Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

James Edgar Chancellor Papers, Accession 2181, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

This collection was given to the Library on June 6, 1945 by Miss Betty Cocke of Charlottesville .

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

This collection consists of seven bound volumes, 1847-1883, mostly related to James Edgar Chancellor 's medical education and service, and miscellaneous letters and papers. James Edgar Chancellor (1826-1896) was the son of George Chancellor and Ann (Lyon) Pound Chancellor of Spotsylvania County, Virginia . He had two brothers, Reverend Melzi Sanford Chancellor and Colonel Lorman Chancellor . He studied at Fredericksburg , Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia , and the University of Virginia (first session, 1846-47). He lived near Spotsylvania Court House until 1862 when he put his property up for sale and moved to Charlottesville where he practiced medicine at the Confederate States Army hospital. Some of the materials in this collection relate to his service as a surgeon in the Confederate States Army . He was also an instructor (Demonstrator of Anatomy) at the University of Virginia from the fall of 1865 until the spring of 1872.