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Boreman, Arthur Ingram, 1823-1896. Autograph letter signed : Washington, to George H. Williams, Attorney General, 1873 Feb. 28.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Washington, to George H. Williams, Attorney General, 1873 Feb. 28.

Recommending his brother for a judgeship in the Territories.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

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Cullom, Shelby M. (Shelby Moore), 1829-1914. Note, [1884 Dec.]

Title: Note, [1884 Dec.]

Endorses Arthur I. Boreman for Utah Territory associate justice. Also contains endorsements from Nathan Goff, John F. Miller, John Sherman and T. F. Singiser.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.); 21 cm.

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Virginia. Governor (1861-1865 : Pierpont). Executive papers, 1861-1865.

Title: Executive papers, 1861-1865.

Governor Pierpont's Executive papers are organized into two series. Series have been designated for Chronological files and Subject files. The bulk of the material can be found in the Chronological files' series which primarily consists of incoming correspondence between February 1861 and May 9, 1865. Although Pierpont did not become governor until June 20, 1861, there are a few miscellaneous documents related to Pierpont and the Wheeling Convention prior to this date. Note that there are very few items which document the time between January 1 and May 9, 1865. The materials in this series represent the work of Governor Pierpont and the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling and later Alexandria, Va. Correspondence, certificates of qualification, certificates of election, invoices, bonds, oaths of allegiance, commissions, applications, ordinances, telegrams, election returns, proceedings, receipts, checks, clippings, reports, petitions, resignations, proclamations, maps, resolutions, special orders, and other items can be found in this series. The majority of the correspondence relates to requests to raise troops and also requests for commissions in the Virginia Volunteers. Individuals wrote Pierpont recommending others for positions in the Restored Government or the army. Pierpont received various letters of application and issued commissions for these positions. Letters supporting Pierpont and the Union cause are also present. Other correspondence to Pierpont regards requests for arms and equipment and protection against rebel forces. Pro-Union citizens informed Pierpont of rebel movements and warned him about individuals with secessionist tendencies. Many of these individuals were imprisoned in Camp Carlisle and later Camp Chase. The Governor received correspondence and petitions asking for the release of some of these prisoners. He also often corresponded with Samuel Galloway, the Special Commissioner at Camp Chase. The Governor also received correspondence from his Adjutant General James S. Wheat (resigned Sept. 27, 1861) and later Henry J. Samuels. Other noteworthy correspondents include: L.A. Hagans, Secretary of the Commonwealth; General L. Thomas, U.S. Adjutant General; George D. Ruggles, Assistant Adjutant General of the U.S.; Edwin M. Stanton, U.S. Secretary of War; P.H. Watson, Assistant Secretary of War; Governor A.G. Curtin of Pennsylvania; Governor Arthur I. Boreman of West Virginia; James Darr, Jr., Provost Marshall General for Virginia; and others. Other types of documents found in Pierpont's papers include certificates of qualification for positions in the Restored Government such as the Governor's Council, Auditor of Public Accounts, Attorney General, etc. As a result of a resolution passed at the Wheeling Convention of 1861, oaths of allegiance were required by all state officials. Many of these oaths can be found in these papers. The Allegheny Arsenal in Pittsburgh, Pa., supplied the Virginia Volunteers with ordnance or ordnance supplies. There are a few invoices and correspondence from the arsenal. Finally, materials related to elections including orders to hold elections, certificates of election, election returns, etc., are included in Pierpont's papers. Noteworthy documents include ordinances from the Wheeling Convention of 1861 (June 13, 1861); a 17-page draft of a message of the Governor re. Virginia and the state of the rebellion (June 25, 1861); a telegram from Major General George B. McClellan re. control of Capt. Craig's camp (July 6, 1861); a proclamation re. an oath to support the Constitution of the United States required by law (Aug. 2, 1861); special orders from General William S. Rosecrans appointing instructors of tactics (Aug. 28, 1861); a proclamation for a day of Thanksgiving (Nov. 14, 1861); reports by companies in the Virginia Volunteers on shoes (Nov. 21, 1861); an official report of the Battle of Guyandotte (Dec. 6, 1861); election return of officers of Virginia regiments from Putnam County re. proposed constitution of the proposed state of West Virginia (April 3, 1862); Governor's address to the Senate and House of Delegates in extra session re. the division of the state of Virginia (May 6, 1862); an act giving the consent of the formation & erection of a new state within the jurisdiction of Virginia (May 13, 1862, oversized); insurance policy from the Home Insurance Company for Pierpont's home near Fairmont in Marion Co. (June 27, 1862); a list of prisoners released at Wheeling (Aug. 21, 1862); letter from Governor Pierpont to E.M. Stanton, Secretary of War, re. captured guns, etc. (Aug. 22, 1863). Other noteworthy documents include: certificates re. the result of the election for the annexation of Berkeley and Jefferson counties into West Virginia (July 22 & Sept. 14, 1863); a printed proclamation pursuant to an act of the General Assembly passed Feb. 5, 1863, authorizing the governor to select some point as the capital of the state (proclamation names Alexandria the new capital of Virginia) (Aug. 26, 1863); letter from David Wills, submitted by the authority of Governor Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania, re. creation of a cemetery at Gettysburg (Aug. 15, 1863); U.S. Military Telegraph from President Abraham Lincoln requesting opinion re. refunding money collected from the people of the Eastern Shore of Virginia as indemnity for the lighthouse depredation (including reply from Pierpont) (Sept. 21, 1863); map of the Washington, Alexandria, and Georgetown Railroad and its connections (Oct. 1, 1863, oversized); letter from Pierpont to E.M. Stanton asking for his help in locating a house in Alexandria for his family (Dec. 14, 1863); letter from Pierpont to President Lincoln re. General Butler's interference with the civil government in Norfolk, also follow-up letters to E.M. Stanton (Jan. 15-16, 20, 1864); letter to E.M. Stanton re. the quartering of colored troops in Accomac, Northampton, and Portsmouth (Jan. 27, 1863); and an ordinance providing for the establishment of the Restored Government (April 14, 1864). The second series is devoted to subject files and primarily contains indictments for treason and other legal documents relating to the prosecution of individuals for treason against the Constitution of the United States between 1861 and 1862. The indictments are standard forms with names and dates inserted. The indictments are arranged in alphabetical order and often include other documents such as oaths of allegiance, recognizance, etc. In addition, affidavits, bonds, injunctions, information, subpoenas, and writs of habeas corpus are included in this series.

