WILLIAM NELSON PENDLETON PAPERS, #1466, 1798-1889
Family, professional and military correspondence of Pendleton, Episcopal minister of
Lexington, Virginia, and brigadier general commanding the artillery of the Confederate Army
of northern Virginia. Letters cover such topics as his opinions on slavery; slaves building
Confederate fortifications (1861); thoughts of slaves on possible
Yankee victory (1862); instructions on handling rebellious slaves
(1863); the postwar situation with African Americans (1865); and justifications of the institution of slavery using passages
from the Bible (1880). The collection also includes an Annual Report of the
Pennsylvania Colonization Society, which transported to Liberia blacks who wanted to
return to Africa (1881).