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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for John Letcher or search for John Letcher in all documents.
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 2 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Southern Historical Society : its origin and history. (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 31 (search)
Ex-Governor Letcher's home.
His daughter tells how it was burned during the war. [from the Baltimore (Md.) sun, July 11, 1890.]
How General Hunter executed to the letter General Grant's memorable Order—Valuable Library and family Relics destroyed.
Mrs. Margaret Letcher Showell, daughter of ex-Governor Letcher, of Virginiex-Governor Letcher, of Virginia, and wife of Mr. Robert J. Showell, a member of the Maryland Legislature, writes from her home in Berlin, Worcester county, Maryland, describing the burning of her father's home near Lexington, Virginia, in June, 1864, by General Hunter, upon the order of General Grant. Mrs. Showell says:
Lexington had been shelled for thr father's house was a special aim of the cannon, it marvelously escaped being struck, but every building in the vicinity suffered for its supposed crime.
Ex-Governor Letcher had been warned by an ante-bellum friend, a member of Hunter's brigade, to make his escape.
A large reward had been offered for his capture, and dreadful t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)