Civil War -- Home Guards

Overview Civil War diaries authored by First Lieutenant (later Major) Fabricius A. Cather from Flemington, Taylor County, West Virginia, records his experiences in the military and political conflicts of the Civil War. The six diaries, and a transcribed copy of the original 1864 and 1865 diaries, contain entries for the years 1860 to 1865 regarding western Virginia's grassroots efforts to secede from the Confederacy and establish a new state, and of the first battles and skirmishes such as Rich...

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Papers of the McIlroy family, early residents of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, including correspondence of John and Joseph McIlroy, newspaper clippings, birth register from the family Bible, and a list of volunteers for the "Home Guard" of Jackson and Barree townships.