Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives
Alexander Tedford "Ted" Barclay correspondence
WLU.Coll.0002
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0.5 Linear Feet
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1861-1864
English
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Biographical / Historical
Alexander Tedford "Ted" Barclay, son of Col. A. T. Barclay and Mary Eleanor Paxton, was born in 1844 about one mile west of Lexington, Virginia. He entered Washington College (Washington and Lee University) at the age of 15. In the spring of 1861, he joined the Liberty Hall Volunteers and served with the Stonewall Brigade until he was captured at Spotsylvania Court House in 1864.
Returning to Lexington in 1865, he engaged in various enterprises. He was manager of the family farm and a participant in the movement to extend the Valley Railroad from Winchester to Lexington. In 1873 with Elihu H. Barclay and James T. Patton, he bought and published
The Rockbridge Citizen which was consolidated in 1874 with the Lexington Gazette. He was editor of this newspaper for 11 years. He was also manager of the Lexington Manufacturing Company and president of the Buena Vista Improvement Company. For 30 years, Barclay served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Washington and Lee University, beginning his service in 1885.
He married Virginia Borden Moore in 1876. Barclay died in November 1915.
Scope and Contents
This collection includes original letters and typescript copies of letters Ted Barclay sent to his family in Lexington, Virginia during the American Civil War. Subjects include information about the activities of the Liberty Hall Volunteers of the Stonewall Brigade in major battles within Virginia; accounts of life in Confederate camp; information about food, clothing, diseases, religious services, attractive women, and deaths of friends while serving with the Volunteers; and accounts of his life as a Union prisoner at Fort Delaware. These letters have been published in a volume edited by Charles Turner, Ted Barclay, Liberty Hall Volunteers: Letters from the Stonewall Brigade (1861-1864).
Delaware -- Fort Delaware
Correspondence
Cookery, Military
Armies -- Military life
Armies -- Religious life
History
Virginia
Prisoners of war
Barclay, Ted, II (Alexander Tedford)
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141501863 May 12English. Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141511863 May 26English.Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/25731863 JuneEnglish.19Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141521863 June 3English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141531863 June 17English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141541863 June 19English.Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/25741863 JulyEnglish.110Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141551863 July 8English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141561863 July 13English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141571863 July 14English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141581863 July 20English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141591863 July 24English.Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/25751863 August-SeptemberEnglish.111Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141601863 August 3English.Ted Barclay to Mary Elanor Paxton Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141611863 August 5English.Ted Barclay to Mary Elanor Paxton Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141621863 August 17English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141631863 September 1English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141641863 September 16English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141651863 July 29English.Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/25761863 October-NovemberEnglish.112Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141661863 October 13English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141671863 October 21English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141681863 October 24English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141691863 November 10English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141701863 November 15English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141711863 November 19English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141721863 November 25English.Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/25771863 DecemberEnglish.113Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141731863 December 5English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141741863 December 29English.Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/25781864 January-MarchEnglish.114Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141751864 January 26English.Ted Barclay to Homefolks (Hannah Moore Barclay and Mary Elanor Paxton Barclay)/repositories/5/archival_objects/141761864 February 10English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141771864 February 22English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141781864 March 2English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141791864 March 9English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141801864 March 12English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141811864 March 21English.Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/25791864 April-MayEnglish.115Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141821864 April 6English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141831864 April 8English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141841864 April 17English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141851864 May 2English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141861864 May 2English.Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/25801864 June-AugustEnglish.116Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141871864 June 7English.Ted Barclay to Mary Elanor Paxton Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141881864 July 21English.Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/141891864 August 21English.Correspondence (typescripts)/repositories/5/archival_objects/2581undatedEnglish.117Duplicate Correspondence (typescripts)/repositories/5/archival_objects/2582undatedEnglish.118Miscellaneous notes of Professor W. G. Bean /repositories/5/archival_objects/2583undatedEnglish.119Photograph of Barclay/repositories/5/archival_objects/2584circa 1866-1880English.120Duplicates received from the Treasurer's office (typescripts)/repositories/5/archival_objects/2585undatedEnglish.121