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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Andrew Summers Rowan (1857-1943) Papers and Memorabilia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1780
Overview
Burial flag, cord, pictures, and correspondence, 1963-1964, concerning disposition of these items. There is a resume of Rowan's life after 1922 and information on his military service, which included a mission in Cuba prior to the Spanish-American War, which was glorified in Elbert Hubbard's A Message to Garcia. There is a resume of Rowan's life, most notably his U.S. Army career, 1881-1909. An 1881 graduate of West Point, he served on the frontier against Indians...
Dates:
ca. 1940-1960
Doddridge Family Manuscript
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1787
Scope and Contents
Letter from Cadwaller Doddridge to Horatio N. Bakewell, August 10, 1828. Written from West Point, N.Y., commenting on the course work, complaining about the food and the routine. Doddridge was the son of Philip Doddridge, and the nephew of Joseph Doddridge; he withdrew from West Point on January 15, 1829.
Dates:
August 10, 1828
James Bassel Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0327
Overview
Mainly letters written to Bassel from U.S. Army officers from various forts and camps in several western states and territories. There are no copies of Bassel's correspondence in the collection, but his career in the army to about 1870, his subsequent military service in Egypt, and his employment in China and Japan, ca.1874-1875, as the representative of an American ship builder, are covered in the letters. There are a few letters from Thomas Handbury, a cadet at West Point in 1862; also...
Dates:
1862-1892
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1528
Overview
Includes genealogy and Civil War records collected by Roy Bird Cook of Lewis County, West Virginia. Series 1 through 5 were compiled by Marcellus W. Zimmerman. They include correspondence, church records, academic records, genealogical records, research manuscripts, and clippings regarding primarily the genealogy and history of Lewisburg and Greenbrier County, and the life and career of Confederate Brigadier General Alexander W. Reynolds. Series 6 through 8 were collected by Roy Bird Cook....
Dates:
1774, 1822-1943
Thomas Jonathan Jackson (1824-1863) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0047
Scope and Contents
188 photostats of letter from Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson from various places in the United States, Mexico, and at sea to his sister Laura Jackson Arnold and niece. Originals are not at West Virginia University. Photostatic copies open to students with the consent of D. H. Hill Arnold, administrator of the estate of Thomas Jackson Arnold. Places of origin and dates of the letters are...
Dates:
1845-1860
William Smith O'Brien (1862-1948) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1105
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal papers, notebooks, speeches, historical essays, genealogical records, clippings, and printed material of a Buckhannon lawyer, state jurist, member of Congress (1927-1929), and West Virginia Secretary of State (1933-1948). The collection also includes papers of O'Brien's father, Emmett J., a member of the state's first Constitutional Convention; letters from O'Brien's brother, Lieutenant A.L. O'Brien, 1874-1887, a West Point graduate serving at forts...
Dates:
ca. 1830-1950
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