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A.C.L. Gatewood Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1519
Overview
Correspondence, diary, and farm account book of a Confederate officer and Pocahontas County cattleman and farmer. The correspondence deals primarily with Gatewood's activities as adjutant general and chief of staff of the West Virginia Division, United Confederate Veterans. The Civil War diary, 11 March-15 December 1865, covers action of Company F, Eleventh Virginia Cavalry, "Laurel Brigade," Rosser Cavalry Division, from Staunton to Appomattox. The farm account book, 1866-1869, also...
Dates:
1801-1816, 1855-1919
Adolphus DeBussey, Soldier, Civil War Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3296
Scope and Contents
Civil War correspondence of the DeBussey brothers of Ravenswood, WV. There is a single letter each from John DeBussey and George DeBussey. John DeBussey served in the Confederate Army while George DeBussey served in the 2nd. WV Cavalry. Most of the letters are from Adolphus DeBussey who served in the 4th. WV Infantry as a musician. In his letters Adolphus documents the service of his regiment in the Kanawha Valley early in the war and in the Western Theater during the battles of Vicksburg,...
Dates:
1861-1998; Majority of material found in 1861-1866, 1870-1871
Allen D. Frankenberry, Soldier, Civil War Diaries and Memoir
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Collection Number: A&M 1785
Overview
Four diaries and a nineteen-page memoir of Allen D. Frankenberry (1841-1909), who served chiefly as an orderly and signalman in the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry from August 1862 to September 1863 and the U.S. Signal Corps in the Department of the Cumberland from October 1863 to June 1865. Frankenberry's diaries are available only on microfilm and are divided into four volumes: Book I, August 20, 1862-September 10, 1863; Book II, September 9, 1864-February 15, 1865; Book III, February 16,...
Dates:
1862-1870, 1905; Majority of material found within 1862-1865
A.N. Missimer, Soldier, Civil War Letter to Sister
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2494
Overview
Letter from A.N. Missimer at Warrenton, Virginia, 3 Nov. 1863, to his sister, Miss Kate Missimer (Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania) after the battle of Sulphur Springs, where a whole squadron of a regiment was captured. (Includes 3 pages on 1 folded leaf and 1 envelope.)
Dates:
1863 November 3
Andrew Nelson Campbell (d.1919) Papers
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Collection Number: A&M 0101
Scope and Contents
Civil War reminiscences of Andrew Nelson Campbell of Union, Monroe Co., W.Va. Campbell was a private in Jubal Early’s army in 1864 and marched in and fought in the Shenandoah Campaign of 1864. The reminiscences discuss the battles of Cedar Creek, Spotsylvania Courthouse, Gettysburg, and more.
Dates:
1861-1912
Aten Family Civil War Letters
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Collection Number: A&M 3126
Overview
The Aten Family Civil War letters chronicle the Union Army service of James, John, and Henry Aten. James Aten returned to his native Hancock County from Illinois in February 1861 and enlisted in the First WV Volunteer Infantry for a three-month tour in May 1861. He reenlisted in the Twelfth WV Volunteer Infantry and saw service along the B & O Railroad, the Shenandoah Valley, along the James River and at one point he was a prisoner of war. John and Henry Aten served in the 85th Illinois...
Dates:
1861-1865
Battle of Rich Mountain Manuscript
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2959
Overview
A brief account of the Battle of Rich Mountain written by L. Johnson; includes drawings by the author of the Union camp, courthouse, and schoolhouse at Beverly, West Virginia.
Dates:
1861
Benjamin F. Hughes, Soldier, Civil War Letters and Other Material
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Collection Number: A&M 3741
Scope and Contents
Transcripts and originals of letters regarding the Civil War authored by Sergeant Benjamin F. Hughes of Company F, West Virginia 3rd Regiment, and of Company D, West Virginia 6th Cavalry (10 items, 11 leaves). Subjects include battle of Allegheny Mountain (1861), battle of Droop Mountain (1863), service as a scout, report on wounded, his health, camp life, the home front, and opinions regarding the war. These letters were sent from locations mostly in West Virginia. There are also pension...
Dates:
1854-1906 and undated
Biographical Sketch of James Edward Hanger, Confederate States Army Veteran
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4543
Scope and Contents
Facsimile of a manuscript historical narrative regarding James Edward Hanger (1843-1919) by Clyde Cale, Jr. The narrative describes Hanger's injury and amputation, brief imprisonment as a Confederate prisoner-of-war, and his postwar life and inventions. Hanger was born in Churchville, Augusta County, Virginia. In early June 1861, he joined his brothers as a member of the Confederate Churchville Cavalry, and shortly after, he was injured by a Union cannonball early in the Battle of Philippi....
Dates:
undated
Bullets Recovered from the Civil War Battle of Shepherdstown
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4018
Overview
Ten bullets recovered from the site of the Battle of Shepherdstown, including a .69 caliber roundball from a smooth bore musket, a .44 caliber revolver bullet, an Enfield musket bullet, and seven three-ring rifled musket minie balls.
Dates:
1862