. ... took a foot path through the woods to avoid crossing the river twice, and marched our way to Beverly - I heard from country people that the Yankees had no idea of our approach - and that they were only about 1200 strong, \u0026 would not give us a fight - our advance pushed on \u0026 about 2 o'clock we in the rear heard the boom [?] of a cannon - ranks were immediately closed, \u0026 we pushed on - as we came around the bend of the road about a mile from town, we were seen by the enemy, who [was] shelling us - their practice was good -one shell bursting a few feet from the 22nd \u0026 slightly wounding a Lieutenant - not enough to stop him - I was met by an aid, who ordered me, to shelter my men from the cannonade, \u0026 await orders, I did so. In a few minutes, I was advanced to another position \u0026 finally to a third - where my orders [?] were to wait until the other troops became engaged \u0026 then/there [?] to charge the battery - we were all ready to do the work - but the Yankees gave us no chance, retreating before there was any engagement. We pursued them several miles - as we passed through town - many ladies waved their handkerchiefs \u0026c - but the Union element was very visible - The Yankees burned in retreating their stores, and the store of a man of Secession proclivities - we were in town but a few moments, and our men broke into and pillaged a sutlers establishment, and the store of the Union Sheriff of the county - I did not feel very much envy/sorry [?] for the owners, but I regretted the demoralization it must necessarily cause - Peter got in the streets, and Yankee camp quite an assortment, but did not go into any store. I am afraid that Imboden is no disciplinarian - \u0026 many of his officers certainly are not ...","Saturday [April] 25th ... left camp at about 8 o'clock A.M. - marched across the Bridge, and took the road to Buckhannon - crossing Rich mountain, and right over [?] the battle ground [?] ...","Sunday [April] 26th ... crossing the west fork of the Valley River ... equidistant from Philippo [Philippi] \u0026 Buckhannon, thus threatening them both - there we heard of reinforcements to the enemy - and as yet Gen Jones had not communicated with us in regard to his movements in the Batlo \u0026 Ohio R.Rd. He was to have communicated at Beverly, and we had been advancing hoping to hear from him every moment. It was obviously unsafe for us to proceed any further without his cooperation - as to attack either place would then be to expose our communications, and both our flanks - Gen. Imboden then determined to fall back to Beverly until he could [?] hear from Gen Jones ...","Tuesday [April] 28th During that night the Gen got information from Gen Jones - which showed that altho' not successful in destroying the Cheat river viaduct, he had destroyed some smaller bridges and was in the country - so to day we started for Buckhannon - heard that the Yankees had evacuated that place in haste ...","Wednesday [April] 29th Marched to Buckhannon - found that the Yankees 4000 strong with four pieces of artillery - had retreated in great haste ... Same disgraceful scenes [of looting] occurred here as at Beverly - I soon got disgusted, \u0026 came to camp where I have been ever since ...\"","4. On 1863 May 15, Patton gave a final report to his wife:","\"... The day after I wrote you from that place we took up the line of march for Weston ... Weston is 23 miles from Clarksburg, and we found that the enemy had concentrated a large force at the latter place too strong for us to cope with - in their entrenchments. we remained at Weston offering them fight for three days, but they did not accept the gage [?] - Our provisions were giving out, and we found it impossible to procure any breadstuff. Gen Jones \u0026 Imboden therefore agreed as follows - Gen Jones with his cavalry Brigade marched to attack the North-Western Va R.Rd., while Imboden took up the line of march towards Summersville - so as to threaten the Kanawha Valley - Gen Jones performed his work most successfully - destroying several Bridges, \u0026 a tunnel. Gen Imboden met the greatest physical difficulties - it rained in torrents for three days, and nights, the roads were perfect quagmires - and it was with great difficulty \u0026 hardwork that we made four or five miles a day ... we then advanced on Summersville, but the place was evacuated before we could get there - Imboden's cavalry horses/men [?] pursued, and captured a train of 30 wagons - loaded with corn \u0026 hard bread [?] \u0026c \u0026c and 180 fine mules - At Summersville Gen Jones again Joined us - and there, against my earnest desire, and advice, it was determined to return to our lines - instead of pursuing our success, and driving the enemy out of the Kanawha Valley - Which I believed we could have done ... Thus ends our raid into Western Virginia - Characterized by great boldness, and meeting with great success - altho' I think that some golden opportunities were lost and that if Gen Lam [?] Jones had cooperated - we could have redeemed Western Va. - As it is the fruits of the expedition are many \u0026 important - 2500 or 3000 good beef cattle \u0026 12 or 1500 horses have been driven out - The Confederate flag has been carried where it never floated before, great damage has been done to an important avenue of the enemy's communication, \u0026 great terror [?] and panic been infused [?] into Pierpoint [Pierpont] \u0026 his crew ... The trip has been one of great exposure \u0026 privation - We have been almost constantly marching for nearly five weeks - in a very difficult country... \"","The raid proved to be a military success -- the raiders managed to destroy numerous railroad bridges, disrupting rail traffic on the critical Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. However, the raid was a political failure in that it did not dampen enthusiasm in western Virginia to form a new state. Patton's dissatisfaction with Jones grew as the year went on and by the end of 1863, he had concluded that the general was thoroughly incompetent.","5. On 1863 December 23, Patton sent his wife a lengthy update, disparaging Jones's behavior:","\"... We have had a most terrible campaign, so far as hardship and exposure go ... Soon after I last wrote you - the news was brought to us that Averill [sic: Averell?] ... was on his way to the Sweet Springs. I proposed and urged that we should at once march to meet the enemy - or if he had passed us to follow him up - and eventually force him to fight. Gen Jones however [?] decided otherwise, and ordered us to march to the Salt Sulphur Springs \u0026 cook two days rations - During that night the news came that the enemy had passed the Sweet Springs mountain in the direction of the Railroad - My opinion was asked, and I again urged going to the Sweet Springs \u0026 beyond in the direction of the enemy - Gen Jones after great indecision concluded [?] to send Echols' Brigade in that direction, and McCauslands to Newport in Giles county - Thus dividing a force which was not as strong as Avrill's, into two portions - we marched that day 15 miles, and encamped, during the night a terrible [?] storm of rain \u0026 sleet came up to which we were exposed without any shelter, \u0026 suffered much - The next morning, the storm continued \u0026 we marched about 7 miles \u0026 encamped - Gen Jones being in the rear at a comfortable house, and sending word, that as he was somewhat unwell - he would not come out that day, unless absolutely necessary \u0026 there he staid [sic] - We spent another miserable night - and the next day went to the tip of the Sweet Springs mountain, an excellent position which we were ordered to fortify, and there we staid for three days, and nights - suffering greatly from the intense cold - The position was very strong, and as long as there was a great probability of the enemy's coming that way, was the proper place for the troops - but on Saturday afternoon we got reliable information that the enemy had turned to the left ... and gone in the direction of Covington - We ought then as I thought, to have moved at once to Callaghans - where we would certainly have intercepted the enemy - but we staid, at the old position - trusting, I suppose, to Jenkins [?] burning the bridges on Jackson river which he did not do - and the enemy passed him ... The troops from the East were all too late, and Avrill escaped - He ought to have been captured with his whole command, and would have been if we were blessed [?] in this department [?] with something like a Commanding General. Jones is utterly incompetent, and as long as he has the direction of affairs - we will have nothing but disaster and dispair [sic] here. That Avrill should have been allowed to escape - after being delayed for two days, by high water, in the heart of the state - is a burning shame and disgrace - The Army out here are entirely disgusted -- I write these things to you and the family only, for no good can be effected, by giving them publicly...\"","The Patton letters also include six letters from Susan Thornton Glassell Patton to members of her family (folder 3, 1852-1863), including one written to her husband on 1863 March 15, prior to the Jones-Imboden Raid.","There are several letters to and from Susan's brother, William T. Glassell of the U.S. Navy and later of the Confederate Navy (folders 3 and 4, 1851-1863). William holds the distinction of serving as one of the world's first combat submariners when he led a crew on the torpedo boat David in an attempt to destroy the USS New Ironsides on 1863 October 5. (See the book W.T. Glassell and the Little Torpedo Boat \"David\", mentioned in the Separation note, for more information.) Of particular interest is a letter by William, in Charleston, SC, 1863 September 18, to his sister Susan, writing, in part:","\"... My last to Father was from this place; and I informed him of my having come on to take part in the fight for Charleston, which I much prefer to remaining idle in Wilmington. Limited as you know are my means and power, I hope yet to strike a blow, with the aid of Almighty God, that even our powerful foe will not despise. Should it please God that I perish in the effort, His will be done! Should I never return, I have directed that what funds I possess shall be sent to Mr. Jno L. Bacon, for your use...\"","Separated to Rare Book Collection: Glassell, William T, and Eleanor B. MacFarland. W.T. Glassell and the Little Torpedo Boat \"David\". Los Angeles: Privately printed for E.B. MacFarland, 1937. 30 pp. octavo. illus. with 3 plates (Bound in blue cloth boards titled in gilt on red leather. Dampstains and rubbing to boards and spine). Compiled by his niece, Eleanor Banning MacFarland and inscribed by her on the flyleaf, \"To Hobie / With love from / Eleanor.\"","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","The collection includes letters from George Smith Patton, Sr. (June 26, 1833 - September 25, 1864), who was the grandfather of WWII hero George S. Patton, Jr., and served as a Confederate Colonel during the Civil War. There are letters Patton wrote to his wife, Susan Thornton Glassell Patton (1835-1883), during their courtship and during his military service. There are also letters from Susan and other members of her family, including her brother and Confederate Naval hero William T. Glassell (1831-1879); her father, Andrew Glassell (1793-1873); her son-in-law Thomas Buren Brown, a Los Angeles attorney who married Susan's daughter Eleanor (Nellie) Thornton Patton (1857-1937); and her aunt, Eleanor L. Thornton Gibbs. See Scope and Content note for a contents list and transcriptions of select portions of the letters.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center","West Virginia and Regional History Center","Glassell, William Thornton, 1831-1879","Patton, George S. 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(1 document case, 2.5 in.; 1 oversize folder)"],"date_range_isim":[1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNo special access restriction applies.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["No special access restriction applies."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eGeorge Smith Patton, Sr.\u003c/emph\u003e (June 26, 1833 - September 25, 1864) was the grandfather of WWII hero George S. Patton, Jr., and served as a Confederate Colonel during the Civil War. He was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia and raised in Richmond. He graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1852, and married Susan Thornton Glassell (1835-1883) on September 8, 1855. He practiced law in Kanawha County before the war broke out.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nHe enlisted as a private on May 5, 1861, but within a month had secured a commission as a captain in the 22nd Virginia Infantry. Patton was wounded twice in battle: at the Battle of Scary Creek in 1861, he suffered a shoulder wound and was captured after being left on the battlefield, and at the Giles Court House conflict in 1862, he was wounded in the stomach. By the time Patton joined the Jones-Imboden Raid, he had been promoted to full colonel and had served some time in a Union prisoner-of-war camp. He was killed in action at the Battle of Opequon, also known as the Third Battle of Winchester, in 1864, leaving behind his wife and four children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nWilliam Thornton Glassell (January 15, 1831 - January 28, 1879), brother of Susan Thornton Glassell Patton, served as one of the world's first combat submariners. Born in Culpeper County, Virginia, he joined the U.S. Navy, serving as a midshipman in the late 1840s and early 1850s. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1855. When the Civil War erupted, Glassell was aboard a naval vessel in China. Upon his return to the U.S. in 1861, he refused to swear the oath of allegiance expected from Southerners, and was imprisoned at Fort Warren for eight months before being exchanged. The Confederate Navy immediately conferred a lieutenant's commission upon him with command of the ironclad CSS \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eChicora\u003c/emph\u003e at Charleston Harbor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nOn the night of October 5, 1863, Glassell and a crew of three piloted the torpedo boat CSS \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDavid \u003c/emph\u003ein an attempt to destroy the ironclad USS \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNew Ironsides\u003c/emph\u003e by ramming a spar torpedo into it. The torpedo's explosion extinguished the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDavid\u003c/emph\u003e's fires, rendering her inoperable in a hail of small arms fire. Most of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDavid\u003c/emph\u003e's crew abandoned ship; while the pilot and firemen were eventually able to relight the engine, Glassell was captured and sent once again to Fort Warren. