Robinson family
Family
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Robinson Family Manuscripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2662
Overview
Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.
Dates:
1847-1883
Robinson Family Manuscripts, Transcriptions
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4460
Scope and Contents
Five bound volumes of transcriptions of the original letters in the Robinson family collection, A&M 2662, dating from ca. 1847-1883. Each transcription is assigned a unique number, and these numbers correspond to the numbers assigned to each letter in A&M 2662. This collection is likely a complete set of transcriptions. The volumes also include some biographical and genealogical information, and an index.Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor...
Dates:
1847-1883
Filtered By
- Subject: Ohio River Valley X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Baltimore Infirmary -- Baltimore (Md.) 1
- Batesville (Va.) 1
- Civil War -- Forts 1
- Civil War - Songs and poems. 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers. 1
- Civil War - Union sympathizers. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 25th Cavalry. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 26th Cavalry. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 40th Cavalry Battalion. 1
- Civil War - troop movements. 1
- Civil War -- letters 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Civil War -- Confederate soldiers 1
- Civil War -- Confederate sympathizers 1
- Civil War -- Description 1
- Education 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Fetterman (W. Va.) 1
- Frankfort (Mineral County, W. Va.) 1
- Grafton. 1
- Granville (W. Va.) 1
- Hospitals and hospital records. 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Land - Civil War disruptions. 1
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- McGuires Tunnel. 1
- Medicine 1
- Moundsville (W. Va.) 1
- New Milton (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio River Valley 1
- Ohio River Valley -- History 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Patterson's Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Poetry. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Preachers. 1
- Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Women 1
- Women -- Roles in society 1
- Women's letters and papers. 1 + ∧ less
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