Box 2

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...

Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 565-568, 570-572, 574, 576, 580-581 (Governor Pierpont regarding a Senate bill, application for job, local politics, appointment request, list of Union men from Point Pleasant) Government/War: Items 564, 569, 573, 577, 579, 581 (raids by "rebels;” redress for loss of cattle and horses requested; General Kelley; Camp Chase prisoner's story; Fort Delaware prisoner's story; battle in Greenbrier County and drunkenness of an...

Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 583-587, 590-592, 594-596, 598-601 (opening of lands in the West; state constitution to abolish slavery; list of "loyal" citizens in Hancock County; bill for new judicial district in West Virginia; local politics; Governor Pierpont writes of his glove business; list of mail recipients in Jackson County; praise for Congress; appointment request to West Point; appointment in the Army; WTW's slavery speech; influence needed to get a prisoner released;...