A Guide to the Notice to Virginia Militia, 1848
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Special Collections Department
Accession number 11277
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
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Preferred Citation
Notice to Virginia Militia, 1848, Accession 11277, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
This document was purchased on January 2, 1997 .
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Scope and Content
This document is a March 25, 1848 handwritten notice from Major J. H. Conrad of the 58th Regiment of Virginia Militia ordering militiamen within a specified geographical area to assemble at Conrad's Store in Rockingham County [now Elkton --see Nancy Hess , The Heartland: Rockingham County (1976), page 364] on April 1, 1848, for military duty and election of officers. A transcript has been provided for researchers.
According to John W. Wayland , A History of Rockingham County, Virginia (1912), page 451, the 58th Regiment entered state service on July 8, 1813.
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- J. H. Conrad
- John W. Wayland
- Nancy Hess