Perry, Thornton Tayloe, 1892-1981,. Civil War miscellaneous papers, 1861-ca. 1960s.
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Civil War miscellaneous papers, 1861-ca. 1960s.
Correspondence, diaries, reminiscences, official military papers (Union and Confederate), scrapbooks, and other papers relating to the Civil War in western Virginia and West Virginia. The correspondence includes letters from Union and Confederate soldiers serving in the Shenandoah Valley and a letter, February 1865, from Samuel J.C. Moore concerning the Confederate military situation and discussing the use of slaves as soldiers. The diaries include: 1862-1865, of Samuel C. Jones of the Upshur Battery, a Union military organization; 1861-1863, of Marcia Louise Sumner (Mrs. Sylvester Bettes) Phillips of Uphsur County, W. Va.; 1864-1865, of H.W. Stump, a Confederate soldier imprisoned at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; and 1862-1863, of a member of the 17th Virginia Regiment, C.S.A., imprisoned at Fort Warren, Mass., and serving in western Maryland and western Virginia. Reminscences include those of E.H. McDonald as a Confederate soldier in the Valley of Virginia, and accounts of skirmishes, 1862, near Bloomery Furnace, Hampshire County, W. Va., and Fayetteville, Fayette County, W. Va. Confederate military papers include a report of Col. B.H. Jones, 16th Virginia Regiment, C.S.A., of the battle of Piedmont, Va., 1864; a list of killed and wounded at the Battle of Kernstown, 1862; and a muster roll of 2nd Virginia Regiment, Co. K, C.S.A. Union military papers include the letter book, 1863-1865, of George S. Leland, commissary officer at Harpers Ferry, W. Va.; and the roll book, 1862-1864, of Co. A., 5th Regiment, Virginia Volunteer Infantry, U.S.A. Scrapbooks contain local newspaper accounts of Virginia military actions. Other papers include a chronological list of West Virginia battles, attributed to Boyd B. Stutler; and a Confederate Treasury bond, 1865, signed by Robert Tyler.
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