Sigel, Franz, 1824-1902
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Archibald W. Campbell (1839-1899), Newspaperman, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0014
Overview
Papers of Archibald W. Campbell (1839-1899), editor of the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer. A strong unionist and Republican Party member, he worked hard through his editorials and behind the scenes in order to support the formation of the new state of West Virginia. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and scrapbooks dealing with the Civil War and political affairs in West Virginia's early statehood period. Some of the correspondence...
Dates:
1855-1899, 1907, 1941; Majority of material found within 1855-1899
Aten Family Civil War Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3126
Overview
The Aten Family Civil War letters chronicle the Union Army service of James, John, and Henry Aten. James Aten returned to his native Hancock County from Illinois in February 1861 and enlisted in the First WV Volunteer Infantry for a three-month tour in May 1861. He reenlisted in the Twelfth WV Volunteer Infantry and saw service along the B & O Railroad, the Shenandoah Valley, along the James River and at one point he was a prisoner of war. John and Henry Aten served in the 85th Illinois...
Dates:
1861-1865
Charles Smitley, Civil War Veteran, Letter Regarding Pension Claim
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1480
Overview
Photostat copy of a letter written by Charles W.D. Smitley of Burlington, Lawrence County, Ohio, a Civil War veteran, to former Union General Franz Sigel, dated 6 January 1887. Smitley, a veteran of the 2nd West Virginia Infantry and the 5th West Virginia Cavalry, had his pension claim rejected for want of evidence and wrote to Sigel, his former commanding officer, to petition for his help. Smitley provides a detailed account of his service as a scout and the conditions under which he...
Dates:
1887
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- Politics and government. 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 2
- Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 12th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 1st Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 2nd Volunteer Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 5th Cavalry. 1
- Civil War - raids and raiders. 1
- Civil War - veterans - Union. 1
- Civil War -- Illinois 85th Infantry 1
- Civil War battles - Murfreesboro. 1
- Civil War battles - Vicksburg. 1
- Civil War raids - Jones & Imboden. 1
- Election of 1864. 1
- Emancipation Proclamation. 1
- Hancock County (W. Va.) 1
- Illinois 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Secession 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 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
- Wheeling Intelligencer (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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