Averell, W.W.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Pocahontas County Roads
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2695
Overview
A rough draft history of the main roads covering segments of highways, such as State Route 39 between Huntersville and Marlinton, in the form of a travel brochure. Mentions frontier and pre-Civil War history of such places as Mill Point and Lewisburg, but its focus is on the Civil War history of Pocahontas, Greenbrier, and Randolph counties. Significant people and places mentioned are: The Great Warrior Path, Droop Mountain, Lewisburg, White Sulphur Springs, W. W. Averell, Huntersville,...
Dates:
ca. 1985
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- Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 12th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 1st Infantry. 1
- Civil War - raids and raiders. 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Civil War -- Illinois 85th Infantry 1
- Civil War battles - Allegheny Mountain. 1
- Civil War battles - Cheat Mountain. 1
- Civil War battles - Droop Mountain. 1
- Civil War battles - Greenbrier River. 1
- Civil War battles - Lewisburg. 1
- Civil War battles - Murfreesboro. 1
- Civil War battles - Vicksburg. 1
- Civil War battles - White Sulphur Springs. 1
- Civil War battles. 1
- Civil War raids - Jones & Imboden. 1
- Election of 1864. 1
- Emancipation Proclamation. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Greenbrier County - Civil War. 1
- Greenbrier River (W. Va.) 1
- Hancock County (W. Va.) 1
- Illinois 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Randolph County - Civil War. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Roads 1
- Secession 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Stanard Salute. 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1 + ∧ less
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