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Composed of some of the war's earliest recruits, the 31st Virginia Infantry would see action under General Garnett, William L. "Mudwall" Jackson, Jones and Imboden, Stonewall Jackson, Jubal Early, and many more legendary Confederate commanders, at battles including Corrick's Ford, Cross Keys, Cold Harbor, Gettysburg, New Market, and others. Approximately 57 of the 850 men who joined the regiment in 1861 witnessed Lee's surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.
A detailed history of the 31st Virginia by James Dell Cooke is available online (see link in Instances).
Researchers are also referred to John M. Ashcraft's '31st Virginia Infantry' (Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, 1988).
Congressman and Confederate General
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, A&M 1561, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
81, 858, 895, 1309, 1379, 1528, 1561
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 papers of the Hays family, including Samuel L. and Peregrine Hays of Gilmer County (1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated [includes facsimiles]); records of the Confederate 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and later correspondence, clippings, and papers about the regiment and its members (ca. 1856-1955, undated [includes facsimiles]); correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook-style notebooks of Roy Bird Cook (1896-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]); various collections of individual and family papers and Civil War correspondence (1793-1974, undated [includes facsimiles]); original and copies of Stonewall Jackson letters and papers, as well as papers pertaining to Jackson family members (1801-1963, undated [includes facsimiles]) (the original letter by T.J. Jackson has been separated to A&M 435); and materials related to the history of pharmacy and medicine, with a special focus on West Virginia (ca. 1832-1961, undated [includes facsimiles]).
There is also an extensive series of bound notebooks containing manuscripts, transcriptions, clippings, genealogies, pamphlets, and images regarding the following topics: Stonewall Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold; the Civil War, including historical sketches of battles as well as originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; Lewis County; Charleston and the Kanawha Valley; Douglas S. Freeman; Granville Davisson Hall; Camden family; George Washington; and other topics.
Please note: Additional processing took place in spring and summer 2012. Box and folder numbers from previous citations may no longer be accurate.
Series 1. Hays Family Papers; 1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1.
Series 2. Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry; ca. 1856-1955, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 2-3.
Series 3. Roy Bird Cook Personal Papers; 1896-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-5.
Series 4. Miscellaneous History; 1783-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 6-7b.
Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers; 1793-1974, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 8-9.
Series 6. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers; 1801-1963, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 10-14c.
Series 7. Historical Articles and Other Printed Papers; 1928-1962, undated (includes facsimiles); box 15.
Series 8. Bound Notebooks; 1679-1984, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 16-40.
Series 9. Miscellaneous; ca. 1850-1866, 1909-1958, undated; box 41, folders 1-4.
Series 10. History of Pharmacy and the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association; ca. 1832-1961, undated (includes facsimiles); box 41, folder 5 - box 42, folder 3 (includes unfoldered material).
Series 11. West Virginia Medical History and Biography; 1870-1911, 1936-1958, undated (includes facsimiles); box 42, folders 4-7.
Series 12. American Pharmaceutical Association; 1868, 1939-1961, undated; box 43.
Series 13. A.J. Volck Confederate Sketches; ca. 1880, 1915-1954, 2012, undated (includes facsimiles); box 44.
Series 14. Glass Plate Negatives; undated; box 45.
Series 15. Oversize Material; 1774-1964, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 46-52 and map cabinet 1, drawer 19.
Many items were transferred to the Printed Ephemera Collection, including "Mark Twain's Family in Early History of West Virginia," by Robert Harrison Ferguson, A.M. Superintendent Mason County Schools, Point Pleasant, West Virginia (see P8616 in the Printed Ephemera Collection).
An original letter from T.J. Jackson to Laura Ann Jackson Arnold, 26 October 1847, from Mexico City, Mexico, has been separated to the rare signature collection, A&M 435.
Five original letters have been separated from Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers to A&M 435. These are original manuscript letters authored by William McKinley, Rutherford B. Hayes, George McClellan, John S. Mosby, and Louis Philippe, and an original typescript letter from Theodore Roosevelt.
