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Civil War - West Virginia 4th Infantry.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Columbus Shrewsbury, Soldier, Civil War Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3216
Overview The letters (and their transcripts or photocopies) of 2nd. Lt. Columbus Shrewsbury to his wife in Pt. Pleasant. Shrewsbury served during the Civil War in the Union Army with the West Virginia 4th Infantry, Company A. He participated in the Kanawha Valley and Vicksburg campaigns. The content of the letters contain his favorable impressions of the Union Army and its progress during the war and his concerns about his family's health and financial well being while he is serving in the army. Also...
Dates: 1861-1864

Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn (1824-1901), Military Artifacts of the Civil War

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3948
Overview Military artifacts owned by General Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn (1824-1901) during his service as a Union officer during the American Civil War. Lightburn served in the western Virginia campaign of 1861, the siege of Vicksburg, and in the Atlanta Campaign, among other activities. There is also a group photograph of three of General Lightburn's great grandchildren (2011). Artifacts include: battle sword with scabbard, 44 Colt Revolver (1860 Model), compass / sun dial, bullet mold, cap box...
Dates: ca. 1860-1865, 2011; 2011

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers Regarding General Joseph A.J. Lightburn and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1379
Overview

Materials collected by Roy Bird Cook regarding General Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn. Includes letters sent to Dr. Bird regarding General Lightburn and the Lightburn family, newspaper clippings regarding Lightburn and the Civil War in West Virginia, two maps, a pamphlet, and other material. See the "Historical Note" for further information about General Lightburn.

Dates: 1774-1960; Majority of material found within 1939-1960

Union Volunteers of West Virginia Regiments, Civil War Service Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3059
Scope and Contents The compiled service records of soldiers belonging to units from the State of West Virginia are arranged according to an organizational breakdown ending with the regiment or the independent company. Under each unit the service records are arranged alphabetically by soldiers' surnames. Preceding the jacket-envelopes for the individual soldiers in each organizational unit are envelopes containing record-of-events cards giving the stations of the unit and sometimes information relating to the...
Dates: 1861-1865

West Virginia, Union, Civil War Military Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3138
Overview West Virginia Union Civil War records compiled by unit for cavalry, infantry, and artillery regiments, and also for the veteran reserve corps, independent infantry exempts, the Independent Loudo(u)n Rangers, the Mountain Howitzers, scouts, militia, and home guard units. The records include name, age, residency, rank, dates and places of muster and discharge, and details of service. They also include summaries of the organization, re-organization, and dissolution of companies; and military...
Dates: 1861-1865