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Clarksburg Public Library, Collector, Miscellaneous Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1653
Scope and Contents Miscellaneous papers collected by the Clarksburg Public Library, including Harrison County land papers of John Lang, 1782-1821; General Land Office Warrant of Thomas Cunningham, an 1812 veteran for 160 acres in Illinois; letter from Melville D. Long from Point Lookout prison, April 1865; letter to Mrs. John J. Davis, Clarksburg, telling of an unexpected invasion of Baltimore by the Rebels in July 1854; and farm diary, 1856-1861 of P.R. Page, Gloucester County, Virginia. This volumes gives...
Dates: 1782-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robinson Family Manuscripts

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2662
Overview

Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.

Dates: 1847-1883
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Baltimore (Md.) 1
Baltimore Infirmary -- Baltimore (Md.) 1
Batesville (Va.) 1
Civil War -- Forts 1
Civil War - Point Lookout Prison. 1
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Civil War - Songs and poems. 1
Civil War - Union soldiers. 1
Civil War - Union sympathizers. 1
Civil War - Virginia 25th Cavalry. 1
Civil War - Virginia 26th Cavalry. 1
Civil War - Virginia 40th Cavalry Battalion. 1
Civil War - troop movements. 1
Civil War -- letters 1
Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
Civil War -- Confederate soldiers 1
Civil War -- Confederate sympathizers 1
Civil War -- Description 1
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
Diaries and journals. 1
Education 1
Fetterman (W. Va.) 1
Frankfort (Mineral County, W. Va.) 1
Gloucester County (Va.) 1
Grafton. 1
Granville (W. Va.) 1
Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
Hospitals and hospital records. 1
Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
Land - Civil War disruptions. 1
Livestock 1
Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
McGuires Tunnel. 1
Medicine 1
Moundsville (W. Va.) 1
New Milton (W. Va.) 1
Ohio River Valley 1
Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
Patterson's Creek (W. Va.) 1
Poetry. 1
Politics and government. 1
Preachers. 1
Prisons -- Point Lookout Prison 1
Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 1
Rivers and river valleys. 1
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
Slaves and slavery. 1
Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
United States -- History -- War of 1812 1
Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
Women 1
Women -- Roles in society 1
Women's letters and papers. 1
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Names
Clarksburg Public Library. 1
Cunningham, Thomas. 1
Davis, Mrs. John J. 1
Ison, Willey Owens. 1
Lang, John. 1
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Long, Melville D. 1
Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute 1
Ohio River Salt Company (Middleport, Oh.) 1
Ohio River Valley Railroad Company 1
Page, P.R. 1
Robinson family 1
Robinson, Eleanor. 1
Robinson, Hannah P. 1
Robinson, Helen M. 1
Robinson, James M. 1
Robinson, John A. 1
Robinson, William Johnson. 1
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