Showing Collections: 551 - 560 of 4807
Civil War Bounty Tax, Collection Document
Document recording taxes collected in Monongalia County, West Virginia as "bounty money", beginning 1 February 1864. The document records the names of collectors, the townships they worked in, and the amount collected. The reverse of the document also records money borrowed from banks and interest owed. "Bounty money" was a payment in cash given to soldiers after they volunteered for military service.
Civil War Camp Anderson, Photographs and Negatives
Nineteen photographs and negatives for the engravings that appeared in a book about Camp Anderson. (See: Shelter. Civil War Literature, p.106, entry no. 682.) The engravings were sketched from nature and drawn on stone by J.N. Roesler, and printed by Ehrgott, Forbriger and Company, Cincinnati. The scenes are of Civil War activities at Camp Anderson and in the area adjacent to the New and Gauley Rivers.
Civil War Clipping
Newspaper clippings on the negotiations between the Confederacy, and President Lincoln, Col. Ward H. Lamon, and James Washington Singleton; written by Matthew Page Andrews from THE SUN Baltimore, Maryland, 9 Feb 1930.
Civil War Correspondence
Correspondence of Miss Hattie A. Fudge, Tazewell, Virginia. A majority of the letters are written by soldiers of the Forty-fifth Virginia Regiment (Confederate) commanded by Generals John B. Floyd, W.W. Loring, and John Echols. Subjects include Floyd's military engagements, 1861; Battle of Lewisburg, 1862; skirmishes along the line of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad; and Jubal Early's January, 1864, raid into the South Branch Valley.
Civil War Diary of a Confederate Soldier at Appomattox Court House
Civil War Diary Transcriptions and Related Material of Captain George W. Johnson, 11th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Civil War Enlistment Records, Substitutions from Harrison County
Records of men enlisted as substitutes and of men exempted from military service for providing a substitute. The records regard men mustered into the Union Army in Harrison County, West Virginia. Most of the records are written on official stationery and a few are handwritten. Records include dates of enlistment, names and physical descriptions of substitutes, names of exempted men, and signatures of a Provost Marshal or other officer.
Civil War Illustrations
Over forty illustrations of various subjects of the Civil War from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's Weekly between 1862 and 1866. Also includes undated illustrations.
Civil War in West Virginia, Historical Narratives in "The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine" (1885, 1887)
Three Century Illustrated magazines for June and August 1885 and November 1887, containing articles on the Civil War in Virginia. Includes "John Brown at Harper's Ferry", by John E. P. Daingerfield; "Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah", by John D. Imboden; and 'The Battle of Gaine's Mill", by D. H. Hill. The latter reproduces an etching of Stonewall Jackson by A. J. Volck, a copy of which is in West Virginia University Library.
Civil War in West Virginia, Typescript Research Notes from "War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies"
Research notes copied by Mr. Hubbell from the government history of the Civil War entitled "War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies." Mr. Hubbell took these notes for a narrative which he had hoped to publish on Civil War in the Appalachian Mountains. Most of these notes are from sections of the "Official Records" pertaining to West Virginia and nearby areas.