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Preferred Citation:

Colonel Robert W. West Letter, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Scope and Contents

One page letter from Colonel Robert W. West to Mrs. Lucy Tucker, Mrs. Lucy Hausford, and Mi[f]s. Emily Morrison dated 29 November 1863.  It is a summons for the ladies to return to Mrs. Vest's home in Williamsburg, all of the property they took without permission.  He requests them to comply within a week or he threatened to send colored troops to their homes to search and remove the items for them.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
• Williamsburg (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865