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1. Letter - July 19, 1839

   Letter headed "July 19th 1839" and mailed in Fincastle, from Emma Breckinridge to her mother, Mary Gilmer, at Leigh, Hardin's Tavern, Albemarle. Mr B. is on a cattle buying trip in the "backwoods counties" of Lee and Tazewell and others in southwest Virginia.They hope to make a lot of money by a quick resale of the cattle purchased. Mrs. Anthony and her daughter Caroline are staying with Emma, as well as James Watts staying a few days on his retu...

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2. Letter - May 20, 1839

   Letter headed "Catawba May 20th 1839" from Emma Breckinridge to her mother, Mary Gilmer. The address portion of this letter is torn off and lost. Letter discusses bringing her sister Lucy to Catawba to "educate her in the vulgar arts of sewing, cutting out, housekeeping and etc...". Mentions her children and inquires about Peachy and her schooling. Speaks of her husband, Mr. B, traveling to Norfolk and will probably miss the election.

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3. U.S. Soldiers in Uniform - Fifty or so uniformed soldiers seated or standing on or around a very large cannon at Battery Church, Fort Monroe, on Old Point Comfort, Virginia. Soldiers appear to be World War I soldiers. There are two officers in the photo's lower left - a lieutenant and a captain. There appears to be a large wall in the background. Some soldiers are seated on circular stairs below the cannon. The soldiers are part of the 1st Company of the Virginia Coast Guard Artillery, which mustered into the Federal Division on April 15, 1917 and became part of the Rainbow Division. There are two Roanokers in the photograph: Dr. Hugh Hagan standing on the second row down with his arms folded and Roger M. Winborne, Sr. seated in the front row, third from the right. Battery Church was a reinforced concrete, Endicott Period 10-inch coastal gun battery on Fort Monroe. The battery was named after 1st Lt. Albert E. Church, who, when 1st Lt. of the 3rd U.S. Artillery, was appointed a professor of mathematics at the Military Academy at West Point. Battery construction started on 1 Dec 1897, was completed in December 1900. It was transferred to the Coastal Artillery for use 3 Jan 1901 at a cost of $ 90,473.33. It was deactivated in 1942. Fort Monroe (also known as Fortress Monroe) is a Hampton, Virginia, military installation located on Old Point Comfort, which is on the tip of the Virginia Peninsula. It guarded approach by sea of the navigational shipping channel between the Chesapeake Bay and the entrance to the harbor of Hampton Roads.

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