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Sources consulted for the biography of:Edgar Allan (1842–1904)
Biographical Information
- Brief biography in Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Twentieth-Century Edition, June 1900.
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers (1861–1865), War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Federal Pension Application File, Records of the Veterans Administration, Record Group 15, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Some Allan letters in several collections at Virginia Historical Society, Richmond.
- Correspondence in William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
- Thomas's Administrator v. Bettie Thomas Lewis (1892), Virginia Reports, 89:1.
Political Career
- 1867 election in Election Record No. 427, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Record Group 13, Accession 38055, Barcode 1151341, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia, Convened in the City of Richmond, December 3, 1867… [1868].
- Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia, Assembled at the City of Richmond, Tuesday, December 3, 1867… (1868).
- Address of the Hon. Edgar Allan, Republican Candidate for Congress (1900).
- Exchange of campaign pamphlets in which Democrats assaulted Allan's past cooperation with African Americans, Readjusters, and Republicans in The True Record of Edgar Allan (1900), and he defended himself in Edgar Allan's Reply (1900).
- Hamilton J. Eckenrode, Political History of Virginia During the Reconstruction (1904), 60–61.
Newspapers
- Allan's speech denouncing constitution printed in Richmond Whig, April 21, 1868, and excerpted in New York Times, April 20, 1868.
- Richmond Planet, June 25, 1892.
Obituaries
- Richmond News Leader, Oct. 28, 1904.
- Richmond Times Dispatch, Oct. 29, 1904 (portrait).
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