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Confederate States of America - secession crisis.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Lewis (1778-1843) and George W. (1804-1868) Summers Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1791
Overview Papers of Lewis Summers, a lawyer, businessman, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1817-1818, delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1829-1830, and his brother George W., a lawyer in Charleston, a judge, a member of the House of Delegates, 1830-1832, 1834-1836, the U.S. House of Representatives, 1841-1845, a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, candidate for governor in 1851, member of the 1861 Peace Convention, and delegate to the Richmond...
Dates: 1828-1890, 1901, 1935

Powell Benton Reynolds (1841-1914) Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0390
Scope and Contents

Transcriptions of letters written by P.B. Reynolds while a member of the 5th Kentucky Infantry, and the 50th Virginia Infantry of the Confederate Army from Highland Forest, Kentucky, January 30, 1861; Orange C .H., Va., August 7, 1863; 50th V. Regt. Camp, March 6 and April 13 1864; and Spotsylvania C. H., Va. May 19, 1864. The originals of the letters can be found in A&M 1195.

Dates: 1861-1864

Powell Benton Reynolds (1841-1914) Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1195
Scope and Contents

Three letters from Reynolds as a Confederate soldier, Co, K, 50th Virginia Infantry, contain excellent descriptions of life in the Army of Northern Virginia. One letter contains Reynolds views on the right of secession and there is a letter from William P. Willey informing Reynolds of his election to the Chair of English at WVU. Collection also contains seven diplomas from Richmond College Reynolds received between 1867 – 1877. Typed copies of the letters may be found in A&M 390.

Dates: 1861-1885

Siler Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2200
Scope and Contents This is a collection of letters and documents tracing the personal and business life of an eastern panhandle West Virginia family. The papers concern a broad range of political, social, financial, and legal topics, particularly focusing on J. Hammond Siler, Jr., his parents, J. Hammond Siler, Sr. and Jessie Castleman Siler (residents of the Town of Bath better known as Berkeley Springs). Also includes correspondence and other papers from related families. Subjects include banking, the Civil...
Dates: 1848-1968

William Gaston Caperton (1815-1852) Family Papers

 Collection
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