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This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.
Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 580 items) |
Abstract | George Mathews Edgar of Monroe County, Va. (now West Virginia), was a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, Confederate lieutenant colonel, president of schools in Kentucky and Mississippi and of the University of Arkansas, and a professor at the universities of Alabama and Florida. The collection is chiefly postwar writings by Edgar and correspondence with other veterans, all concerning the Battle of New Market and other Civil War battles in Virginia, and a large group of testimonial letters and resolutions used by Edgar in seeking positions as teacher, professor, and president of various institutions all over the South. |
Creator | Edgar, George Mathews, 1837-1913. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, May 2011; Nancy Kaiser, May 2021
This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.
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George Mathews Edgar of Monroe County, Va. (now West Virginia), was a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, Confederate lieutenant colonel, president of schools in Kentucky and Mississippi and of the University of Arkansas, and a professor at the universities of Alabama and Florida.
Back to TopThe collection is chiefly postwar writings by Edgar and correspondence with other veterans, all concerning the Battle of New Market and other Civil War battles in Virginia, and a large group of testimonial letters and resolutions used by Edgar in seeking positions as teacher, professor, and president of various institutions all over the South.
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Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
1849-1879 |
Folder 2 |
1880-1889 |
Folder 3 |
1890-1899 |
Folder 4 |
1900-1903 |
Folder 5 |
1904-1905 |
Folder 6 |
January-March 1906 |
Folder 7 |
April-December 1906 |
Folder 8 |
1907 |
Folder 9 |
January-March 1908 |
Folder 10 |
April 1908 |
Folder 11 |
May 1908 |
Folder 12 |
June-December 1908 |
Folder 13 |
1909-1913 and undated |
Folder 14 |
Copies of testimonials |
Folder 15 |
Notices of Stonewall Jackson speech |
Folder 16 |
Battle of New Market |
Folder 17 |
White Sulphur Springs |
Folder 18-19
Folder 18Folder 19 |
Articles |
Folder 20 |
Miscellaneous |
Folder 21 |
Volume 1: "Campaign of the Wilderness 1864," paper-bound typescript |
Folder 22 |
Volume 2: "Lost Chronicles of a Kentucky Colony," paper-bound typescript |
Folder 23 |
Volume 3: Composition book of notes |
Folder 24 |
Volume 4: Composition book of notes |
Folder 25 |
Volume 5: Commonplace book, circa 1865 |
Folder 26 |
Volume 6: Pocket-sized notebook on various subjects |
Reel M-3633/1 |
Microfilm |
Microfilm (M-3633/1)
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