Marie Bowman Collection

1080 WFCHS

Scope and Content: This collection contains much information about the Civil War in the form of newspapers, pamphlets, United Daughters of the Confederacy information, and letters. This material refers to both local and statewide people and events.

(1 box) Last updated 12/06.

Biographical/Historical: Marie C. Bowman was born on May 5, 1909 in Lebanon Church, VA, daughter of Ernest D. and Laura Snapp Funkhouser. She was president of the Winchester Chapter of the United Daughters of Confederacy, and belonged to the Women’s Auxiliary of the Salvation Army, Daughters of the American Revolution, and St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Winchester, VA. She married Harry P. Bowman. Mrs. Bowman died in December 1988 and was buried in Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, VA.

Cite As: Marie Bowman Collection, 1080 WFCHS, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.

Organization:

Box 1

News Articles—Marie Bowman, 4 leaves printed (photocopy)

"The History of Arlington: Where America's Sons of Valor Sleep," by Enoch Aquila Chase, 1929, 1 item, printed

"Maps of the Battle of Balls Bluff," October 21, 1861, 1 item printed

"Belle Boyd- Southern Spy of the Shenandoah," by Laura Virginia Hale, 2 copies 1936, 1939, 2 items printed

"The Causes of the War Between the States," by Margaret Sheldon, 1 item printed

"Historic Beauty in Charlottesville and Albemarle County Virginia" and "A Word Picturelogue through Beautiful Historic Charlottesville," 2 items printed

Civil War Centennial-Brochures and Maps, 4 items printed

Frederick County Schools: Creative Arts Festival 1989, 1 item printed

"Gettysburg" July 1963--Volume 2 Number 4 from the editors of Civil War Times, 1 item printed

Judge John Handley--1835 to 1895, 1 item printed

Hollywood Cemetery-List of Confederate Veterans buried from Camp Lee Soldiers Home, 1894-1946 by Jerald H. Markham, 1 item printed

"Stonewall Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign--1862" and "The Stonewall Brigade," 3 items printed

Stonewall Jackson-Supplement From the West Virginia Hillbilly--January 28, 1961, 8 pages printed (photocopy)

"Kentucky"-Volume 1, by L.F. Mattingly (no date) 1 item printed

Lee, Robert Edward, and Stratford Brochures, 5 items printed

Louisiana Monument Dedication, 1896, Stonewall Cemetery, 1 item printed

"The McGuires of Winchester-Medical Practitioners of the Confederacy," by Don Tharpe 1982, 9 leaves typescript (photocopy), 1 leaf printed (photocopy)

News clippings-Civil War Heroes and area Winchester events, 5 leaves printed (photocopy), 4 pages printed (photocopy)

Photographic History of the Civil War, excerpts, 3 pages printed

Richmond Guide Books, 2 items printed

"Things That Make for Peace--What is Meant by Peace?" Miss Rutherford's Scrap Book-Volume III--December 1925, 1 item printed

The Shepherdstown Register--100th Anniversary--December 4, 1949, 6 pages printed (photocopy)

Diary of William Randolph Smith, March 23, 1862-June 30, 1862, 1 item printed

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Virginia Division, 87th annual convention, October 1982, 1 item printed

"Sketches of Washington and Lee University," by Marion Junkin--1927, 1 item printed

The War of 1861-1865, Richmond Times Dispatch Supplement (no date), 20 pages printed (photocopy)

Box 2

Valley News Echo (Reprints by Potomac Edison)

October 1861	February 1862
April 1862	May 1862
June 1862

Harpers Weekly
Reprint of November 2, 1861 issue
Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
August 1898

United Daughters of Confederacy Magazine

August 1985	October 1985
January 1988	February 1988

Virginia Country's Civil War
1986

Civil War Times

May 1960	June 1960
July 1960	August/September 1960
October 1960	November 1960
December 1960	January 1961
February/March 1961	April 1961
May 1961	June 1961
July 1961	August/September 1961
October 1961	November 1961
December 1961	January 1962
February 1962

Civil War Times Illustrated (New Name)

April 1962	May 1962
June 1962	July 1962
August 1962	October 1962
November 1962	December 1962
January 1963	April 1963

The Southern Magazine

June 1934

October 1935

Collier's Magazine
"Marse Jeff Davis," by Harris Dickson & Aunt Florida, 5 issues from February 5, 1938 to March 26, 1938

Scrapbooks
c1907 to c1926 scrapbook mostly on UDC & Gray family
Turner Ashby Chapter, UDC, September 1961 to September 1962