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Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries (0434)Laura Katz Smith
Patrick Bowmaster grants permission for up to half of the manuscript to be photocopied.
Collection is open to research.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Bowmaster, Patrick A., Papers Ms1994-037, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
Patrick A. Bowmaster was a graduate student in history student at Virginia Tech. The collection consists of papers that Bowmaster wrote for his graduate classes.
Among those papers included in the collection is an edited transcript of the diary of Jasper Hawse (1835-1905), a Civil War soldier born in Hardy County, Virginia. At the beginning of the Civil War Hawse enlisted in the 14th Regiment, Virginia Militia, which became the 7th Virginia Cavalry Regiment in March 1862. In June 1862 the cavalry regiment was reorganized as the 17th Virginia Cavalry Battalion. Hawse also served intermittently as a commissary sergeant in the Confederate Quartermaster's Department. The collection also includes a paper about Emanuel Stance, the first African-American to win the Congressional Medal of Honor for action in the post-Civil War period.
This collection is part of our one folder manuscripts. The documents within the folder are arranged by subject.
The guide to the Bowmaster, Patrick A., Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).
Prepared April-May by Patrick A. Bowmaster.
Edited by Patrick A. Bowmaster. An Independent Study Project completed at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University under the direction of Dr. James I. Robertson Jr. December, 1994. Blacksburg, Virginia.
By Patrick A. Bowmaster. An Independent Study Project completed at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University under the direction of Dr. Hayward Farrar. May, 1995. Blacksburg, Virginia.