Civil War - Virginia 3rd Infantry.

Overview Photocopy of typescript transcription of the manuscript journal kept by Marcia Louise Sumner Phillips of French Creek and Buckhannon, Virginia (West Virginia). It contains commentary on local and family affairs, and on Civil War military activities in the western Virginia and Virginia areas. Other subjects include churches, travel, elections, holiday celebrations, and the 1863 statehood convention in Parkersburg. There are descriptions of and quoted conversations with officers of both the...

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Collection includes two letters of William S. Coburn, 3d Regt, Va Vol Inf., dated Bridgeport and Beverly, June 7 and Oct. 17, 1863; a letter on economic and social conditions around Fort Scott, Kansas, 1867; and a letter from R. W/ Blue, Camp, 6th W. Va. Vet. Cav. Vols. on the "Little Blue," seventy-five miles east of Fort Kearney, 1866.