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McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885

 Person

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Archibald W. Campbell (1839-1899), Newspaperman, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0014
Overview Papers of Archibald W. Campbell (1839-1899), editor of the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer. A strong unionist and Republican Party member, he worked hard through his editorials and behind the scenes in order to support the formation of the new state of West Virginia. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and scrapbooks dealing with the Civil War and political affairs in West Virginia's early statehood period. Some of the correspondence...
Dates: 1855-1899, 1907, 1941; Majority of material found within 1855-1899

Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0258
Overview Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. marshal (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates: 1787-1957

Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1606
Overview Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. Marshall (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates: 1787-1957

Confederate Army of the Northwest, Letter Book

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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

Draft of Telegram by Major General George B. McClellan from Clarksburg to General Morris

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1841
Overview

Draft of a telegram sent by Major General George B. McClelland from Clarksburg to General Morris on 30 June 1861, via the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Telegraph. Part of the message appears to be in code.

Dates: 1861

Edward E. Meredith Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1814
Overview Clippings, letters, broadsides, and articles written or collected by E.E. Meredith, author of the newspaper column, "Do You Remember," which appeared in the Fairmont TIMES-WEST VIRGINIAN. There are: copies of theatre programs, 1917-1919; electoral tickets, 1860, 1864; a proclamation by George B. McClellan, commanding the Department of the Ohio, 1861; and an open letter, "Monongahela River Bridge Underwriting Syndicate Managers," concerning the construction of the million-dollar bridge in...
Dates: 1817-1954

Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0009
Overview Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the...
Dates: 1811-1949, undated; Majority of material found within 1860-1899

George B. McClellan, Civil War Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2967
Overview A microfilm copy of the McClellan Papers, Vols. 12-14, held by the Library of Congress. There are letters to and from Gen. McClelland and his staff headquartered in Cincinnati. Also there are Confederate letters presumably captured during McClellan's first campaign into western Virginia. The rebel correspondence is between A.J. Wilson at Grafton and his family of Franklin and also orders from Richmond to Col. George Porterfield. Porterfield mentions the difficulty of raising Confederate...
Dates: 1861 May 15-30

J.B. Ford Legal Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1679
Overview Suit papers and correspondence in the case of the BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD VS. J.B. FORD, general agent of the railroad at Cumberland and Wheeling. The papers include copies of documents relative to the building of the railroad from Cumberland westward to Parkersburg and Wheeling and the activities of Ford as general agent at Cumberland and Wheeling, 1852-1874. Most of Ford's evidence deals with the role of the railroad during the Civil War and its relations with the state of West...
Dates: ca. 1877

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1561
Overview Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and...
Dates: 1679-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1840-1960

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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 9
Women's history -- 1850-1899 6
Politics and government. 5
Women's history -- 1800-1849 4
Women's history -- 1900-1929 4
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Account books 3
Elections 3
Fairmont. 3
Marion County (W. Va.) 3
Railroads 3
West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
Women's history -- 1929-1950 3
Academies (Private schools) 2
Civil War - West Virginia. 2
Coal mining - coal companies. 2
Coal mining. 2
Cumberland (Md.) 2
Diaries and journals. 2
Editors - letters and papers. 2
General stores 2
Grafton. 2
Judges - letters and papers. 2
Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
Mills and mill-work 2
Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
New Deal, 1933-1939 2
Rivers and river valleys. 2
Unions. 2
Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 2
West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
Wheeling (W. Va.) 2
Women's history -- 1951-present 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
Academies and Institutes. 1
Accounting 1
Alexandria (Va.) 1
Augusta County (Va.) 1
Authors -- Letters and papers 1
Banks and banking 1
Bridges 1
Bridges -- West Virginia 1
Broadsides. 1
Buffalo (Putnam County, W. Va.) 1
Builders and contractors. 1
Ceredo (W. Va.) 1
Charleston (W. Va.) 1
Charleston. 1
Cheat Mountain (W. Va.) 1
Cheat Mountain Campaign 1
Civil War - Richmond, Virginia. 1
Civil War -- Cheat Mountain campaign 1
Civil War -- Confederacy 1
Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
Civil War -- Indiana 1st Brigade 1
Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 1
Civil War battles. 1
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
Coal River. 1
Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
Confederate States Army of the Northwest. 1
Corricks Ford Battlefield (Parsons, W. Va.) 1
Covered bridges 1
Diaries 1
Election of 1860. 1
Election of 1864. 1
Fairmont Index. 1
Fairmont Times. 1
Farms and farming. 1
Fortification -- West Virginia 1
Franklin (W. Va.) 1
Genealogy 1
Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha Valley. 1
Laurel Hill. 1
Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
Lumber trade 1
Mining. SEE ALSO Coal mining. 1
Moorefield (W. Va.) 1
Newspapers. 1
Ohio River 1
Ohio River Valley -- History 1
Parkersburg. 1
Petroleum industry and trade 1
Pharmacy -- History 1
Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
Philippi. 1
Politicians -- United States 1
Potomac River Basin. 1
Potomac River Valley 1
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
Railroads - Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad. 1
Railroads -- West Virginia 1
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
Richmond (Va.) 1
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