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Preferred Citation
Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Ted Barclay Letters, WLU Coll 0002, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.
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Biographical / Historical
Ted Barclay was a Lexington, Virginia native and a member of Washington College (later known as Washington and Lee University) Class of 1861. He then served in the Liberty Hall Volunteers of the Stonewall Brigade (4th Infantry) for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War (1861-1864) and later was a trustee of Washington and Lee University.
Scope and Contents
Includes autographed letters signed and typed copies of Barclay's letters to his family in Lexington, Virginia during the American Civil War. The letters include: information about the activities of the Liberty Hall Volunteers of the Stonewall Brigade in major battles within Virginia; accounts of life in Confederate camp; information about food, clothing, diseases, religious services, attractive women, and deaths of friends while serving with the Volunteers; and accounts of his life as a Union prisoner at Fort Delaware. These letters have been published in a volume edited by Charles Turner, Ted Barclay, Liberty Hall Volunteers: Letters from the Stonewall Brigade (1861-1864).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Armies -- Military life
- Armies -- Religious life
- Barclay, Ted, II (Alexander Tedford)
- Cookery, Military
- Correspondence
- Delaware -- Fort Delaware
- History
- Prisoners of war
- Virginia
Container List
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John Barclay to Mary Elanor Paxton Barclay1861-06-10English.
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John Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1861-06-11English.
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John Barclay to Mary Elanor Paxton Barclay1861-06-14English.
- Text [0000002645] box: 1 folder: 2
Ted Barclay to Mary Elanor Paxton Barclay1861-06-22English.
- Text [0000002645] box: 1 folder: 2
Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay and Mary Elanor Paxton Barclay1861-06-25English.
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Ted Barclay to Mary Elanor Paxton Barclay1861-07-01English.
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Ted Barclay to Mary Elanor Paxton Barclay1861-07-22English.
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Ted Barclay to Mary Elanor Paxton Barclay1861-07-27English.
- Text [0000002645] box: 1 folder: 4
Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1861-12-01English.
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Ted Barclay to Mary Elanor Paxton Barclay1861-12-06English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1861-12-23English.
- Text [0000002645] box: 1 folder: 6
Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1862-02-01English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1862-02-05English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1862-02-10English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1862-02-19English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1862-02-22English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1862-03-03English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1862-03-30English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1862-03-31English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1862-04-15English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1862-05-16English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1862-05-26English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1862-05-27English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1862-05-29English.
- Text [0000002645] box: 1 folder: 10
Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-06-03English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-06-17English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-06-19English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-07-08English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-07-13English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-07-14English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-07-20English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-07-24English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-08-03English.
- Text [0000002645] box: 1 folder: 12
Ted Barclay to Mary Elanor Paxton Barclay1863-08-05English.
- Text [0000002645] box: 1 folder: 12
Ted Barclay to Mary Elanor Paxton Barclay1863-08-17English.
- Text [0000002645] box: 1 folder: 12
Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-09-01English.
- Text [0000002645] box: 1 folder: 12
Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-09-16English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-09-29English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-10-13English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-10-21English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-10-24English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-11-10English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-11-15English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-11-19English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-11-25English.
- Text [0000002645] box: 1 folder: 14
Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-12-05English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1863-12-29English.
- Text [0000002645] box: 1 folder: 15
Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1864-01-26English.
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Ted Barclay to Homefolks (Hannah Moore Barclay and Mary Elanor Paxton Barclay)1864-02-10English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1864-02-22English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1864-03-02English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1864-03-09English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1864-03-12English.
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Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1864-03-21English.
- Text [0000002645] box: 1 folder: 17
Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1864-06-07English.
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Ted Barclay to Mary Elanor Paxton Barclay1864-07-21English.
- Text [0000002645] box: 1 folder: 17
Ted Barclay to Hannah Moore Barclay1864-08-21English.