Kurt A Sanftleben, LLC
Organization
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
1st Massachusetts Cavalry detachment invoice
Collection — Box BW 59: [Barcode: X031674512], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16852
Content Description
This collection contains an invoice detailing the issue of new uniforms and blankets to a detachment from the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry made at Hagerstown, Maryland during the month of November 1862 following the unit's skirmishes in the Shenandoah with Confederates at Snicker's Gap, Markham Station, and Manassas Gap.
Dates:
1862
Blockade Civil War letter from wife Isabella and her children, Jumain, Miriam, and Rosa to her husband in Cuba
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762544]
Identifier: MSS 16853
Content Description
This collection contains a rare letter written by a woman named Isabella, and her children, Jumain, Miriam, and Rosa, to her unnamed husband describing their attempts to sail from Galveston, Texas, to join him in Havana, Cuba. Their passage was on a blockade runner that failed as they could not pass through the Union ships. The back of the letter contains short notes from each of the children addressed to their father.
Dates:
March 7, 1865
Collection related to stallion Wicked William
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 16825
Content Description
This collection contains nineteen documents and letters that provide detailed documentation of the ownership of a breeding stallion named Wicked William. The documents include three pedigrees, four stud service tickets, five sales records, and seven stampless letters, which provide a first-hand account of thoroughbred breeding and horse racing in Virginia during the early 19th century. The collection traces the breeding of Wicked William and his pedigree.The collection also...
Dates:
1832 - 1845
Collection related to stallion Wicked William
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2023-0107
Isaac French letter
Collection — Box BW 59: [Barcode: X031674512], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16849
Content Description
This collection contains a letter from Isaac French to J. Huntsman, Esq. dated June 17, 1849. French was a guest at Robert Buckner Bolling's plantation in Charles City County, Virginia, called Sandy Point. The letter has no postal markings or stamps, indicating an individual carried it. French describes to his friend his trip to the plantation, the weather, the size of Bolling's fields, the condition of the crops, and the epidemic of cholera and smallpox in Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Richmond....
Dates:
June 17, 1849
John Rutherfoord letter
Unprocessed Material — Folder ViU2024-00118_001: [Barcode: X004961035]
Identifier: ViU-2024-0118
Caroline Victoria Ozias letter
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762542]
Identifier: MSS 16851
Content Description
This collection contains a letter from Caroline 'Carrie' Victoria Ozias of Iowa to Sarah "Sallie" Rachel McQuiston from Ohio. Ozias gives an account of the significant military activities happening around her. She describes Confederate prisoners, and details the United States Colored Troops who were guarding them. She also writes about Camp McClellan, where nearly three hundred Dakota or Lakota members were imprisoned. She reports on the riots who are resisting the draft as well as raids and...
Dates:
October 20, 1864