Box 12
Container
Contains 10 Results:
Family correspondence – Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888) with his wife, Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham (1830-1913) and young children, 1862 January-February
File — Box: 12, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Wickham writes about the following topics, a story about Lt. Colonel Thomas L. Kane, commander of the Bucktail Rifles of Northern Pennsylvania and a relative (January 2, 1862); General Johnston likes Wickham’s bill for the better organization of the army (January 8, 1862); Wickham’s [enslaved?], attendant, Robin, has built a wonderful shelter for the horses in their winter camp (January 8, 1862); Wickham's return to Camp Ewell after his furlough (January 29, 1862); his disapproval of the...
Dates:
1862 January-February
Family correspondence – Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888) with his wife, Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham (1830-1913) and young children, 1862 March-April
File — Box: 12, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Topics include the alarm of the people in the area north of the Rappahannock where people are abandoning their homes and "Negroes" or enslaved laborers are going northward by the hundreds (March 14, 1862); bivouacking comfortably near Brandy Station (April 4, 1862); and reports that their new location is twelve miles below Williamsburg and five miles from Yorktown at “Blows Mill” and that they are short on provisions (April 18, 22 and 24, 1862).
Dates:
1862 March-April
Family correspondence – Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888) with his wife, Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham (1830-1913) and young children, 1862 August-December
File — Box: 12, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Topics include writing from Sudley Mills describes recent events that have greatly reduced his regiment and prevented his communicating with his family, noting that with 200 men Wickham charged the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry 800 strong, routing them and capturing a large number, mentioning that General Ewell has lost a leg [during the battle of Groveton] (August 30, 1862); currently near Frederick, Maryland (September 7, 1862); yesterday at Sharpsburg, Maryland, “fought probably the most...
Dates:
1862 August-December
Family correspondence – Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888) with his wife, Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham (1830-1913) and young children, 1863 January-May
File — Box: 12, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Topics include the rejection of his resignation by the Secretary of War (January 15, 1863); staying with General Robert E. Lee at Culpeper Courthouse (March 1, 1863); discussion of the [Battle of Chancellorsville] (May 8, 1863 copy); spent the day with Lee who was in good spirits but without any hope of quick termination of the war and who would not allow his resignation, and General Jackson said to be dangerously ill with pleurisy (May 10, 1863); mentions the death of General Jackson and...
Dates:
1863 January-May
Family correspondence – Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888) with his wife, Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham (1830-1913) and young children, 1863 June-1864 February
File — Box: 12, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Topics include Wickham’s approval of the generals James Longstreet, A.P. Hill, and Richard S. Ewell (June 3, 1863); Lucy relates their losses during visits of the Yankees to “Hickory Hill” and “North Wales” plantations and the capture of Fitzhugh Lee out of his sick bed (July 25, 1863); Wickham writes from the headquarters of Wickham’s Brigade, following his commission as Brigadier General (September 12, 1863); news of Julius Theodore Porcher being mortally wounded from members of the 10th...
Dates:
1863 June-1864 February
Family correspondence – Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888) with his wife, Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham (1830-1913) and young children, 1864 March-September
File — Box: 12, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Topics include accompanying General Robert E. Lee to the anniversary of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Poney’s Brigade to hear a talk on the character of General [Stonewall?] Jackson (March 29, 1864); description of the pillaging of “Hickory Hill” by the Yankees and their threatening Uncle Hill Carter (June 5, 1864, June 1864, August 1, 1864); mention of General Sheridan (July 25, 1864); description of the devastation in the area around Culpeper and mention of [Jubal] Early (August...
Dates:
1864 March-September
Family correspondence – Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888) chiefly with his wife, Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham (1830-1913) , 1867-1888
File — Box: 12, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and “Hickory Hill” plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with...
Dates:
1867-1888
Family correspondence of Captain Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor Wickham and Elise W. Barksdale Wickham, 1905-1924
File — Box: 12, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Wickham attended the U.S. Naval Academy from 1904 until 1909 and most of the letters from this period were to his parents. There are also a few dating from his service aboard the U.S.S. Minnesota (1911) and the U.S.S. Smith (1913) addressed to them. Letters dated 1924 from Captain Wickham to his wife, Credilla Miller Wickham, were written while serving in the U.S. Asiastic Fleet aboard the U.S.S. Pillsbury when the navy summered at Chefoo [present day Yantai], China.
Dates:
1905-1924
Family correspondence of Captain Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor Wickham and Elise W. Barksdale Wickham, 1941, 1944
File — Box: 12, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and “Hickory Hill” plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with...
Dates:
1941, 1944
Family correspondence of Williams Carter Wickham (1917-1982), chiefly as a child, 1925-1944
File — Box: 12, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and “Hickory Hill” plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with...
Dates:
1925-1944