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNew Ironsides\u003c/emph\u003e, originally presumed unhurt, was actually damaged enough to be put out of service for nearly a year. For his bravery, Glassell was promoted to commander. For a book about his exploits, please see the Separation note.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["George Smith Patton, Sr. (June 26, 1833 - September 25, 1864) was the grandfather of WWII hero George S. Patton, Jr., and served as a Confederate Colonel during the Civil War. He was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia and raised in Richmond. He graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1852, and married Susan Thornton Glassell (1835-1883) on September 8, 1855. He practiced law in Kanawha County before the war broke out.","He enlisted as a private on May 5, 1861, but within a month had secured a commission as a captain in the 22nd Virginia Infantry. Patton was wounded twice in battle: at the Battle of Scary Creek in 1861, he suffered a shoulder wound and was captured after being left on the battlefield, and at the Giles Court House conflict in 1862, he was wounded in the stomach. By the time Patton joined the Jones-Imboden Raid, he had been promoted to full colonel and had served some time in a Union prisoner-of-war camp. He was killed in action at the Battle of Opequon, also known as the Third Battle of Winchester, in 1864, leaving behind his wife and four children.","William Thornton Glassell (January 15, 1831 - January 28, 1879), brother of Susan Thornton Glassell Patton, served as one of the world's first combat submariners. Born in Culpeper County, Virginia, he joined the U.S. Navy, serving as a midshipman in the late 1840s and early 1850s. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1855. When the Civil War erupted, Glassell was aboard a naval vessel in China. Upon his return to the U.S. in 1861, he refused to swear the oath of allegiance expected from Southerners, and was imprisoned at Fort Warren for eight months before being exchanged. The Confederate Navy immediately conferred a lieutenant's commission upon him with command of the ironclad CSS Chicora at Charleston Harbor.","On the night of October 5, 1863, Glassell and a crew of three piloted the torpedo boat CSS David in an attempt to destroy the ironclad USS New Ironsides by ramming a spar torpedo into it. The torpedo's explosion extinguished the David's fires, rendering her inoperable in a hail of small arms fire. Most of David's crew abandoned ship; while the pilot and firemen were eventually able to relight the engine, Glassell was captured and sent once again to Fort Warren. New Ironsides, originally presumed unhurt, was actually damaged enough to be put out of service for nearly a year. For his bravery, Glassell was promoted to commander. For a book about his exploits, please see the Separation note."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George S. Patton, Sr. Correspondence, A\u0026amp;M 4075, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George S. Patton, Sr. Correspondence, A\u0026M 4075, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes letters from George Smith Patton, Sr. (June 26, 1833 - September 25, 1864), who was the grandfather of WWII hero George S. Patton, Jr., and served as a Confederate Colonel during the Civil War. There are letters Patton wrote to his wife, Susan Thornton Glassell Patton (1835-1883), during their courtship and during his military service. There are also letters from Susan and other members of her family, including her brother and Confederate Naval hero William T. Glassell (1831-1879); her father, Andrew Glassell (1793-1873); her son-in-law Thomas Buren Brown, a Los Angeles attorney who married Susan's daughter Eleanor (Nellie) Thornton Patton (1857-1937); and her aunt, Eleanor L. Thornton Gibbs. A contents list is below, followed by transcriptions of select portions of the letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSelect transcriptions:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nLetters from George S. Patton to his wife Susan (Sue) comprise a significant component of this collection, including three love letters written during their courtship (1854-1855, folder 1) and nine letters written during his service in the Civil War (1863, folder 2). In one of the love letters from George to Susan, he asks her to obtain her father's permission for them to wed, writing on 1854 September 26:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\"...Should your father approve our engagement I hope that my future life will not make him regret his consent, or you me your preference - And now may I ask another favor from you to add to the many, which you have been so kind as to grant me? Please seek an early opportunity to inform him of my suit, and request his assent. For until that assent is obtained I shall feel, even tho' blessed with a knowledge of your preference -- I shall feel as if I had no right to call you \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003emy own\u003c/emph\u003e ... It is to me a very novel feeling 'to be in love' You are the first whom I have ever loved - my fancy has frequently been captivated; my heart has never been touched before -: and what an 'aching void' does Love fill -: a deep yearning for affection is every mans portion [?] - and he can never be happy until the yearning is satisfied ...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nApparently there was no word from Andrew Glassell regarding his permission, and on 1854 October 17, George wrote Susan:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\"...You cannot imagine how anxious I am to know, if you have heard from your father on a subject near to my heart, and I would fain [?] hope, to yours also - You can readily imagine the awkward, and constraining position in which I am placed. For while I have given you every assurance of love, you have, with very proper maidenly delicacy, never given me the promise of your hand - Now while I can but acknowledge the propriety of your course - yet I am often restrained in what I should like to say by the thought, that you might think, that I was presuming - Did I not have the most perfect and unquestioning confidence in you - I should be very unhappy - As it is I am very uneasy - altho I am sure that my little lady, would not disappoint me so bitterly without good and sufficient cause which Heaven forfend from ever rising on my part. ...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nSusan's father finally gave his consent and the couple wed on 1855 September 8. These letters are not only touching and emotional, but pivotal in light of the fact that this union made possible the birth of one of America's most important military men of the twentieth century: their grandson, George Smith Patton, Jr. (1885-1945).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThe series of nine letters from George to Susan in 1863 describe in vivid detail the Confederate raid into [West] Virginia led by Generals William E. \"Grumble\" Jones and John D. Imboden, during which Patton was a colonel in the 22nd Virginia Infantry. Patton describes the arduous campaign in a series of seven letters dating between 1863 April 14 and 1863 May 15, four of which are excerpted here; a fifth excerpted letter from December gives his final update. The letters read, in part:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n1. On 1863 April 14 -- \"... will join Imboden's forces at Huttonsville [?] - and will be too strong for any force the Yankees are likely to have at Beverley - we hear by the way [?] that they have 150 contraband soldiers there - our boys all intent[?] on getting a body servant.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n2. On 1863 April 28 -- \"We have been maneuvering so as to assist Gen Jones (of the Valley) in his attack on the Railroad - I have now every reason to believe from the movements of the enemy - that he has been entirely successful - The Yankees have evacuated both Philippee [Philippi] \u0026amp; Buckhannon and we advance on the Carter place in a few minutes - The prospect now is very bright and we have certainly put the bogus Enuisen/Generals [?] in a great pickle... Tell Andrew that Pa has got him a pretty Yankee hat - with a feather \u0026amp;c.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n3. On 1863 April 30, in camp near Buckhannon, [West] Virginia, Patton had sufficient time to describe the campaign in great detail, giving a day-by-day account of his movements \"in something like diary form\" in a lengthy letter which reads, in part:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\"On Sunday night [April 19?], I got orders by special courier from Gen Imboden - to proceed to Join him by way of Monterey [?] ... [on April 20] passing Huntersville [?] ruined \u0026amp; desolated by both armies, \u0026amp; particularly burned by the Yankees. A more perfect picture of the horror [?] of war could not be conceived - Once a flourishing country village of several hundred souls - now deserted save by \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ethree \u003c/emph\u003efamilies - fences destroyed horses/houses [?] pillaged ...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nHis regiment marched on to Hightown, \"where the rest of the expeditionary force had assembled - road [?] on myself - to see the General - was rec'd very cordially. \u0026amp; liked him much as a man - What he was as a General remained to be proved.\" The force, now numbering 3,500, continued their northward march into the Alleghany Mountains:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\"Wednesday [April] 22 ... It was 18 miles across the mountains, and but one inhabited home on the road - got to camp just before dark - crossing the Greenbrier river - at the scene of the action there - Rain still increasing - camped on the wet ground - without shelter or supper, as our wagons did not come up - except some crackers for the men ... Everybody wet, hungry \u0026amp; cold --\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThursday [April] 23: No wagons came up, few crackers for breakfast - started at 7 A.M. to cross celebrated cheat mountain ... 18 miles across, 9 up, and 9 down - Road in miserable order ... At the top of the mountain passed the Yankee intrenchments [sic] - which are quite strong, and rendered almost impregnable by position ... Camped at the foot of the mountain having marched nearly 20 miles - no supper as our wagons were still behind ...\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nFriday [April] 24th - Started at 7 A.M. ... took a foot path through the woods to avoid crossing the river twice, and marched our way to Beverly - I heard from country people that the Yankees had no idea of our approach - and that they were only about 1200 strong, \u0026amp; would not give us a fight - our advance pushed on \u0026amp; about 2 o'clock we in the rear heard the boom [?] of a cannon - ranks were immediately closed, \u0026amp; we pushed on - as we came around the bend of the road about a mile from town, we were seen by the enemy, who [was] shelling us - their practice was good -one shell bursting a few feet from the 22nd \u0026amp; slightly wounding a Lieutenant - not enough to stop him - I was met by an aid, who ordered me, to shelter my men from the cannonade, \u0026amp; await orders, I did so. In a few minutes, I was advanced to another position \u0026amp; finally to a third - where my orders [?] were to wait until the other troops became engaged \u0026amp; then/there [?] to charge the battery - we were all ready to do the work - but the Yankees gave us no chance, retreating before there was any engagement. We pursued them several miles - as we passed through town - many ladies waved their handkerchiefs \u0026amp;c - but the Union element was very visible - The Yankees burned in retreating their stores, and the store of a man of Secession proclivities - we were in town but a few moments, and our men broke into and pillaged a sutlers establishment, and the store of the Union Sheriff of the county - I did not feel very much envy/sorry [?] for the owners, but I regretted the demoralization it must necessarily cause - Peter got in the streets, and Yankee camp quite an assortment, but did not go into any store. I am afraid that Imboden is no disciplinarian - \u0026amp; many of his officers certainly are not ...\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nSaturday [April] 25th ... left camp at about 8 o'clock A.M. - marched across the Bridge, and took the road to Buckhannon - crossing Rich mountain, and right over [?] the battle ground [?] ...\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nSunday [April] 26th ... crossing the west fork of the Valley River ... equidistant from Philippo [Philippi] \u0026amp; Buckhannon, thus threatening them both - there we heard of reinforcements to the enemy - and as yet Gen Jones had not communicated with us in regard to his movements in the Batlo \u0026amp; Ohio R.Rd. He was to have communicated at Beverly, and we had been advancing hoping to hear from him every moment. It was obviously unsafe for us to proceed any further without his cooperation - as to attack either place would then be to expose our communications, and both our flanks - Gen. Imboden then determined to fall back to Beverly until he could [?] hear from Gen Jones ...\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nTuesday [April] 28th During that night the Gen got information from Gen Jones - which showed that altho' not successful in destroying the Cheat river viaduct, he had destroyed some smaller bridges and was in the country - so to day we started for Buckhannon - heard that the Yankees had evacuated that place in haste ...\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nWednesday [April] 29th Marched to Buckhannon - found that the Yankees 4000 strong with four pieces of artillery - had retreated in great haste ... Same disgraceful scenes [of looting] occurred here as at Beverly - I soon got disgusted, \u0026amp; came to camp where I have been ever since ...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n4. On 1863 May 15, Patton gave a final report to his wife:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\"... The day after I wrote you from that place we took up the line of march for Weston ... Weston is 23 miles from Clarksburg, and we found that the enemy had concentrated a large force at the latter place too strong for us to cope with - in their entrenchments. we remained at Weston offering them fight for three days, but they did not accept the gage [?] - Our provisions were giving out, and we found it impossible to procure any breadstuff. Gen Jones \u0026amp; Imboden therefore agreed as follows - Gen Jones with his cavalry Brigade marched to attack the North-Western Va R.Rd., while Imboden took up the line of march towards Summersville - so as to threaten the Kanawha Valley - Gen Jones performed his work most successfully - destroying several Bridges, \u0026amp; a tunnel. Gen Imboden met the greatest physical difficulties - it rained in torrents for three days, and nights, the roads were perfect quagmires - and it was with great difficulty \u0026amp; hardwork that we made four or five miles a day ... we then advanced on Summersville, but the place was evacuated before we could get there - Imboden's cavalry horses/men [?] pursued, and captured a train of 30 wagons - loaded with corn \u0026amp; hard bread [?] \u0026amp;c \u0026amp;c and 180 fine mules - At Summersville Gen Jones again Joined us - and there, against my earnest desire, and advice, it was determined to return to our lines - instead of pursuing our success, and driving the enemy out of the Kanawha Valley - Which I believed we could have done ... Thus ends our raid into Western Virginia - Characterized by great boldness, and meeting with great success - altho' I think that some golden opportunities were lost and that if Gen Lam [?] Jones had cooperated - we could have redeemed Western Va. - As it is the fruits of the expedition are many \u0026amp; important - 2500 or 3000 good beef cattle \u0026amp; 12 or 1500 horses have been driven out - The Confederate flag has been carried where it never floated before, great damage has been done to an important avenue of the enemy's communication, \u0026amp; great terror [?] and panic been infused [?] into Pierpoint [Pierpont] \u0026amp; his crew ... The trip has been one of great exposure \u0026amp; privation - We have been almost constantly marching for nearly five weeks - in a very difficult country... \"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThe raid proved to be a military success -- the raiders managed to destroy numerous railroad bridges, disrupting rail traffic on the critical Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. However, the raid was a political failure in that it did not dampen enthusiasm in western Virginia to form a new state. Patton's dissatisfaction with Jones grew as the year went on and by the end of 1863, he had concluded that the general was thoroughly incompetent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n5. On 1863 December 23, Patton sent his wife a lengthy update, disparaging Jones's behavior:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\"... We have had a most terrible campaign, so far as hardship and exposure go ... Soon after I last wrote you - the news was brought to us that Averill [sic: Averell?] ... was on his way to the Sweet Springs. I proposed and urged that we should at once march to meet the enemy - or if he had passed us to follow him up - and eventually force him to fight. Gen Jones however [?] decided otherwise, and ordered us to march to the Salt Sulphur Springs \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003e\u0026amp; cook two days rations\u003c/emph\u003e - During that night the news came that the enemy had passed the Sweet Springs mountain in the direction of the Railroad - My opinion was asked, and I again urged going to the Sweet Springs \u0026amp; beyond in the direction of the enemy - Gen Jones after great indecision concluded [?] to send Echols' Brigade in that direction, and McCauslands to Newport in Giles county - Thus dividing a force which was not as strong as Avrill's, into two portions - we marched that day 15 miles, and encamped, during the night a terrible [?] storm of rain \u0026amp; sleet came up to which we were exposed without any shelter, \u0026amp; suffered much - The next morning, the storm continued \u0026amp; we marched about 7 miles \u0026amp; encamped - Gen Jones being in the rear at a comfortable house, and sending word, that as he was somewhat unwell - he would not come out that day, unless absolutely necessary \u0026amp; there he staid [sic] - We spent another miserable night - and the next day went to the tip of the Sweet Springs mountain, an excellent position which we were ordered to fortify, and there we staid for three days, and nights - suffering greatly from the intense cold - The position was very strong, and as long as there was a great probability of the enemy's coming that way, was the proper place for the troops - but on Saturday afternoon we got reliable information that the enemy had turned to the left ... and gone in the direction of Covington - We ought then as I thought, to have moved at once to Callaghans - where we would certainly have intercepted the enemy - but we staid, at the old position - trusting, I suppose, to Jenkins [?] burning the bridges on Jackson river which he did not do - and the enemy passed him ... The troops from the East were all too late, and Avrill escaped - He ought to have been captured with his whole command, and would have been if we were blessed [?] in this department [?] with something like a Commanding General. Jones is utterly incompetent, and as long as he has the direction of affairs - we will have nothing but disaster and dispair [sic] here. That Avrill should have been allowed to escape - after being delayed for two days, by high water, in the heart of the state - is a burning shame and disgrace - The Army out here are entirely disgusted -- I write these things to you and the family only, for no good can be effected, by giving them publicly...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThe Patton letters also include six letters from Susan Thornton Glassell Patton to members of her family (folder 3, 1852-1863), including one written to her husband on 1863 March 15, prior to the Jones-Imboden Raid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThere are several letters to and from Susan's brother, William T. Glassell of the U.S. Navy and later of the Confederate Navy (folders 3 and 4, 1851-1863). William holds the distinction of serving as one of the world's first combat submariners when he led a crew on the torpedo boat \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDavid \u003c/emph\u003ein an attempt to destroy the USS \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNew Ironsides\u003c/emph\u003e on 1863 October 5. (See the book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eW.T. Glassell and the Little Torpedo Boat \"David\"\u003c/emph\u003e, mentioned in the Separation note, for more information.) Of particular interest is a letter by William, in Charleston, SC, 1863 September 18, to his sister Susan, writing, in part:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\"... My last to Father was from this place; and I informed him of my having come on to take part in the fight for Charleston, which I much prefer to remaining idle in Wilmington. Limited as you know are my means and power, I hope yet to strike a blow, with the aid of Almighty God, that even our powerful foe will not despise. Should it please God that I perish in the effort, His will be done! Should I never return, I have directed that what funds I possess shall be sent to Mr. Jno L. Bacon, for your use...\"\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection includes letters from George Smith Patton, Sr. (June 26, 1833 - September 25, 1864), who was the grandfather of WWII hero George S. Patton, Jr., and served as a Confederate Colonel during the Civil War. There are letters Patton wrote to his wife, Susan Thornton Glassell Patton (1835-1883), during their courtship and during his military service. There are also letters from Susan and other members of her family, including her brother and Confederate Naval hero William T. Glassell (1831-1879); her father, Andrew Glassell (1793-1873); her son-in-law Thomas Buren Brown, a Los Angeles attorney who married Susan's daughter Eleanor (Nellie) Thornton Patton (1857-1937); and her aunt, Eleanor L. Thornton Gibbs. A contents list is below, followed by transcriptions of select portions of the letters.","Select transcriptions:","Letters from George S. Patton to his wife Susan (Sue) comprise a significant component of this collection, including three love letters written during their courtship (1854-1855, folder 1) and nine letters written during his service in the Civil War (1863, folder 2). In one of the love letters from George to Susan, he asks her to obtain her father's permission for them to wed, writing on 1854 September 26:","\"...Should your father approve our engagement I hope that my future life will not make him regret his consent, or you me your preference - And now may I ask another favor from you to add to the many, which you have been so kind as to grant me? Please seek an early opportunity to inform him of my suit, and request his assent. For until that assent is obtained I shall feel, even tho' blessed with a knowledge of your preference -- I shall feel as if I had no right to call you my own ... It is to me a very novel feeling 'to be in love' You are the first whom I have ever loved - my fancy has frequently been captivated; my heart has never been touched before -: and what an 'aching void' does Love fill -: a deep yearning for affection is every mans portion [?] - and he can never be happy until the yearning is satisfied ...\"","Apparently there was no word from Andrew Glassell regarding his permission, and on 1854 October 17, George wrote Susan:","\"...You cannot imagine how anxious I am to know, if you have heard from your father on a subject near to my heart, and I would fain [?] hope, to yours also - You can readily imagine the awkward, and constraining position in which I am placed. For while I have given you every assurance of love, you have, with very proper maidenly delicacy, never given me the promise of your hand - Now while I can but acknowledge the propriety of your course - yet I am often restrained in what I should like to say by the thought, that you might think, that I was presuming - Did I not have the most perfect and unquestioning confidence in you - I should be very unhappy - As it is I am very uneasy - altho I am sure that my little lady, would not disappoint me so bitterly without good and sufficient cause which Heaven forfend from ever rising on my part. ...\"","Susan's father finally gave his consent and the couple wed on 1855 September 8. These letters are not only touching and emotional, but pivotal in light of the fact that this union made possible the birth of one of America's most important military men of the twentieth century: their grandson, George Smith Patton, Jr. (1885-1945).","The series of nine letters from George to Susan in 1863 describe in vivid detail the Confederate raid into [West] Virginia led by Generals William E. \"Grumble\" Jones and John D. Imboden, during which Patton was a colonel in the 22nd Virginia Infantry. Patton describes the arduous campaign in a series of seven letters dating between 1863 April 14 and 1863 May 15, four of which are excerpted here; a fifth excerpted letter from December gives his final update. The letters read, in part:","1. On 1863 April 14 -- \"... will join Imboden's forces at Huttonsville [?] - and will be too strong for any force the Yankees are likely to have at Beverley - we hear by the way [?] that they have 150 contraband soldiers there - our boys all intent[?] on getting a body servant.\"","2. On 1863 April 28 -- \"We have been maneuvering so as to assist Gen Jones (of the Valley) in his attack on the Railroad - I have now every reason to believe from the movements of the enemy - that he has been entirely successful - The Yankees have evacuated both Philippee [Philippi] \u0026 Buckhannon and we advance on the Carter place in a few minutes - The prospect now is very bright and we have certainly put the bogus Enuisen/Generals [?] in a great pickle... Tell Andrew that Pa has got him a pretty Yankee hat - with a feather \u0026c.\"","3. On 1863 April 30, in camp near Buckhannon, [West] Virginia, Patton had sufficient time to describe the campaign in great detail, giving a day-by-day account of his movements \"in something like diary form\" in a lengthy letter which reads, in part:","\"On Sunday night [April 19?], I got orders by special courier from Gen Imboden - to proceed to Join him by way of Monterey [?] ... [on April 20] passing Huntersville [?] ruined \u0026 desolated by both armies, \u0026 particularly burned by the Yankees. A more perfect picture of the horror [?] of war could not be conceived - Once a flourishing country village of several hundred souls - now deserted save by three families - fences destroyed horses/houses [?] pillaged ...\"","His regiment marched on to Hightown, \"where the rest of the expeditionary force had assembled - road [?] on myself - to see the General - was rec'd very cordially. \u0026 liked him much as a man - What he was as a General remained to be proved.\" The force, now numbering 3,500, continued their northward march into the Alleghany Mountains:","\"Wednesday [April] 22 ... It was 18 miles across the mountains, and but one inhabited home on the road - got to camp just before dark - crossing the Greenbrier river - at the scene of the action there - Rain still increasing - camped on the wet ground - without shelter or supper, as our wagons did not come up - except some crackers for the men ... Everybody wet, hungry \u0026 cold --","Thursday [April] 23: No wagons came up, few crackers for breakfast - started at 7 A.M. to cross celebrated cheat mountain ... 18 miles across, 9 up, and 9 down - Road in miserable order ... At the top of the mountain passed the Yankee intrenchments [sic] - which are quite strong, and rendered almost impregnable by position ... Camped at the foot of the mountain having marched nearly 20 miles - no supper as our wagons were still behind ...","Friday [April] 24th - Started at 7 A.M. ... took a foot path through the woods to avoid crossing the river twice, and marched our way to Beverly - I heard from country people that the Yankees had no idea of our approach - and that they were only about 1200 strong, \u0026 would not give us a fight - our advance pushed on \u0026 about 2 o'clock we in the rear heard the boom [?] of a cannon - ranks were immediately closed, \u0026 we pushed on - as we came around the bend of the road about a mile from town, we were seen by the enemy, who [was] shelling us - their practice was good -one shell bursting a few feet from the 22nd \u0026 slightly wounding a Lieutenant - not enough to stop him - I was met by an aid, who ordered me, to shelter my men from the cannonade, \u0026 await orders, I did so. In a few minutes, I was advanced to another position \u0026 finally to a third - where my orders [?] were to wait until the other troops became engaged \u0026 then/there [?] to charge the battery - we were all ready to do the work - but the Yankees gave us no chance, retreating before there was any engagement. We pursued them several miles - as we passed through town - many ladies waved their handkerchiefs \u0026c - but the Union element was very visible - The Yankees burned in retreating their stores, and the store of a man of Secession proclivities - we were in town but a few moments, and our men broke into and pillaged a sutlers establishment, and the store of the Union Sheriff of the county - I did not feel very much envy/sorry [?] for the owners, but I regretted the demoralization it must necessarily cause - Peter got in the streets, and Yankee camp quite an assortment, but did not go into any store. I am afraid that Imboden is no disciplinarian - \u0026 many of his officers certainly are not ...","Saturday [April] 25th ... left camp at about 8 o'clock A.M. - marched across the Bridge, and took the road to Buckhannon - crossing Rich mountain, and right over [?] the battle ground [?] ...","Sunday [April] 26th ... crossing the west fork of the Valley River ... equidistant from Philippo [Philippi] \u0026 Buckhannon, thus threatening them both - there we heard of reinforcements to the enemy - and as yet Gen Jones had not communicated with us in regard to his movements in the Batlo \u0026 Ohio R.Rd. He was to have communicated at Beverly, and we had been advancing hoping to hear from him every moment. It was obviously unsafe for us to proceed any further without his cooperation - as to attack either place would then be to expose our communications, and both our flanks - Gen. Imboden then determined to fall back to Beverly until he could [?] hear from Gen Jones ...","Tuesday [April] 28th During that night the Gen got information from Gen Jones - which showed that altho' not successful in destroying the Cheat river viaduct, he had destroyed some smaller bridges and was in the country - so to day we started for Buckhannon - heard that the Yankees had evacuated that place in haste ...","Wednesday [April] 29th Marched to Buckhannon - found that the Yankees 4000 strong with four pieces of artillery - had retreated in great haste ... Same disgraceful scenes [of looting] occurred here as at Beverly - I soon got disgusted, \u0026 came to camp where I have been ever since ...