Junius L. Hempstead papers

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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Manuscript collections in the VMI Archives are made available for educational and research use. The VMI Archives should be cited as the source. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any copyright holders. Materials from our collections may not be redistributed, published or reproduced without permission from the VMI Archives. Contact the VMI Archives for additional information.

Preferred citation:

Junius L. Hempstead papers, 1865. MS 0172. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
2 items
Creator:
Hempstead, Junius L. (Junius Lackland), 1842-1920
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Junius L. Hempstead papers, 1865. MS 0172. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

The Junius L. Hempstead papers consist of two items. The first is a letter (dated September 2, 1865) from Hempstead to DeWitt C. Craun in which he defends the position taken by the South during the Civil War and his own service in the Confederate States of America. The second item is a manuscript poem (undated) titled "Ode to the 4th Classmen of 1861 who never heard Auld Lang Syne."

Written from Dubuque, Iowa. Letter regards the position taken by the South during the Civil War and Junius L. Hempstead's own service in the Confederate States of America.

A manuscript poem (undated) titled "Ode to the 4th Classmen of 1861 who never heard Auld Lang Syne."

Biographical / historical:

Junius Lackland Hempstead was born in 1842 in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated VMI in 1864. During the Civil War he served with the 25th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America. After the War he was a bookkeeper and author. Hempstead died in 1920 in Jennings, Louisiana.

Physical location:
Manuscripts stacks