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Websites. External links. John Letcher (March 29, 1813 – January 26, 1884) was an American lawyer, journalist, and politician. He served as a Representative in the United States Congress, was the 34th Governor of Virginia during the American Civil War, and later served in the Virginia General Assembly.
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John Letcher, best known as Virginia’s Civil War governor from 1860 through 1863, was born in Lexington, Va., on 29 March 1813 to middle-class merchant and businessman William Houston Letcher and his wife, Elizabeth Davidson. The Davidsons were a prominent Shenandoah Valley family, whose connections benefitted Letcher throughout his life. Educated ...
In the 1970s, General John S. Letcher deposited the large collection of his grandfather’s surviving personal papers in the library of the George C. Marshall Foundation in Lexington, Va., for safekeeping. There, the papers were preserved and cataloged in a preliminary fashion. Following the general’s death in 1994, some of the letters and documents ...
Numbers refer to Series Descriptions within this finding aid. Note that subjects referenced by index terms may appear multiple times within the same series. Not all index terms used here appear in the collection- or series-level online catalog records. A. A. Pitman & Co., Natural Bridge, Va., 8 Account books, 1, 11 Accounts, 1, 5, 8, 11 Adultery, 8...
Civil War | Biography. John Letcher. Title Governor of Virginia. War & Affiliation Civil War / Confederate. Date of Birth - Death March 29, 1813 - January 26, 1884. John Letcher was born in Lexington, Virginia, in 1813.
22 de dez. de 2021 · SUMMARY. John Letcher was a lawyer, newspaper editor, member of the United States House of Representatives (1851–1859), and governor of Virginia (1860–1864) during the American Civil War (1861–1865). In a career that lasted decades, he weathered radical shifts of opinion and power by consistently positioning himself as a ...
18 de mar. de 2020 · 319 pages 21 cm. This book is based on a thorough study of Letcher's personal papers including his diary. Before 1861, Letcher actively opposed secession, but when war came he served the Confederacy more loyally and ably. if less flamboyantly, than many more colorful and noisy southern patriots.
John Letcher was no stranger to the rigors of war. As Governor from 1860 through 1863, he first resisted the secession movement, but once Virginia made her fateful decision, he vigorously supported the Confederacy's struggle for survival. Richmond's wartime inflation brought Letcher to the brink of bankruptcy, and his valuable real estate holdings
They decided to march on Gov. John Letcher’s office and demand that he do something about the problem. Led by Mary Jackson, a mother of four, and Minerva Meredith, whom Varina Davis (the wife of President Davis) described as “tall, daring, Amazonian-looking,” the crowd of more than 100 women armed with axes, knives, and other weapons took ...