"Front Elevation of Lunatic Asylum, West of the Alleghany Mountains", "R. Snowden Andrews, Architect, Baltimore, MD" (1859; 12 1/2 in. x 49 in.) separated to A&M 4071, Weston State Hospital.
Most photographs in this collection have been separated and digitized -- see scope and content note for link to photographs in West Virginia History OnView. Two of the photos were separated to A&M 4168, Panoramic Photos Collection: Sheltering Arms Hosptial and Kanawha Falls.
Lists of separated materials in the following categories can be found in the control folder: Broadsides & Programs, Newspapers/Periodicals, Circulars & West Virginia Pamphlets, and Maps.
Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.
This series includes correspondence, business papers, and biographical notes of Samuel L. Hays, his son Peregrine, and the Hays family of Gilmer County. Subjects include: the formation of Gilmer, Calhoun, Roane, and Upshur Counties; the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850; "Stonewall" Jackson's boyhood; early frontier conditions in the Wisconsin Territory; immigration, farming, milling, and land speculation in Minnesota, 1857-1870; Charleston and Braxton turnpike; slave sales; Early's Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864; conditions in Richmond during the Civil War pertaining to livestock, tobacco, and cotton trade; the West Virginia Capitol question, 1877; and the Senatorial contest, 1876. Correspondents include J.M. Bennett, Louis Bennett, John Brannon, Gideon Camden, J.N. Camden, William P. Cooper, H. G. Davis, John J. Davis, Spencer Dayton, John S. Hoffman, William L. Jackson, John E. Kenna, Theodore Lang, and George W. Silcott. [note: not all of the subjects and personal names listed for series 1 were verified during reprocessing]
This series includes military records pertaining to the 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Confederate States Army. Military records include personnel papers (regarding death, desertion, and discharge), financial papers (receipts, inventories, etc.), judicial materials (charges and courts martial), correspondence, orders, a company book, muster rolls, etc. The series also includes maps, clippings, photographs, research correspondence, manuscript and typescript writings pertaining to the 31st Virginia Infantry of the Confederate States Army, and the correspondence and papers of D.C. Gallaher. D.C. Gallaher collected some of this material on the 31st regiment, which later came into the hands of Roy Bird Cook. For additional D.C. Gallaher material, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks 26-28, Civil War I-III.
Military correspondence and orders include letters from J.M. Bennett, G. D. Camden Jr. and Sr., W.P. Cooper, John W. Daniel, Cyrus Hall, John S. Hoffman, A.H. Jackson, William L. Jackson, and William Smith. Additional correspondence includes letters to Roy Bird Cook pertaining to the regiment. Military orders are from the Army of Northern Virginia, the Army of Northwestern Virginia, Early's Division, and the 31st Virginia Infantry. Typescript writings include material related to soldiers and Civil War activities in Pocahontas, Upshur, and Lewis Counties; "A History of the Thirty-First Virginia Regiment Volunteers C.S.A." by James Dell Cooke of WVU (1955); copies of W.P. [William Pope] Cooper diaries, letters, etc.; and "Material Pertaining to Civil War Soldiers [Most of Whom Fought in the 31st Regiment, Virginia Infantry]" (ca. 1926-1940).
Please note, typescript copies of some of the original material in box 2, folders 1-9 can be found in box 3, folders 10-14.
For additional records of the 31st Virginia Infantry, see also: Series 15, Oversize Material -- 31st Virginia Infantry, boxes 49-51; and A&M 1528 Series 6, Military Records, and Series 9, Oversized.
This series includes correspondence (box 4) and personal papers of Roy Bird Cook (box 5).
Correspondence includes mainly incoming invitations, letters, photo postcards, clippings, etc. Topics include: T.J. (Stonewall) Jackson; comments on several books (including 'Lee the American' by Gamaliel Bradford, 'Lewis County in the Civil War' by Cook, and 'They Called Him Stonewall' by Burke Davis); various areas of West Virginia history; family histories (notably of the Peterson and Rhea families); Civil War participants (e.g. General Jubal A. Early); the Civil War Round Table, Incorporated; the Jackson House (in letters from Isabel Arnold); Ann Bailey; George Washington's Ohio River trip; an exploration by James Patton; material on Fred Fousse, a Civil War illustrator; and biographical material on Roy Bird Cook.
