West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Archibald W. Campbell (1839-1899), Newspaperman, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0014
Overview
Papers of Archibald W. Campbell (1839-1899), editor of the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer. A strong unionist and Republican Party member, he worked hard through his editorials and behind the scenes in order to support the formation of the new state of West Virginia. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and scrapbooks dealing with the Civil War and political affairs in West Virginia's early statehood period. Some of the correspondence...
Dates:
1855-1899, 1907, 1941; Majority of material found within 1855-1899
Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0104
Overview
Personal and business papers of lawyer, U.S. Senator, circuit court judge, and first Governor of West Virginia, Arthur I. Boreman. See scope and content note for more details.
Dates:
1861-1895, undated
Arthur I. Boreman Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0639
Overview
Personal and business papers of Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896), lawyer, U.S. senator, circuit court judge, and first governor of West Virginia. The bulk of the collection consists of papers relating to his judgeship and to the law firm of Boreman and Bullocks, Parkersburg, WV. Series include correspondence, notes on cases tried before Judge Boreman, envelope cases of material regarding legal cases in which Boreman was involved, financial material, and political and judicial printed material....
Dates:
1830-1949
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
E. Luther Cole, Research Papers regarding the Civil War in West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0078
Overview
Notes and maps related to the Civil War in West Virginia compiled by Luther E. Cole, probably in the 1930s. Handwritten notes with revisions appear to be the basis for an unfinished military history of the Civil War in West Virginia from 1861 to 1863. They chiefly describe campaigns and troop movements in the state, particularly the Battle of Rich Mountain, the Battle of Corrick's Ford, and the Jones-Imboden Raid. Also includes four battle maps with troop positions and geographical...
Dates:
undated
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Correspondence (photocopies)
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0420
Overview
Photostat negatives of correspondence to Francis H. Pierpont concerning statehood and secession. Also includes a petition of Harrison County, (West) Virginia citizens to Brigadier General Kelly protesting the return and admittance to the county of former members of the Confederate Army (undated); a petition of Gilmer County, (West) Virginia citizens denouncing secession and pledging action to suppress rebellion (1861); and the act by which the Restored Government of Virginia gave permission...
Dates:
1861-1865, 1916; Majority of material found within 1861-1865
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0009
Overview
Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the...
Dates:
1811-1949, undated; Majority of material found within 1860-1899
George Robert Latham (1832-1917), Civil War and West Virginia Statehood Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0066
Overview
Correspondence, speeches and essays, and other papers pertaining to the military and diplomatic service of Colonel George R. Latham (1832-1917), who was a delegate to the Wheeling Convention in 1861, colonel of the 2nd West Virginia Infantry during the Civil War, a member of Congress from 1865 to 1867, and the United States consul in Australia from 1867 to 1870. Materials from the late 1860s and early 1870s relate to the consulate in Melbourne. These include shares of the Fiji Adventure of...
Dates:
1862-1882, 1914-1917, undated; 1914 - 1917
Gibson Lamb Cranmer Papers regarding Statehood and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2848
Overview
Papers regarding West Virginia statehood and the history of Wheeling and Ohio County compiled by Judge Gibson L. Cranmer (1826-1903) of Wheeling, West Virginia, who served as secretary of the Wheeling Convention that repudiated Virginia's secession from the United States in 1861. Series 1 includes manuscript narratives and correspondence describing events of the West Virginia statehood movement, written by eyewitnesses at the request of Gibson L. Cranmer. Manuscript authors include John S....
Dates:
1787-1895, undated; Majority of material found within 1822-1881
Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1221
Overview
Papers of Judge Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) of Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia. Camden was a lawyer, Democratic politician, member of the Virginia Convention of 1850-1851, circuit judge, and state senator (1872-1876). Includes business correspondence, financial records, legal papers, and court records. Materials include the early land papers of Camden's law partner, John J. Allen, and the legal papers of the firm Allen and Camden, which deal primarily with land suits and surveys...
Dates:
1816-1892, undated