H.E. Matheny, Collector and Compiler, Civil War Correspondence and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1330
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 1864 and died at Annapolis, Maryland in January 1865.
The collection also includes a letter dated July 14, 1861, from C. R. Boyoe to his sisters telling of the Battle of Rich Mountain, and an eight page manuscript fragment, describing fighting at the time of the Battle of Cedar Mountain (Aug 9, 1862) in and around Winchester and Harpers Ferry prior to the Battle of Antietam, by a soldier of the 12th Va. Calvary.
Also included are a receipt from the Restored Government at Wheeling for a shot gun (Intelligencer imprint); and an imprint for $500.00 worth of Confederate bonds, dated Lewisburg, Virginia, March 22, 1864.
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0.01 Linear Feet (Summary: 1/4 in. (1 folder); 1 reel of microfilm)
English
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