Collection includes: 1) letter from Union soldier W. Fleming in Clarksburg (undated); 2) Confederate bond issued to James M. Beckham (1864); and 3) financial agreement involving Jonathan Jackson, father of "Stonewall" Jackson (1821). See scope and content note for details.
15 letters written to Kate Schronz, of Western Pennsylvania, during the Civil War years. Seven are from one friend, two from another, who served together near Romney, WV, and later New Creek, Virginia, in 1862-63. Three are from a cousin, Jacob Baldwin, a patient at Haddington Hospital, Philadelphia, in 1864, and later at Camp Stoneman near Washington, D.C. Three others are from cousins in Pittsburgh at Martinsburg.
Certificate of discharge of Isaac W. Curry, bugler in Captain J. Webster Heavner's Company M, 3rd Regiment, West Virginia Calvary, dated at Wheeling 30 June 1865. Signed by Lt. E.J. Spaulding and J. Webster Heavner.
Index to service records of volunteer Union soldiers in Virginia and West Virginia, compiled from Record Group 94 in the U.S. Adjutant General's Office.
Muster roll of Company D, 14th Regiment, Virginia Volunteer Infantry (October-December 1862) kept at New Creek, Mineral County, WV.
Over sixty illustrations of various subjects of the Civil War from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's Weekly between 1861 and 1866. Also includes undated illustrations.