McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885
Person
Found in 3 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
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
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
Filtered By
- Subject: Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Accounting 1
- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Charleston (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Diaries 1
- Fortification -- West Virginia 1
- Genealogy 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Ohio River Valley -- History 1
- Pharmacy -- History 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads -- West Virginia 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Rivers -- West Virginia 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
- Schools 1
- Slavery -- West Virginia 1
- Steamboats 1
- Toll roads -- West Virginia 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
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Valleys -- West Virginia 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Church history. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Wheeling Intelligencer (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1
- Women's history -- Pre-1800 1 + ∧ less
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