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Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Papers regarding the Civil War in Southern West Virginia

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0895
Overview Papers mainly related to the Civil War in southern West Virginia, including correspondence, maps, photographs, newspaper clippings, muster rolls, and other material. Highlights of the collection include material regarding Captain John V. Young of the 11th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry; Captain James S. Cassady of the 7th West Virginia Cavalry; Captain W.D. Thurmond and his company of Partisan Rangers; and the 8th and 13th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry units. The collection is organized...
Dates: 1844-1938; Majority of material found within 1861-1867

West Virginia Statehood Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1435
Overview Selected correspondence from the Salmon P. Chase and Orlando M. Poe papers include two letters from John S. Carlile of Clarksburg requesting the removal of General William S. Rosecrans and the western Virginia theater; a letter from Governor Francis H. Pierpont concerning a loan of $200,000 for the Reorganized Government of Virginia; a letter from K.V. Whaley concerning the effectiveness of Northern arms shipped to the Ceredo area; and letters from Poe, an aide to McClellan, to his wife...
Dates: 1861

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Agriculture 1
Carnifex Ferry, Battle of, W. Va., 1861 1
Ceredo (W. Va.) 1
Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
Civil War - Thurmond's Rangers. 1