Holograph leaf, numbered "27" from McClellan's report of the action at Hart's farm during his Western Virginia Campaign. The report is printed in full in Sheldon's 1864 edition of McClellan's Reports.
Subjects include: John Norris Baker, Matilda Baker Bly, Charity Baker Costolo, Harriet Baker Jolliffe, and Elinor Baker Morris. Allied Families include; Black, Blosser, Bowers, Costolo, Darby, Dilinger, Dils, Donaldson, Dunam, Edgar, Farmer, Frankenberry, Glover, Goodwin, Gordon, Hall, Hare, Hill, Hopwood, Jenkins, Johnson, Moxley, Norris, Rider, Sisler, Wilson, and Wolfe.
Mason County Court order to pay George Barnett $30.00 as a volunteer in the service of the United States during the Civil War, Dec. 1, 1862.
Correspondence and newspaper clippings of a Morgantown judge, railroad promoter, and U.S. Congressman. Papers deal with Sturgiss' political troubles in his bid for re-nomination in 1910 and the unveiling of the Francis H. Pierpont statue in Statuary Hall, Washington.
Manuscript of BANNER IN THE HILLS by George Ellis Moore, presenting the story of secession and the Civil War in western Virginia and tracing the steps by which West Virginia was created.