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Provenance

Donor was given original documents of the Civil War period concerning her grandfather and his brother, her great-uncle.

Other Formats Available

Transcriptions of both letters are included in the collection.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], [box #, folder #], Virginia Wise Breen Collection Collection of Flook Family Papers, SC 0104, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.

Acquisition Information

Donated to JMU Special Collections by Mrs. Virginia Wise Breen in January 1990.

Processing Information

The September 3, 1861 letter and the January 24, 1863 discharge certificate were previously laminated. In order to streamline the process of applying collection numbers, Special Collections staff completed a large-scale renumbering campaign in the spring of 2017. This collection was previously cataloged as SC 2084 .

Bio/Historical

Both letters were written by members of the Flook family, and the donor is a relative. The first letter, dated 1842, was written by David Flook and concerns the price of cattle in Tennessee. The 1861 letter between brothers Michael Harvey Flook and William Christian Flook, discusses the selection of substitute soldiers and describes action involving Confederate Generals Wise and Floyd in the Kanawha Valley. The home of both brothers was in Rockingham County, Virginia.

Scope and Content

This collection contains three items. There are two letters: one dated 1842 to David Flook from Caswell Freeman in Jacksborough, Tennessee, concerning the price of cattle; and one dated September 3, 1861 from M. H. Flook at Camp Guin to his brother. This letter discusses the selection of substitute soldiers and describes action involving Confederate generals Wise and Floyd in the Kanawha Valley. Attached to the 1861 letter is an 1863 certificate from Rockingham County exempting William Christian Flook from military duty for having furnished Jos. B. Breen as a substitute in 1861. Both letters have been transcribed.

Arrangement

The documents are arranged chronologically in one folder.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Breen family
• Breen, Joseph B.
• Breen, Virginia Wise
• Confederate States of America. Army (General subdivision: Recruiting, enlistment, etc..)
• Family papers
• Flook family
• Flook, M. H. -- Correspondence
• Flook, W. Christian
• Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863
• Freeman, Caswell -- Correspondence
• Kanawha Valley Campaign, 1861-1862
• Letters (correspondence)
• Rockingham County (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
• Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
• West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
• Wise, John S. (John Sergeant), 1846-1913