<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><ead xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 https://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"><eadheader countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" langencoding="iso639-2b" repositoryencoding="iso15511"><eadid countrycode="US" mainagencycode="US-WvMtURHC" url="https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/199347">A&amp;M 4360</eadid><filedesc><titlestmt><titleproper>Margaret Hersman, Collector, Memoirs of Confederate Soldiers <num>A&amp;M 4360</num></titleproper><author>Laureen Wilson</author></titlestmt><publicationstmt><publisher>West Virginia and Regional History Center</publisher><p id="logostmt"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://host.lib.wvu.edu/images/logos/wvrhc.jpg" xlink:show="embed" xlink:type="simple"/></p><address><addressline>1549 University Ave. </addressline><addressline> P.O. Box 6069 </addressline><addressline>Morgantown, WV 26506-6069</addressline><addressline>Business Number: 304-293-3536</addressline><addressline>wvrhcref@westvirginia.libanswers.com</addressline><addressline>URL: <extptr xlink:href="https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu" xlink:show="new" xlink:title="https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu" xlink:type="simple"/></addressline></address></publicationstmt></filedesc><profiledesc><creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2025-08-30 08:11:52 -0400</date>.</creation><langusage>Description is written in: <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English, Latin script</language>.</langusage><descrules>Describing Archives: A Content Standard</descrules></profiledesc></eadheader><archdesc level="collection">
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    <unittitle>Margaret Hersman, Collector, Memoirs of Confederate Soldiers</unittitle>
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      <persname role="aut" source="ingest">Gallaher, DeWitt Clinton,  1845-1926</persname>
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      <persname role="aut" rules="local" source="local">Dewees, Daniel S.</persname>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1945/1945">1945</unitdate>
    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1904/1904">1904</unitdate>
    <abstract id="aspace_96639fdf6a09fcc3b9b2272bde0b8fee">Two autobiographical publications by West Virginians who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War: "A Diary Depicting the Experiences of DeWitt Clinton Gallagher in The War Between the States While Serving in the Confederate Army" (1945) and "Recollections of a Life Time" by Colonel Daniel S. DeWees (ca. 1904). See "Scope and Contents" for further information.</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Margaret Hersman, Collector, Memoirs of Confederate Soldiers, A&amp;M 4360, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Two autobiographical publications by West Virginians who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The first, entitled "A Diary Depicting the Experiences of DeWitt Clinton Gallagher in The War Between the States While Serving in the Confederate Army", is the compilation of Gallagher's memo books and related fragments, which were then transcribed and published by his son in 1945. Gallagher was born in Jefferson County and later lived in Charleston, where he practiced law. The second, "Recollections of a Life Time", written and published by Daniel S. Dewees of Gilmer County, regards his service in the Confederate Army, local history, and genealogical information about early settler families in North-Central West Virginia. "Recollections" was published ca. 1904 when Dewees was in his eighties.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <subject source="local_LC">Civil War -- Confederate soldiers</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Civil War - veterans - Confederate.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Civil War soldiers - Confederate Army.</subject>
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