United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Found in 203 Collections and/or Records:
West Virginia Independence Hall Foundation, Records regarding Statehood
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).
West Virginia Mason-Dixon Civil War Round Table, Fifth Annual Symposium Records
West Virginia Statehood Papers
Wheeling, Washington Family Graves and Nurse Lydia W. Holiday, Articles
Articles about the graves at Wheeling of the Washington family, who were relatives of George Washington. Also articles on Lydia W. Holiday of Wheeling, who became a Civil War nurse at the age of 60.
William Gaston Caperton (1815-1852) Family Papers
William Henry Powell, Colonel, Civil War Telegram
William K. Smith Family Papers
The collection is highlighted by the Civil War papers of William K. Smith of Tyler Co. Militia rosters, wartime letters, a military pass, commendation, and pension claim are among the papers. Smith, of the West Virginia 14th. Infantry, Company F, died in a Confederate prison hospital in 1865, and other papers in the collection belonged to his widow, Christena. Family letters, financial papers, and home remedies are included.
William Lyne Wilson (1843-1900) Papers
William N. Sine Letters
Letters to and from William N. Sine of Mooresville, Monongalia County, West Virginia, mainly with relatives, about one-third of which are during the Civil War period. Included is the company song of the West Virginia Third Company A. Tells of the stationing of his militia outfit and its movement through West Virginia to D.C. and back again.
William Price (1803-1881), Letter Regarding Wheeling Convention
Letter from the Monongalia Co. State Senator and representative to the Wheeling Convention of 1861. Describes the Convention and his anti-secession, but pro-slavery sentiments.