Civil War documents and ephemera

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Military Institute Archives
Preston Library
Virginia Military Institute
345 Letcher Ave.
Lexington, VA 24450-0304
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Jeffrey S. Kozak
Phone: (540) 464-7516
Phone: (540) 464-7566
Fax: (540) 464-7089

Background

Scope and content:

The Civil War documents and ephemera collection consists of Civil War-related documents, largely items with autograph rather than content significance. The collection includes a shares document, autograph card, correspondence, an enrollement document, and a bond certificate.

A 5,000 dollar six percent non taxable certificate, number 651, payable in Richmond, Virginia or at depository in Staunton, Virginia.

Document of enrollement for Peter Cullen in Company E, 70th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Letter thanks artist Conrad W. Chapman for two engravings of the Civil War battery at Charleston, South Carolina. The letter also discusses proposed historical paintings.

Autograph card bearing hand drawn watercolor images of Confederate flags with the signature of Jefferson Davis in the center.

Letter to John W. Pratt of Paris, Kentucky, responding to a question about the Civil War.

Written from Beauvoir, Mississippi. Letter states that Jefferson Davis is unable to supply the information requested.

Physical location:
Manuscripts stacks and Oversized Case 2