Box 2

Scope and Contents

Topics include:

Politics: Items 362-369, 371-379, 381 (lists of Union men from counties in western Virginia; state convention in Wheeling; politics in Illinois; a citizen objects to the Navy's ship purchases; slavery issues)



Family and Friends: Items 370, 380-381 (son in Camp Keys, Hampshire County; Morgantown events; thoughts regarding the South)

Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 382, 384, 387, 389-400 (new state constitution, slavery issues, politics in Iowa) Government/War: Items 390, 393, 394, 397 (Congressional action on a commission; destruction of property by rebels, David Hunter Strother [item 393]; pay for volunteers) Family and Friends: Items 383, 401 (Farmington newspaper and copies of WTW speeches) Law/Business: Items 385-386, 388 (licenses,...

Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 403-406, 408-410, 412-418, 420 (government appointments; new state, slavery, and constitution; Union supporter in Dakota Territory) Government/War: Items 407, 419 (memorial for the Army, reparations for stolen property) Family and Friends: Items 402, 408, 410 (smallpox epidemic at Dickinson College town, problems with war rumors in Morgantown) Law/Business: Item 411 (Morgantown...

Scope and Contents

Topics include:

Politics: Items 421-422, 424-426, 428, 435-440 (new state and emancipation, speeches)



Government/War: Items 433-434 (reparations for stolen horses and harness)



Family and Friends: Items 423, 427, 429-432, 434, 439 (genealogy from a relative, speeches, war at home, Camp Chase prisoner, bills in Congress)

Scope and Contents

Topics include:

Politics: Items 441-447, 449-457 (emancipation in the new state and Congressional bill, state boundaries, speech given by Carlisle)



Family and Friends: Items 448, 451, 456, 458-460 (son's graduation from Dickinson College, army concerns at home, speeches, death in Morgantown)

Scope and Contents

Topics include:

Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military)



Government/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B&O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, "colored colonization" law, citizen prisoners)



Family and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)

Scope and Contents

Topics include:

Politics: Items 485, 487-490, 492-494, 497 (WTW running for Senate again, state politics, exchange of prisoners, military arrest, prisoners in Camp Chase)



Government/War: Items 486, 491, 495-496 (money spent to raise troops, money for guards in Wheeling)



Family and Friends: Item 489 (news of Morgantown)



Law/Business: Items 485, 495 (US Mail in West Virginia, bill in Congress)

Scope and Contents

Topics include:

Politics: Items 499, 501-513, 515 [item 514 is missing] (state convention, speeches by WTW, applications for jobs, slavery, property)



Government/War: Items 500, 507-508, 517 (Union Army in West Virginia, battles in Monongalia County)



Family and Friends: Items 502, 504, 506, 517 (Morgantown news and battles in Monongalia County, smallpox outbreak in Morgantown)



Law/Business: Item 516

Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 519-527, 529-530, 532-534, 536, 539, 541 (WTW elected to Senate, applications for government jobs) Government/War: Items 528, 535, 540 (Governor Boreman on lack of government funds [528; plea for a soldier to be allowed to go home; court martial of a writer who was critical of a Union general) Family and Friends: Items 518, 531, 537-538 (Jones Imboden raid on the Morgantown and Fairmont area [item...

Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 544-547, 549, 552-553, 555 (political patronage; need for agricultural college in West Virginia; Secretary of the Treasury regarding the number of counties in West Virginia; petition for postmaster in Jimtown, West Virginia) Government/War: Items 543, 550-551, 554, 558, 561 (Army chaplain dismissed from Army wants reinstatement [items 540, 543, 551]; prisoner in Libby Prison needs WTW's help for release; General Crooke in...