\"","4. On 1863 May 15, Patton gave a final report to his wife:","\"... The day after I wrote you from that place we took up the line of march for Weston ... Weston is 23 miles from Clarksburg, and we found that the enemy had concentrated a large force at the latter place too strong for us to cope with - in their entrenchments. we remained at Weston offering them fight for three days, but they did not accept the gage [?] - Our provisions were giving out, and we found it impossible to procure any breadstuff. Gen Jones \u0026 Imboden therefore agreed as follows - Gen Jones with his cavalry Brigade marched to attack the North-Western Va R.Rd., while Imboden took up the line of march towards Summersville - so as to threaten the Kanawha Valley - Gen Jones performed his work most successfully - destroying several Bridges, \u0026 a tunnel. Gen Imboden met the greatest physical difficulties - it rained in torrents for three days, and nights, the roads were perfect quagmires - and it was with great difficulty \u0026 hardwork that we made four or five miles a day ... we then advanced on Summersville, but the place was evacuated before we could get there - Imboden's cavalry horses/men [?] pursued, and captured a train of 30 wagons - loaded with corn \u0026 hard bread [?] \u0026c \u0026c and 180 fine mules - At Summersville Gen Jones again Joined us - and there, against my earnest desire, and advice, it was determined to return to our lines - instead of pursuing our success, and driving the enemy out of the Kanawha Valley - Which I believed we could have done ... Thus ends our raid into Western Virginia - Characterized by great boldness, and meeting with great success - altho' I think that some golden opportunities were lost and that if Gen Lam [?] Jones had cooperated - we could have redeemed Western Va. - As it is the fruits of the expedition are many \u0026 important - 2500 or 3000 good beef cattle \u0026 12 or 1500 horses have been driven out - The Confederate flag has been carried where it never floated before, great damage has been done to an important avenue of the enemy's communication, \u0026 great terror [?] and panic been infused [?] into Pierpoint [Pierpont] \u0026 his crew ... The trip has been one of great exposure \u0026 privation - We have been almost constantly marching for nearly five weeks - in a very difficult country... \"","The raid proved to be a military success -- the raiders managed to destroy numerous railroad bridges, disrupting rail traffic on the critical Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. However, the raid was a political failure in that it did not dampen enthusiasm in western Virginia to form a new state. Patton's dissatisfaction with Jones grew as the year went on and by the end of 1863, he had concluded that the general was thoroughly incompetent.","5. On 1863 December 23, Patton sent his wife a lengthy update, disparaging Jones's behavior:","\"... We have had a most terrible campaign, so far as hardship and exposure go ... Soon after I last wrote you - the news was brought to us that Averill [sic: Averell?] ... was on his way to the Sweet Springs. I proposed and urged that we should at once march to meet the enemy - or if he had passed us to follow him up - and eventually force him to fight. Gen Jones however [?] decided otherwise, and ordered us to march to the Salt Sulphur Springs \u0026 cook two days rations - During that night the news came that the enemy had passed the Sweet Springs mountain in the direction of the Railroad - My opinion was asked, and I again urged going to the Sweet Springs \u0026 beyond in the direction of the enemy - Gen Jones after great indecision concluded [?] to send Echols' Brigade in that direction, and McCauslands to Newport in Giles county - Thus dividing a force which was not as strong as Avrill's, into two portions - we marched that day 15 miles, and encamped, during the night a terrible [?] storm of rain \u0026 sleet came up to which we were exposed without any shelter, \u0026 suffered much - The next morning, the storm continued \u0026 we marched about 7 miles \u0026 encamped - Gen Jones being in the rear at a comfortable house, and sending word, that as he was somewhat unwell - he would not come out that day, unless absolutely necessary \u0026 there he staid [sic] - We spent another miserable night - and the next day went to the tip of the Sweet Springs mountain, an excellent position which we were ordered to fortify, and there we staid for three days, and nights - suffering greatly from the intense cold - The position was very strong, and as long as there was a great probability of the enemy's coming that way, was the proper place for the troops - but on Saturday afternoon we got reliable information that the enemy had turned to the left ... and gone in the direction of Covington - We ought then as I thought, to have moved at once to Callaghans - where we would certainly have intercepted the enemy - but we staid, at the old position - trusting, I suppose, to Jenkins [?] burning the bridges on Jackson river which he did not do - and the enemy passed him ... The troops from the East were all too late, and Avrill escaped - He ought to have been captured with his whole command, and would have been if we were blessed [?] in this department [?] with something like a Commanding General. Jones is utterly incompetent, and as long as he has the direction of affairs - we will have nothing but disaster and dispair [sic] here. That Avrill should have been allowed to escape - after being delayed for two days, by high water, in the heart of the state - is a burning shame and disgrace - The Army out here are entirely disgusted -- I write these things to you and the family only, for no good can be effected, by giving them publicly...\"","The Patton letters also include six letters from Susan Thornton Glassell Patton to members of her family (folder 3, 1852-1863), including one written to her husband on 1863 March 15, prior to the Jones-Imboden Raid.","There are several letters to and from Susan's brother, William T. Glassell of the U.S. Navy and later of the Confederate Navy (folders 3 and 4, 1851-1863). William holds the distinction of serving as one of the world's first combat submariners when he led a crew on the torpedo boat David in an attempt to destroy the USS New Ironsides on 1863 October 5. (See the book W.T. Glassell and the Little Torpedo Boat \"David\", mentioned in the Separation note, for more information.) Of particular interest is a letter by William, in Charleston, SC, 1863 September 18, to his sister Susan, writing, in part:","\"... My last to Father was from this place; and I informed him of my having come on to take part in the fight for Charleston, which I much prefer to remaining idle in Wilmington. Limited as you know are my means and power, I hope yet to strike a blow, with the aid of Almighty God, that even our powerful foe will not despise. Should it please God that I perish in the effort, His will be done! Should I never return, I have directed that what funds I possess shall be sent to Mr. Jno L. Bacon, for your use...\""],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeparated to Rare Book Collection: Glassell, William T, and Eleanor B. MacFarland. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eW.T. Glassell and the Little Torpedo Boat \"David\"\u003c/title\u003e. Los Angeles: Privately printed for E.B. MacFarland, 1937. 30 pp. octavo. illus. with 3 plates (Bound in blue cloth boards titled in gilt on red leather. Dampstains and rubbing to boards and spine). Compiled by his niece, Eleanor Banning MacFarland and inscribed by her on the flyleaf, \"To Hobie / With love from / Eleanor.\"\u003c/p\u003e  "],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Separated to Rare Book Collection: Glassell, William T, and Eleanor B. MacFarland. W.T. Glassell and the Little Torpedo Boat \"David\". Los Angeles: Privately printed for E.B. MacFarland, 1937. 30 pp. octavo. illus. with 3 plates (Bound in blue cloth boards titled in gilt on red leather. Dampstains and rubbing to boards and spine). Compiled by his niece, Eleanor Banning MacFarland and inscribed by her on the flyleaf, \"To Hobie / With love from / Eleanor.\""],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_7019ce63331ed448b9d10b3b901872c0\"\u003eThe collection includes letters from George Smith Patton, Sr. (June 26, 1833 - September 25, 1864), who was the grandfather of WWII hero George S. Patton, Jr., and served as a Confederate Colonel during the Civil War. There are letters Patton wrote to his wife, Susan Thornton Glassell Patton (1835-1883), during their courtship and during his military service. There are also letters from Susan and other members of her family, including her brother and Confederate Naval hero William T. Glassell (1831-1879); her father, Andrew Glassell (1793-1873); her son-in-law Thomas Buren Brown, a Los Angeles attorney who married Susan's daughter Eleanor (Nellie) Thornton Patton (1857-1937); and her aunt, Eleanor L. Thornton Gibbs. See Scope and Content note for a contents list and transcriptions of select portions of the letters.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["The collection includes letters from George Smith Patton, Sr. (June 26, 1833 - September 25, 1864), who was the grandfather of WWII hero George S. Patton, Jr., and served as a Confederate Colonel during the Civil War. There are letters Patton wrote to his wife, Susan Thornton Glassell Patton (1835-1883), during their courtship and during his military service. There are also letters from Susan and other members of her family, including her brother and Confederate Naval hero William T. Glassell (1831-1879); her father, Andrew Glassell (1793-1873); her son-in-law Thomas Buren Brown, a Los Angeles attorney who married Susan's daughter Eleanor (Nellie) Thornton Patton (1857-1937); and her aunt, Eleanor L. Thornton Gibbs. 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He practiced law in Kanawha County before the war broke out.","He enlisted as a private on May 5, 1861, but within a month had secured a commission as a captain in the 22nd Virginia Infantry. Patton was wounded twice in battle: at the Battle of Scary Creek in 1861, he suffered a shoulder wound and was captured after being left on the battlefield, and at the Giles Court House conflict in 1862, he was wounded in the stomach. By the time Patton joined the Jones-Imboden Raid, he had been promoted to full colonel and had served some time in a Union prisoner-of-war camp. He was killed in action at the Battle of Opequon, also known as the Third Battle of Winchester, in 1864, leaving behind his wife and four children.","William Thornton Glassell (January 15, 1831 - January 28, 1879), brother of Susan Thornton Glassell Patton, served as one of the world's first combat submariners. Born in Culpeper County, Virginia, he joined the U.S. Navy, serving as a midshipman in the late 1840s and early 1850s. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1855. When the Civil War erupted, Glassell was aboard a naval vessel in China. Upon his return to the U.S. in 1861, he refused to swear the oath of allegiance expected from Southerners, and was imprisoned at Fort Warren for eight months before being exchanged. The Confederate Navy immediately conferred a lieutenant's commission upon him with command of the ironclad CSS Chicora at Charleston Harbor.","On the night of October 5, 1863, Glassell and a crew of three piloted the torpedo boat CSS David in an attempt to destroy the ironclad USS New Ironsides by ramming a spar torpedo into it. The torpedo's explosion extinguished the David's fires, rendering her inoperable in a hail of small arms fire. Most of David's crew abandoned ship; while the pilot and firemen were eventually able to relight the engine, Glassell was captured and sent once again to Fort Warren. New Ironsides, originally presumed unhurt, was actually damaged enough to be put out of service for nearly a year. For his bravery, Glassell was promoted to commander. For a book about his exploits, please see the Separation note.","The collection includes letters from George Smith Patton, Sr. (June 26, 1833 - September 25, 1864), who was the grandfather of WWII hero George S. Patton, Jr., and served as a Confederate Colonel during the Civil War. There are letters Patton wrote to his wife, Susan Thornton Glassell Patton (1835-1883), during their courtship and during his military service. There are also letters from Susan and other members of her family, including her brother and Confederate Naval hero William T. Glassell (1831-1879); her father, Andrew Glassell (1793-1873); her son-in-law Thomas Buren Brown, a Los Angeles attorney who married Susan's daughter Eleanor (Nellie) Thornton Patton (1857-1937); and her aunt, Eleanor L. Thornton Gibbs. A contents list is below, followed by transcriptions of select portions of the letters.","Select transcriptions:","Letters from George S. Patton to his wife Susan (Sue) comprise a significant component of this collection, including three love letters written during their courtship (1854-1855, folder 1) and nine letters written during his service in the Civil War (1863, folder 2). In one of the love letters from George to Susan, he asks her to obtain her father's permission for them to wed, writing on 1854 September 26:","\"...Should your father approve our engagement I hope that my future life will not make him regret his consent, or you me your preference - And now may I ask another favor from you to add to the many, which you have been so kind as to grant me? Please seek an early opportunity to inform him of my suit, and request his assent. For until that assent is obtained I shall feel, even tho' blessed with a knowledge of your preference -- I shall feel as if I had no right to call you my own ... It is to me a very novel feeling 'to be in love' You are the first whom I have ever loved - my fancy has frequently been captivated; my heart has never been touched before -: and what an 'aching void' does Love fill -: a deep yearning for affection is every mans portion [?] - and he can never be happy until the yearning is satisfied ...