1850s Large Archive 250+ Letters Documents Ledgers Saluda Virginia Bristow Family Slave Slavery Documents

Item Details

Large archive of over 250 documents from 1850s to 1860s Saluda, Virginia related to John P Bristow.  The archive includes:

• Ledger over 150 pages long with 1000s of entries from the 1850s.  There are several entries dealing with officers during the Civil War.  Many of the entries deal with making and selling clothes
• Several documents related to purchasing and appraising slaves
• Printed act related to voting rights from April of 1870
• Letters, broadsides and documents dealing with agricultural business including several related to the military during the Civil War and after