Manuscripts

Brock collection : Frederick W. Sims papers

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Description: 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).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Call number: mssBR Box 188 (2)
Creator: Sims, Frederick W (1828-1875)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased with Brock collection from Elizabeth Brock, 1922.
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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)

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Brock Collection: Papers of L. W. Spratt

Manuscripts

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

mssBR Box 153 (2)

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Frederick W. Sims papers (1859- 1865)

Manuscripts

Brock's collection of papers and manuscripts relating to political, military, economic, religious, social, and genealogical history of the state of Virginia. Included are papers of prominent Virginia families, business firms and businessmen, religious and fraternal organizations, government offices and departments, politicians, statesmen, and administrators.

mssBR

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Brock Collection: Fairfax Proprietary papers

Manuscripts

Chiefly correspondence and documents covering the routine business affairs of the Northern Neck Proprietary, including survey warrants issued by several agents to the country surveyors (1722-1760); county rental returns (1721-1780), and letters, office records and memoranda of Robert "King" Carter, Sir William Fairfax, George William Fairfax, and Thomas Bryan Martin. Included are Robert Carter's letterbook (1720-1721), land grants in the Northern Neck counties, and survey warrants to George Washington (1749-1752).

mssBR Boxes 227-233

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Brock Collection: Diary of Baylor Hill

Manuscripts

The diary covers the New Jersey and Philadelphia Campaigns, including the Battle of Germantown (Oct. 4, 1777); the battle of Savannah (Oct. 9, 1779); Charleston Expedition (1780), the engagement at Lenud's Ferry; the journey from Lenud's Ferry to Charleston on board of the ships Swan and the Union, and Haddrell's Point barracks

mssBR 53

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Brock Collection: Papers of William Harvie Richardson, (bulk 1807-1862)

Manuscripts

Collection of miscellaneous papers and correspondence of William H. Richardson. The bulk of the collection consists of financial records -- bills, receipts, promissory notes, etc, including a few items that document sale of slaves. Also included are a few personal letters addressed to William H. Richardson that discuss political news, Washington Canal and Rhode Island State Lottery, bear hunting, and other subjects. Also included are a few documents issued by Richardson as Adjutant General of Virginia (1862), and a letter of his son, William H. Richardson, Jr. who served in the Confederate Army

mssBR Box 73 (2)

Brock collection : Frederick W. Sims papers

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