McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885
Person
Found in 9 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
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
Edward E. Meredith Papers
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
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
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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- Women's history -- 1800-1849 4
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 4
- Politics and government. 3
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 3
- Coal mining. 2
- Cumberland (Md.) 2
- Rivers and river valleys. 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 -- 1900-1929 2
- Women's history -- 1951-present 2
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Account books 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 Campaign 1
- Civil War - Richmond, Virginia. 1
- Civil War -- Cheat Mountain campaign 1
- Civil War -- Confederacy 1
- Civil War -- Confederate Army 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
- Covered bridges 1
- Diaries 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1864. 1
- Elections 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Fortification -- West Virginia 1
- Franklin (W. Va.) 1
- Genealogy 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Grafton. 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
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 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
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Potomac River Basin. 1
- Potomac River Valley 1
- Railroads 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
- Richmond (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Rivers -- West Virginia 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Romney (W. Va.) 1
- Romney, WV - Civil War. 1
- Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
- Schools 1
- Slavery -- West Virginia 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Steamboats 1
- Steel industry and trade 1
- Taxation 1
- Teachers 1
- Tennessee 1
- Toll roads -- West Virginia 1
- Transportation 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- Tygart Valley. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1 + ∧ less
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