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West Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1188
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 correspondence, legal documents, photocopies of printed material, and land grants. Subjects of the correspondence include West Virginia politics; the elections of 1840, 1860, and 1861; Reconstruction; the Flick Amendment; Southern sentiment in Clarksburg;...
Dates: 1784-1899
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Granville Davisson Hall (1837-1934) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0042
Overview

Correspondence and writings of Granville Davisson Hall, reporter for the Wheeling Intelligencer during the Wheeling conventions, 1861-1863; secretary of state of West Virginia, 1865-1873; and author of numerous works of fiction and historical studies about West Virginia.

Dates: 1861-1947 and undated; Majority of material found within 1861-1928
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Kenneth Fones-Wolf, Historian, Research Papers Regarding Confederacy Supporters in Wheeling

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Collection Number: A&M 5179
Overview Research papers compiled by history professor Kenneth Fones-Wolf regarding his study of people who supported the Confederacy in Wheeling, (West) Virginia in 1861. Includes manuscript research notes and facsimiles of documents regarding prisoners of war; traitors; legislative petitions (topics include transportation, education, banking, temperance, and property); military service (including the Shriver Grays, a Confederate unit organized in Wheeling in 1861); religion; black newspapers and...
Dates: 1819-2004, undated; Majority of material found within 1850s-1860s; Majority of material found within 2000-2004
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Marmaduke Dent, Letter of a Monongalia County Resident

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4176
Overview

Letter written by Marmaduke Dent, 1863/03/11, from Granville, (West) Virginia to Dr. Frank. Dent was the grandfather of Marmaduke H. Dent, the first graduate of West Virginia University. Transcription of letter and photocopies are also included. Subjects of the letter include politics related to the possibility of West Virginia's statehood, including an upcoming vote, constitutionality, and race relations; Dent's patients and a local bout of smallpox; and family matters.

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

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1561
Overview Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and...
Dates: 1679-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1840-1960
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Samuel Crane, Lawyer, Letter to Barbour County Delegate

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Collection Number: A&M 4258
Overview

Letter written by Samuel Crane dated 1863 January 2 and addressed to a delegate from Barbour County, possibly Joseph Teter, Jr. The letter regards Crane's interest in the office of Governor of the newly formed state of West Virginia. Please see "Scope and Contents" for further information as well as a transcript of the letter.

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

Thornton Perry, Collector, Publications regarding West Virginia History

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Collection Number: A&M 3343
Overview

Publications and manuscript from the Thornton Perry Museum Collection, reflecting Perry's interest in the history of West Virginia and the immediate region. Subjects include various aspects of West Virginia history, such as the Civil War, statehood, Wheeling, John Brown, and other topics. Formats include broadsides, reports, pamphlets, almanacs, a manuscript account book, newspapers, maps, and others. See Scope and Content Note for details and contents list.

Dates: 1787-1934
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Waitman T. Willey Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0003
Overview Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman...
Dates: 1820-1917
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William Johnson, Virginia Delegate, Letter regarding Secession Convention

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Collection Number: A&M 4274
Scope and Contents Letter from William Johnson, who at the time represented Barbour County in the Virginia House of Delegates. The letter may be addressed to Colonel Jesse Teter, Esq.; it was sent from Richmond, VA, and dated 1861 March 25. It includes a recounting of recent events in the House, and mentions "the Hamilton Draft", a bill transferring the James River and Kanawha Canal to "the French Company", the activities of the Virginia Secession Convention and the author's concerns about its effectiveness....
Dates: 1861 March 25
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center