ArchivalResource: 6.30 cu. ft.

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Barksdale, Narcissa L. Smith, d. 1875. Papers of the Janney family, 1695-1981 (bulk 1755-1944).

Title: Papers of the Janney family, 1695-1981 (bulk 1755-1944).

Papers of the Janney and allied families of Gilmour and Pollock consisting of personal and political correspondence, financial and legal papers, genealogical material and photographs, particularly of John Janney of Loudoun County, Va. The papers cover Janney's legal practice, his career as a Whig politician, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and president of Virginia's secession convention. His correspondents include Arthur Ingram Borreman; John Minor Botts; Henry Clay; J.J. Crittenden; Charles J. Faulkner; Philip R. Fendall; Joshua F. Fisher; Willis Green; John W. Mallet; R.C.L. Moncure; Jeremiah Morton; Richard William Noland; Francis H. Pierpoint; William Cabell Rives; Wyndham Robertson; Valentine Wood Southall; James F. Strother; Alexander H.H. Stuart; and George Summers. Major topics include the Whig Party and the elections of 1840, 1844, 1848 and 1860; the tariff; the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company; the Loco-Focos; slavery and the new territories; the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850; the University of Virginia; the Constitutional Union Party; the Virginia Convention of 1861; a re-union of Virginia and West Virginia and debt readjustment. Of interest is an 1861 electoral ticket for Jefferson Davis. People discussed in the correspondence include J.S. Barbour, John C. Calhoun, Joseph Johnson; Robert E. Lee; "Extra Billy" Smith; Alexander H. Stephens; Zachary Taylor; and Daniel Webster. Of interest in Janney's financial and legal papers are a letter from Abbott Lawrence to John S. Pendleton on the machine shop at Lowell, Mass.; correspondence regarding the building of the Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad; papers conderning the Mutual Assurance Society; and a slave bill of sale for one Harriet Jackson. Papers of Solomon Parsons, 1810-1830, concern business in Alexandria, Gloucester and Occoquan, and include letters on the War of 1812 and British Admiral J.B. Warren; and an 1829 letter from a slave to "Dear Master." Civil War and Reconstruction papers include passes; a letter to J.E. Johnston regarding Janney's slave "George"; a list of sick soldiers nursed by Mrs. Janney; letters, 1862, 1866, from Narcissa L. Smith Barksdale regarding the Civil War in Louisiana and the death of her husband at Gettysburg; letters from Joseph E. Segar regarding reconstruction; and two memoranda by Alcinda S. Marmaduke Janney, 1862 and 1863, relating details of the war in Leesburg and Loudoun County, including the arrest of John Janney, Federal occupation and outrages, Confederate procurement, and second hand news about personalities and battles. The collection also contains letters and a portrait of World War II American pilot, Robert Stevenson Janney. Topics include student life at Princeton, travel in Europe and Japan in the 1930s including a 1937 Nazi festival, and World War II experiences in training, in North Africa and in Italy. Topics of interest in the miscellaneous Gilmour, Janney and Pollock family papers include the early ministry of W.H. Milton; slavery; St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1830s and 40s; foreign travel; Pantops Academy of Charlottesville; V.M.I. in the 1890s; U. Va. in the 1850s and 1890s; medical missionary work in China and Japan in the 1930s; social life in Virginia in the 1930s; the great depression; the Leesburg, Va., Presbyterian church; Virginia governor Almond and Massive Resistance; and life in Pioche, Nevada and Pasadena, Calif. Correspondents include W. Sinclair Bowen, Lily H.D. Dabney, William E. Dodd; Edward Griffith Dodson;and the Rev. James Shannon Montgomery. In addition there are photographs, scrapbooks and travel journals.

ArchivalResource: 2750 (c.) items.

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