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• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152740
  Charles Clement Johnston, Washington, D.C., to John B. Floyd, Richmond, Va.
  1831 December 16
  Scope and Contents

  Concerning "your" Pattonsburg's [?] suit; how are things in Richmond? the Tariff issue; the proposed re-chartering of the Bank of the United States; and the concenrs of the South and its representatives, particularly Virginia.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152741
  Notation concerning the presentation of a medal to Major General Winfield Scott
  1849 February 27
  Scope and Contents

  Notation concerning the presentation of a medal to Major General Winfield Scott for services in the Mexican war, crediting the text to Floyd's "daughter" Eliza M. Johnston. Signed by John B. Floyd.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152742
  Benjamin Huger, Bvt. Col. U.S.A., Fort Monroe Arsenal, Va., to John B. Floyd, Richmond, Va.
  1850 February 20
  Scope and Contents

  Regrets he cannot be present at the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington Monument in Richmond. Is sending fireworks in care of Capt. Charles Dimmock.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152743
  Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Washington, D.C., to Governor John B. Floyd, Richmond, Va.
  1850 February 20
  Scope and Contents

  Regrets he cannot be present at the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington Monument in Richmond.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152744
  James Murray Mason, Washington, D.C. to John B. Floyd, Governor of Virginia, Richmond, Va.
  1850 February 20
  Scope and Contents

  Regrets he cannot be present at the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington monument in Richmond.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152745
  William Ballard Preston, Washington, D.C., to John B. Floyd, Richmond, Va.
  1850 February 20
  Scope and Contents

  Is prevented by sickness from attending the ceremony unveiling the Washington Monument at Richmond on 22 February..

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152746
  Andrew Pickens Butler, Washington, D.C., to John B. Floyd, Governor of Virginia, Richmond, Va.
  1850 February 21
  Scope and Contents

  Declines to be present at the laying of the corner stone of the Washington Monument in Richmond.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152747
  James Barron, Norfolk, Va., to Gov. John B. Floyd, Richmond, Va.
  1850 March 23
  Scope and Contents

  Concerning an enclosed document that needs the attentions of the authorities of the state of Virginia.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152748
  Jenny Lind, Charelston, S.C., to Governor John B. Floyd, Richmond, Va.
  1850 December 31
  Scope and Contents

  Thanks him [Floyd] for kindnesses shown during her stay in Richmond and for the presents bestowed upon her.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152749
  Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, London, England, to John B. Floyd, Governor of the State of Virginia, Richmond, Va.
  1851 October 12
  Scope and Contents

  Concerns medal voted by State of Virginia to Gen. Winfield Scott.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152750
  Daniel Webster, Department of State, Washington, D.C., to Governor John B. Floyd, Richmond, Virginia
  1851 December 1
  Scope and Contents

  Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of previous letter and replies that a packet will be sent by the first mail from the State Department to Mexico. Including an autograph, undated, of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152751
  James Buchanan, Wheatland (near Lancaster, Pa.), to John B. Floyd
  1857 February 21
  Scope and Contents

  Offers Floyd appointment as a member of his cabinet --"almost certainly that of Secretary of War."

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152752
  Winfield Scott, New York, N.Y., to General John B. Floyd, Washington, D.C.
  1857 February 28
  Scope and Contents

  Concerning the new President and administration, the Secretary of War, and whether the "Head Quarters of the army" shall remain in New York.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152753
  Jefferson Davis, Washington, D.C., to John B. Floyd, Secretary of War, Washington, D.C. [?]
  1857 March 6
  Scope and Contents

  Congratulates Floyd on his appointment as Secretary of War.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152754
  John Tyler, "Sherwood Forest," Charles City County, Va., to John B. Floyd, Secretary of War, Washington, D.C.
  1857 March 13
  Scope and Contents

  Congratulates Floyd on his recent appointment as Secretary of War.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152755
  Abby Jane Greener, Clinton Place, New York, N.Y., to John B. Floyd, Secretary of War
  1857 November 16
  Scope and Contents

  Concerning the gift of a saddle cloth for JBF which was originally designed as a testimnoial of the late President Taylor; statement concerning woman's happiness; and possession of a George Washington letter.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152756
  John S. Cunningham, St. Helena Island, to John B. Floyd, Washington, D.C.
  1858 January 1
  Scope and Contents

