Civil War - troop movements.

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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.

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...

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Telegrams sent by Captain William Thomas Singleton regarding moving troops and supplies after the end of the Civil War. Singleton served in the Union Army with the First West Virginia Infantry from 1861 to 1865. The telegrams date from 4 June to 21 July 1865, during which time Singleton was serving at the Depot Commissary at Clarksburg, West Virginia. Telegrams are handwritten copies on onionskin paper.