Correspondents include: Thomas Perkins Abernathy (Corcoran School of History, University of Virginia), Holmes M. Alexander, Isabel Arnold (descendent of Stonewall Jackson's sister Laura, who married an Arnold), Thomas J. Arnold, John Bakeless, Albert J. Beveridge, Edward Bok, Alva J.C. Bond (Dean Emeritus, School of Theology, Alfred University), Gamaliel Bradford, Senator Harry F. Byrd, Lenoir Chambers, Dr. Earl L. Core, Burke Davis, Ruth Woods Dayton, H.A. DuPont, Douglas Southall Freeman, Granville Davisson Hall, Dr. Matthew S. Holt (father of Rush D. Holt), Jay W. Johns (President, Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Incorporated), Harnett T. Kane, John A. Klein (Adjutant General of the United States), Dr. O.D. Lambert, Foreman M. Lebold, Eli Lilly, Henry T. McDonald (President, Storer College), Clarence W. Meadows (former Governor), Meade Minnigerode, Judge Ben Moore, Oren F. Morton, Drew Pearson, Mrs. Randolph (Julia J.) Preston (Stonewall Jackson's granddaughter), Frederick F. Seely (Department of English, Allegheny College), Lawrence Sherwood, Kenneth Stuart (Art Editor, 'The Saturday Evening Post'), Boyd B. Stutler, Allen Tate, Albert Payson Terhune, Cecil H. Underwood, and John W. Wayland.
Personal papers include photographs of Cook and scrapbook-style notebooks containing correspondence, printed materials, and ephemera from Cook's life. Topics include Cook's time in school, American Pharmaceutical Association meetings, Cook's honorary LL.D. awarded by West Virginia University, his Kiwanis Personal Achievement Award, and an attempted burglary at his home.
Additional correspondence to and from Cook, writings by Cook, etc. can be found throughout the collection. For Cook family genealogy and other Cook material, see Series 8, Bound Notebook 67, Cook-Bird-Hull-Conrad Papers, and Series 15, Oversize Material.
This series includes manuscript originals and facsimiles, newspaper and magazine clippings, typescripts, and printed items regarding Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia businesses, Geary Securities Company (see also Series 15, Oversize Material), book reviews and excerpts, West Virginia elections, the West Virginia Capitol and capital city, and the history of West Virginia.
For material that was separated from this series, see Series 15, Oversize Material, box 47, folders 3 and 8.
Includes original and facsimile clippings on: the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston; Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Mill at Richwood; horse-powered boat "Adventurer" built at Coatsmouth [Coalsmouth?] in 1840s; facsimile, top of page 1, Parkersburg's West Virginia Walking Beam, vol. 2, no. 13 [October 9, 1880]; old grist mills; "The Story of Salt," illustrated; Gatts Mound [at Cresap]; covered bridges; Hinkle Fort, Pendleton County, illustrated; the Mercer Grant, Mason County; Bailey's Hotel, Weston; early history of the 'Weston Democrat'; Harman Blennerhassett naturalization papers, Wood County court records; Blennerhassett episode--depositions of John Graham and Alex. Henderson, also J. Graham letter to Henderson; the Philippi Bar of the 1880s; doubts about Morgan, first white settler in West Virginia; Teays River; Spanish War Vets Convention, Weston; erosion, Canaan Valley and Blackwater Falls, illustrated; the Greenbrier Hotel in 1908; Fairfax survey map and Lower Shenandoah Valley Settlement; Selby House, Shepherdstown; Claudius Crozet; delegates to Commercial Convention in Memphis; list of U.S. Navy ships with West Virginia names; Old Richards Fort, Harrison County; John L. Cole; George Rogers Clark; etc.;
This series includes individual and family papers (manuscript and typescript letters, clippings, images, etc.) of West Virginians; manuscript and typescript letters, clippings, commissions, etc. regarding the Civil War, West Virginia politics, and other topics; a manuscript roll book of a Confederate sergeant (1862); and two manuscript Civil War diaries (Confederate diary: 1864; Union diary: 1864-1865).