  Describes Longwood, the prison, tomb of Napoleon, the cruise of the Dale down the coast of Africa, and his plan to return home before the close of the last session of the Congress, now sitting.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152757
  Samuel Houston, n.p., to Governor John B. Floyd and his "Lady"
  1858 March 11
  Scope and Contents

  Scope and Contents Regrets a dinner invitation. Including a letter from Samuel Houston, Independence, Texas, to William Lloyd, 14 September 1854, declining to pay for the Richmond Examiner because he never subscribed to it.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152758
  John B. Floyd, Washington "City," D.C., to Alexander von Humboldt
  1858 July 14French
  Scope and Contents

  Thanks von Humboldt for his portrait; will continue to send surveys of far western territories; praises Humboldt's work. In French.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152759
  Alexander von Humboldt, Berlin, Germany, to John B. Floyd, Secretary of War
  1858 August 8Includes - in addition to the French original - an English translation from the same time period.
  Scope and Contents

  Thanks Floyd for accepting his portrait, and speaks of his admiration of the United States; requests that a certain friend be allowed to return to his family to finish the sketches from the Colorado expedition.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152760
  Ben McCulloch, Lake George, New York, to Governor John B. Floyd
  1859 August 7
  Scope and Contents

  Concerning a trip to the St. Lawrence and on to Quebec; and requesting to prolong the leave of a Lt. Major of the 2d calvalry for four months and reasons supporting the request.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152761
  Card of invitation to dinner from Lord Edmund Lyons, addressed to the Secretary of War, John B. Floyd
  1860 October 5
  Scope and Contents

  Card of invitation to dinner from Lord Edmund Lyons, addressed to the Secretary of War, John B. Floyd.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id152762
  "Fac-similes, for Governor John B. Floyd, of the signatures of the Prince of Wales and Suite"
  1860 October 9
  Scope and Contents

  Scope and Contents Signatures, dated 4 October 1860, are: Albert Edward P.; Lyons; Newcastle; Sc. Germans; Robert Bruce; [?]sdale; G.N. Grey; Gardiner D. Engleheart.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id152764
  Leroy Pope Walker, Secretary of War, Confederate States of America War Department, Montgomery, Ala., to John B. Floyd, Brigadier General, Abington [sic], Va.
  1861 May 23
  Scope and Contents

  Appoints Floyd as Brigadier General of the Provisional Forces of the CSA.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id152765
  Robert A. Richardson, Princeton, Va., to Governor John B. Floyd, Jeffersonville, Va.
  1861 May 29
  Scope and Contents

  Concerning Floyd's invitation to Richardson to join Floyd's Brigade and Richardson's decline because of dissatisfaction in the ranks.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id152766
  William Montgomery Churchwell, Knoxville, Tenn., to General J.B. Floyd
  1861 May 30
  Scope and Contents

  Concerns the difficulty of raising and supplying companies for the Confederate Army in his section of Tennessee.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id152767
  Joseph Emerson Brown, Executive Department, Milledgeville, Georgia, to John B. Floyd, Richmond, Va.
  1861 June 18
  Scope and Contents

  Concerning arms that are pledged to the Georgia volunteers. Brown does not have enough to give to Floyd even though he's sure they would be used "for the promotion of a ... cause."

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id152768
  Henry Heth, Richmond, VA., to "Dear General," John B Floyd [?]
  1861 June 27
  Scope and Contents

  Concerning commissions, medical supplies, and Col. Reynolds and the "Carbine affair."

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id152769
  Pleasant Murphy, Valley P.O., Tazewell Co., Va., to General John B. Floyd, Camp Jackson, Wytheville, Va.
  1861 July 16
  Scope and Contents

  Concerning volunteers and their subsequent refusal to enter the service.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id152770
  William A. Coleman, Camp Jackson, Va [?], to General John B. Floyd, Wytheville, Va.
  1861 July 20
  Scope and Contents

  Concerning Coleman's promotion from private in the "Nelson Rangers." Written on Confederate States of America stationery.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id152771
  W.W. Loring, Brigadier General, Staunton, Va. Orders. Copy, attested by Carter Littlepage Stevenson, to Gen. Floyd
  1861 July 23
  Scope and Contents

  General Loring assumes command of the Army of the North West.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id152772
  Jacob Dolson Cox, Brigadier General U.S.A., Gauley Bridge, W. Va., to Peter Hargman
  1861 August 12
  Scope and Contents

