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Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to research.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Jeremiah White Graves Diary, Ms1990-033, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Source of Acquisition

The collection was donated to Special Collections and University Archives in July 1990.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Jeremiah White Graves Diary was completed prior to 2001. Additional description completed in January 2023.

Biographical Note

Jeremiah White Graves was a farmer in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

There is a Jere. W. Graves (1801-1884) buried in the Brumfield Family Cemeterery in Renan, Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

Source: "Jeremiah White 'Jere' Graves" entry, Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141911139/jeremiah-white-graves , accessed January 6, 2023.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a microfilm copy of Jeremiah White Graves' extensive diary and a typescript manuscript of selected transcribed passages from that diary. In his diary, Graves refers to working his farm, the sale of enslaved Black people in the area, and his children's schooling. During the American Civil War years, Graves mentions the fighting and the war's end. After the war, he comments that Black people could vote while he could not.

Related Material

See the Jeremiah W. Graves Collection, Ms2012-084 , also at Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives, and the Jeremiah White Graves Papers, 1822-1878, Accession #5047 , Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Civil War
• Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
• Slavery -- United States
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Diaries

Rights Statement for Archival Description

The guide to the Jeremiah White Graves Diary by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).