\"","Apparently there was no word from Andrew Glassell regarding his permission, and on 1854 October 17, George wrote Susan:","\"...You cannot imagine how anxious I am to know, if you have heard from your father on a subject near to my heart, and I would fain [?] hope, to yours also - You can readily imagine the awkward, and constraining position in which I am placed. For while I have given you every assurance of love, you have, with very proper maidenly delicacy, never given me the promise of your hand - Now while I can but acknowledge the propriety of your course - yet I am often restrained in what I should like to say by the thought, that you might think, that I was presuming - Did I not have the most perfect and unquestioning confidence in you - I should be very unhappy - As it is I am very uneasy - altho I am sure that my little lady, would not disappoint me so bitterly without good and sufficient cause which Heaven forfend from ever rising on my part. ...\"","Susan's father finally gave his consent and the couple wed on 1855 September 8. These letters are not only touching and emotional, but pivotal in light of the fact that this union made possible the birth of one of America's most important military men of the twentieth century: their grandson, George Smith Patton, Jr. (1885-1945).","The series of nine letters from George to Susan in 1863 describe in vivid detail the Confederate raid into [West] Virginia led by Generals William E. \"Grumble\" Jones and John D. Imboden, during which Patton was a colonel in the 22nd Virginia Infantry. Patton describes the arduous campaign in a series of seven letters dating between 1863 April 14 and 1863 May 15, four of which are excerpted here; a fifth excerpted letter from December gives his final update. The letters read, in part:","1. On 1863 April 14 -- \"... will join Imboden's forces at Huttonsville [?] - and will be too strong for any force the Yankees are likely to have at Beverley - we hear by the way [?] that they have 150 contraband soldiers there - our boys all intent[?] on getting a body servant.\"","2. On 1863 April 28 -- \"We have been maneuvering so as to assist Gen Jones (of the Valley) in his attack on the Railroad - I have now every reason to believe from the movements of the enemy - that he has been entirely successful - The Yankees have evacuated both Philippee [Philippi] \u0026 Buckhannon and we advance on the Carter place in a few minutes - The prospect now is very bright and we have certainly put the bogus Enuisen/Generals [?] in a great pickle... Tell Andrew that Pa has got him a pretty Yankee hat - with a feather \u0026c.\"","3. On 1863 April 30, in camp near Buckhannon, [West] Virginia, Patton had sufficient time to describe the campaign in great detail, giving a day-by-day account of his movements \"in something like diary form\" in a lengthy letter which reads, in part:","\"On Sunday night [April 19?], I got orders by special courier from Gen Imboden - to proceed to Join him by way of Monterey [?] ... [on April 20] passing Huntersville [?] ruined \u0026 desolated by both armies, \u0026 particularly burned by the Yankees. A more perfect picture of the horror [?] of war could not be conceived - Once a flourishing country village of several hundred souls - now deserted save by three families - fences destroyed horses/houses [?] pillaged ...\"","His regiment marched on to Hightown, \"where the rest of the expeditionary force had assembled - road [?] on myself - to see the General - was rec'd very cordially. \u0026 liked him much as a man - What he was as a General remained to be proved.\" The force, now numbering 3,500, continued their northward march into the Alleghany Mountains:","\"Wednesday [April] 22 ... It was 18 miles across the mountains, and but one inhabited home on the road - got to camp just before dark - crossing the Greenbrier river - at the scene of the action there - Rain still increasing - camped on the wet ground - without shelter or supper, as our wagons did not come up - except some crackers for the men ... Everybody wet, hungry \u0026 cold --","Thursday [April] 23: No wagons came up, few crackers for breakfast - started at 7 A.M. to cross celebrated cheat mountain ... 18 miles across, 9 up, and 9 down - Road in miserable order ... At the top of the mountain passed the Yankee intrenchments [sic] - which are quite strong, and rendered almost impregnable by position ... Camped at the foot of the mountain having marched nearly 20 miles - no supper as our wagons were still behind ...","Friday [April] 24th - Started at 7 A.M. ... took a foot path through the woods to avoid crossing the river twice, and marched our way to Beverly - I heard from country people that the Yankees had no idea of our approach - and that they were only about 1200 strong, \u0026 would not give us a fight - our advance pushed on \u0026 about 2 o'clock we in the rear heard the boom [?] of a cannon - ranks were immediately closed, \u0026 we pushed on - as we came around the bend of the road about a mile from town, we were seen by the enemy, who [was] shelling us - their practice was good -one shell bursting a few feet from the 22nd \u0026 slightly wounding a Lieutenant - not enough to stop him - I was met by an aid, who ordered me, to shelter my men from the cannonade, \u0026 await orders, I did so. In a few minutes, I was advanced to another position \u0026 finally to a third - where my orders [?] were to wait until the other troops became engaged \u0026 then/there [?] to charge the battery - we were all ready to do the work - but the Yankees gave us no chance, retreating before there was any engagement. We pursued them several miles - as we passed through town - many ladies waved their handkerchiefs \u0026c - but the Union element was very visible - The Yankees burned in retreating their stores, and the store of a man of Secession proclivities - we were in town but a few moments, and our men broke into and pillaged a sutlers establishment, and the store of the Union Sheriff of the county - I did not feel very much envy/sorry [?] for the owners, but I regretted the demoralization it must necessarily cause - Peter got in the streets, and Yankee camp quite an assortment, but did not go into any store. I am afraid that Imboden is no disciplinarian - \u0026 many of his officers certainly are not ...","Saturday [April] 25th ... left camp at about 8 o'clock A.M. - marched across the Bridge, and took the road to Buckhannon - crossing Rich mountain, and right over [?] the battle ground [?] ...","Sunday [April] 26th ... crossing the west fork of the Valley River ... equidistant from Philippo [Philippi] \u0026 Buckhannon, thus threatening them both - there we heard of reinforcements to the enemy - and as yet Gen Jones had not communicated with us in regard to his movements in the Batlo \u0026 Ohio R.Rd. He was to have communicated at Beverly, and we had been advancing hoping to hear from him every moment. It was obviously unsafe for us to proceed any further without his cooperation - as to attack either place would then be to expose our communications, and both our flanks - Gen. Imboden then determined to fall back to Beverly until he could [?] hear from Gen Jones ...","Tuesday [April] 28th During that night the Gen got information from Gen Jones - which showed that altho' not successful in destroying the Cheat river viaduct, he had destroyed some smaller bridges and was in the country - so to day we started for Buckhannon - heard that the Yankees had evacuated that place in haste ...","Wednesday [April] 29th Marched to Buckhannon - found that the Yankees 4000 strong with four pieces of artillery - had retreated in great haste ... Same disgraceful scenes [of looting] occurred here as at Beverly - I soon got disgusted, \u0026 came to camp where I have been ever since ...\"","4. On 1863 May 15, Patton gave a final report to his wife:","\"... The day after I wrote you from that place we took up the line of march for Weston ... Weston is 23 miles from Clarksburg, and we found that the enemy had concentrated a large force at the latter place too strong for us to cope with - in their entrenchments. we remained at Weston offering them fight for three days, but they did not accept the gage [?] - Our provisions were giving out, and we found it impossible to procure any breadstuff. Gen Jones \u0026 Imboden therefore agreed as follows - Gen Jones with his cavalry Brigade marched to attack the North-Western Va R.Rd., while Imboden took up the line of march towards Summersville - so as to threaten the Kanawha Valley - Gen Jones performed his work most successfully - destroying several Bridges, \u0026 a tunnel. Gen Imboden met the greatest physical difficulties - it rained in torrents for three days, and nights, the roads were perfect quagmires - and it was with great difficulty \u0026 hardwork that we made four or five miles a day ... we then advanced on Summersville, but the place was evacuated before we could get there - Imboden's cavalry horses/men [?] pursued, and captured a train of 30 wagons - loaded with corn \u0026 hard bread [?] \u0026c \u0026c and 180 fine mules - At Summersville Gen Jones again Joined us - and there, against my earnest desire, and advice, it was determined to return to our lines - instead of pursuing our success, and driving the enemy out of the Kanawha Valley - Which I believed we could have done ... Thus ends our raid into Western Virginia - Characterized by great boldness, and meeting with great success - altho' I think that some golden opportunities were lost and that if Gen Lam [?] Jones had cooperated - we could have redeemed Western Va. - As it is the fruits of the expedition are many \u0026 important - 2500 or 3000 good beef cattle \u0026 12 or 1500 horses have been driven out - The Confederate flag has been carried where it never floated before, great damage has been done to an important avenue of the enemy's communication, \u0026 great terror [?] and panic been infused [?] into Pierpoint [Pierpont] \u0026 his crew ... The trip has been one of great exposure \u0026 privation - We have been almost constantly marching for nearly five weeks - in a very difficult country... \"","The raid proved to be a military success -- the raiders managed to destroy numerous railroad bridges, disrupting rail traffic on the critical Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. However, the raid was a political failure in that it did not dampen enthusiasm in western Virginia to form a new state. Patton's dissatisfaction with Jones grew as the year went on and by the end of 1863, he had concluded that the general was thoroughly incompetent.","5. On 1863 December 23, Patton sent his wife a lengthy update, disparaging Jones's behavior:","\"... We have had a most terrible campaign, so far as hardship and exposure go ... Soon after I last wrote you - the news was brought to us that Averill [sic: Averell?] ... was on his way to the Sweet Springs. I proposed and urged that we should at once march to meet the enemy - or if he had passed us to follow him up - and eventually force him to fight. Gen Jones however [?] decided otherwise, and ordered us to march to the Salt Sulphur Springs \u0026 cook two days rations - During that night the news came that the enemy had passed the Sweet Springs mountain in the direction of the Railroad - My opinion was asked, and I again urged going to the Sweet Springs \u0026 beyond in the direction of the enemy - Gen Jones after great indecision concluded [?] to send Echols' Brigade in that direction, and McCauslands to Newport in Giles county - Thus dividing a force which was not as strong as Avrill's, into two portions - we marched that day 15 miles, and encamped, during the night a terrible [?] storm of rain \u0026 sleet came up to which we were exposed without any shelter, \u0026 suffered much - The next morning, the storm continued \u0026 we marched about 7 miles \u0026 encamped - Gen Jones being in the rear at a comfortable house, and sending word, that as he was somewhat unwell - he would not come out that day, unless absolutely necessary \u0026 there he staid [sic] - We spent another miserable night - and the next day went to the tip of the Sweet Springs mountain, an excellent position which we were ordered to fortify, and there we staid for three days, and nights - suffering greatly from the intense cold - The position was very strong, and as long as there was a great probability of the enemy's coming that way, was the proper place for the troops - but on Saturday afternoon we got reliable information that the enemy had turned to the left ... and gone in the direction of Covington - We ought then as I thought, to have moved at once to Callaghans - where we would certainly have intercepted the enemy - but we staid, at the old position - trusting, I suppose, to Jenkins [?] burning the bridges on Jackson river which he did not do - and the enemy passed him ... The troops from the East were all too late, and Avrill escaped - He ought to have been captured with his whole command, and would have been if we were blessed [?] in this department [?] with something like a Commanding General. Jones is utterly incompetent, and as long as he has the direction of affairs - we will have nothing but disaster and dispair [sic] here. That Avrill should have been allowed to escape - after being delayed for two days, by high water, in the heart of the state - is a burning shame and disgrace - The Army out here are entirely disgusted -- I write these things to you and the family only, for no good can be effected, by giving them publicly...\"","The Patton letters also include six letters from Susan Thornton Glassell Patton to members of her family (folder 3, 1852-1863), including one written to her husband on 1863 March 15, prior to the Jones-Imboden Raid.","There are several letters to and from Susan's brother, William T. Glassell of the U.S. Navy and later of the Confederate Navy (folders 3 and 4, 1851-1863). William holds the distinction of serving as one of the world's first combat submariners when he led a crew on the torpedo boat David in an attempt to destroy the USS New Ironsides on 1863 October 5. (See the book W.T. Glassell and the Little Torpedo Boat \"David\", mentioned in the Separation note, for more information.) Of particular interest is a letter by William, in Charleston, SC, 1863 September 18, to his sister Susan, writing, in part:","\"... My last to Father was from this place; and I informed him of my having come on to take part in the fight for Charleston, which I much prefer to remaining idle in Wilmington. Limited as you know are my means and power, I hope yet to strike a blow, with the aid of Almighty God, that even our powerful foe will not despise. Should it please God that I perish in the effort, His will be done! Should I never return, I have directed that what funds I possess shall be sent to Mr. Jno L. Bacon, for your use...