Grand Army of the Republic
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0009
Overview
Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the...
Dates:
1811-1949, undated; Majority of material found within 1860-1899
Grand Army of the Republic Flag
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2933
Overview
The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union armies of the American Civil War. The GAR flag was given to Corporal Thomas Noah Tipton in celebration of his pension. It was presented to him at Berlin, Pennsylvania, on June 15, 1867. Corporal Tipton was a Civil War Union soldier, serving both Company F, 136th Pennsylvania Infantry, and Company C, 11th Minnesota Infantry, and was discharged June 26, 1865, at Buffalo Mills, Bedford County,...
Dates:
1867
James Edwin Green, Photographer, Glass Plate Negatives and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3460
Overview
Photographs by James Edwin Green of the Green family from Foxburg, Pennsylvania (PA) and St. Marys, West Virginia (WV). Includes over 500 glass plate negatives and 1 1/2 inches of film negatives documenting subjects from ca. 1900-1918 including: the James Edwin Green family; Foxburg, PA; St. Marys, WV; the Taylor Farm, St. Marys, WV; agriculture; railroads; oil derricks; Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) reunions; the World War I era, and transportation. There are pictures of the Daniel...
Dates:
1900-1925; Majority of material found within 1900-1918
Jim Comstock, Newspaper Editor and Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2600
Overview
Papers of James ("Jim") Franklin Comstock of Richwood, West Virginia, whose position as editor of the West Virginia Hillbilly and avocation as collector and advocate of all things West Virginia led to the preservation of much of the state's physical, visual, and textual history. The collection includes materials Comstock collected about West Virginia history as well as his own personal and professional papers. Materials include: general series of...
Dates:
1650-1671, 1717-2003, undated; Majority of material found within ca. 1850-1995
Scott-Palmer Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1458
Scope and Contents
Family papers of school master Theodore Scott (1805-1877); his daughter Saida Scott Palmer, a music teacher; her husband, Jewett Palmer, Civil War officer, local Republican official, and mayor of Marietta; and his daughters, Winifred and Muriel, a concert contralto. Includes correspondence, letter books, diaries, school registers and reports, scrapbooks, genealogical records, and theatre and opera programs.Topics include Scott's teaching career at Portsmouth, Ohio (1836);...
Dates:
1829-1916
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 2
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Agriculture -- West Virginia 1
- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War - Ohio 36th Volunteer Infantry, Company G. 1
- Civil War - Ohio 36th Volunteer Infantry. 1
- Civil War -- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Civil service reform -- United States 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Education 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Foxburg (Pa.) 1
- General stores 1
- Glass manufacture 1
- Marietta (Ohio) 1
- Marshall County (W. Va.) 1
- Mexican War, 1846-1848 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Oil and Gas Industry and Fields. 1
- Oil fields -- Pennsylvania 1
- Oil fields -- West Virginia 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Pleasants County (W. Va.) 1
- Political campaigns 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Propaganda, Soviet 1
- Railroads -- Pennsylvania 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Saint Marys (W. Va.) 1
- Schools 1
- Secession - United States. 1
- Taxation 1
- Teachers 1
- Temperance 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Veterans. SEE ALSO under Civil War - veterans. 1
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Whiskey decanters 1
- Williamstown (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Photography 1 + ∧ less
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