West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John Rogers Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3156
Overview
The collection consists largely of correspondence to Morgantown businessman John Rogers from relatives in Pennsylvania and Maryland. It also includes two letters from Sgt. William A. Widney, who was assigned to the U.S. War Department during the Civil War, to a Morgantown friend (possibly William Hennen). One letter was written by an unidentified woman to her grandson, a West Virginia University student.
Dates:
1788-1870
Thomas W. Bennett (1947-1969) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2714
Overview
Papers regarding Thomas W. Bennett (1947-1969), a West Virginia University student who won a Congressional Medal of Honor for his services as a U.S. Army medic during the Vietnam War. He performed duties as a conscientious objector willing to serve. The microfilmed collection includes personal letters, programs, magazine articles, and other papers relating to his life and death. Most of the letters were written by Bennett, his parents, other relatives, and friends while Bennett was in the...
Dates:
1962-2003
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- Banks - American Security and Trust. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 7th Infantry. 1
- Civil War battles - Warm Sulphur Springs. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Land. 1
- Maps. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Maryland 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Soldiers' letters - Viet Nam War. 1
- Viet Nam War - letters of soldiers' families. 1
- Viet Nam War - soldiers' letters. 1
- Vietnam 1
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