\"","Separated to Rare Book Collection: Glassell, William T, and Eleanor B. MacFarland. W.T. Glassell and the Little Torpedo Boat \"David\". Los Angeles: Privately printed for E.B. MacFarland, 1937. 30 pp. octavo. illus. with 3 plates (Bound in blue cloth boards titled in gilt on red leather. Dampstains and rubbing to boards and spine). Compiled by his niece, Eleanor Banning MacFarland and inscribed by her on the flyleaf, \"To Hobie / With love from / Eleanor.\"","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","The collection includes letters from George Smith Patton, Sr. (June 26, 1833 - September 25, 1864), who was the grandfather of WWII hero George S. 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He practiced law in Kanawha County before the war broke out.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nHe enlisted as a private on May 5, 1861, but within a month had secured a commission as a captain in the 22nd Virginia Infantry. Patton was wounded twice in battle: at the Battle of Scary Creek in 1861, he suffered a shoulder wound and was captured after being left on the battlefield, and at the Giles Court House conflict in 1862, he was wounded in the stomach. By the time Patton joined the Jones-Imboden Raid, he had been promoted to full colonel and had served some time in a Union prisoner-of-war camp. He was killed in action at the Battle of Opequon, also known as the Third Battle of Winchester, in 1864, leaving behind his wife and four children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nWilliam Thornton Glassell (January 15, 1831 - January 28, 1879), brother of Susan Thornton Glassell Patton, served as one of the world's first combat submariners. Born in Culpeper County, Virginia, he joined the U.S. Navy, serving as a midshipman in the late 1840s and early 1850s. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1855. When the Civil War erupted, Glassell was aboard a naval vessel in China. Upon his return to the U.S. in 1861, he refused to swear the oath of allegiance expected from Southerners, and was imprisoned at Fort Warren for eight months before being exchanged. The Confederate Navy immediately conferred a lieutenant's commission upon him with command of the ironclad CSS \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eChicora\u003c/emph\u003e at Charleston Harbor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nOn the night of October 5, 1863, Glassell and a crew of three piloted the torpedo boat CSS \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDavid \u003c/emph\u003ein an attempt to destroy the ironclad USS \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNew Ironsides\u003c/emph\u003e by ramming a spar torpedo into it. The torpedo's explosion extinguished the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDavid\u003c/emph\u003e's fires, rendering her inoperable in a hail of small arms fire. Most of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDavid\u003c/emph\u003e's crew abandoned ship; while the pilot and firemen were eventually able to relight the engine, Glassell was captured and sent once again to Fort Warren. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNew Ironsides\u003c/emph\u003e, originally presumed unhurt, was actually damaged enough to be put out of service for nearly a year. For his bravery, Glassell was promoted to commander. For a book about his exploits, please see the Separation note.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["George Smith Patton, Sr. (June 26, 1833 - September 25, 1864) was the grandfather of WWII hero George S. Patton, Jr., and served as a Confederate Colonel during the Civil War. He was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia and raised in Richmond. He graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1852, and married Susan Thornton Glassell (1835-1883) on September 8, 1855. He practiced law in Kanawha County before the war broke out.","He enlisted as a private on May 5, 1861, but within a month had secured a commission as a captain in the 22nd Virginia Infantry. Patton was wounded twice in battle: at the Battle of Scary Creek in 1861, he suffered a shoulder wound and was captured after being left on the battlefield, and at the Giles Court House conflict in 1862, he was wounded in the stomach. By the time Patton joined the Jones-Imboden Raid, he had been promoted to full colonel and had served some time in a Union prisoner-of-war camp. He was killed in action at the Battle of Opequon, also known as the Third Battle of Winchester, in 1864, leaving behind his wife and four children.","William Thornton Glassell (January 15, 1831 - January 28, 1879), brother of Susan Thornton Glassell Patton, served as one of the world's first combat submariners. Born in Culpeper County, Virginia, he joined the U.S. Navy, serving as a midshipman in the late 1840s and early 1850s. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1855. When the Civil War erupted, Glassell was aboard a naval vessel in China. Upon his return to the U.S. in 1861, he refused to swear the oath of allegiance expected from Southerners, and was imprisoned at Fort Warren for eight months before being exchanged. The Confederate Navy immediately conferred a lieutenant's commission upon him with command of the ironclad CSS Chicora at Charleston Harbor.","On the night of October 5, 1863, Glassell and a crew of three piloted the torpedo boat CSS David in an attempt to destroy the ironclad USS New Ironsides by ramming a spar torpedo into it. The torpedo's explosion extinguished the David's fires, rendering her inoperable in a hail of small arms fire. Most of David's crew abandoned ship; while the pilot and firemen were eventually able to relight the engine, Glassell was captured and sent once again to Fort Warren. New Ironsides, originally presumed unhurt, was actually damaged enough to be put out of service for nearly a year. For his bravery, Glassell was promoted to commander. For a book about his exploits, please see the Separation note."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George S. Patton, Sr. Correspondence, A\u0026amp;M 4075, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George S. Patton, Sr. Correspondence, A\u0026M 4075, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes letters from George Smith Patton, Sr. (June 26, 1833 - September 25, 1864), who was the grandfather of WWII hero George S. Patton, Jr., and served as a Confederate Colonel during the Civil War. There are letters Patton wrote to his wife, Susan Thornton Glassell Patton (1835-1883), during their courtship and during his military service. There are also letters from Susan and other members of her family, including her brother and Confederate Naval hero William T. Glassell (1831-1879); her father, Andrew Glassell (1793-1873); her son-in-law Thomas Buren Brown, a Los Angeles attorney who married Susan's daughter Eleanor (Nellie) Thornton Patton (1857-1937); and her aunt, Eleanor L. Thornton Gibbs. A contents list is below, followed by transcriptions of select portions of the letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSelect transcriptions:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nLetters from George S. Patton to his wife Susan (Sue) comprise a significant component of this collection, including three love letters written during their courtship (1854-1855, folder 1) and nine letters written during his service in the Civil War (1863, folder 2). In one of the love letters from George to Susan, he asks her to obtain her father's permission for them to wed, writing on 1854 September 26:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\"...Should your father approve our engagement I hope that my future life will not make him regret his consent, or you me your preference - And now may I ask another favor from you to add to the many, which you have been so kind as to grant me? Please seek an early opportunity to inform him of my suit, and request his assent. For until that assent is obtained I shall feel, even tho' blessed with a knowledge of your preference -- I shall feel as if I had no right to call you \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003emy own\u003c/emph\u003e ... It is to me a very novel feeling 'to be in love' You are the first whom I have ever loved - my fancy has frequently been captivated; my heart has never been touched before -: and what an 'aching void' does Love fill -: a deep yearning for affection is every mans portion [?] - and he can never be happy until the yearning is satisfied ...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nApparently there was no word from Andrew Glassell regarding his permission, and on 1854 October 17, George wrote Susan:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\"...You cannot imagine how anxious I am to know, if you have heard from your father on a subject near to my heart, and I would fain [?] hope, to yours also - You can readily imagine the awkward, and constraining position in which I am placed. For while I have given you every assurance of love, you have, with very proper maidenly delicacy, never given me the promise of your hand - Now while I can but acknowledge the propriety of your course - yet I am often restrained in what I should like to say by the thought, that you might think, that I was presuming - Did I not have the most perfect and unquestioning confidence in you - I should be very unhappy - As it is I am very uneasy - altho I am sure that my little lady, would not disappoint me so bitterly without good and sufficient cause which Heaven forfend from ever rising on my part. ...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nSusan's father finally gave his consent and the couple wed on 1855 September 8. These letters are not only touching and emotional, but pivotal in light of the fact that this union made possible the birth of one of America's most important military men of the twentieth century: their grandson, George Smith Patton, Jr. (1885-1945).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThe series of nine letters from George to Susan in 1863 describe in vivid detail the Confederate raid into [West] Virginia led by Generals William E. \"Grumble\" Jones and John D. Imboden, during which Patton was a colonel in the 22nd Virginia Infantry. Patton describes the arduous campaign in a series of seven letters dating between 1863 April 14 and 1863 May 15, four of which are excerpted here; a fifth excerpted letter from December gives his final update. The letters read, in part:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n1. On 1863 April 14 -- \"... will join Imboden's forces at Huttonsville [?] - and will be too strong for any force the Yankees are likely to have at Beverley - we hear by the way [?] that they have 150 contraband soldiers there - our boys all intent[?] on getting a body servant.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n2. On 1863 April 28 -- \"We have been maneuvering so as to assist Gen Jones (of the Valley) in his attack on the Railroad - I have now every reason to believe from the movements of the enemy - that he has been entirely successful - The Yankees have evacuated both Philippee [Philippi] \u0026amp; Buckhannon and we advance on the Carter place in a few minutes - The prospect now is very bright and we have certainly put the bogus Enuisen/Generals [?] in a great pickle... Tell Andrew that Pa has got him a pretty Yankee hat - with a feather \u0026amp;c.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n3. On 1863 April 30, in camp near Buckhannon, [West] Virginia, Patton had sufficient time to describe the campaign in great detail, giving a day-by-day account of his movements \"in something like diary form\" in a lengthy letter which reads, in part:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\"On Sunday night [April 19?], I got orders by special courier from Gen Imboden - to proceed to Join him by way of Monterey [?] ... [on April 20] passing Huntersville [?] ruined \u0026amp; desolated by both armies, \u0026amp; particularly burned by the Yankees. A more perfect picture of the horror [?] of war could not be conceived - Once a flourishing country village of several hundred souls - now deserted save by \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ethree \u003c/emph\u003efamilies - fences destroyed horses/houses [?] pillaged ...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nHis regiment marched on to Hightown, \"where the rest of the expeditionary force had assembled - road [?] on myself - to see the General - was rec'd very cordially. \u0026amp; liked him much as a man - What he was as a General remained to be proved.\" The force, now numbering 3,500, continued their northward march into the Alleghany Mountains:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\"Wednesday [April] 22 ... It was 18 miles across the mountains, and but one inhabited home on the road - got to camp just before dark - crossing the Greenbrier river - at the scene of the action there - Rain still increasing - camped on the wet ground - without shelter or supper, as our wagons did not come up - except some crackers for the men ... Everybody wet, hungry \u0026amp; cold --\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThursday [April] 23: No wagons came up, few crackers for breakfast - started at 7 A.M. to cross celebrated cheat mountain ... 18 miles across, 9 up, and 9 down - Road in miserable order ... At the top of the mountain passed the Yankee intrenchments [sic] - which are quite strong, and rendered almost impregnable by position ... Camped at the foot of the mountain having marched nearly 20 miles - no supper as our wagons were still behind ...\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nFriday [April] 24th - Started at 7 A.M. ... took a foot path through the woods to avoid crossing the river twice, and marched our way to Beverly - I heard from country people that the Yankees had no idea of our approach - and that they were only about 1200 strong, \u0026amp; would not give us a fight - our advance pushed on \u0026amp; about 2 o'clock we in the rear heard the boom [?] of a cannon - ranks were immediately closed, \u0026amp; we pushed on - as we came around the bend of the road about a mile from town, we were seen by the enemy, who [was] shelling us - their practice was good -one shell bursting a few feet from the 22nd \u0026amp; slightly wounding a Lieutenant - not enough to stop him - I was met by an aid, who ordered me, to shelter my men from the cannonade, \u0026amp; await orders, I did so. In a few minutes, I was advanced to another position \u0026amp; finally to a third - where my orders [?] were to wait until the other troops became engaged \u0026amp; then/there [?] to charge the battery - we were all ready to do the work - but the Yankees gave us no chance, retreating before there was any engagement. We pursued them several miles - as we passed through town - many ladies waved their handkerchiefs \u0026amp;c - but the Union element was very visible - The Yankees burned in retreating their stores, and the store of a man of Secession proclivities - we were in town but a few moments, and our men broke into and pillaged a sutlers establishment, and the store of the Union Sheriff of the county - I did not feel very much envy/sorry [?] for the owners, but I regretted the demoralization it must necessarily cause - Peter got in the streets, and Yankee camp quite an assortment, but did not go into any store. I am afraid that Imboden is no disciplinarian - \u0026amp; many of his officers certainly are not ...