Box 85
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Includes card from Joseph R. Carraway (of Greenville, S.C.), thanking Sam for his Civil War weekend, encloses a quotation from Robert E. Lee “another general turned-educator.” The Lee quotation: “my experience of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor indisposed me to think worse of them nor indisposed me to serve them,” is from Lee to Charles Marshall, September 1870); HSC documents; article on Sam giving Memorial Day address in the Northern Neck; letters from Lynda J. Robb (of McClean, Va.) on a WWII anthology; letter acknowledging Sam’s pay raise to $140,000/year as president; James V. Hall to Sam, discussing self-publishing his book on Vietnam; letter from Charlton Ogburn (of Beaufort, S.C.), asking him for feedback on an article, “The Southern Cross” (on southern identity and the Civil War; Ogburn was a Confederate apologist. Sam responds by saying his father, Cap’n Jack would have enjoyed it, but Sam doesn’t give his own opinion on it), 1995 May
File — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Box 85, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains the entirety of General Samuel Vaughan Wilson's personal and professional papers, as donated to Hampden-Sydney College by his widow in 2019. Topics include the Vietnam and Second World Wars, the development of the United States of America's intelligence and counter-intelligence communities, military strategy, and Wilson's role as president of Hampden-Sydney College from 1992 until 2000.
Dates:
1995 May