Grand Army of the Republic
Organization
Found in 2 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
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
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- Subject: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 X
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- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- General stores 1
- Glass manufacture 1
- Marshall County (W. Va.) 1
- Mexican War, 1846-1848 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Political campaigns 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Propaganda, Soviet 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- United States -- Politics and government 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
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1 + ∧ less
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