Virginia (Reorganized government : 1861-1863)

Photocopy of the "Journal of the Senate of the State of Virginia for the Sessions of 1863,4, and 5", the official record of the proceedings of the Restored Government of Virginia, which was meeting in Alexandria, from 1863-1865.

Copies of broadsides, certificates, photographs, and letters pertaining to the formation of the state of West Virginia, its predecessor the Restored Government of Virginia, and the Civil War, featuring the impact of the latter upon Wheeling. There are 41 letters written to civilian prisoner-of-war Dr. Alfred Hughes by his wife and other relatives when he was interned at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio in 1862. (A more detailed inventory of the collection is included in the control folder).