Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Historical Document Facsimiles
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2727
Overview
Originals and facsimiles of sixteen documents, newspapers, magazines, letters, and similar materials. Included are photostats of letters from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and Abraham Lincoln, a reprint of a Lincoln speech, photostat of Albert Einstein's original manuscript on relativity, as well as various issues of newspapers describing important events in American history. Content dates from 1508-1954.
Dates:
1865-1954
Political Campaigns and Elections Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2818
Overview
Buttons, pins, and stickers for West Virginia political campaigns, including Gubernatorial and Senatorial races. Politicians represented include William Barron, Robert Byrd, Darrell McGraw, Mollohan, Arch Moore, Okey Patteson, Charlotte Pritt, Jennings Randolph, Jay Rockefeller, Jim Spouse, and Cecil Underwood.
Dates:
1948-2002
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1528
Overview
Includes genealogy and Civil War records collected by Roy Bird Cook of Lewis County, West Virginia. Series 1 through 5 were compiled by Marcellus W. Zimmerman. They include correspondence, church records, academic records, genealogical records, research manuscripts, and clippings regarding primarily the genealogy and history of Lewisburg and Greenbrier County, and the life and career of Confederate Brigadier General Alexander W. Reynolds. Series 6 through 8 were collected by Roy Bird Cook....
Dates:
1774, 1822-1943
William E. Brooks (1875-1960), Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0485
Overview
Civil War materials collected by Dr. Brooks in writing his biographies of Grant and Lee. Included are pamphlets, scrapbooks, newspapers, photographs, and originals and copies of soldiers' letters, journals, and military reports. There are typed copies of a journal, 3 November-2 December 1863, of a civilian observer in Tennessee, who was at Grant's headquarters at the Battle of Chattanooga; letters, 1861-1864, of William Ludwig, a private in the Thirty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in...
Dates:
ca. 1825-1944
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
- Tennessee 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Accounting 1
- Beverly (W. Va.) 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Cedar Creek, Battle of, Va., 1864 1
- Cemeteries 1
- Cemeteries -- Recording 1
- Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863 1
- Civil War - OH 34th. Inf. 1
- Civil War - Ohio 34th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - Pennsylvania 85th Volunteer Infantry. 1
- Civil War - VA 19th. Vol. Inf. 1
- Civil War battles - Chancellorsville. 1
- Coal River. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Egypt 1
- Elections 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Genealogy 1
- Georgia 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Gubernatorial election campaigns - 1968. 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
- Indians, North American. 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
- Lewisburg (W. Va.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Marriage records 1
- Methodist Episcopal Church. 1
- Military camps 1
- Ohio River 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Pioneers 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Presbyterian Church. 1
- Registers of births, etc 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Schools 1
- Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Steel industry and trade 1
- Sweeney, Tom - Senate campaign. 1
- Taverns (Inns) 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 -- Veterans 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Universities and colleges 1
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