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Clarksburg Public Library, Collector, Miscellaneous Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1653
Scope and Contents Miscellaneous papers collected by the Clarksburg Public Library, including Harrison County land papers of John Lang, 1782-1821; General Land Office Warrant of Thomas Cunningham, an 1812 veteran for 160 acres in Illinois; letter from Melville D. Long from Point Lookout prison, April 1865; letter to Mrs. John J. Davis, Clarksburg, telling of an unexpected invasion of Baltimore by the Rebels in July 1854; and farm diary, 1856-1861 of P.R. Page, Gloucester County, Virginia. This volumes gives...
Dates: 1782-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

George K. Campbell, Civil War Journal

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Collection Number: A&M 3124
Overview Private journal of George K. Campbell of Athens County, Ohio, who served as an officer in Company B of the 116th. Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Gettysburg campaign and the summer, fall, and winter of 1863, when he saw service in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Campbell served detached duty as an escort officer for recruits and prisoners during the spring and summer of 1864 and visited New York, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. He joined...
Dates: 1863-1864
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Pittenger Family Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 3127
Overview

Various Pittenger family members wrote these letters, mostly to other family members. The most frequent correspondent is Abraham Pittenger, a farmer, teacher, and local government official in Hancock County. The letters detail farming and marketing of farm goods, educational developments, affairs of the Presbyterian Church, and family events. The collection also provides significant information about the early Republican party, secession crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Dates: 1841-1875
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robinson Family Manuscripts

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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

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Aten, William. 1
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Campbell, George K., 1834-1908 1
Campbell, Lois. 1
Clarksburg Public Library. 1
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Cunningham, Thomas. 1
Davis, Mrs. John J. 1
Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895 1
Ison, Willey Owens. 1
Knights of the Golden Circle 1
Lang, John. 1
Long, Melville D. 1
Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute 1
Ohio River Salt Company (Middleport, Oh.) 1
Ohio River Valley Railroad Company 1
Page, P.R. 1
Pittenger family 1
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 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
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