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Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries (0434)Tyler Williams, Student Assistant
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The collection is open for research.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [folder], R. A. Williams Telegraph, 1864, Ms2023-023, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
The R. A. Williams Telegraph was purchased by Special Colletions and University Archives in January 2015.
The processing, arrangement, and description of the R. A. Williams Telegraph was completed in May 2023.
Captain R. A. Williams was Acting Commissary of Subsistence for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. No other information could be found.
External Sources:
"Williams, R. A.", National Park Service's Civil War Soldier database, https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=D7E1B2DF-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A
This collection contains a telegraph sent from Captain R. A. Williams, A.C.S. [Acting Commissary of Subsistence], in Wytheville, Virginia, to Captain Isaac Shelby in Abingdon asking for advice about an order that required Williams to send four soldiers elsewhere. Williams notes that the order would take "four of my most indispensable men and if persisted in will paralyze my operations".
There is an 1864 letter from Captain R. A. Williams to Captain Isaac Shelby at the Library of Virginia in Confederate States of America. Subsistence Dept. Letter, 8 December 1864. Accession 37050. See the LVA's website for organizational records.
The guide to the R. A. Williams Telegraph by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).