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Size | 97 items (1 reel of microfilm) |
Abstract | Correspondence of David Funsten, his wife, Susan Meade Funsten (1824-1872), and their relatives, chiefly in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Included are correspondence, 1811, between Susan Meade in Virginia and her brother, David Meade, in college at Princeton; letters from David Funsten in Europe in 1858; Civil War letters from David Funsten while he was serving as a colonel with the 11th Virginia Regiment; letters, 1864, from Virginia Military Institute cadet George William Ward to his mother, Julia Ann Funsten Ward; a postwar letter from a former slave; and other Meade, Funsten, and Washington family letters. |
Creator | Funsten, David, 1819-1866. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, August 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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Correspondence of David Funsten, his wife, Susan Meade Funsten (1824-1872), and their relatives, chiefly in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Included are correspondence, 1811, between Susan Meade in Virginia and her brother, David Meade, in college at Princeton; letters from David Funsten in Europe in 1858; Civil War letters from David Funsten while he was serving as a colonel with the 11th Virginia Regiment; letters, 1864, from Virginia Military Institute cadet George William Ward to his mother, Julia Ann Funsten Ward; a postwar letter from a former slave; and other Meade, Funsten, and Washington family letters.
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