Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke), 1819-1898
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
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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- Politics and government. 2
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Ceredo (W. Va.) 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
- Coal mining. 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Ohio River 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Steel industry and trade 1
- Tygart Valley. 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Virginia - Reorganized Government of Virginia. 1
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1 + ∧ less
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