Loring, William Wing, 1818-1886
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Civil War Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1508
Overview
Correspondence of Miss Hattie A. Fudge, Tazewell, Virginia. A majority of the letters are written by soldiers of the Forty-fifth Virginia Regiment (Confederate) commanded by Generals John B. Floyd, W.W. Loring, and John Echols. Subjects include Floyd's military engagements, 1861; Battle of Lewisburg, 1862; skirmishes along the line of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad; and Jubal Early's January, 1864, raid into the South Branch Valley.
Dates:
1861-1864
Confederate Army of the Northwest, Letter Book
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2965
Overview
An 82 page manuscript order and letter book (29 July 1861-13 February 1862, Virginia) of the Confederate States Army of the Northwest detailing with the operations of the Cheat or Valley Mountain campaign of 10-15 September 1861 and the "Romney Campaign" of 9 January-5 February 1862, both unsuccessful efforts to dislodge Federal forces from the upper Potomac region and the earliest confrontation between Rosecrans, Jackson and Lee. This letter book gives some idea of the indefinite chain of...
Dates:
1861-1862
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
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1528
Overview
Includes genealogy and Civil War records collected by Roy Bird Cook of Lewis County, West Virginia. Series 1 through 5 were compiled by Marcellus W. Zimmerman. They include correspondence, church records, academic records, genealogical records, research manuscripts, and clippings regarding primarily the genealogy and history of Lewisburg and Greenbrier County, and the life and career of Confederate Brigadier General Alexander W. Reynolds. Series 6 through 8 were collected by Roy Bird Cook....
Dates:
1774, 1822-1943
Southeastern West Virginia Historical Records, Civil War Letters and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2169
Overview
Records relating to the history of southeastern West Virginia. Most of the items in the collection relate to Greenbrier and/or Monroe County. Includes antebellum (1833-1850; 7 items), Civil War (1861-1863; 4 items), and postbellum (1886-1933; 9 items) materials. Antebellum material includes a land suit, an estate report and schedule, other financial documents, and personal letter. Civil War material includes four letters authored by Confederate soldiers. Two of these letters describe the...
Dates:
1825-1933; Majority of material found in 1833-1863
Additional filters:
- Subject
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 4
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 3
- Rivers and river valleys. 3
- Civil War -- Confederate Army 2
- Civil War battles - Lewisburg. 2
- Civil War battles. 2
- Frontier and pioneer life 2
- Greenbrier County - Civil War. 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Account books 1
- Accounting 1
- Carnifex Ferry, Battle of, W. Va., 1861 1
- Cedar Creek, Battle of, Va., 1864 1
- Cemeteries 1
- Cemeteries -- Recording 1
- Cheat Mountain Campaign 1
- Civil War -- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War - Virginia 45th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia. 1
- Civil War - soldier's letters, Confederate. 1
- Civil War -- letters 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Civil War -- Cheat Mountain campaign 1
- Civil War -- Confederate letters 1
- Civil War -- Draft 1
- Civil War -- Kanawha Valley, W. Va. 1
- Civil War -- Nicholas County, W. Va. 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 - White Sulphur Springs. 1
- Confederate States Army of the Northwest. 1
- Cumberland (Md.) 1
- Drugs and druggists. 1
- Education 1
- Egypt 1
- Estates and estate settlements. 1
- Gauley River (W. Va.) 1
- Genealogy 1
- Georgia 1
- Greenbrier River (W. Va.) 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Indians, North American. 1
- Land - controversies. 1
- Lewisburg (W. Va.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Marriage records 1
- Methodist Episcopal Church. 1
- Military camps 1
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
- Moorefield (W. Va.) 1
- Nicholas County (W. Va.) 1
- Nicholas County - Civil War. 1
- Pioneers 1
- Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 1
- Potomac River Basin. 1
- Potomac River Valley 1
- Presbyterian Church. 1
- Railroads - Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Randolph County - Civil War. 1
- Registers of births, etc 1
- Roads 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Romney (W. Va.) 1
- Romney, WV - Civil War. 1
- Schools 1
- Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Soldiers' letters - Civil War. 1
- South Branch Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Stanard Salute. 1
- Taverns (Inns) 1
- Tennessee 1
- Toll roads -- West Virginia 1
- Transportation 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1
- Vicksburg (Miss.) 1
- West Virginia - Civil War. 1
- Women -- Education -- United States 1 + ∧ less
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