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Preferred Citation:

Barker-Cooke Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Purchase

Scope and Contents

Letters and business papers, chiefly 1848-1866, of James E. Cooke of Powhatan, Virginia and the Barker family of Fluvanna County, Virginia. Includes letters relating to the hiring out of slaves, plantation operations and the Civil War. Civil War letters are between John H. Barker and Henry J. Dobbs of the 18th Virginia Regiment of the Confederate army concerning the Battle of First Bull Run/Manassas.

Arrangement of Materials:

The collection has been divided into series with Series 1 covering letters and Series 2 including accounts, receipts and notes. The subseries under letters is grouped by date: Subseries 1 are letters 1848- 1854, Subseries 2 are the Civil War letters and Subseries 3 covers letters written after the Civil War.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Barker family
• Barker, John H
• Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861
• Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 13th
• Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 18th
• Cooke, James E. fl. 1848-1853
• Correspondence
• Dobbs, Henry J
• Financial records
• Fluvanna County (Va.)--History--19th century
• Plantation life--Virginia
• Powhatan County (Va.)
• Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

General

Other Information:

Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00004.frame