Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Charles H. Ruggles, Civil War Letter regarding Prisoners Taken by Mosby's Rangers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1147
Overview
Letter written by Charles H. Ruggles to a Mr. Lossing (possibly Benson J. Lossing), dated 26 November 1864. Ruggles asks Lossing to inquire of Colonel Milford at Fortress Monroe regarding the location and status of Majors David Ruggles and Edwin Moore, Union Army paymasters who had been taken prisoner by Mosby's Rangers during the Greenback Raid on the railroad between Harpers Ferry and Martinsburg on 14 October 1864. Collection contains a user copy. Please see "Historical Note" for further...
Dates:
1864
Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1681
Overview
Correspondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876, and foreign affairs, 1868-1876. Other subjects include the French Colonization Society, the slave controversy, Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute, Virginia Revolutionary debt claims, disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory, Chesapeake...
Dates:
1786-1878
H.E. Matheny, Collector and Compiler, Civil War Correspondence and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1330
Scope and Contents
Forty-nine letters of Ephraim W. Frost of Co J., 116th Reg, Ohio Vol Inf. Frost, who lived in Coolville, Ohio, near Parkersburg, was stationed at Moorefield, Martinsburg, near Romney, Winchester and Sleepy Creek in Morgan County, where his Reg. was guarding the B & O. The letters comment on fighting in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 around Woodstock, mention of McNeill, Imboden, and Mosby, and contain much on camp life in the eastern panhandle area. Frost was wounded near Piedmont in May...
Dates:
1861-1865
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
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- Civil War - raids and raiders. 2
- Civil War -- Mosby's Rangers 2
- Railroads 2
- Rivers and river valleys. 2
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Accounting 1
- Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 1
- Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Canals 1
- Cedar Mountain, Battle of, Va., 1862. 1
- Charleston (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War - Ohio 116th Volunteer Infantry, Company J. 1
- Civil War - Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 (August-November) 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 12th Cavalry. 1
- Civil War -- Imboden's Rangers 1
- Civil War -- letters 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
- Civil War -- McNeill's Rangers 1
- Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Diaries 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1876. 1
- Fortification -- West Virginia 1
- Genealogy 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) 1
- Jefferson County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- Naturalization -- United States 1
- Nullification (States' rights) 1
- Ohio River Valley -- History 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Pharmacy -- History 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads -- West Virginia 1
- Rivers -- West Virginia 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Romney, WV - Civil War. 1
- Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
- Schools 1
- Slavery -- West Virginia 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Sleepy Creek, Morgan County (W.Va.) 1
- Steamboats 1
- Toll roads -- West Virginia 1
- Transportation 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 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1
- Valleys -- West Virginia 1
- Virginia 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Church history. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Winchester (Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 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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