Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899
Person
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
William Starke Rosecrans (1818-1898) Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1943
Overview
Correspondence of a Civil War general who had business interests in the Cannel Coal Company, Coal River Navigation Company, James River and Kanawha Company, and the Western Oil Company. Subjects include coal, oil, iron and steel; improvements on the Kanawha, Coal, and Ohio rivers; English investments in the Cannel Coal Company and the Winifrede Mining & Manufacturing Company; and timber prices. Civil War correspondence includes letters from Francis H. Pierpont and General Jacob D. Cox....
Dates:
1841-1879
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- Agriculture 1
- Carnifex Ferry, Battle of, W. Va., 1861 1
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Civil War - Thurmond's Rangers. 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia - Union soldiers. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 11th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 13th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 7th Cavalry. 1
- Civil War -- Cheat Mountain campaign 1
- Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
- Civil War -- Muster rolls 1
- Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 1
- Civil War battles. 1
- Civil War soldiers letters - Union. 1
- Coal River. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- Ohio 1
- Ohio River 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Rich Mountain (Randolph County, W. Va.) 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Steamboats 1
- Steel industry and trade 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Maps 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- West Virginia - oath of allegiance. 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1 + ∧ less
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