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Contains 127 Results:

Item No. 96: Family Correspondence -- STEPHENS, Lewis Meany. Autograph letter signed, dated Wellsburg 6 March 1860 with orig. envelope. 2pp. "Dear Brother and Sister" "Grandmother is not apperanttly [sic] any Better" family news, 6 March 1860

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Dates: 6 March 1860
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers

Item No. 97: Family Correspondence -- PLATTENBERG, William. Autograph letter signed to Perry Plattenburg, Canton 18 March 1860 with mailing envelope. 1p. "I still intend to come to O. if there is any show atal. Thus far it has been as big a humbug as Pikes Peak. … You have a young niece named Anderson. She made her appearance this morning at 5 o.clock.", 18 March 1860

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Dates: 18 March 1860
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers

Item No. 98: Family Correspondence -- PLATTENBURG, William. Autograph letter signed to Perry Plattenburg, Canton 26 June 1860. 1p. Repays loan of $106., 26 June 1860

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Dates: 26 June 1860
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers

Item No. 99: Family Correspondence -- PLATTENBURG, William. Autograph letter signed to Perry Plattenburg, Canton 13 July 1860. Sends family news and concludes "Every body is for Lincoln.", 13 July 1860

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Dates: 13 July 1860
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers

Item No. 100: Family Correspondence -- PLATTENBURG, Perry W. Autograph letter signed to Perry Plattenburg, Atchison, Kansas 7 August 1860 with orig. mailing envelope. 1p. "Dear Father" "There is more business done in Atchison in one day than there is in Canton 2 weeks leaving out the government freighting. Trains are leaving every few days with from 10 to 21 waggons with six yokes of oxen to the wagon.", 7 August 1860

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Dates: 7 August 1860
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers

Item No. 101: Family Correspondence -- PLATTENBURG, Anna. Autograph letter signed to Ellen S. Plattenburg, Selma June 1861 with orig. mailing envelope, which contains a lock of hair. 3pp. "I will not complain, knowing you have two sons away from home to whom you write very often, which must of course occupy many of your leisure moments and I excuse you.", June 1861

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Dates: June 1861
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers

Item No. 102: Family Correspondence -- (PLATTENBURG, PERRY). Partially printed document completed in manuscript. Deed for burial plot in Brooke Cemetery, Wellsburg, Virginia, dated 10 May 1864., 10 May 1864

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Dates: 10 May 1864
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers

Item No. 103: Family Correspondence -- PLATTENBURG, Perry W. Autograph document signed, dated Canton 7 May 1864. 1p. Contract between Perry Plattenburg and Samuel Guttentag for Plattenburg to work as a clerk in Guttentag's store for 9 months for $37.50/month., 7 May 1864

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Dates: 7 May 1864
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers

Item No. 104: Family Correspondence -- PLATTENBURG, Perry W. Autograph letter signed, Canton 8 August 1864. 3pp. "Albert is staying in Stepps yet & I in the Jew Store though my time will be out in about 3 weeks…We had news to day that Mobile was in a fair way of having taken hope it may be true. I think the Union cause looks as dark as it ever has looked though I have no doubt as to the final result. The government has the power if it only uses it I don't care if there is a good many copperheads & Traitors in the country. I wish it would call out every man in the country that is able to bear arms and if they cant be used now let them be ready for service when they are needed. I for one will never grumble but the consequence be what it may. For the way they treated our prisoners I think it would be a good plan for the government to retaliate by putting the prisoners we hold at hard labor on public works if they retaliate for this they will have to feed our men or they can't work them for every Negro soldier they murder we ought to hang 3 Rebels. There is no use fooling about it if the government employs them it must give what protection it can it surely ought to use them for if we don't they will …", 8 August 1864

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Dates: 8 August 1864
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers

Item No. 105: Family Correspondence -- PLATTENBURG, Perry W. Autograph letter signed to Ellen S. Plattenburg, Louisville 8 January 1865 with orig. mailing envelope. 3pp. Family news, 8 January 1865

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Dates: 8 January 1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers