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JAMES I ROBERTSON JR CIVIL WAR SESQUICENTENNIAL LEGACY COLLECTION

Edmund L. Smith letter, 21 February 1864
Sketch, undated, of a burial site for Union soldiers at Fort Pocahontas, Charles City County, Virginia.
United Confederate Veterans. Virginia Division. Hugh McGuire Camp No. 1569 (Shenandoah County, Va.). Photograph, ca. 1905
Abraham Lincoln election handbill, 1864
Photograph, ca. 1861-1865, of John J. Williams in his Confederate uniform.

The James I. Robertson Jr. Civil War Sesquicentennial Legacy Collection documents the people of our nation and commonwealth during the Civil War era as told through letters, diaries, photographs, and other manuscripts held in private collections. Between 2011 and 2015, Virginians across the commonwealth eagerly shared their historic collections from the Civil War era through a free digitization and worldwide access project established by a partnership of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission, Virginia's local Sesquicentennial committees, and the Library of Virginia. Originally known as the Civil War 150 Legacy Project, the collection was renamed at the close of Virginia's 150th commemoration in honor of the noted Civil War scholar and Commission member Dr. James I. Robertson Jr.


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For more information, please visit the following web sites:

Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission

Civil War Research Guide

About James I. Robertson Jr.

Virginia Sesquicentennial Commemoration of the American Civil War
Virginia Sesquicentennial Commemoration of the American Civil War