The individual and family papers include material related to the Barney, Bennett, Boyle, Cook, Jackson, Broun, Burner, Camden, Keister, McCausland, Quarrier, Laidley, Ruffner, Tavenner, Tompkins, and O'Neill families, among others; and material related to Mordecai Levi, J.A.J. Lightburn, James C. McFarland, Major T.P. Moore, John Morgan, Francis H. Pierpont, Adam See, Colonel William C. Tavenner, William Tompkins, and Robert E. Lee, among others. Topics of the family and individual papers include family matters, genealogy, business, and the Civil War. Mordecai Levi (1835-1914) invented the first method of brick paving in the U.S. and was an early paver of Charleston, WV. His papers include facsimile and original typescripts and correspondence, official documents, clippings, and other material [1871-1890, 1914-1974, undated].
Correspondence (mostly original letters) regarding the Civil War, West Virginia politics, and other letters includes the following correspondents, among others: John Echols, William McKinley, Rutherford B. Hayes, George McClellan, Harman Blennerhassett, Lawrence A. Washington, Louis Philippe (King of France), Joseph Johnson (Governor of Virginia), and John Letcher (Governor of Virginia), among others. Original letters from McKinley, Hayes, McClellan, Louis Philippe, and Theodore Roosevelt have been separated to A&M 435.
Includes facsimiles of biographic and genealogical clippings on: John Henry and writing of the ballad; Judge Ben Wheeler Moore; Lydia Boggs [Shepherd] Cruger/Kruger [also includes typescript]; John Henry Shaw; J.E. Hanger; Caroline Beeghley; Captain Jackson Everson [Apperson]; William Henry Tappey Squires; [Josias] Hanson Link [family] [includes Captain Leib's description of Clarksburg during Civil War period]; Colonel Benjamin J. Wilson; Donnally family; Clendennin family; Huddleston family; Herold family; White family.
Includes facsimiles of biographic and genealogical clippings on: Willa Hood Strickler [first female pharmacist in the state]; Prof. Milton W. Humphreys; S.B. Elkins; Boyd Stutler; Hu Maxwell; Nathan Goff Jr.; Renick family and Calvin Brown Renick; John Champe; General Hugh Mercer; and Francis Marion Franklin Smith [typescript]. Also includes miscellaneous topics, such as: West Virginia newspaper editors and publications; reburial of Chief Cornstalk's remains; Jama Shamoon, Fairmont resident in camp of Pancho Villa; road from Monterey to Pocahontas County, 1781-1782; Robert Crain and Margaret Bennett, daughter of Judge W.G. Bennett, wedding in Weston; campaign ribbon, W.G. Bennett for Governor; and Mrs. Lewis Bennett's donation of uniform, medals, etc. of her son, Lieutenant Lewis B. Jr., to the National Museum in Washington, D.C.
Contains clippings on various subjects, including: General Cox's message to the people of Charleston, General Orders, No. 8, Headquarters, District of the Kanawha, Elk River, July 25, 1861; Scary Creek battlefield [includes map]; Confederate money in Stockholm, Sweden; Capture of Steamboat "Levi" [General Eliakim P. Scammon], illustrated; Hawk's Nest incident [1862]; Kanawha Valley [includes map, photo of General Wise, copy of 1861 broadside "Men of Virginia! Men of the Kanawha! To Arms!"]; Lightburn's Retreat, Kanawha Valley 1862, illustrated; occupation of Charleston by Union Troops in 1861; "Fort Hill" Charleston, illustrated; Colonel George S. Patton and the "Kanawha Riflemen," illustrated; "The Dixie Rifles," Beuhring H. Jones, and the burning of Gauley Bridge, illustrated; Duskey's Raid on Ripley, illustrated; Wise's retreat from the Kanawha [includes map, illustrated].
Includes clippings on various subjects, such as: Hart residence and Rich Mountain battlefield, illustrated; monument to Gus Bailey of Fayette County; West Virginia's Generals in Gray, illustrated; Clarksburg, 1861, illustrated; role of the 'Wheeling Intelligencer' in the birth of West Virginia; Isaac J. Settle's Diary; preparing for action on the Kanawha, illustrated; Old Jack and Old Jube; list of issues of 'The Confederate Veteran' that have a West Virginia interest history of Company B, 14th West Virginia Infantry; "Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864" painting; etc. Also includes stamps and an envelope regarding the Centennial of the Philippi Covered Bridge in 1952.
