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Preferred Citation:

John G. James to Samuel Y. Ferguson Letter, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Acquisition Information:

Gift.

Biographical Information:

John G. James was a real estate agent in Oklahoma in 1927. Brother of Charles A. James, a Civil War veteran.

Scope and Contents

Copy of an April 7, 1927 letter from John G. James to Samuel Y. Ferguson about Andrew Jackson and the VMI (Virginia Military Institute) Cadets in the Civil War and about Charles A. James, a student at the University of Virginia, who served with Robert E. Lee.

The John G. James papers were given to the Virginia Military Institute by an ancestor in 1992.

WHRA.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Correspondence
• Ferguson family
• Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863
• James family
• University of Virginia--History--19th century
• Virginia Military Institute--History--19th century
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865