  Scope and Contents Pass to permit his return to his home near Sewell [sic] Mountain. Including an answer from J.L.D. [?], concerning Hargman's report (to Confederates) of Federal strength.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id152773
  General Henry Alexander Wise, Big Sewall, Va. [?], to Brigadier General John B. Floyd
  1861 August 19
  Scope and Contents

  Discusses some differences between them as related to their respective commands, and some misapplication of the miltary propriety. Including a copy from General John B. Floyd, White Sulphur Va. [?], to General Henry A. Wise, 14 August 1861. General Order No. 82, ordering obedience and repect for General Wise, who assumed comand of the Department of the Kanawha Valley.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id152774
  Alfred Beckley, Camp Fayette Court House, Va., to Brigadier General J.B. Floyd, Commanding Army of the Kanawha on Gauley
  1861 August 30
  Scope and Contents

  Requests transfer by Floyd of two companies to Beckly's newly formed regiment. Also refers to military situation below Gauley Bridge.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id152775
  Alfred Ward Grayson David, Lewisburg, W. Va., to General J.B. Floyd
  1861 September 3
  Scope and Contents

  Scope and Contents Recommends Thompson Tyler as messenger or Confederate agent. Including an answer signed by Jno. P. Brock, Capt. Valley Rangers, also recommending Tyler.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id152776
  Lucius Bellinger Northrop, Richmond, Va., to General John B. Floyd
  1861 September 4
  Scope and Contents

  Concerning the settlement of bills, the purchase of bacon, and congratulations on a successful campaign.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id153246
  John McCausland, Summersville, Va., to John B. Floyd
  1861 September 6
  Scope and Contents

  Concerning prisoners.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id153249
  John Henninger Reagan, C.S.A., Post Office Department, Richmond, Va., to Brigadier General John B. Floyd, Army of Kanawha, Va.
  1861 September 20
  Scope and Contents

  Concerning mail facilities fro the Army of Kanawha.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id153253
  Gabriel C. Wharton, Colonel, 51st Regiment, Virginia Volunteers, Floyd's Brigade, Head Quarters, Camp near Meadow Bluff, Va.
  1861 September 28
  Scope and Contents

  Authorization for Stephen Clark to proceed to Grayson County and vicinity to purchase bacon for the use of the army, approved by order of Brig. General John B. Floyd.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id153255
  William Wing Loring, Head Quarters, Camp Sewell Mt., to General R.E. Lee, Commanding
  1861 October 3
  Scope and Contents

  Scope and Contents Concerns purchase of cattle by speculators which prevents the army from getting a sufficiency. Including letter from R. E. Lee, Head Quarters Camp Sewell Mt., to General John B. Floyd, 4 October 1861, referring matter to Floyd.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id153256
  Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Camp at Meadow Bluff, W. Va., to John B. Floyd
  1861 October 8
  Scope and Contents

  Concerning two prisoners and a "pass" found.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id153257
  Frank Gildart Ruffin, Confederate States of America, Subsistence Department, to Captain W.E. Peters, Floyd's Brigade
  1861 October 14
  Scope and Contents

  Scope and Contents Concerning the feeding and location of cattle. Including letter from Lucius Bellinger Northrop, Confederate States of America, Subsistence Department, to Captain W. E. Peters, Floyd's Brigade, 14 October 1861, supporting Ruffin's orders concerning the cattle.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id153258
  William E. Starke, Lewisburg, Va., to Brigadier General John B. Floyd
  1861 November 13
  Scope and Contents

  Asks for instructions with regard to the route to be taken to move his troops to meet General Floyd's troops, after they have received their winter supplies.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id153261
  Henry Washington Benham, Brigadier General, U.S. Army, Hawkins farm, 5 miles S.E. from Fayette, Va., to Brigadier General J.B. Floyd
  1861 November 15
  Scope and Contents

  Scope and Contents Concerns the mortal wound of Col. St. George [sic] John Groghan of the Confederate Army, in a calvalry skirmish, 14 November 1860, and the disposition of his effects. Including an answer from H.W. Benham, Hawkins farm Raleigh Road, Va., to Governor John B. Floyd, n.p., 15 November 1861, stating that the bearer of the letter is John Hawkins, son of Pleasant Hawkins, a prisoner of Floyd's. Desires that John Hawkins be permitted to return.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id153263
  Samuel Preston Moore, Surgeon General's Office, Richmond Va., to Brigadier General John B. Floyd
  1861 November 21
  Scope and Contents

