Diaries of a Liberty Hall Volunteer return home

摘要

An old Washington and Lee alum-with a little help from his friends-has posthumously provided his alma mater with a treasure trove of firsthand observations of the Civil War in Virginia, after some alert re-enactors and a Lexington historian spotted his six-diary set about to be sold at auction. The diaries' author, Alexander Sterrett Paxton, was a member of Washington and Lee's celebrated Liberty Hall Volunteers (4th Virginia, Co. I). "I feel privileged to receive this gift," said Vaughan Stanley, Special Collections librarian at W&L. "It's one of the most significant gifts we've gotten in my 19 years here."