\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nSaturday [April] 25th ... left camp at about 8 o'clock A.M. - marched across the Bridge, and took the road to Buckhannon - crossing Rich mountain, and right over [?] the battle ground [?] ...\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nSunday [April] 26th ... crossing the west fork of the Valley River ... equidistant from Philippo [Philippi] \u0026amp; Buckhannon, thus threatening them both - there we heard of reinforcements to the enemy - and as yet Gen Jones had not communicated with us in regard to his movements in the Batlo \u0026amp; Ohio R.Rd. He was to have communicated at Beverly, and we had been advancing hoping to hear from him every moment. It was obviously unsafe for us to proceed any further without his cooperation - as to attack either place would then be to expose our communications, and both our flanks - Gen. Imboden then determined to fall back to Beverly until he could [?] hear from Gen Jones ...\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nTuesday [April] 28th During that night the Gen got information from Gen Jones - which showed that altho' not successful in destroying the Cheat river viaduct, he had destroyed some smaller bridges and was in the country - so to day we started for Buckhannon - heard that the Yankees had evacuated that place in haste ...\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nWednesday [April] 29th Marched to Buckhannon - found that the Yankees 4000 strong with four pieces of artillery - had retreated in great haste ... Same disgraceful scenes [of looting] occurred here as at Beverly - I soon got disgusted, \u0026amp; came to camp where I have been ever since ...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n4. On 1863 May 15, Patton gave a final report to his wife:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\"... The day after I wrote you from that place we took up the line of march for Weston ... Weston is 23 miles from Clarksburg, and we found that the enemy had concentrated a large force at the latter place too strong for us to cope with - in their entrenchments. we remained at Weston offering them fight for three days, but they did not accept the gage [?] - Our provisions were giving out, and we found it impossible to procure any breadstuff. Gen Jones \u0026amp; Imboden therefore agreed as follows - Gen Jones with his cavalry Brigade marched to attack the North-Western Va R.Rd., while Imboden took up the line of march towards Summersville - so as to threaten the Kanawha Valley - Gen Jones performed his work most successfully - destroying several Bridges, \u0026amp; a tunnel. Gen Imboden met the greatest physical difficulties - it rained in torrents for three days, and nights, the roads were perfect quagmires - and it was with great difficulty \u0026amp; hardwork that we made four or five miles a day ... we then advanced on Summersville, but the place was evacuated before we could get there - Imboden's cavalry horses/men [?] pursued, and captured a train of 30 wagons - loaded with corn \u0026amp; hard bread [?] \u0026amp;c \u0026amp;c and 180 fine mules - At Summersville Gen Jones again Joined us - and there, against my earnest desire, and advice, it was determined to return to our lines - instead of pursuing our success, and driving the enemy out of the Kanawha Valley - Which I believed we could have done ... Thus ends our raid into Western Virginia - Characterized by great boldness, and meeting with great success - altho' I think that some golden opportunities were lost and that if Gen Lam [?] Jones had cooperated - we could have redeemed Western Va. - As it is the fruits of the expedition are many \u0026amp; important - 2500 or 3000 good beef cattle \u0026amp; 12 or 1500 horses have been driven out - The Confederate flag has been carried where it never floated before, great damage has been done to an important avenue of the enemy's communication, \u0026amp; great terror [?] and panic been infused [?] into Pierpoint [Pierpont] \u0026amp; his crew ... The trip has been one of great exposure \u0026amp; privation - We have been almost constantly marching for nearly five weeks - in a very difficult country... \"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThe raid proved to be a military success -- the raiders managed to destroy numerous railroad bridges, disrupting rail traffic on the critical Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. However, the raid was a political failure in that it did not dampen enthusiasm in western Virginia to form a new state. Patton's dissatisfaction with Jones grew as the year went on and by the end of 1863, he had concluded that the general was thoroughly incompetent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n5. On 1863 December 23, Patton sent his wife a lengthy update, disparaging Jones's behavior:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\"... We have had a most terrible campaign, so far as hardship and exposure go ... Soon after I last wrote you - the news was brought to us that Averill [sic: Averell?] ... was on his way to the Sweet Springs. I proposed and urged that we should at once march to meet the enemy - or if he had passed us to follow him up - and eventually force him to fight. Gen Jones however [?] decided otherwise, and ordered us to march to the Salt Sulphur Springs \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003e\u0026amp; cook two days rations\u003c/emph\u003e - During that night the news came that the enemy had passed the Sweet Springs mountain in the direction of the Railroad - My opinion was asked, and I again urged going to the Sweet Springs \u0026amp; beyond in the direction of the enemy - Gen Jones after great indecision concluded [?] to send Echols' Brigade in that direction, and McCauslands to Newport in Giles county - Thus dividing a force which was not as strong as Avrill's, into two portions - we marched that day 15 miles, and encamped, during the night a terrible [?] storm of rain \u0026amp; sleet came up to which we were exposed without any shelter, \u0026amp; suffered much - The next morning, the storm continued \u0026amp; we marched about 7 miles \u0026amp; encamped - Gen Jones being in the rear at a comfortable house, and sending word, that as he was somewhat unwell - he would not come out that day, unless absolutely necessary \u0026amp; there he staid [sic] - We spent another miserable night - and the next day went to the tip of the Sweet Springs mountain, an excellent position which we were ordered to fortify, and there we staid for three days, and nights - suffering greatly from the intense cold - The position was very strong, and as long as there was a great probability of the enemy's coming that way, was the proper place for the troops - but on Saturday afternoon we got reliable information that the enemy had turned to the left ... and gone in the direction of Covington - We ought then as I thought, to have moved at once to Callaghans - where we would certainly have intercepted the enemy - but we staid, at the old position - trusting, I suppose, to Jenkins [?] burning the bridges on Jackson river which he did not do - and the enemy passed him ... The troops from the East were all too late, and Avrill escaped - He ought to have been captured with his whole command, and would have been if we were blessed [?] in this department [?] with something like a Commanding General. Jones is utterly incompetent, and as long as he has the direction of affairs - we will have nothing but disaster and dispair [sic] here. That Avrill should have been allowed to escape - after being delayed for two days, by high water, in the heart of the state - is a burning shame and disgrace - The Army out here are entirely disgusted -- I write these things to you and the family only, for no good can be effected, by giving them publicly...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThe Patton letters also include six letters from Susan Thornton Glassell Patton to members of her family (folder 3, 1852-1863), including one written to her husband on 1863 March 15, prior to the Jones-Imboden Raid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThere are several letters to and from Susan's brother, William T. Glassell of the U.S. Navy and later of the Confederate Navy (folders 3 and 4, 1851-1863). William holds the distinction of serving as one of the world's first combat submariners when he led a crew on the torpedo boat \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDavid \u003c/emph\u003ein an attempt to destroy the USS \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNew Ironsides\u003c/emph\u003e on 1863 October 5. (See the book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eW.T. Glassell and the Little Torpedo Boat \"David\"\u003c/emph\u003e, mentioned in the Separation note, for more information.) Of particular interest is a letter by William, in Charleston, SC, 1863 September 18, to his sister Susan, writing, in part:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\"... My last to Father was from this place; and I informed him of my having come on to take part in the fight for Charleston, which I much prefer to remaining idle in Wilmington. Limited as you know are my means and power, I hope yet to strike a blow, with the aid of Almighty God, that even our powerful foe will not despise. Should it please God that I perish in the effort, His will be done! Should I never return, I have directed that what funds I possess shall be sent to Mr. Jno L. Bacon, for your use...\"\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection includes letters from George Smith Patton, Sr. (June 26, 1833 - September 25, 1864), who was the grandfather of WWII hero George S. Patton, Jr., and served as a Confederate Colonel during the Civil War. There are letters Patton wrote to his wife, Susan Thornton Glassell Patton (1835-1883), during their courtship and during his military service. There are also letters from Susan and other members of her family, including her brother and Confederate Naval hero William T. Glassell (1831-1879); her father, Andrew Glassell (1793-1873); her son-in-law Thomas Buren Brown, a Los Angeles attorney who married Susan's daughter Eleanor (Nellie) Thornton Patton (1857-1937); and her aunt, Eleanor L. Thornton Gibbs. A contents list is below, followed by transcriptions of select portions of the letters.","Select transcriptions:","Letters from George S. Patton to his wife Susan (Sue) comprise a significant component of this collection, including three love letters written during their courtship (1854-1855, folder 1) and nine letters written during his service in the Civil War (1863, folder 2). In one of the love letters from George to Susan, he asks her to obtain her father's permission for them to wed, writing on 1854 September 26:","\"...Should your father approve our engagement I hope that my future life will not make him regret his consent, or you me your preference - And now may I ask another favor from you to add to the many, which you have been so kind as to grant me? Please seek an early opportunity to inform him of my suit, and request his assent. For until that assent is obtained I shall feel, even tho' blessed with a knowledge of your preference -- I shall feel as if I had no right to call you my own ... It is to me a very novel feeling 'to be in love' You are the first whom I have ever loved - my fancy has frequently been captivated; my heart has never been touched before -: and what an 'aching void' does Love fill -: a deep yearning for affection is every mans portion [?] - and he can never be happy until the yearning is satisfied ...\"","Apparently there was no word from Andrew Glassell regarding his permission, and on 1854 October 17, George wrote Susan:","\"...You cannot imagine how anxious I am to know, if you have heard from your father on a subject near to my heart, and I would fain [?] hope, to yours also - You can readily imagine the awkward, and constraining position in which I am placed. For while I have given you every assurance of love, you have, with very proper maidenly delicacy, never given me the promise of your hand - Now while I can but acknowledge the propriety of your course - yet I am often restrained in what I should like to say by the thought, that you might think, that I was presuming - Did I not have the most perfect and unquestioning confidence in you - I should be very unhappy - As it is I am very uneasy - altho I am sure that my little lady, would not disappoint me so bitterly without good and sufficient cause which Heaven forfend from ever rising on my part. ...\"","Susan's father finally gave his consent and the couple wed on 1855 September 8. These letters are not only touching and emotional, but pivotal in light of the fact that this union made possible the birth of one of America's most important military men of the twentieth century: their grandson, George Smith Patton, Jr. (1885-1945).","The series of nine letters from George to Susan in 1863 describe in vivid detail the Confederate raid into [West] Virginia led by Generals William E. \"Grumble\" Jones and John D. Imboden, during which Patton was a colonel in the 22nd Virginia Infantry. Patton describes the arduous campaign in a series of seven letters dating between 1863 April 14 and 1863 May 15, four of which are excerpted here; a fifth excerpted letter from December gives his final update. The letters read, in part:","1. On 1863 April 14 -- \"... will join Imboden's forces at Huttonsville [?] - and will be too strong for any force the Yankees are likely to have at Beverley - we hear by the way [?] that they have 150 contraband soldiers there - our boys all intent[?] on getting a body servant.\"","2. On 1863 April 28 -- \"We have been maneuvering so as to assist Gen Jones (of the Valley) in his attack on the Railroad - I have now every reason to believe from the movements of the enemy - that he has been entirely successful - The Yankees have evacuated both Philippee [Philippi] \u0026 Buckhannon and we advance on the Carter place in a few minutes - The prospect now is very bright and we have certainly put the bogus Enuisen/Generals [?] in a great pickle... Tell Andrew that Pa has got him a pretty Yankee hat - with a feather \u0026c.