Thomas C. Elder

Thomas Claybrook Elder (April 16, 1834 - November 22, 1904) was a Civil War soldier and a Virginia lawyer who served as a president of The Virginia Bar Association.

During the War, Elder served on the staffs of Roger Atkinson Pryor and Edward A. Perry. Elder's wartime correspondence with his wife, Anna Fitzhugh Elder, has been frequently cited as an original source,[1] and a collection is kept by the Virginia Historical Society.[2]

After the War, Elder practiced law in Staunton, Virginia. Elder served as a member of the board of visitors of the Virginia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind at Staunton. He later served as president of the Bar Association for the year 1901-1902.[3]

  1. ^ See, e.g., Glatthaar, Joseph, General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse (Simon and Schuster, 2008), ISBN 0-684-82787-5; Sheehan-Dean, Aaron, ed., The View from the Ground Experiences of Civil War Soldiers (Univ. Ky. Press, 2007), ISBN 0-8131-2413-1; Greene, A. Wilson, Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War (University of Virginia, 2006), ISBN 0-8139-2570-3; Carmichael, Peter, The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (UNC Press, 2005), ISBN 0-8078-2948-X; Cashin, Joan, The War was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War (Princeton Univ. Press, 2002), ISBN 0-691-09174-9; Rable, George C., Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! (UNC Press, 2002), ISBN 0-8078-2673-1; Simon, John, et al., The Lincoln Forum: Rediscovering Abraham Lincoln (Fordham Univ. Press, 2002), ISBN 0-8232-2215-2; Hess, Earl, Pickett's Charge--the Last Attack at Gettysburg (UNC Press, 2001), ISBN 0-8078-2648-0; Blair, William, Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865 (Oxford Univ. Press, 1998), ISBN 0-19-511864-2; Power, J. Tracy, Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness (UNC Press, 1998), ISBN 0-8078-5414-X; Sutherland, Daniel, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: The Dare Mark Campaign (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1998), ISBN 0-8032-4253-0.
  2. ^ "Virginia's Civil War, A Guide to Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society". The Virginia Historical Society. Retrieved April 27, 2008.
  3. ^ "VBA History and Heritage". The Virginia Bar Association. Archived from the original on May 15, 2008. Retrieved April 27, 2008.