  Special orders assigning Surgeon James A. Forbes to the Army in the North West.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id153266
  Daniel S. Donelson, Brigade Head Quarters, near Lewisburg, Va., to Gen. John B. Floyd, Commander Army of Kanawha
  1861 November 24
  Scope and Contents

  Concerning the selection and establishment of Winter Headquarters.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id153269
  Petition to Gen. John B. Floyd to return John A. Hooker to his disrupted family
  1861 December 6

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id153274
  Brigadier General Gideon Johnson Pillow, Dover, Tennessee, to General John B. Floyd, Clarkesville, Tennessee
  1861 February 9
  Scope and Contents

  Concerning enemy forces on the Tennessee River and Pillow's position and strategy.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id153276
  General William Hardee, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to John B. Floyd
  1862 February 10
  Scope and Contents

  Is sending special messenger.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id153282
  Samuel Cooper, Adjutant Inspector General's Office, Richmond, Va., to John B. Floyd, Chattanooga, Tennessee
  1862 March 14
  Scope and Contents

  Transmitting of letter from the Secretary of War.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id153287
  William Preston, Dacatur, Ga. [?], to General John B. Floyd, Chattanooga, Tennessee
  1862 March 16
  Scope and Contents

  Requests Floyd to prepare a report of his activities from the time he was left in command at Nashville until he arrived at Murfreesboro. This letter published in War of the Rebellion. (Note: The date is written as 1863, but is in fact 1862.)

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id153290
  Charles James Faulkner, Lynchburg, Va., to General John B. Floyd
  1862 June 3
  Scope and Contents

  Concerns the war in the Valley of Virginia and the desire of Capt. Joel W. Flood of Appomattox County to raise a company.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id153295
  Allen Taylor Caperton, Union, Monroe County, Va. [W. Va.], to Major General J.B. Floyd
  1862 June 17
  Scope and Contents

  Scope and Contents Recommends Jacob Osborne of Monroe County, lately a lieutenant in a volunteer company, to Floyd's consideration. Including an answer from A. A. Chapman, undated, concurring with the above reommendation.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id153299
  Augustus Alexandria Chapman, Union, Monroe County, Va., to General John B. Floyd
  1862 June 17
  Scope and Contents

  Recommendation of superior nature of Col. John M. Rowan; gossip about the failures of Henry Heth's command following the battle of Lewisburg, Va. in 1862.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id153301
  Roger Atkinson Pryor, Richmond, Va., to General John B. Floyd
  1862 June 24
  Scope and Contents

  Concerning an introduction of Captain Davis.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id153303
  R.B. Cheatham, Mayor, Nashville, Tennessee, to John B. Floyd
  1862 July 19
  Scope and Contents

  Describes looting in Nashville.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id153306
  D.P. Curry, Richmond, Va., to Governor John Letcher
  1862 August 1
  Scope and Contents

  Hopes to arrange his exchange as a prisoner from "Lincoln's shackles," and will then be able to enter service again. Since he has been wounded, desires position in John B. Floyd's army. Including answer from John Letcher, 17 Aug. 1862, referring Curry's request to Maj. General John B. Floyd, and recommending Curry as an "excellent officer... cool and energetic."

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id153307
  William Daniel, Jr., Lynchburg, Va., to Major General John B. Floyd
  1862 August 9
  Scope and Contents

  Recommends Lieut. Henry D. Yancey of Lynchburg for an appointment in the army under Floyd.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id153312
  John and Ben McCulloch to Gov. and Mrs. John Floyd
  undated
• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id153314
  Card of invitation of Sir William Gore and Lady Ouseley to Governor and Mrs. John B. Floyd for dinner
  undated
  Scope and Contents

  Card of invitation of Sir William Gore and Lady Ouseley to Governor and Mrs. John B. Floyd for dinner.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id153315
  William Campbell Preston, Charlottesville, Va., to "Sally"Mrs. Sarah B. Floyd
  undated
  Scope and Contents

  Concerning the Presbyterian Synod, the house, and family.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id153316
  William H. Seward, n.p., to Governor John B. Floyd
  undated