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Uz Barns, Soldier, Civil War Diary

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Collection Number: A&M 0974
Overview Diary of Uz Barns of Ritchie County, a volunteer in the Union Army who served as a private in the 10th West Virginia Infantry. The diary covers the years 1862 through 1865 and contains daily entries, mainly regarding weather conditions. Barns also wrote about marches and distances marched per day; encampments at various places in eastern West Virginia and in Winchester, Virginia; and engagements with Confederate forces at Beverly, (West) Virginia, Harpers Ferry, (West) Virginia, and Deep...
Dates: 1862-1865

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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Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) 35
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 13
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 9
Education 8
Diaries and journals. 7
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Jefferson County. 7
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 7
Jefferson County (W. Va.) 6
Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 6
Universities and colleges 6
Women's history -- 1850-1899 6
African Americans -- Education (Higher) 5
African Americans - Schools for Freedmen. 5
Charles Town (W. Va.) 5
Civil War -- Camps and camp life 5
Land. 5
Slaves and slavery. 5
Abolition of slavery 4
Account books 4
Civil War -- Harpers Ferry 4
Rivers and river valleys. 4
Civil War -- War diaries 3
Civil War -- Confederate Army 3
Civil War battles. 3
Farms and farming. 3
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History 3
Missionaries 3
Newspapers. 3
Parkersburg (W. Va.) 3
Schools - Jefferson County. 3
Taverns (Inns) 3
Transportation 3
Wheeling (W. Va.) 3
Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
Women's history -- 1929-1950 3
Baptists 2
Bolivar (W. Va.) 2
Brown, John -- Fort-Museum 2
Church buildings 2
Civil War - Richmond, Virginia. 2
Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 2
Civil War - West Virginia. 2
Civil War - raids and raiders. 2
Civil War -- letters 2
Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 2
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
Frontier and pioneer life 2
Genealogy 2
General stores 2
Jefferson County - Schools. 2
Kansas 2
Kentucky 2
Maryland 2
Morgantown (W. Va.) 2
Parkersburg. 2
Photographs. 2
Physicians - letters and papers. 2
Politics and government. 2
Railroads 2
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 2
Randolph County (W. Va.) 2
Richmond (Va.) 2
Shepherdstown (W. Va.) 2
Teachers' letters and papers. 2
Travel accounts. 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 2
Virginia 2
West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
West Virginia -- Race relations 2
Women -- Education 2
Women's history -- 1951-present 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Letters 2
World War, 1939-1945 2
World war, 1939-1945 -- Letters 2
Academies and Institutes. 1
Accounting 1
African Americans -- Appalachian Region 1
African Americans -- Education -- West Virginia 1
African Americans -- Segregation -- West Virginia 1
Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) 1
Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 1
Architects and architecture 1
Armories -- West Virginia -- Harper's Ferry -- History 1
Autograph albums 1
Averill (W. Va.) 1
Banks and banking 1
Benwood (W. Va.) 1
Berkeley Springs (W. Va.) 1
Birth, marriage, and death records. 1
Blueprints 1
Bolivar and Harpers Ferry -- Jefferson County (W. Va. : Township) 1
Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
Broadsides. 1
Builders and contractors. 1
Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 1
Camp of Instruction (Richmond, Va.) 1
Cedar Creek, Battle of, Va., 1864 1
Cedar Mountain, Battle of, Va., 1862. 1
Cemeteries 1
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Names
Brown, John. 8
Storer College 5
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 3
McDonald, Henry Temple, 1872-1951 3
Brewster, J.M. 2
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Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 2
Curtis, Silas, 1804- 2
Day, George T. 2
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 2
Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869 2
Humphrey, Luther. 2
Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895 2
Matthews family 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
New England Free Will Baptist Association 2
United States. Veterans Administration 2
Alexander family 1
Alexander, Harriette Boswell. 1
Allen, Mrs. E. Bruce 1
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
Anderson family 1
Ball, George H. 1
Barns, Thomas Rufus. 1
Barns, Uz 1
Barr, Henrietta Fitzhugh 1
Beirne family 1
Bickley, George. 1
Boteler, Alexander Robinson, 1815-1892 1
Boyoe, C. R. 1
Brackett, Louise Wood. 1
Brackett, Rev. Nathan. 1
Brady, James W. 1
Brown, Jason, 1823-1912 1
Brown, John and John Brown, Jr. 1
Brown, John, 1800-1859 1
Brown, John, Jr. 1
Brown, Owen, 1824-1889 1
Burnside family 1
Caldwell family 1
Camden family 1
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 1
Camden, John S. 1
Campbell, George K., 1834-1908 1
Campbell, Lois. 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
Cather, Fabricius A. 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
DeHass, Wills. 1
Dennis, Thomas H. 1
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 1
Duke, William, 1757-1840 1
Echols, John, 1823-1896 1
Edgar, Thomas. 1
Farmers Bank of Virginia 1
Feemster family 1
Fisher, Mrs. G. H., Collector 1
Fleischer family 1
Frost, Ephraim W. 1
Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 1
George Boxley 1
Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike Company 1
Gilliam family 1
Glendening family 1
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 1
Greenbrier Independent 1
Griffiths, Diane M. 1
Hall, John Hancock, 1781-1841 1
Hansford, Felix G. 1
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (Agency : U.S.) 1
Harpers Ferry Seminary 1
Haynes family 1
Heironimus, Mary 1
Hereford, Alice Beulah. 1
Hereford, Frank, 1825-1891 1
Herndon, Edward 1
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 1
Hopkins House (Liberty, Va.) 1
Howe, Robert T. 1
Humphreys, Milton. 1
Jackson family 1
Jackson, Thomas E. 1
James River and Kanawha Turnpike Company 1
Jefferson County Court 1
Knights of the Golden Circle 1
Koonce family 1
Koonce, George W. Family 1
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