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Preferred Citation:

Lambert-Sheetz Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Purchase

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Scope and Contents

Papers, 1814-1907, of the Lambert and Sheetz families of Augusta and Shenandoah counties. Include papers of Daniel H. Lambert, Staunton, Va. including his orders as a conscript in the Confederate Army in 1864 and his Oath of Allegiance to the United States in July 1865. Also include letters received by James and Joseph L. Sheetz, Woodstock, Shenandoah County and a single page extra newspaper issued by The Valley Virginian at the time of the riot, 3 November 1883,in Danville, Va.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Augusta County (Va.)--History--19th century
• Correspondence
• Danville (Va.)--History--19th century
• Danville (Va.)--Riot, 1883
• Legal documents
• Rockingham County (Va.)--History--19th century
• Sheetz, James
• Sheetz, Joseph L
• Shenandoah County (Va.)--History--19th century
• Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)--History
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865