Guide to the Dade-Hansbrough-Patton Papers , SC 01094

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Ellen Strong.

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Preferred Citation:

Dade-Hansbrough-Patton Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Processing Information:

Processed by Ellen Strong in 1997.

Scope and Contents

Letters and poem, 1825-1899, of members of the Dade, Hansbrough, and Patton families. The collection inludes a letter, 1863, from Waller Tazewell Patton (7th Virginia Infantry) concerning his injury received in the Battle of Gettysburg and a letter, 1863, from Isaac W. Smith to John M. Patton telling of the death of Waller Tazewell Patton. The collection also includes a letter from Margaret Slaughter (Dade) Smith to James F. Hansbrough giving her consent to his marriage with Ophelia Hansbrough. There is also a letter from Hansbrough to John M. Patton concerning the loss of John Battaile Smith at sea.

Container List

Mixed Materials Small Collections Box 74 folder: 1 id211111

Papers

1825-1866

Scope and Contents

The folder contains the following items:

1825 April. Letter of Rebecca Catherine Lomax to Margaret Dade.

1828 August 29. Letter to Margaret.

1861. Invitation to the twelfth anniversary of the Southern Literary Society of New Orleans, February 21, 1861.

1863 July 15. Letter from W.T. Patton at College Hospital, Gettysburg, PA. W.T. Patton was 'badly wounded and left in the hands of the enemy'. He 'recd a wound through the mouth fracturing the jaw bone badly on both sides.'

1863 July 24. Letter notifying Mr. & Mrs. John M Patton of son's death.

1865 April 12. Copy of Robert E Lee's order.

1866 December 20. Margaret Slaughter (Dade) Smith to James F. Hansbrough.

1872 January 1. Poem by Mrs Margaret (Dade) Smith to daughter.

1873. Letter from Land Office, Commonwealth of Virginia.

1874 January 29. Letter from James F. Hansbrough to John M Patton.

1892 April 5. Letter statin James F. Lansbrough, wife and children are members of Episcopal Church.

Undated. (July 15, no year). Envelope addressed to Mrs. Eliza Dade, Washington City, DC.