Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Southeastern West Virginia Historical Records, Civil War Letters and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2169
Overview
Records relating to the history of southeastern West Virginia. Most of the items in the collection relate to Greenbrier and/or Monroe County. Includes antebellum (1833-1850; 7 items), Civil War (1861-1863; 4 items), and postbellum (1886-1933; 9 items) materials. Antebellum material includes a land suit, an estate report and schedule, other financial documents, and personal letter. Civil War material includes four letters authored by Confederate soldiers. Two of these letters describe the...
Dates:
1825-1933; Majority of material found in 1833-1863
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
Filtered By
- Subject: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Account books 1
- Carnifex Ferry, Battle of, W. Va., 1861 1
- Civil War -- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War - West Virginia. 1
- Civil War - soldier's letters, Confederate. 1
- Civil War -- letters 1
- Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
- Civil War -- Confederate letters 1
- Civil War -- Draft 1
- Civil War -- Kanawha Valley, W. Va. 1
- Civil War -- Nicholas County, W. Va. 1
- Civil War battles. 1
- Coal River. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Drugs and druggists. 1
- Estates and estate settlements. 1
- Gauley River (W. Va.) 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Greenbrier County - Civil War. 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
- Land - controversies. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
- Nicholas County (W. Va.) 1
- Nicholas County - Civil War. 1
- Ohio River 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Soldiers' letters - Civil War. 1
- Steel industry and trade 1
- West Virginia - Civil War. 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1 + ∧ less
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