West Virginia and Regional History Center
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Correspondence (photocopies)
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899
A&M 0420
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1861-1865, 1916
1861-1865
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 for the new state of West Virginia to be formed from Virginia (May 12, 1863). Also includes a photostat negative of a typescript checklist of Pierpont manuscript material held at the Virginia State Library (now Library of Virginia) (1916). Correspondents include: Arthur I. Boreman, John I. Brown, William G. Brown, A.W. Campbell, John S. Carlile, Spencer Dayton, James Evans, Thomas. M. Harris, J.H. Jordan, Daniel Lamb, J.A.J. Lightburn, A.F. Ritchie, Lewis Ruffner, Henry I. Samuels, J.C. Paxton, P.G. Van Winkle, and John O. Watson.
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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Correspondence (photocopies), A&M 0420, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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Gilmer County (W. Va.)
Harrison County (W. Va.)
Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865.
Politicians -- United States
Politics and government.
West Virginia -- Politics and government
United States -- Politics and government
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896
Campbell, Archibald W., 1833-1899.
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878
Dayton, Spencer
Harris, T. M. (Thomas Mealey), 1817-1906
Kelley, Benjamin F., 1807-1891
Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901.
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872
Watson, James O.