Related Records

1. 03/15/1862 9/22/1859

   Letter headed March 15th 1862 from Julia to her husband Gilmer Breckinridge telling of the results of the drafting of new men into the Confederate Army, appears that the draft filled all the local companies: Dr. Bowyer's and Joe Anderson's both are full now, suggested that bank officers should not be drafted, brothers Cary and James are at Grove Hill, Uncle Jordan [Anthony] received a letter describing the Merrimack victory and the concerns in Wa...

   Record Type: Archive

   
2. 05/16/1862 9/22/1859

   Letter headed Grove Hill, May 16th, 1862 from Emma W. G. Breckinridge to her son John telling of her concern for him while a battle is fought and thanks God his life has been spared so far, her concern about wagon Strother [slave] is returning to Richmond after delivering items including Gilmer's trunk (that held his clothing and payroll money for his company at Williamsburg) and she is afraid he was captured by the Yankees at Williamsburg. John'...

   Record Type: Archive

   
3. An Old Virginny Wedding - April 9, 1903

   Typescript copied from The Buchanan Banner of April 9, 1903. Titled "An Old Virginny Wedding", it is an article about the wedding in 1843 of two young people from two of the most influential families in Virginia. The bride was Lizzie Watts and the groom was Thomas L. Preston. The clans gathered at "Oaklands" home of the bride and "Peyton Hall", the adjoining estate owned by relatives of the bride. The confectionary was shipped by canal boat from...

   Record Type: Archive

   
4. Letter from Samuel D. Davies to Gilmer Breckinridge - March 1, 1858 01/25/1858 19/15/1853 /1853 08/10/1853 08/10/1835

   Letter headed Craigton March 1, 1858 from Samuel D. Davies to [Gilmer] Breckinridge telling that he saw Gilmer leaving Richmond on the [railroad] cars and was sorry he did not wait for another visit, a long story about eating fried oysters, Governor Wise's "Oyster Scheme", a paragraph using such words as "glorious reminiscences" and "walked like sages", "plans which involve the honor, the welfare, nay, the very existence itself, of this mighty re...

   Record Type: Archive