Papers of Douglas Southall Freeman

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Among the items and files are transcripts of Civil War diaries of William Randolph Smith of Co. F. 17th Regt. Va. Infantry who participated in the 1862 Peninsular battles, and of John Price Kepner of Co. I, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, a surgeon's assistant; an original and 2 transcripts of post war Jefferson Davis letters in which he denies a plot to assassinate Lincoln; speeches, 1866 & '71 of Alexander Hamilton Stephens, copies of Civil War grafitti on the walls of Massaponax Baptist Church, a sketch of J.E.B. Stuart by Freeman, and Sherman's march through Georgia by I. Schiehert and Charles Scott Venable. There are also transcripts of letters from Matthew Fontaine Maury, John Singleton Mosby and John Adams to John Marshall. Original correspondence includes letters or short notes from Harry Flood Byrd, James Cannon, Dabney Stewart Lancaster, and Colgate Whitehead Darden. Mayors around the country write regarding their cities' Sunday closing laws. Walter Francis White and Robert Russa Moten enquire about an unusual suicide/murder case in Warrenton, Va. Other original material includes a signed ode on Richmond by Mary Johnston, Homage to Colonel Esmond by James Branch Cabell, ; a photograph of Freeman with Charles A. Lindbergh and photos of World War I artillery.