United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Found in 205 Collections and/or Records:
West Virginia Cavalry, Fourth Regiment, Civil War Enlistment Papers
Includes enlistment papers of the 4th regiment of WV Calvary from July to August 1863.
West Virginia, Executive Department, Journals
Executive and Board of Public Works records of the early state government. Included are oaths of office, appointments, executive orders, extraditions, pardons, election certifications, accounts, tax assessments, proclamations and addresses. Subjects covered include militia and political activities during the early statehood period.
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.