Manuscripts

Brock Collection: Papers of L. W. Spratt

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Description: Provision returns, receipts, requisitions, invoices, reports, orders, and other records generated and accumulated by the Brigade Commissary.-bAlso included are a few personal letters addressed to Spratt discussing political and war news
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1862-1863.
Call number: mssBR Box 153 (2)
Creator: Spratt, L. W(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased with the Brock collection from Elizabeth Brock, 1922.
Associated people: Brock, R. A. (1839-1914,)

Brock Collection: Papers of Edward Willis

Manuscripts

Official correspondence and records accumulated by Edward Willis during his career in the Confederate Army. Included are the general and special orders received from Army of Northwest, War Department, Army Headquarters, Adjutant and Inspector General, and Headquarters of Cavalry Forces, dispatches and regimental records (petitions, recommendations, medical certificates, reports, requisitions, muster rolls, etc.), records of courts martial, etc.

mssBR Boxes 149-152

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Brock Collection: Papers of James A. Bates

Manuscripts

Chiefly official correspondence accumulated by James A. Bates during his service at Hammond Hospital and the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Included are letters, reports, muster out rolls, passes, orders, monthly returns, circulars, etc.

mssBR Box 121 (1)

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Brock Collection: Papers of Robert Means

Manuscripts

Legal and business papers of Robert Means and Daniel Call. Included are a few personal letters discussing political news in Virginia and Ohio. Among correspondents are Virginia Land Office, Duncan McArthur and Albert Gallatin

mssBR Box 63

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Brock Collection: Papers of Archelaus Hughes

Manuscripts

Correspondence and business records Archelaus Hughes. Included are rentals, leases, titles, and building contracts of real estate in Richmond, adjacent to the James River Canal, and surveys and deeds for property in Kent and Henrico Conties. There are a few personal letters, including ones discussing the trial of Aaron Burr (1807) and Fourth of July (1813), and a letter from John Clopton (1756-1816) about political and congressional news (1810)

mssBR Box 50 (2)

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Brock collection : Frederick W. Sims papers

Manuscripts

Correspondence of Frederick W. Sims that covers his service with the Confederate railroad offices and the Quartermaster Department. The collection includes his letterbook, with his outgoing correspondence (mostly telegrams) from June 9 to October 19, 1863, and fourteen letters and telegrams addressed to him that Sims received between January 16, 1864 and March 28, 1865. Also included is a receipt for an advertisement in the Savannah Republican (1859, Mar. 9).

mssBR Box 188 (2)

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Brock Collection: Papers of James Miles Moore, (bulk 1863-1865)

Manuscripts

Official correspondence and documents, chiefly referring to requisitions for stores: for stoves and fuel, office supplies and equipment, building materials, and the sale of government buildings. Many of the letters are addressed to Daniel Henry Rucker, Chief Quartermaster of the Washington Depot, or bear his endorsements. Included are letters regarding supplies for Freedmens' Hospital, Army Medical Museum, National Baseball club, and U.S. Burial Corps

mssBR Box 121 (2)

Brock Collection: Papers of L. W. Spratt

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