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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 203 Collections and/or Records:

Parkersburg Town Council Journals

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1422
Overview Aside from routine municipal affairs these journals contain material on the development of internal improvements in the Parkersburg, West Virginia, area like the Wheeling-Parkersburg struggle for the western terminus of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the development of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad, and the demands for various river improvements. There are also a few references to Civil War military activities and the development of the oil industry in the Wood County area. Mayors...
Dates: 1826-1862, 1869-1874
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Patrick McGlynn, Civil War Bounty

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3809
Overview

Document signed by Patrick McGlynn, who substituted his service in the Union Army for that of Enoch Tinsman for a bounty of four hundred dollars. The document was created in Grafton, West Virginia on 23 February 1865. Collection includes one full color reproduction (two pages) and one photocopy reproduction. See "Historical Note" for further information regarding bounties and commutation of service.

Dates: 1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Patrick Plummer Diary

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2772
Overview

Plummer relates family births, marriages, deaths, farm operations and other business interests. In 1859 he mentions John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry.

Dates: 1859-1878
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Pauline M. Headley, Collector, Civil War Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3118
Scope and Contents Civil War letters from David Riel and Newton Van Leer of Company G, 15th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry and Charles W. Elliot of Company A, 11th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. Most letters are to Sarah Riel of Wood County. Subjects include defense of the B&O Railroad, the kidnapping of Union generals Crook and Kelley, military action near Richmond, and military hospitals. Two postwar letters concern West Virginia emigrants to the West. This collection includes both original letters...
Dates: 1862-1865, 1885-1890; Majority of material found within 1862-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Peterson Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2028
Overview Correspondence, speeches, essays, financial notes, certificates, an account book, a class attendance book for 1860, and a term paper prepared for a Glenville College, West Virginia, history class entitled, 'The Aaron D. Peterson Family.' The correspondence contains letters written by David T. Peterson to family and friends while serving with Federal forces in the Civil War. Subjects include schools, politics, farming, Civil War camps, units, troop movements, and battles at Droop Mountain,...
Dates: 1858-1913
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Philip Reesman, Civil War Soldier's Letter.

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2711
Overview

Letter by Philip Reesman, a Union soldier stationed in West Virginia, to his father John Reesman. He requests that his father take care of recent debts at home, mentions his unit's move out of winter quarters, and his apprehension that they will soon be deployed in a hard battle. The letter is written on stationary with Union Army letterhead with the lyrics of "Answer to Who Will Care for Mother Now?".

Dates: 1864 April 26
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Pittenger Family Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3127
Overview

Various Pittenger family members wrote these letters, mostly to other family members. The most frequent correspondent is Abraham Pittenger, a farmer, teacher, and local government official in Hancock County. The letters detail farming and marketing of farm goods, educational developments, affairs of the Presbyterian Church, and family events. The collection also provides significant information about the early Republican party, secession crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Dates: 1841-1875
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Pocahontas County Roads

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2695
Overview A rough draft history of the main roads covering segments of highways, such as State Route 39 between Huntersville and Marlinton, in the form of a travel brochure. Mentions frontier and pre-Civil War history of such places as Mill Point and Lewisburg, but its focus is on the Civil War history of Pocahontas, Greenbrier, and Randolph counties. Significant people and places mentioned are: The Great Warrior Path, Droop Mountain, Lewisburg, White Sulphur Springs, W. W. Averell, Huntersville,...
Dates: ca. 1985
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Post/Central Hospital, Wheeling, West Virginia, Civil War Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3289
Overview Civil War hospital records from the National Archives. Includes muster and pay roll of the hospital corps employed at the Contraband Camp Hospital at Washington, D.C. (February - August 1863, May - June 1864) and muster roll of steward, wardmaster, cooks, nurses, matrons, detached soldiers, sick, in the hospital of Freedman's Hospital at Washington, D.C. (March - August 1865) Also includes records of the U.S.A. Post/General Hospital at Wheeling, West Virginia: monthly, weekly, and morning...
Dates: 1863-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Preston County Miscellaneous Papers, Civil War Unit Roster

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2110
Scope and Contents

One colored, engraved and printed roster for the Civil War unit, Co. E. 15th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Most members of the company were from Reno District, Preston County. Commander of the company was Captain Washington M. Paul.

Dates: 1863
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center