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Box 27

 Container

Contains 79 Results:

[ts letter; original] from F.A. March to Cook regarding Robert D. Kerr (for enclosure, see pp. 178-180), 1939

 Item — Box: 27, Volume: Notebook 28, Page: 177
Dates: 1939
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks / Civil War III

[article; original] bio sketch and portrait image of Lieutenant Robert David Kerr (1876-1898), of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, graduated from West Point in 1898, 1901

 Item — Box: 27, Volume: Notebook 28, Page: 178-180
Dates: 1901
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks / Civil War III

[ts letter; transcription?] from "Fred" to Cook, regarding Kerr, undated

 Item — Box: 27, Volume: Notebook 28, Page: 181
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks / Civil War III

[other; copy] pages of Young family records, possibly from a Bible; includes marriages, births, deaths, and baptisms, undated

 Item — Box: 27, Volume: Notebook 31, Page: 1-8
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks / Young Family Civil War Papers

[typescript; transcription] diary of Unionist Sarah Frances Young, Putnam or Kanawha County, (West) Virginia, dated 1861-1862 (12 pages); topics include the beginning of the Civil War, military activities at Coals Mouth (Coalsmouth, St. Albans, Kanawha Valley), troop movements, and family life, undated

 Item — Box: 27, Volume: Notebook 31, Page: 9-20
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks / Young Family Civil War Papers

[other; copy] cover and four pages of the diary of John Valley Young (Captain of Company G, 11th or 13th Regiment, West Virginia Infantry), regarding troop movements (see also pp. 22-39, 41-50), 1864-1865

 Item — Box: 27, Volume: Notebook 31, Page: 21, 40
Dates: 1864-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks / Young Family Civil War Papers

[typescript; transcription] diary of John Valley Young, dated 1864-1865 (see also pp. 21 and 40); includes detailed account of troop movements and camp life in Greenbrier County and the Kanawha and Shenandoah valleys, mentions various battles including Floyd's (sic: Cloyd's) Mountain, Kernstown (Winchester), Fishers Hill, and Cedar Creek, undated

 Item — Box: 27, Volume: Notebook 31, Page: 22-39, 41-50
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks / Young Family Civil War Papers

[ts letters; transcription] from John Valley Young to his wife Paulina Marshall Franklin Young, his daughter Emma, and others; written while in the Union Army, dated 1862-1865 and undated; topics include family life, health problems, and his military activities, undated

 Item — Box: 27, Volume: Notebook 31, Page: 51-189
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks / Young Family Civil War Papers

[clipping; original] regarding destruction of Fort Tackett, undated

 Item — Box: 27, Volume: Notebook 31, Page: 190
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 8. Bound Notebooks / Young Family Civil War Papers