Box 1

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This series includes assorted written material, including receipts, poems, and envelopes.

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This series includes documents related to Miles Dahmer's time in the Virginia Militia, including his appointment document as Major in the 46th Regiment of the 18th Brigade and 3rd Division.

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This series includes various documents relating to the Civil War, including an order to muster troops, a pay voucher, and two soldier rosters.

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This series includes two of Miles Dahmer's personal diaries.

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These letters regard experiences in traveling to the Kansas Territory [including steamboat travel], impressions of Grasshopper Falls, Kansas Territory [where he settled], and descriptions of Indigenous Americans, among other topics. (Note: Though Grasshopper Falls, Jefferson County, was involved in the contest as to whether its political affairs should be controlled by the Pro-slavery or Free-state party in 1856-1857, there is no mention of this in the letters found in this collection.)

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These letters regard family news and the local news of Upper Tract, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents Five of these letters are from Noah and Emily Harman, friends and neighbors of Miles Dahmer when he had been in Kansas, regarding the local news of Grasshopper Falls, Kansas Territory. Noah had been an acquaintance of Miles in Upper Tract, Virginia before moving to Kansas. Two are from friends in the state of Iowa and Upper Tract, West Virginia. Four of these letters are from Noah Harman, a neighbor of Miles Dahmer when he had been in Kansas, discussing legal and financial...

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This series includes a transcription of marriage contract between "George Dachemer" and "Nancy Skidmore" of 1810 provided by the Clerk of Pendleton County.

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This series includes two letters from Emily Harman regarding Miles Dahmer, life in Grasshopper Falls, produce prices, and other topics.