Dale,

Thank you very much for this link. I am glad to learn of the CW 150 Legacy Project. I have some material that may be of interest to you. You mention scouring the state of Virginia for material. You might consider scouring outside of Virginia. For example, a great uncle who served in the 4th Virginia Calvary. After the war he and two of his brothers (yes, a real three brothers story) moved to St. Louis. He then later to moved to Tennessee where he applied for (and received) a pension. The pension files give a great level of detail about his unit and especially the surrender--which he refused to attend. He still had his horse and he managed to use it to quietly slip away.

Perhaps footnote.com will be a good source for these far-flung types of records.  I didn't obtain this information from that site, but it might turn out to be a good resource.

Speaking of St. Louis, and Missouri in general, after the war that was a popular destination for Virginians to move considering the federal occupation and devastation of the Old Dominion. It was a very "Confederate friendly" state, despite its own problems during the war which can best be described as schizophrenic.

I know your focus is on Virginia, but just wanted you to think "outside the box" a little on other sources of material.

Best,
Craig Kilby

On Jul 21, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Dale Dulaney wrote:

> This week’s entry in the “Out of the Box” blog features Library of Virginia 
> archivists visiting a conference of Civil War historians to spread the word 
> about our collection. Some of the documents displayed there were gathered 
> during the pilot phase of  the CW 150 Legacy Project, a newly-launched drive  
> to scour the state to locate and scan privately-held manuscript items relating 
> to the Civil War.  You'll be hearing much more about the project during the 
> course of the Civil War Sesquicentennial. 
> 
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