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Jacob Kent Langhorne Papers, mss 00361, Virginia Military Institute Archives, Lexington, Virginia.
The Langhorne Papers are available in full-text format on the VMI Archives website at: http://www.vmi.edu/archives/manuscripts/ms361.html
Jacob Kent Langhorne ("Kent") was born in Montgomery County, Virginia, on March 1, 1845. He matriculated at the Virginia Military Institute in August 1862 and left VMI in February 1863 to join the Confederate Army. Langhorne enlisted in Company C, 2nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment and was killed in battle at Brandy Station on June 9, 1863. He is buried in the Crockett-Kent graveyard near Shawsville, Virginia.
The papers consist of 17 Civil War letters (Sept 1862-May 1863) from Jacob Kent Langhorne to various members of his family, written during his Virginia Military Institute cadetship and his service in the Confederate Army with the 2nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment. Topics include cadet life, family matters, camp life.
The collection is arranged chronologically.
This series contains 10 letters written by Langhorne to his family while he was a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. Topics include cadets life and family matters.