Diary describes: marches and engagements in Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia [including Greenbrier, Berkeley, and Jefferson County]; casualties and ordnance losses in various engagements; towns on route of march; desertions from the company; and reports of the movement and engagements of other units [Confederate and Union] [May 6, 1864-October 11, 1864]. Engagement sites include: Winchester and Fisher's Hill, 1st Brigadier General Breckenridge's Division, September 19 and 22; New Market, May 15, Confederate General John C. Breckenridge, Union General Seigle [sic: Sigel]; east of Atlee's Station, May 29-31 and June 1; Chickhominey River, Coal Harbor, June 2-3; near Lynchburg, June 18; near Salem, June 21; Frederick City, MD, July 9; between Purcellville and Snickerville, July 16; on the Shenandoah near Snicker's Gap, July 18; near Kerntown, July 24; near Charles Town, August 21; Berryville Road, September 4; near Winchester, September 19; Brown's Gap Road, September 26 [all 1864]. Martinsburg entries: July 4, 26, 27, 28-30, and August 7, 1864; Charlestown August 23, 1864. Last pages of diary list towns and countries traveled through, and distance traveled from May 6 - August 31, 1864.
Diary includes: descriptions of various engagements and maneuvers preceding Ellis' capture at Cedar Creek; names of men serving with Ellis who were wounded, discharged, deserters, etc.; description of living conditions at Camp Salisbury, NC; number of Federal prisoners joining the Confederate Army; number of deaths; and rations received. West Virginia counties in which the regiment saw action: Greenbrier, Mineral, Monroe, Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan, Kanawha, Fayette, Raleigh, and Mercer. Ellis' location as mentioned in various entries in 1864: Ridgeville [Mineral County?], Hancock [MD?], "Rebs reported at Peterson's Creek" [Pattersons Creek, Mineral County?] on February 2; fight at New Creek [Mineral County] on February 3; "Alpine Depot, Morgan Co. [Morgan County] West Virginia" on April 1; other April entries mention Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Ravenswood, Pomeroy [OH], Charleston; Camp Piatt [?] Kanawha County on April 26; May entries mention Fayette County, Raleigh County, and Mercer County [captured Fort Breckenridge at Princeton, May 6]; Monroe County on May 13; New River on May 10; Lewisburg on May 22; White Sulphur Springs on June 2; Fayette County on June 20; Camp Piatt on July 1; Clarksburg on July 9; Piedmont on July 10; Martinsburg on July 11; Harpers Ferry on July 15; Libby Prison on November 1; Salisbury, NC on November 4. For a typescript copy of the diary, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks, box 16, Notebook 1.
This series includes correspondence, military orders, battle reports, legal documents, clippings, typescripts, print material, ephemera, photographs, and other material. Topics include T.J. Jackson's military service, his time as constable of Lewis County, his entrance into West Point, his application for position on the faculty of University of Virginia, the Jackson and Arnold families, memorial busts and statues of Jackson, Jackson biographies, etc.
Also includes personal belongings of Jackson and associated memorabilia, such as Stonewall Jackson souvenir or commemorative coins and medals, and hair from the tail of Jackson's horse, Old Sorrel.
Also includes letters, pension documents, clippings, and financial statements of Mary Anna Jackson, T.J. Jackson's wife. Topics include family life and books written by Mrs. Jackson about her daughter and her husband.
For additional memorabilia, sheet music, newspapers, and images related to T.J. Jackson, see Series 14, Glass Plate Negatives, and Series 15, Oversize Material. For other Jackson materials, see also Series 8, Bound Notebooks.
This series includes unbound pamphlets and reprints of articles, as well as articles written by Roy Bird Cook. Topics include the history of Virginia and West Virginia, and the Civil War, among others.
This series includes typescripts, correspondence, clippings, genealogies, maps, ephemera, pamphlets, articles, photographs, and other material.
Prominent subjects include T.J. Jackson and his family, and the Civil War.
