Woods, Samuel Family

Overview Most of these papers pertain to Samuel Woods, lawyer, Confederate captain, and later West Virginia supreme court judge, from Philippi, and his son, Samuel Van Horn Woods, (1856-1937), lawyer, politician and president of the State Senate. The papers cover Samuel Wood terms as instructor at Monongalia Academy, 1845-1849; his part in the Virginia Convention of 1861; his view on union and secession; and the plight of a Secessionist family in a town under Federal control. Other Civil War letters...