Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0081
Overview
Papers of Thomas Tavenner and the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence; memoirs; journals; financial and legal documents; pamphlets; newspapers; and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family were Confederate sympathizers.
Dates:
1772-1955; Majority of material found within 1855-1866
Thornton Tayloe Perry, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3192
Overview
This microfilm version of the Thornton Tayloe Perry Collection held by the Virginia Historical Society contains historical material collected by Perry over a 30 year period. It concentrates upon western Virginia and West Virginia with particular emphasis upon the lower Shenandoah Valley and Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan counties of West Virginia. The microfilm was placed in the West Virginia Collection by the Virginia Historical Society under provisions of a National Historical...
Dates:
1732-1965
Waitman T. Willey Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0003
Overview
Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman...
Dates:
1820-1917
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Civil War -- War diaries 2
- Civil War -- letters 2
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Wood County (W. Va.) 2
- Account books 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Brooke County (W. Va.) 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Calhoun County (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 133rd Regiment. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 17th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 11th Infantry. 1
- Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
- Civil War -- Confederate letters 1
- Civil War -- Confederate newspapers 1
- Civil War -- Confederate sympathizers 1
- Civil War -- Kanawha Riflemen 1
- Civil War battles - Kernstown. 1
- Civil War battles - Piedmont. 1
- Diaries 1
- Diaries - Civil War. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) 1
- Hardy County (W. Va.) 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
- Jefferson County. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Land. 1
- Lincoln County (W. Va.) 1
- Logan County. 1
- Marshall County. 1
- Mason County. 1
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgan County (W. Va.) 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Ohio County (W. Va.) 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Poets and poetry. 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Ravenswood (W. Va.) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Roane County (W. Va.) 1
- Secession 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Temperance 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
- Virginia 1
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- Volcano (W. Va.) 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Wetzel County (W. Va.) 1
- Wirt County (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1 + ∧ less
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