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John Preston Moore Papers, 1822-1925, Accession #11378, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was purchased by the University of Virginia Library from the History Broker, Roanoke, Virginia, on January 23, 1998.
John Preston Moore served with the Kerr's Creek Confederates, the 58th Virginia Infantry, in the Civil War, as a captain in Company G, where he was wounded in 1862 at Port Republic. He commanded the post in Lexington from August 1864 until April 1865, and an order book from this period is in this collection (Box 2). Following his military service, Moore became a deputy sheriff in Rockbridge County, 1865-1870, the clerk of court in Lexington, 1870-1893, and a lawyer in Lexington from 1893 until his death in 1911, when he was buried in the Stonewall Jackson Cemetery.
The papers of John Preston Moore (1841-1911) of Kerr's Creek, Rockbridge County, Virginia, ca. 1822-1925, ca. 600 items (1.5 Hollinger boxes), chiefly consists of legal and financial papers, including accounts, tax receipts, canceled checks, and receipts of John Preston Moore, and financial papers of Moore & Laird and Laird & Dunlap. Also present is Moore's correspondence, bound volumes, specifications for a house belonging to Frank Moore, and some printed materials, which were transferred to the Rare Books Division.
The correspondence is chiefly concerned with business matters and correspondents include: John T. Armstrong, J.C. Ballard (briefly concerning Buena Vista and mining speculation, 1889 Dec 14), James H. Bell, James Bumgardner, Jr., F.D. Coe, William M. Dunlap (briefly concerning Buena Vista, 1889 Dec 31), James Goodbar, James Housten, Charles H. Kitchel, T.C. Leake, Jr. (briefly concerning Buena Vista, 1889 Dec 31), James McDonald (concerning the effort of the state of Virginia in collecting the names of all who served in the Confederate forces, 1884 May 2), Morton Marye, E.B. Moon, O. Howard Royer, John C. Shields, Miss M.L. Starke, and Thomas H. Tutwiler.