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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the White, Wellford, Taliaferro, and Marshall Family Papers, #1300, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of Originals

Originals privately owned at time of filming. They are on deposit at the Alexandria Library, Alexandria, Va.

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Laura Hart, July 2021

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• College of William and Mary--Faculty--History--19th century.
• Columbia Theological College (Columbia, S.C.)--Faculty--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America--Officials and employees.
• Confederate States of America--Politics and government.
• Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia. McLaw's Division.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Diaries.
• Diaries.
• Europe--Description and travel.
• Lawyers--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Marshall family.
• Physicians--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Saint David's Society (Florence, S.C.)
• Seddon, James A. (James Alexander), 1815-1880.
• Taliaferro family.
• Taliaferro, Edwin, 1835-1867.
• United States. Army--History--Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794.
• United States. Army--Surgeons.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Washington and Lee University--Faculty--History--19th century.
• Wellford family.
• Wellford, B. R., Jr. (Beverley Randolph), 1828-1911.
• Wellford, Robert, 1753-1823.
• Wellford, Susan Taliaferro, 1830-1912.
• Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794.
• White family.
• White, Henry Alexander, 1861-1926.

MICROFILM ONLY. Letters, diaries, writings, and other papers of Susan (Taliaferro) Wellford of Gloucester County, Va.; her husband, Beverley Randolph Wellford (b. 1828) of Fredericksburg and Richmond, Va., lawyer, secessionist, chief clerk of the Confederate war department, and judge; her brother, Edwin Taliaferro (1835-1867), professor at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., and Confederate Army officer serving in northern Virginia and in Macon, Ga.; and her son-in-law, Henry Alexander White (d. 1926), theologian at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., and Columbia Theological College, South Carolina. Volumes include minutes, 1777-1835, of the Saint David's Society of Society Hill, S.C., organized to maintain a school in Darlington District, S.C.; diary of Dr. Robert Wellford, 1794, as surgeon to Virginia troops supressing the Whiskey Rebellion, and his personal diary, 1800-1819; journal of Edwin Taliaferro while traveling in Europe, 1856-1857, and his Civil War journal, 1863, as an ordnance officer with McLaws's Division in Virginia; Berverley Randolph Wellford's diary, 1865, of the flight of the Confederate cabinet; and other items. James Alexander Seddon, Confederate secretary of war, was a relative and frequent correspondent. Included are a play and several accounts, essays, and anecdotes, many discussing Virginia plantation life and events during the Civil War.

• Image folders (PF-1300/1-4)
• Microfilm reel (M-1300/1-5)