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

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 204 Collections and/or Records:

Carey Woofter, Compiler, Folklore of West Virginia

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0112
Overview Folklore of West Virginia collected by Woofter, who was a student of John Harrington Cox and Louis Watson Chappell. The collection consists of a card file of approximately 10,000 folklore items, including superstitions, sayings, riddles, remedies and tales, as well as a pair of unpublished bound volumes entitled FOLKLORE OF WEST VIRGINIA containing folklore and folksongs with musical notation by Woofter's protege Patrick Gainer. While Woofter never published his discoveries, he did supply...
Dates: ca. 1920-1940
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles Brinkman, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1086
Scope and Contents The papers include 36 volumes of business and other records, such as the ledgers of the George W. Brinkman merchandising firm, the Mutual Building Company, minutesof the Grafton Rotary Club; journal and statistical report of the Grafton Baptist Church, 1897-1906; and a mas. history of Taylor County in various American wars, and extracts from the Civil War diary of Fabricius A. Cather. Also included are 2 boxes of financial records, miscellaneous newspaper clippings, a partial index to...
Dates: 1868-1938
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles Brinkman, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0111
Scope and Contents The papers received from Mr. Brinkman in 1938 include manuscripts, typescripts, and printed items, and general merchandise account books. The manuscript items are mainly letters, receipts, account statements, and certificates concerning the general merchandise business of George Brinkman in Grafton, Grafton Gas Works, Charles Brinkman's History of Grafton, history of the first memorial service and the location of the National Cemetery in Grafton (Box 13), and stock in the Grafton &...
Dates: 1852-1952
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles H. Ambler (1876-1957) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0122
Scope and Contents Collection includes original copies of correspondence relating to Virginia and West Virginia, as well as newspaper clippings, photographs, and research notes. Events pertaining to the Civil War and the formation of West Virginia are covered. Among the most important items are the private correspondence of Waitman T. Willey (1835-1861 and 1866-1868); data pertaining to education in Mason County, West Virginia (1861-1875); typescript copies of letters of Samuel Woods (see also A&M 1445);...
Dates: 1834-1945
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles H. Ambler (1876-1957) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1003
Scope and Contents Collection includes typescripts drafts of unpublished works, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and printer's picture plates. Unpublished typescript drafts are titled George Rodgers Clark Floyd of Logan County, West Virginia, and Huckleberry Ranger Lieutenant John Blue, Confederate. Also includes correspondence from Robert L. Floyd to Dr. Ambler regarding the Floyd family (1953-1957), and a manuscript titled...
Dates: 1913, 1940-1957
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles H. Ambler (1876-1957) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1010
Scope and Contents

Personal and professional correspondence (1914-1956), typescripts, research notes, clippings, photographs, maps, drafts and manuscripts of published and unpublished historical studies. The correspondence includes a number of letters from historians in the 1920s and 1930s. Other subjects covered in the papers include the McNeill Rangers, the Civil War, Moravian Missionaries, floods in the South Branch Valley, and secondary education in West Virginia.

Dates: 1914-1956
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles L. Gould, Civil War Letter

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2378
Overview

A letter from a Union soldier stationed at Camp Griffith, Smith Division, Lewisville, Va., 13 November 1861. The letter is from Charles L. Gould to his parents. In this letter Gould discusses a system of newspaper exchange with his parents. He also inquires about other family members.

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

Charles Shetler, Curator and Historian, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2835
Overview

Material written and collected by a former curator of the West Virginia and Regional History Collection that includes bibliographies, transcripts, photostats, papers and historical sketches on various aspects of West Virginia history. Items deal with prominent West Virginia University historians, the Civil War, early settlement, industrial growth, and West Virginia University. A number of letters and circulars discuss the West Virginia Historical Society in 1869.

Dates: ca. 1700-1965
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Civil War Diary of a Confederate Soldier at Appomattox Court House

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0815
Overview One page typescript of a transcription of a Confederate soldier's diary entries for 9-12 April 1865. The soldier was at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Topics discussed include fighting the morning of 9 April; flag of truce and Lee's going to Grant's headquarters; terms of surrender; General John B. Gordon's farewell address to his troops; General Lee's General Order No. 9; another speech by General Gordon, referring to the possibility of a second Southern rebellion; and formal surrender...
Dates: 1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Civil War Illustrations

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1954
Overview

Over forty illustrations of various subjects of the Civil War from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's Weekly between 1862 and 1866. Also includes undated illustrations.

Dates: 1862-1866; and undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center