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Preferred Citation

Rawlings Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, College of William and Mary

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased from Henry Harris in January 1928

Scope and Contents

Papers, 1842-1863, of the Rawlings family of Brunswick County, Va. Mostly correspondence, 1859-1863, of William Mort Rawlings including his correspondence, 1861-1863, while serving in the 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment with his father Joseph W. Rawlings, mother Martha A. G. Rawlings, sisters Amanda J. Rawlings and Henrietta V. Rawlings, and brothers Robert Larkin Rawlings (also serving in the Confederate States Army), J. S. Rawlings and P. H. Rawlings. Also includes indenture, 1842, between George B. Rawlings and Robert Rawlings; and orders, 1846, and account, 1853, of Joseph W. Rawlings.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Brunswick County (Va.)--History--19th century
• Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 21st--History
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865