Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1806-1876
Person
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Carte De Visite Portrait of Henry A. Wise, Confederate General
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3934
Overview
One carte de visite (2 1/2 in. x 4 in.) of Confederate General Henry A. Wise in uniform. Henry Alexander Wise (December 3, 1806 - September 12, 1876) was a United States Congressman and Governor of Virginia, as well as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He served as US minister to Brazil from 1843-1847 during the administration of President John Tyler.
Dates:
ca. 1861-1865
Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1681
Overview
Correspondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876, and foreign affairs, 1868-1876. Other subjects include the French Colonization Society, the slave controversy, Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute, Virginia Revolutionary debt claims, disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory, Chesapeake...
Dates:
1786-1878
Gibson Lamb Cranmer Papers regarding Statehood and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2848
Overview
Papers regarding West Virginia statehood and the history of Wheeling and Ohio County compiled by Judge Gibson L. Cranmer (1826-1903) of Wheeling, West Virginia, who served as secretary of the Wheeling Convention that repudiated Virginia's secession from the United States in 1861. Series 1 includes manuscript narratives and correspondence describing events of the West Virginia statehood movement, written by eyewitnesses at the request of Gibson L. Cranmer. Manuscript authors include John S....
Dates:
1787-1895, undated; Majority of material found within 1822-1881
Isaac McNeel (b.1830) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1451
Overview
Correspondence, legal and business papers, mercantile records and tax receipt books of Isaac McNeel, who operated a store at Edray and Mill Point, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, served as sheriff of the county, operated a gristmill, raised livestock, and was appointed provost marshal of the county in 1862 by the Confederate Army. The collection also includes letters and school reports of McNeel's sons, Winters and Summers, while students at Washington and Lee and the Medical and Law...
Dates:
1850-1908
John Floyd (1783-1837), Research Papers of Charles H. Ambler
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0363
Overview
Charles Henry Ambler (1876-1957) was a professor of history at West Virginia University and the author of numerous books about American and West Virginia history, including The Life and Diary of John Floyd (1918). Collection contains some of Ambler's research materials for this biography of Floyd, who was a soldier and surgeon in the Virginia militia in the early nineteenth century and the governor of Virginia from 1830 to 1834. One folder contains letters...
Dates:
1775-1923
Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0007
Overview
Correspondence, maps, business records and other papers of a U.S. Senator, Democratic politician, and promoter of the oil industry, railroads, and coal and timber resources of West Virginia. The papers regard Camden's purchase of land in the 1850s; his activities in oil production and refining, 1860-1875; his presidency of the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and the Baltimore United Oil Company; the affairs of the Stewart Brick Company of Parkersburg; the Virginia debt controversy; and his...
Dates:
1845-1908
Lewis (1778-1843) and George W. (1804-1868) Summers Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1791
Overview
Papers of Lewis Summers, a lawyer, businessman, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1817-1818, delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1829-1830, and his brother George W., a lawyer in Charleston, a judge, a member of the House of Delegates, 1830-1832, 1834-1836, the U.S. House of Representatives, 1841-1845, a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, candidate for governor in 1851, member of the 1861 Peace Convention, and delegate to the Richmond...
Dates:
1828-1890, 1901, 1935
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- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 3
- Politics and government. 2
- Railroads 2
- Richmond (Va.) 2
- Slaves and slavery. 2
- Transportation 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Universities and colleges 2
- Virginia -- Secession Convention of 1861 2
- Academies (Private schools) 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Agriculture 1
- American ginseng 1
- Baltimore (Md.) 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Canada 1
- Canals 1
- Chambless 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1876. 1
- Genealogy 1
- General stores 1
- Jackson County (W. Va.) 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Land. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Livestock 1
- Logan County (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- Mason County (W. Va.) 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Naturalization -- United States 1
- Nullification (States' rights) 1
- Ohio County (W. Va.) 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 1
- Postal service 1
- Putnam County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Roane County (W. Va.) 1
- Secession 1
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
- Slavery 1
- Slaves 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Tyler County (W. Va.) 1
- Uniontown (Fayette County, Pa.) 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 1
- Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
- Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851. 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia. Convention (1861 : Wheeling) 1
- West Virginia. Convention (1863 : Wheeling) 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's schools. 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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