\"","3. On 1863 April 30, in camp near Buckhannon, [West] Virginia, Patton had sufficient time to describe the campaign in great detail, giving a day-by-day account of his movements \"in something like diary form\" in a lengthy letter which reads, in part:","\"On Sunday night [April 19?], I got orders by special courier from Gen Imboden - to proceed to Join him by way of Monterey [?] ... [on April 20] passing Huntersville [?] ruined \u0026 desolated by both armies, \u0026 particularly burned by the Yankees. A more perfect picture of the horror [?] of war could not be conceived - Once a flourishing country village of several hundred souls - now deserted save by three families - fences destroyed horses/houses [?] pillaged ...\"","His regiment marched on to Hightown, \"where the rest of the expeditionary force had assembled - road [?] on myself - to see the General - was rec'd very cordially. \u0026 liked him much as a man - What he was as a General remained to be proved.\" The force, now numbering 3,500, continued their northward march into the Alleghany Mountains:","\"Wednesday [April] 22 ... It was 18 miles across the mountains, and but one inhabited home on the road - got to camp just before dark - crossing the Greenbrier river - at the scene of the action there - Rain still increasing - camped on the wet ground - without shelter or supper, as our wagons did not come up - except some crackers for the men ... Everybody wet, hungry \u0026 cold --","Thursday [April] 23: No wagons came up, few crackers for breakfast - started at 7 A.M. to cross celebrated cheat mountain ... 18 miles across, 9 up, and 9 down - Road in miserable order ... At the top of the mountain passed the Yankee intrenchments [sic] - which are quite strong, and rendered almost impregnable by position ... Camped at the foot of the mountain having marched nearly 20 miles - no supper as our wagons were still behind ...","Friday [April] 24th - Started at 7 A.M. ... took a foot path through the woods to avoid crossing the river twice, and marched our way to Beverly - I heard from country people that the Yankees had no idea of our approach - and that they were only about 1200 strong, \u0026 would not give us a fight - our advance pushed on \u0026 about 2 o'clock we in the rear heard the boom [?] of a cannon - ranks were immediately closed, \u0026 we pushed on - as we came around the bend of the road about a mile from town, we were seen by the enemy, who [was] shelling us - their practice was good -one shell bursting a few feet from the 22nd \u0026 slightly wounding a Lieutenant - not enough to stop him - I was met by an aid, who ordered me, to shelter my men from the cannonade, \u0026 await orders, I did so. In a few minutes, I was advanced to another position \u0026 finally to a third - where my orders [?] were to wait until the other troops became engaged \u0026 then/there [?] to charge the battery - we were all ready to do the work - but the Yankees gave us no chance, retreating before there was any engagement. We pursued them several miles - as we passed through town - many ladies waved their handkerchiefs \u0026c - but the Union element was very visible - The Yankees burned in retreating their stores, and the store of a man of Secession proclivities - we were in town but a few moments, and our men broke into and pillaged a sutlers establishment, and the store of the Union Sheriff of the county - I did not feel very much envy/sorry [?] for the owners, but I regretted the demoralization it must necessarily cause - Peter got in the streets, and Yankee camp quite an assortment, but did not go into any store. I am afraid that Imboden is no disciplinarian - \u0026 many of his officers certainly are not ...","Saturday [April] 25th ... left camp at about 8 o'clock A.M. - marched across the Bridge, and took the road to Buckhannon - crossing Rich mountain, and right over [?] the battle ground [?] ...","Sunday [April] 26th ... crossing the west fork of the Valley River ... equidistant from Philippo [Philippi] \u0026 Buckhannon, thus threatening them both - there we heard of reinforcements to the enemy - and as yet Gen Jones had not communicated with us in regard to his movements in the Batlo \u0026 Ohio R.Rd. He was to have communicated at Beverly, and we had been advancing hoping to hear from him every moment. It was obviously unsafe for us to proceed any further without his cooperation - as to attack either place would then be to expose our communications, and both our flanks - Gen. Imboden then determined to fall back to Beverly until he could [?] hear from Gen Jones ...","Tuesday [April] 28th During that night the Gen got information from Gen Jones - which showed that altho' not successful in destroying the Cheat river viaduct, he had destroyed some smaller bridges and was in the country - so to day we started for Buckhannon - heard that the Yankees had evacuated that place in haste ...","Wednesday [April] 29th Marched to Buckhannon - found that the Yankees 4000 strong with four pieces of artillery - had retreated in great haste ... Same disgraceful scenes [of looting] occurred here as at Beverly - I soon got disgusted, \u0026 came to camp where I have been ever since ...\"","4. On 1863 May 15, Patton gave a final report to his wife:","\"... The day after I wrote you from that place we took up the line of march for Weston ... Weston is 23 miles from Clarksburg, and we found that the enemy had concentrated a large force at the latter place too strong for us to cope with - in their entrenchments. we remained at Weston offering them fight for three days, but they did not accept the gage [?] - Our provisions were giving out, and we found it impossible to procure any breadstuff. Gen Jones \u0026 Imboden therefore agreed as follows - Gen Jones with his cavalry Brigade marched to attack the North-Western Va R.Rd., while Imboden took up the line of march towards Summersville - so as to threaten the Kanawha Valley - Gen Jones performed his work most successfully - destroying several Bridges, \u0026 a tunnel. Gen Imboden met the greatest physical difficulties - it rained in torrents for three days, and nights, the roads were perfect quagmires - and it was with great difficulty \u0026 hardwork that we made four or five miles a day ... we then advanced on Summersville, but the place was evacuated before we could get there - Imboden's cavalry horses/men [?] pursued, and captured a train of 30 wagons - loaded with corn \u0026 hard bread [?] \u0026c \u0026c and 180 fine mules - At Summersville Gen Jones again Joined us - and there, against my earnest desire, and advice, it was determined to return to our lines - instead of pursuing our success, and driving the enemy out of the Kanawha Valley - Which I believed we could have done ... Thus ends our raid into Western Virginia - Characterized by great boldness, and meeting with great success - altho' I think that some golden opportunities were lost and that if Gen Lam [?] Jones had cooperated - we could have redeemed Western Va. - As it is the fruits of the expedition are many \u0026 important - 2500 or 3000 good beef cattle \u0026 12 or 1500 horses have been driven out - The Confederate flag has been carried where it never floated before, great damage has been done to an important avenue of the enemy's communication, \u0026 great terror [?] and panic been infused [?] into Pierpoint [Pierpont] \u0026 his crew ... The trip has been one of great exposure \u0026 privation - We have been almost constantly marching for nearly five weeks - in a very difficult country... \"","The raid proved to be a military success -- the raiders managed to destroy numerous railroad bridges, disrupting rail traffic on the critical Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. However, the raid was a political failure in that it did not dampen enthusiasm in western Virginia to form a new state. Patton's dissatisfaction with Jones grew as the year went on and by the end of 1863, he had concluded that the general was thoroughly incompetent.","5. On 1863 December 23, Patton sent his wife a lengthy update, disparaging Jones's behavior:","\"... We have had a most terrible campaign, so far as hardship and exposure go ... Soon after I last wrote you - the news was brought to us that Averill [sic: Averell?] ... was on his way to the Sweet Springs. I proposed and urged that we should at once march to meet the enemy - or if he had passed us to follow him up - and eventually force him to fight. Gen Jones however [?] decided otherwise, and ordered us to march to the Salt Sulphur Springs \u0026 cook two days rations - During that night the news came that the enemy had passed the Sweet Springs mountain in the direction of the Railroad - My opinion was asked, and I again urged going to the Sweet Springs \u0026 beyond in the direction of the enemy - Gen Jones after great indecision concluded [?] to send Echols' Brigade in that direction, and McCauslands to Newport in Giles county - Thus dividing a force which was not as strong as Avrill's, into two portions - we marched that day 15 miles, and encamped, during the night a terrible [?] storm of rain \u0026 sleet came up to which we were exposed without any shelter, \u0026 suffered much - The next morning, the storm continued \u0026 we marched about 7 miles \u0026 encamped - Gen Jones being in the rear at a comfortable house, and sending word, that as he was somewhat unwell - he would not come out that day, unless absolutely necessary \u0026 there he staid [sic] - We spent another miserable night - and the next day went to the tip of the Sweet Springs mountain, an excellent position which we were ordered to fortify, and there we staid for three days, and nights - suffering greatly from the intense cold - The position was very strong, and as long as there was a great probability of the enemy's coming that way, was the proper place for the troops - but on Saturday afternoon we got reliable information that the enemy had turned to the left ... and gone in the direction of Covington - We ought then as I thought, to have moved at once to Callaghans - where we would certainly have intercepted the enemy - but we staid, at the old position - trusting, I suppose, to Jenkins [?] burning the bridges on Jackson river which he did not do - and the enemy passed him ... The troops from the East were all too late, and Avrill escaped - He ought to have been captured with his whole command, and would have been if we were blessed [?] in this department [?] with something like a Commanding General. Jones is utterly incompetent, and as long as he has the direction of affairs - we will have nothing but disaster and dispair [sic] here. That Avrill should have been allowed to escape - after being delayed for two days, by high water, in the heart of the state - is a burning shame and disgrace - The Army out here are entirely disgusted -- I write these things to you and the family only, for no good can be effected, by giving them publicly...\"","The Patton letters also include six letters from Susan Thornton Glassell Patton to members of her family (folder 3, 1852-1863), including one written to her husband on 1863 March 15, prior to the Jones-Imboden Raid.","There are several letters to and from Susan's brother, William T. Glassell of the U.S. Navy and later of the Confederate Navy (folders 3 and 4, 1851-1863). William holds the distinction of serving as one of the world's first combat submariners when he led a crew on the torpedo boat David in an attempt to destroy the USS New Ironsides on 1863 October 5. (See the book W.T. Glassell and the Little Torpedo Boat \"David\", mentioned in the Separation note, for more information.) Of particular interest is a letter by William, in Charleston, SC, 1863 September 18, to his sister Susan, writing, in part:","\"... My last to Father was from this place; and I informed him of my having come on to take part in the fight for Charleston, which I much prefer to remaining idle in Wilmington. Limited as you know are my means and power, I hope yet to strike a blow, with the aid of Almighty God, that even our powerful foe will not despise. Should it please God that I perish in the effort, His will be done! 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He was made secretary of the First Session of the Second Wheeling Convention, and was clerk of the House of Delegates of the \"Restored Government of Virginia.\" Cranmer was also the custodian of the manuscript proceedings, journals, and other documents of the two Conventions. Cranmer's home on Wheeling Island was flooded in 1884, which likely destroyed all of the manuscripts. It is possible that the Convention proceedings were shipped to Alexandria, Virginia, in the 1860s, but if that is the case, they have been lost. For more information on the proceedings, see How West Virginia was Made, by Virgil A. Lewis, [Charleston, W. Va., News-Mail Company, Public Printer], 1909.","Papers regarding West Virginia statehood and the history of Wheeling and Ohio County compiled by Judge Gibson L. Cranmer (1826-1903) of Wheeling, West Virginia, who served as secretary of the Wheeling Convention that repudiated Virginia's secession from the United States in 1861.","Series 1. West Virginia Statehood Papers; 1861-1864, undated; box 1. This series includes manuscript narratives and correspondence describing events of the West Virginia statehood movement, written by eyewitnesses at the request of Gibson L. Cranmer. Manuscript authors include John S. Burdett, John S. Carlile, Daniel Frost, Lewis Ruffner, and Benjamin Wilson. 34 items, 76 leaves in box 1. Note that each original item in box 1 (except those in folders 11 and 12) is accompanied by a typescript description. Transcripts for the original items in box 1, folders 1-3, 6-7, and 10-12 are in folder 13.","Series 2. History of Wheeling and Ohio County, West Virginia Papers; 1787-1895, undated; box 2. 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They wrote letters home to their parents Henry Otto (d. 1872) and Margaret Hainley Otto (1815-1891) in Altoona, Pennsylvania in which they described the likelihood of Union victory and what they planned to do when they returned home. Grant's army faced General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, which was entrenched outside of Richmond and Petersburg (June 1864-March 1865). The formal Siege of Petersburg began in March 1865, and Lee abandoned Petersburg in April 1865. Henry was wounded at Fort Stedman on March 25, 1865 and after the conclusion of the war went on to reside in Altoona. Jacob was wounded on April 2, 1865 at Fort Sedgwick and died soon after.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Bio/Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["In 1865, Privates Jacob William (1836-1865) and Henry H. Otto (1842-1910) were fresh recruits who served in Company C, 205th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment in General Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac. 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