David Cloyd McGavock Papers, 1861/1901

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
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The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], David Cloyd McGavock Papers, Ms1990-032, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder
Creator:
McGavock, David Cloyd, d.1864
Abstract:
The David Cloyd McGavock Papers consist of ca. 35 items, including letters written by McGavock (d. May 1864) to his mother, his sister Sallie, and his uncle Gordon Cloyd while studying at Roanoke College in 1861 and then from camps near Winchester and Petersburg, Virginia, and Goldsboro, North Carolina, while McGavock served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. The collection includes sympathy letters to Sallie after his death and other miscellaneous family papers.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], David Cloyd McGavock Papers, Ms1990-032, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

The David Cloyd McGavock Papers consist of ca. 35 items, including letters written by McGavock (d. May 1864) to his mother, his sister Sallie, and his uncle Gordon Cloyd while studying at Roanoke College in 1861 and then from camps near Winchester and Petersburg, Virginia, and Goldsboro, North Carolina, while McGavock served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. The collection includes sympathy letters to Sallie after his death and other miscellaneous family papers.

Biographical / historical:

David Cloyd McGavock (d. May 1864) was a soldier in Companies B of the 24th Virginia Regiment in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He attended Roanoke College in 1861, then enlisted in the Confederate Army the next year.

This is likely the same man as Cloyd McGavoch, who enlisted on March 14, 1862, in New Bern, North Carolina, and served in Company E, 24th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, rising to the rank of First Sergeant. He was wounded at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, on May 16, 1864, and died of his wounds five days later at the Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Virginia. He is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond.

Sources:

Acquisition information:
The collection was donated to Special Collections and University Archives in July 1990.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the David Cloyd McGavock Papers commenced and completed in July 1990. Additional description was completed in June 2021.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard