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Box 9

 Container

Contains 38 Results:

West Virginia Politics [Autographed Letters Signed], folder 1 of 2 (includes letters, a clipping regarding Judge J.J. Jackson [undated], a petition regarding the state capitol [1867], and an auditor payment voucher [1868]; letters are all originals with one facsimile [Nathan Goff]; correspondents include Judge M. Hampton [regarding J.J. Jackson, Jr.], Nathan Goff, C.D. Hubbard, Benjamin A. Smith, F.A. Lowell, J.M. Bennett, and Arthur I. Boreman; 11 items), 1861-1874, undated

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 1
Dates: 1861-1874, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers

West Virginia Politics [Autographed Letters Signed], folder 2 of 2 (contains original letters; correspondents include Charles J. Faulkner, J.J. Jackson, John E. Kenna, H.G. Davis, W.A. MacCorkle, Nathan B. Scott, George W. Atkinson, Blackburn B. Dovener, Louis Bennett, etc.; one letter to Governor-Elect George W. Atkinson concerns a position for a Mr. Neale [February 27, 1897]; 12 items), 1876-1908, undated

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 2
Dates: 1876-1908, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers

Other Letters [Autographed Letters Signed] (includes an original commission [1793], original letters [1800-ca. 1916], and a typescript copy letter; commission is for Peter Hull as Lieutenant Colonel of 46th Regiment Virginia Militia, signed by Henry ["Light Horse Harry"] Lee [Governor of Virginia]; correspondents include Harman Blennerhassett, Lawrence A. Washington [original and typescript copy], Louis Philippe [King of France], Joseph Johnson [Governor of Virginia], James G. Blaine, John Letcher [Governor of Virginia], John Clark Ridpath, Theodore Roosevelt, and Albert Beveridge [one letter from Louis Philippe and the Theodore Roosevelt letter have been separated to A&M 435]; the Washington letter, written from Red House Shoals, discusses the leasing of the Burning Springs tract [1813]; also includes an original advertisement and subscription list for Headley's 'The Great Rebellion', signers include F.H. Pierpont [undated]; 14 items), 1793-1916, undated

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 3
Dates: 1793-1916, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers

Civil War Correspondence, folder 1 of 2 (includes original, facsimile, and typescript letters; 11 items), 1861-1865

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 4
Dates: 1861-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers

Civil War Correspondence, folder 2 of 2 (includes original, facsimile, and typescript letters, as well as a clipping and an envelope; 13 items), 1862-1917

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 5
Dates: 1862-1917
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers

Civil War Papers (contains originals and facsimiles; includes papers of I.G. Waldo, including a receipt for subsistence stores received from Lieutenant I.G. Waldo A.C.S. 1st Brigade, Cheat Mountain Division; orders [manuscript, facsimile, and typescript]; "a piece of the last sheet of paper pasted down in the Engineer Bureau of the Confederate States, March 1865"; facsimile return [1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Department of West Virginia, commanded by Colonel Rutherford B. Hays; 2 sheets; March 12, 1864]; and a facsimile of "Hike to Fort Scammon"; among others; 13 items), 1861-1865, undated

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Dates: 1861-1865, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers

Robert E. Lee Papers (includes newspaper clippings, original letters, facsimile letters [from Robert E. Lee and U.S. Grant], original manuscripts, and printed items; 9 items), 1865-1881, 1925-1928, undated

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 7
Dates: 1865-1881, 1925-1928, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers

Doctors in the Civil War (contains letters between Boyd B. Stutler, Roy Bird Cook, and Howard G. Weiler of the Civil War Medical Research Committee of the West Virginia State Medical Association [one includes a typescript on doctors in the Union Army]; and a typescript entitled "Some West Virginia Doctors in Confederate Army Service"; 6 items), 1961

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 8
Dates: 1961
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers

Regarding Lewis County in the Civil War (includes notes, reviews, and correspondence regarding Roy Bird Cook's book; 6 items), ca. 1924-1926

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 9
Dates: ca. 1924-1926
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers

Newspaper Clippings on Civil War, folders 1 and 2 of 4 (10a contains originals, 10b contains photocopies of the originals; contains clippings on various subjects [see Scope and Content]; 16 items), 1953-1961, undated

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 10a-10b
Scope and Contents Contains clippings on various subjects, including: General Cox's message to the people of Charleston, General Orders, No. 8, Headquarters, District of the Kanawha, Elk River, July 25, 1861; Scary Creek battlefield [includes map]; Confederate money in Stockholm, Sweden; Capture of Steamboat "Levi" [General Eliakim P. Scammon], illustrated; Hawk's Nest incident [1862]; Kanawha Valley [includes map, photo of General Wise, copy of 1861 broadside "Men of Virginia! Men of the Kanawha! To Arms!"];...
Dates: 1953-1961, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers