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D. Boston Stewart Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0470
Overview

David Boston Stewart (1826-1915), a farmer from Monongalia County, West Virginia, who served with the 48th Virginia Infantry and the 20th Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War and was a member of the Virginia Legislature from 1863 to 1864. Collection primarily consists of letters written to D.B. Stewart between 1862 and 1864 and between 1894 and 1906 that concern Stewart's time as a Confederate prisoner of war during the Civil War, and his personal life in the 1890s and early 1900s.

Dates: 1782-1919; Majority of material found within 1862-1906
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John Ewing, Soldier, Civil War Letter

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3777
Overview Letter of John Ewing, Corporal of the 16th Ohio Infantry, to his wife and children, written from the Kanawha Valley in the vicinity of Charleston, (West) Virginia (2 November 1862). Ewing writes that he is in good health and describes recent encounters with Confederate troops. He describes in detail his experience as a Confederate prisoner, including a time he saw a "Company" of Indians with the Confederates. He also remarks on the opinions, mood, and character of the Confederate soldiers he...
Dates: 1862
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robinson Family Manuscripts

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2662
Overview

Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.

Dates: 1847-1883
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 0858
Overview Papers of the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence, newspaper clippings, maps, and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family was sympathetic to the Confederate cause. One member of the family, William Cabell Tavenner, served in the Confederate army; his letters are part of the collection. This collection also contains material related to families allied to the Tavenner family by marriage, particularly the...
Dates: 1778-1953; Majority of material found within 1819-1884
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Bennett, Jonathan M., 1816-1887 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Brown, John. 1
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 1
Cook family 1
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Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
Cunningham, John S. 1
Ewing, John 1
Fleischer family 1
Gambrell family 1
Gambrill, Charles. 1
Ison, Willey Owens. 1
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 1
Laidley, James M. 1
Levassor, Eugene 1
Maxwell, Rufus. 1
McCausland, John, 1836-1927 1
McKinney, Lt. W.M. 1
Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute 1
Oak Grove Baptist Church 1
Ohio River Salt Company (Middleport, Oh.) 1
Ohio River Valley Railroad Company 1
Poole, Ella. 1
Rector, Enoch. 1
Robinson family 1
Robinson, Eleanor. 1
Robinson, Hannah P. 1
Robinson, Helen M. 1
Robinson, James M. 1
Robinson, John A. 1
Robinson, William Johnson. 1
Slack, Greenbury. 1
Stewart, D. Boston. 1
Stewart, David Boston 1
Tavenner family 1
Tavenner, Jennet Withers. 1
Tavenner, Thomas, 1776-1857 1
Tavenner, William Cabell. 1
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 1
Withers family 1
Withers, Alexander Scott, 1792-1865 1
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