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Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Barns Family Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3066
Overview A framed lithograph of the James Barns residence in Cumberland Township, near Carmichaels, PA with an insert consisting of a drawing of the first successfully operating engine in Greene Co., ca. 1833, located in the Barns woolen factory on Muddy Creek, near Carmichaels, Pennsylvania. Included is an account by the donor about the Barns family of north central West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania. Mention is made of abolitionism, agricultural trends, James Barns, William Shinn Barns,...
Dates: 1884-1990

William E. Brooks (1875-1960), Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0485
Overview Civil War materials collected by Dr. Brooks in writing his biographies of Grant and Lee. Included are pamphlets, scrapbooks, newspapers, photographs, and originals and copies of soldiers' letters, journals, and military reports. There are typed copies of a journal, 3 November-2 December 1863, of a civilian observer in Tennessee, who was at Grant's headquarters at the Battle of Chattanooga; letters, 1861-1864, of William Ludwig, a private in the Thirty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in...
Dates: ca. 1825-1944

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Abolition of slavery 1
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Beverly (W. Va.) 1
Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863 1