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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
Francis H. Pierpont, Civil War Correspondence
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Collection Number: A&M 2968
Overview
A letter from Peter G. Van Winkle (8 Nov. 1862) and another letter from Colonel T.M. Harris (4 Sept. 1862) to Francis H. Pierpont, Governor of Restored Virginia. Van Winkle's letter speaks of the poor prospects of the proposed new state's survival, particularly the guerrilla threat south of the Little Kanawha River. Colonel Harris conveys from a wounded Confederate officer a warning that General Loring is planning an offensive into western Virginia.
Dates:
1862
George Robert Latham (1832-1917), Civil War and West Virginia Statehood Papers
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Collection Number: A&M 0066
Overview
Correspondence, speeches and essays, and other papers pertaining to the military and diplomatic service of Colonel George R. Latham (1832-1917), who was a delegate to the Wheeling Convention in 1861, colonel of the 2nd West Virginia Infantry during the Civil War, a member of Congress from 1865 to 1867, and the United States consul in Australia from 1867 to 1870. Materials from the late 1860s and early 1870s relate to the consulate in Melbourne. These include shares of the Fiji Adventure of...
Dates:
1862-1882, 1914-1917, undated; 1914 - 1917
John J. Polsley Papers
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Collection Number: A&M 1601
Overview
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of a lieutenant colonel in the Eighth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry and later the Seventh West Virginia Regiment. The letters, most of which are addressed to Polsley's wife, pertain to military activities in central West Virginia, 1862-1863, and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. These letters comment on the West Virginia statehood movement, camp life, guerrilla warfare, Polsley's confinement in Libby Prison, General John Imboden's raid, 1863, and...
Dates:
1862-1879; Majority of material found within 1862-1865
Marcia Louise Sumner Phillips, Journal of an Upshur County Resident Regarding the Civil War
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Collection Number: A&M 1846
Overview
Photocopy of typescript transcription of the manuscript journal kept by Marcia Louise Sumner Phillips of French Creek and Buckhannon, Virginia (West Virginia). It contains commentary on local and family affairs, and on Civil War military activities in the western Virginia and Virginia areas. Other subjects include churches, travel, elections, holiday celebrations, and the 1863 statehood convention in Parkersburg. There are descriptions of and quoted conversations with officers of both the...
Dates:
1861-1863
Matthew Tyler Foulds, Research Paper on Methodism in Western Virginia
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Collection Number: A&M 3976
Overview
Typescript of a paper written by Dr. Matthew Tyler Foulds titled "Enemies of the State: Political and Religious Secession in Western Virginia, 1844-1863". The paper regards the political and social influence of the Methodist Church and its various branches on the area that would become West Virginia, particularly those Methodists that supported the political and economic interests of western Virginia and, at the beginning of the Civil War, the unionist cause and statehood movement.
Dates:
2013
Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Papers regarding the Civil War in Southern West Virginia
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Collection Number: A&M 0895
Overview
Papers mainly related to the Civil War in southern West Virginia, including correspondence, maps, photographs, newspaper clippings, muster rolls, and other material. Highlights of the collection include material regarding Captain John V. Young of the 11th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry; Captain James S. Cassady of the 7th West Virginia Cavalry; Captain W.D. Thurmond and his company of Partisan Rangers; and the 8th and 13th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry units. The collection is organized...
Dates:
1844-1938; Majority of material found within 1861-1867
Virgil Anson Lewis, Historian, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1507
Overview
Published and unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, and speeches of Virgil A. Lewis (1848-1912), the first state historian and archivist and a former state superintendent of schools. Subjects include the exploration, Indian wars, and settlement of Western Virginia; the Tory insurrection in the Valley of Lost River, 1781; the West Virginia new state movement; Masonry in West Virginia; Andrew S. Rowan; and various West Virginia authors. Correspondents include: George W. Atkinson, Waitman...
Dates:
1895-1912