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John Brown (1800-1859) Clippings

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0335
Overview Clippings and illustrations regarding abolitionist and activist John Brown, who led a raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859, precipitating the American Civil War. Includes: 1) facsimile of a page of the newspaper "Independent Democrat" of Charlestown, Virginia from 10-25-1859 including article giving an account of the raid by John Brown; 2) facsimile of a page of the newspaper "Daily Enquirer" of Richmond, Virginia from 11-21-1859 including copy of Brown's petition for a writ of error in his trial;...
Dates: 1859, 1909

John Brown Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0336
Scope and Contents

Photostat copies of court records from the 13th Judicial Circuit of Virginia, Jefferson County, (W) Va., relating to the trial of John Brown and the others for the raid on Harper's Ferry.

Dates: 1859-1860

John Brown Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1475
Scope and Contents

Letter from Brown's cousin, Luther Humphrey, dated Windham, Portage Co, O. November 12, 1859 extolling Brown's course of action; Brown's reply, dated Charlestown, Jefferson Co, Va., November 19, 1859, in which he upholds the righteousness of his cause.

Dates: 1859

"Personal Reminiscence of John Brown" by Edward White

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Collection Number: A&M 4582
Scope and Contents

Handwritten personal account of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, [West] Virginia in 1859, dictated by Edward White to his daughter Margaret White Longley. Edward White would later serve for the Confederate army and his viewpoints on enslavement and abolitionists are apparent in this account.

Dates: circa 1887

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1528
Overview Includes genealogy and Civil War records collected by Roy Bird Cook of Lewis County, West Virginia. Series 1 through 5 were compiled by Marcellus W. Zimmerman. They include correspondence, church records, academic records, genealogical records, research manuscripts, and clippings regarding primarily the genealogy and history of Lewisburg and Greenbrier County, and the life and career of Confederate Brigadier General Alexander W. Reynolds. Series 6 through 8 were collected by Roy Bird Cook....
Dates: 1774, 1822-1943

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 0081
Overview

Papers of Thomas Tavenner and the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence; memoirs; journals; financial and legal documents; pamphlets; newspapers; and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family were Confederate sympathizers.

Dates: 1772-1955; Majority of material found within 1855-1866

William Gaston Caperton (1815-1852) Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1436
Overview Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of: a Monroe County, West Virginia, farmer and politician; his wife, Harriette Boswell Alexander; their daughters, Isabel and Alice Beulah; Alice's husband, Frank Hereford, U.S. senator from West Virginia; and his daughter, Katherine Hereford Stoddard. There is one folder of business papers, 1820-1841, of Thomas Edgar; a few letters from Caperton's son, John, while a cadet at the Camp of Instruction, Richmond, 1861; a folder of letters concerning...
Dates: 1801-1930

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Brown, John. 4
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 2
Humphrey, Luther. 2
Matthews family 2
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Alexander, Harriette Boswell. 1
Anderson family 1
Barr, Henrietta Fitzhugh 1
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Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 1
Camden, John S. 1
Caperton, Isabel. 1
Caperton, John. 1
Caperton, William Gaston (1815-1852) 1
Caperton, William Gaston. 1
Cary, J.H. Oley. 1
Cassady, Capt. James S. 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Artillery. Bryan's Battery 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Artillery. Wise Legion. Company B 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 25th. Company H 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 2nd 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 2nd. Company A 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 31st 1
Cook family 1
Craig family 1
Crawford family 1
Curry family 1
Dennis, Thomas H. 1
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1
Echols, John, 1823-1896 1
Edgar, Thomas. 1
Farmers Bank of Virginia 1
Feemster family 1
Fleischer family 1
Gilliam family 1
Glendening family 1
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 1
Greenbrier Independent 1
Griffiths, Diane M. 1
Haynes family 1
Hereford, Alice Beulah. 1
Hereford, Frank, 1825-1891 1
Hopkins House (Liberty, Va.) 1
Humphreys, Milton. 1
Jackson family 1
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 1
Ladies Relief Hospital (Lynchburg, Va.) 1
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 1
Lewisburg Female Institute (Lewisburg, W. Va.) 1
Lewisburg Methodist Episcopal Church (Lewisburg, W. Va.) 1
Lewisburg Seminary (Lewisburg, W. Va.) 1
Loring, William Wing, 1818-1886 1
McGrew, James Clark. 1
Nichols family 1
Old Lewisburg Academy (Lewisburg, W. Va.) 1
Pare and Son 1
Rector, Enoch. 1
Reynolds family 1
Reynolds, Alexander Welch, 1817-1876 1
Rowan, Andrew Summers 1
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 1
Smith family 1
Stoddard, Katherine Hereford. 1
Tavenner family 1
Tavenner, Jennet Withers. 1
Tavenner, Thomas, 1776-1857 1
Tavenner, William Cabell. 1
Thompson family 1
United States Military Academy 1
United States. Army. West Virginia Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1864) 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
Van Bibber family 1
Wells family 1
White Sulphur Springs Hotel 1
Young family 1
Zimmerman, Marcellus W. 1
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