Material about T.J. Jackson includes articles and pamphlets about his life and military service; letters to, from, and about him; court records and legal documents regarding Jackson and his family; images of Jackson, Jackson's Mill, Jackson statues and memorials; reviews of books written about him, including Cook's 'The Family and Early Life of Stonewall Jackson'; and other items. Prominent Jackson family members include Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Colonel George Jackson, and Thomas Jackson Arnold. (Notebooks prominently featuring T.J. Jackson and his family include 2, 2A-2K, 4, 7, 9, 13, 23, 24, 32, 37, 38, 38A, 39, and 56.)
Civil War materials include historical sketches of battles; originals and copies of soldiers' diaries, journals, and letters; historical sketches and rosters of companies and regiments; articles and narratives about life during the Civil War; etc.
Additional subjects include genealogy, West Virginia history, prominent individuals, the Virginia Military Institute, Weston newspapers, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the West Virginia Commission on Historic Markers.
Genealogical subjects include the Jackson, Neale, Arnold, Camden, Newlon, Sprigg, Williams, Ruffner, Hamilton, Holt, Byrne, Cook, Bird, Hull, and Conrad families, among others (Notebooks 2D, 42, 43, 48, 55, 67, and others).
West Virginia history subjects include Kanawha County Court records; Lewis County; Weston; Charleston; colonial and Civil War history of West Virginia; George Washington's travels and surveys in and around West Virginia; the Kanawha River, valley, and surrounding area; Blennerhassett Island; Wood County; and Parkersburg.
Prominent individuals include Andrew Jackson, Judge Nicholas Fitzhugh, Henrietta Fitzhugh Barr, Granville Davisson Hall, Jonathan McCally Bennett and the Bennett family, Colonel John Stuart, General Albert Jenkins, David Creigh, Mason Mathews, Henry F. Westfall, John Valley Young and family, Thomas Bland Camden, Johnson Newlon Camden, Daniel Boone, Harman Blennerhassett, John Esten Cooke, Colonel George Jackson, and Alexander Scott Withers, among others.
Correspondents include T.J. Jackson, members of the Bennett family, Charles W. Dabney, Douglas Southall Freeman, Thomas Jackson Arnold, Lyman C. Draper, Boyd B. Stutler, and Roy Bird Cook, among others.
For additional materials on David Creigh, see A&M 2201, Preston Family Papers, Box 1.
The contents of the notebooks are described to the item level in the Contents List.
These items level descriptions are preceded with the items' genre and format in brackets.
article (from magazine or journal)
clipping (usually from newspaper)
ephemera
pamphlet
photo
typescript
ms [manuscript] letter
ts [typescript] letter
other
original
transcription
copy (for photocopies and other facsimiles)
Transcriptions are dated by creation date of the transcription, not the original.
Copies are dated by creation date of original.
[ephemera and photo; original] invitation to the dedication of the equestrian statue of Jackson and Lee in Baltimore, two tickets to the dedication, and a photo of the statue
[ts letters; transcription] letters regarding T.J. Jackson's appointment as a cadet at Military Academy (This record describes a set of typescript letters transcribed from originals.)
[other; copy] T.J. Jackson's appointment as Brevet Second Lieutenant (This record describes a facsimile of an official appointment document.)
List of Bound Notebooks in Series 8:
Notebook 1 - Civil War Diary of James F. Ellis, Corporal, Company B, 15th (West) Virginia - Box 16
Notebook 2 - Jackson Letters - Box 16
Notebook 2A-K - Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers, volumes 1-11 - Boxes 16-20
Notebook 3 - Index to 1st-2nd-3rd Biennial Reports, Dept. of Archives and History, 1906-1911 - Box 20
Notebook 4 - Douglas Freeman, Historian - Box 20
Notebook 5A - Kanawha County Court Records, 1788-1803 (contains typescript transcriptions) - Box 20
Notebook 5B - Kanawha County Court Records, 1825-1831 (contains typescript transcriptions) - Box 21
Notebook 6 - Fitzhugh (bio of Judge Nicholas Fitzhugh and diary of Henrietta Fitzhugh Barr) - Box 21
Notebook 7 - Thomas Jackson Arnold Letters (includes letters from TJA to Roy Bird Cook) - Box 21
Notebook 8 - Granville Davisson Hall Papers - Box 21
Notebook 9 - Jackson Papers (includes many items once held by Mrs. Jackson) - Box 22
Notebook 10 - Weston Newspapers (includes material from 1800s) - Box 22
Notebook 11 - Bennett Papers (re J.M. Bennett and the Bennett family; see also Notebook 44) - Box 22
Notebook 12 - Pioneer Sketches of Lewis County (By Roy Bird Cook) - Box 22
Notebook 13 - Jackson's Mill (contains thesis 'The Pioneer State 4-H Camp: Jackson's Mill') - Box 23
Notebook 14 - B&O Railroad (extracts from dissertation re B&O in the Civil War by Festus Summers) - Box 23
Notebook 15 - Lewis County (historical sketches by Robert L. Bland of 'The Weston Democrat' ca. 1920) - Box 23
Notebook 16 - Oliver Letters (contains newspaper column re history of Weston, 1892) - Box 23
Notebook 17 - Vandalia (contains typescript re the Ohio Land Company and George Washington) - Box 23
Notebook 18 - Narrative of Colonel John Stuart of Greenbrier, 1798 (incl. info. on Indian wars) - Box 23
Notebook 19 - A.J. Volck Confederate Sketches - see Series 13
Notebook 20 - West Virginia Index (incl. material related to work of Commission on Historic Markers) - Box 23
Notebook 21 - West Virginia Review Index (incl. list of articles by RBC, and TOC for 1923-1942) - Box 24
Notebook 22 - Charleston Typescripts (regarding local history) - Box 24
Notebook 23 - Stonewall Jackson Pamphlets, number 1 - Box 25
Notebook 24 - Stonewall Jackson Pamphlets, number 2 - Box 25
Notebook 25 - General Albert Jenkins, Confederate States Army (incl. biographical information) - Box 25
Notebook 26 - Civil War I (mostly typescripts re various topics connected to the Civil War) - Box 26
Notebook 27 - Civil War II - Box 26
Notebook 28 - Civil War III - Box 27
Notebook 29 - 'West Virginia' by Colonel Robert White (part of volume 2 of a series) - Box 27
Notebook 30 - Mason Mathews Collection (notebook pp. 1-19; transcription of Civil War letters) - Box 27
Notebook 30 - Alkire Collection (pp. 20-49; trans. of Civil War scrapbooks made by Marcia Phillips) - Box 27
Notebook 30 - Diary of Henry F. Westfall (pp. 50-92; incl. typescript copy of Civil War diary) - Box 27
Notebook 31 - Young Family Civil War Papers - Box 27
Notebook 32 - Stonewall Jackson (includes mostly articles about Stonewall Jackson) - Box 28
Notebook 33 - Civil War, No. 3 - Box 28
Notebook 34 - Civil War, No. 4 - Box 28
Notebook 35 - Civil War, No. 5 - Box 28
Notebook 36 - Civil War, No. 6 - Box 29
Notebook 37 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29
Notebook 38 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29
Notebook 38A - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 29
Notebook 39 - Stonewall Jackson (includes articles and pamphlets regarding T.J. Jackson) - Box 30
Notebook 40 - Civil War--Camden (contains Civil War recollections by Thomas B. Camden) - Box 30
Notebook 41 - Johnson Newlon Camden - Box 31
Notebook 42 - Camden-Newlon-Sprigg-Williams Papers (genealogies) - Box 31
Notebook 43 - Camden Papers - Box 31
Notebook 44 - Bennett Papers (thesis re Civil War, VA Politics, and J. Bennett; see Notebk. 11) - Box 32
Notebook 45 - West Virginia Sketch Book I (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 32
Notebook 46 - West Virginia Sketch Book II (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 32
Notebook 47 - West Virginia Sketch Book III (contains historical sketches, etc.; includes TOC) - Box 33
Notebook 48 - Ruffner Kanawha Valley Scrap Book - Box 33
Notebook 49 - Romance of the Kanawha (scrapbook contains maps, clippings, letters, etc.) - Box 33
Notebook 50 - Daniel Boone--Early Kanawha Valley (material re D. Boone and General A. Lewis) - Box 34
Notebook 51 - Lewis County Sketch Book I - Box 34
Notebook 52 - Lewis County Sketch Book II - Box 34
Notebook 53 - Weston--Lewis County (scrapbook includes mostly newspaper clippings) - Box 35
Notebook 54 - Blennerhassett - Box 35
Notebook 55 - Hamilton-Holt-Byrne-Newlon - Box 35
Notebook 56 - Colonel George Jackson and Family - Box 35
Notebook 57 - Washington Papers (includes copies of maps of land owned by GW) - Box 36
Notebook 58 - Washington Papers - Box 36
Notebook 59 - Washington Papers (includes material regarding Fort Dearborn) - Box 36
Notebook 60 - Cooke Papers (includes many articles written by John Esten Cooke) - Box 37
Notebook 61 - Washington Papers - Box 37
Notebook 62 - Washington Papers - Box 38
Notebook 63 - Washington Papers - Box 38
Notebook 64 - Washington Papers - Box 38
Notebook 65 - West Virginia Archaeology - Box 38
Notebook 66 - 'Wood County Formation' by Alvaro F. Gibbens - Box 39
Notebook 67A - Jackson VMI (contains Board of Visitors report, July 1863) - Box 39
Notebook 67 - Cook-Bird-Hull-Conrad Papers - Box 39
Notebook 68 - Kanawha County - Box 40
Notebook 69 - Hardesty's Lewis County (incl. Lewis, Barbour, and Upshur Counties) - Box 40
Notebook 70 - Alexander Scott Withers (author of 'Chronicles of Border Warfare') - Box 40
This series includes diaries, lists, clippings, and pamphlets regarding Civil War experiences, music, battles, etc.; medical practice in (West) Virginia in the 1850s; and U.S. Presidents. The typescript copies of diaries relate to the years just before, during, and after the Civil War.
This series includes typescripts, pamphlets, prescriptions, account statements, advertisements, correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, and other material. Topics include the James H. Rogers Drug Store and other drug stores in Charleston, WV; Dr. Henry Rogers and other Charleston pharmacists; medicines of the mid to late 1800s; the 1960 meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association; West Virginia pharmacists' World War II service; and the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association (now known as the West Virginia Pharmacists Association).
This series includes typescripts, pamphlets, magazine and journal articles, clippings, and correspondence regarding the history of the medical profession in West Virginia, including James Edward Hanger (first amputee soldier of the Civil War and founder of a prosthetics company), Dr. J.L. Miller (collector of medical material); and Dr. W.P. King.
This series includes pamphlets of original and reprinted articles regarding various pharmacists and the history of pharmacy. Also included are three bound volumes of material pertaining to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.
This series includes correspondence, a magazine, typescripts, and clippings related to Adalbert J. Volck. Also included are copies of 29 etchings by Volck regarding Civil War topics.
This series includes six glass plate negatives of T.J. Jackson portraits and Jackson's Mill.
This series is divided into two subseries, general material and material of the 31st Virginia Infantry.
This subseries includes memorabilia, sheet music, newspapers, and images related to T.J. Jackson, the Civil War, and Jackson's Mill. For additional T.J. Jackson material, see also Series 6, Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Papers; Series 8, Bound Notebooks; and Series 14, Glass Plate Negatives.
Also included are family trees, maps, ephemera, clippings, Confederate bonds, and military records, among other material. Family trees show the genealogy of the Lee, Cook, Washington, and Cable families. Subjects of the maps include various counties in West Virginia; Civil War battles and troop movements; Charleston, WV; the Kanawha River; the Coal River; and George Washington's travels and surveys; among other subjects.
This subseries includes semi-monthly reports; lost or destroyed property reports; captains' monthly returns; abstracts of monthly payments and stationery issued; lists of officers; payroll and clothing distribution records; descriptive lists and accounting of pay and clothing records; morning reports; and muster rolls. The bulk of the material pertains to the 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Digitized copies of these items can be found online (see link in Instances).
See also, Series 2, Records of the 31st Virginia Infantry.