Smith Family letter

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Military Institute Archives
Preston Library
Virginia Military Institute
345 Letcher Ave.
Lexington, VA 24450-0304
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Preferred citation:

Smith Family letter, 1856 May 1. MS 0163. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
1 items
Creator:
Smith, Francis H. (Francis Henney), 1812-1890
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Smith Family letter, 1856 May 1. MS 0163. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of one letter (dated May 1, 1856) from VMI's Superintendent Francis H. Smith to the mother of Cadet John J. Smith. The letter discusses Cadet Smith's religious awakening.

Biographical / historical:

John Jacquelin Smith was born in 1837 in Alexandria, Virginia. He graduated VMI in 1857. During the Civil War he was a Staff Officer with the Confederate States of America. After the War he was a businessman in New York City, New York. Smith died in 1895 in Morristown, New Jersey.

Physical location:
Manuscripts stacks