Download or read book History of Berkeley County West Virginia written by Willis Fryatt Evans and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virginia Counties written by Morgan Poitiaux Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seceding from Secession written by Eric J. Wittenberg and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thoroughly researched [and] historically enlightening” account of how the Commonwealth of Virginia split in two in the midst of war (Civil War News). “West Virginia was the child of the storm.” —Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran Maj. Theodore F. Lang As the Civil War raged, the northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union’s 35th state. Seceding from Secession chronicles those events in an unprecedented study of the social, legal, military, and political factors that converged to bring about the birth of West Virginia. President Abraham Lincoln, an astute lawyer in his own right, played a critical role in birthing the new state. The constitutionality of the mechanism by which the new state would be created concerned the president, and he polled every member of his cabinet before signing the bill. Seceding from Secession includes a detailed discussion of the 1871 U.S. Supreme Court decision Virginia v. West Virginia, in which former Lincoln cabinet member Salmon Chase presided as chief justice over the court that decided the constitutionality of the momentous event. Grounded in a wide variety of sources and including a foreword by Frank J. Williams, former Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and Chairman Emeritus of the Lincoln Forum, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in American history.
Download or read book West Virginia written by Otis Rice and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " An essential resource for scholars, students, and all lovers of the Mountaineer State. From bloody skirmishes with Indians on the early frontier to the Logan County mine war, the story of West Virginia is punctuated with episodes as colorful and rugged as the mountains that dominate its landscape. In this first modern comprehensive history, Otis Rice and Stephen Brown balance these episodes of mountaineer individualism against the complexities of industrial development and the growth of social institutions, analyzing the events and personalities that have shaped the state. To create this history, the authors weave together many strands from the past and present. Included among these are geological and geographical features; the prehistoric inhabitants; exploration and settlement; relations with the Indians; the land systems and patterns of ownership; the Civil War and the formation of the state from the western counties of Virginia; the legacy of Reconstruction; politics and government; industrial development; labor problems and advances; and cultural aspects such as folkways, education, religion, and national and ethnic influences. For this second edition, the authors have added a new chapter, bringing the original material up to date and carrying the West Virginia story through the presidential election of 1992. Otis K. Rice is professor emeritus of history and Stephen W. Brown is professor of history at West Virginia Institute of Technology.
Download or read book Sims Index to Land Grants in West Virginia written by West Virginia. Auditor's Office and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The land grants listed herein were made by Lord Fairfax prior to the creation of the Virginia Land Office; by the Commonwealth of Virginia, of lands now embracing the State of West Virginia; and, by the State of West Virginia, under its first Constitution."--Page [1].
Download or read book Grayback Mountaineers written by Harlan Hinkle and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-02-20 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I shall never, no never, forget that eventful night when accompanied by one courier, my Adjutant Edwards and Sergeant Major, both being wounded, I full of grief and bitterness, rode to the barns in our rear and saw with tears in my eyes, my brave fellows from away over the mountains in West Virginia, laid out in windrows, torn and bleeding. I shall never forget that night or the next morning's parade when I could muster but 96 enlisted men. Brave fellows, not a slave holder among them." Lt/Col. Vincent A. Witcher-34th Battalion Virginia Cavalry
Download or read book Bookstore Explorer written by Matt Browning and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of West Virginia's independent bookstores, featuring stories, photos, and firsthand essays and interviews with the state's literary luminaries like bestselling author Rajia Hassib, Poet Laureate Marc Harshman, former bookseller Gordon Simmons, and others. From the tips of the panhandles to the southern coalfields and everywhere in between, it's a literary journey throughout the Mountain State.
Download or read book West Virginia Revolutionary Ancestors written by Anne Waller Reddy and published by Southern Historical Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By: Anne Walker Reddy, Pub. 1936, Reprinted 2019, 94 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-414-X. This is a list of names of approximately 2,000 West Virginians whose Public Claims are on record in manuscripts at the Virginia State Library. Claims were registered for people who nursed the sick and wounded, fed the troops, furnished supplies, buried the dead, rode express, and manufactured firearms. This list was compiled for the benefit of those who desire to trace ancestors who gave service in the Revolutionary War but whose names do not appear in the published indexes and rolls of Revolutionary soldiers and sailors. This index to the Public Claims is particularly valuable, therefore, because it contains names of patriots whose services are recorded in no other place unless they rendered military as well as non-military service. Each patriot is identified by name and county of residence. At the back of the volume the researcher will find a selection of excerpts from Revolutionary Warrants taken from the records of Berkeley, Botetourt, Greenbrier, Hampshire, and Monogalia counties, Virginia.
Download or read book West Virginia and Its People written by Thomas Condit Miller and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The West Virginia Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Records Hampshire County Virginia written by and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1969 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis of: Wills from originals up to 1860, Grantee with acreage - location, wife's name and witnesses - grantor, Deeds up to 1800, Marriage records 1824-1828 and Alphabetical arrangement of State Census 1782 and 1784, Revolutionary soldiers pensions residing in the county 1835.
Download or read book They Went Thataway written by Charles Hughes Hamlin and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1974 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed almost entirely of abstracts of wills, deeds, marriage records, powers of attorney, court orders, church records, cemetery records, tax records, guardianship accounts, etc., this unique work provides substantive evidence of the migration of individuals and families to Virginia or from Virginia to other states, countries, or territories. Although primarily concerned with Virginians, the data are of wide-ranging interest. England, France, Germany, Scotland, Barbados, Jamaica, and twenty-three American states are represented, all entries splendidly tied to court sources and authorities. Each record provides prima facie evidence of places of origin and removal, irrefutably linking individuals to both their old and their new homes, and incidentally naming parents and kinsmen, all 10,000 of whom are listed in alphabetical order in the indexes. It is a safe observation that half of the records, having been exhumed from the most improbable sources (some augmented by the compiler's personal files), are the only ones in existence which can prove the ancestor's identity and origin.
Download or read book Genealogies of West Virginia Families written by West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarte and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wise's Eastern Shore of Virginia is a history of the counties of Accomack and Northampton; however, genealogists will be drawn to the book's numerous references to families prominent on the Eastern Shore and to the extensive lists of early settlers and patentees of land.
Download or read book Stewart Clan Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West Virginians in the American Revolution written by Ross B. Johnston and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revolutionary War soldiers identified in this work lived at one time or another in what is now the State of West Virginia, their military duties having been discharged in the service of other states, notably Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland. The data given for each soldier typically includes the name, age, date of birth, service record, date pension applied for and granted, place of residence, names of wife and children, and, in support of the pension claim, comrades-in-arms.
Download or read book Official Congressional Directory written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes maps of the U.S. Congressional districts.
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