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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:

Mercer Family Genealogy

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3161
Overview A family history and genealogical record of the Mercer family of Monongalia County, WV with mention of the allied families of Brown and Campbell. Robert Mercer was the first of the family to settle in what is now West Virginia near Morgantown in 1766. He was the son of Gideon Mercer and the grandson of John Mercer, the earliest known family member in America. John Mercer was a Quaker merchant of New York City and an extensive landowner of Manhattan Island. Also noted is the movement and...
Dates: 1988-1995
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Miles Dahmer Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3390
Overview

Papers of the Dahmer family of Upper Tract, Pendleton County, WV, featuring the papers and artifacts of Miles Dahmer, who served the Confederacy in the 25th Virginia Infantry.

Dates: 1791-1913
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monroe County, Volunteer Soldier Payment Records

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Collection Number: A&M 3961
Overview

Two photocopied documents listing members of companies of volunteer soldiers, with number of days in service and amounts paid by J.M. Byrnside, agent of Monroe County. The first list pertains to the company of Captain Christopher I. Beirne in May 1861; the second list pertains to the company of Captain Fielding Fleshman in May or June 1861.

Dates: 1861
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mrs. Louise Morris, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1454
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1863-1867
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mrs. Louise Morris, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1808
Scope and Contents Materials Collected by Mrs. Louise Morris, genealogist and authority on local history. The collection includes a notebook kept by J. H. Wherry, a student at Jefferson College, Pa., in 1859; a genealogy of the DeVaul, Haun, [F]ast families of Marion and Monongalia counties, 1817-1957; an essay on "Immigration" by George Whitham, 1896, favoring immigration restriction because of the increased number coming from " the Latin races of southeastern Europe;" land surveys from dead books, 1827-1933,...
Dates: 1859-1964
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Neale Family Letters (photocopies)

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Collection Number: A&M 2623
Overview

Two letters mentioning Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson and his family. The first, dated 6 June 1833 from Thomas Neale to Lewis Maxwell concerns the disappearance of the children of his daughter, Julia Jackson Woodson. The second letter, dated 23 February 1864, from W.R. Neale, discusses Stonewall Jackson's death.

Dates: 1833 - 1834
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

New River Symposiums Proceedings

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Collection Number: A&M 3393
Overview Compact disc of a searchable database of 1200 facsimile pages of New River Symposium Proceedings dating from 1982-1999. Articles in the Proceedings discuss the natural and cultural features of the New River region of West Virginia, including the following topics: botany, Civil War, coal mining, environmentalism, folklore, folk music, geology, Green Sulphur Springs, historic preservation, iron industry, native Americans, railroads, rivers (Bluestone, Gauley, New), transportation, and Mary...
Dates: 1982-1999
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Newspaper Illustrations of the Civil War and Other Topics

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Collection Number: A&M 0169
Scope and Contents Over thirty illustrations of the Civil War in West Virginia and other topics from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Harper's Weekly, The Scientific American and the New York Illustrated News between 1854 and 1892. Each record in this collection begins with the name of the...
Dates: 1854-1892 and undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Noah Henderson (Monongalia County, W.Va.) Financial and Legal Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0787
Scope and Contents Personal papers of Noah Henderson of Monongalia County, West Virginia, consisting mainly of incoming correspondence and financial and legal documents from 1859 to 1926. Collection chiefly contains deeds, state and county tax receipts, a survey and plat, and oil and gas lease documents from the 1860s to the 1900s. Other financial documents from 1910 to 1926 relate to bank accounts and settlement of Henderson's estate after his death in 1920. Letters from relatives in the 1890s and 1900s...
Dates: 1859-1926
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Nuce Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3021
Overview

Land papers of the Nuce family of Rock Forge, Monongalia County, WV. Also a marriage bond of Susannah Nuce and William Friend of Friendsville, MD. There are identified photographs of family reunions with one exclusively of Union Civil War veterans. Also included are the Civil War discharge papers of George Nuce with the payment of his enlistment bounty noted.

Dates: ca. 1800-1925
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center