West Virginia

Buena Vista map showing railways to Buena Vista and coking coal fields of Virginia and West Virginia by Hotchkiss, 1888

Item

Dates: 1888

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Henry Donald Campbell Map Collection

Cabinet Photograph of Unknown Mountain and Valley Scene

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0040

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one cabinet photo of a field and a creek bed with mountains in the distance. It is likely taken of Virginia or West Virginia.

Dates: 1880 - 1920

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Callaghan House Register

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0297

Scope and Contents

This register records the guests who visited the Callaghan House from 1866-1869. The many prominent signatures in the register include Robert E. Lee (September 3, 1868).

Dates: Inclusive 1866-1869

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Scope and Contents This collection contains principally wartime correspondence from John DeHart Ross to his wife, Agnes Reid Ross. The correspondence relates to action at the West Virginia front (Cheat Mt. campaign) in 1861-1862, Jackson's Valley campaign in 1862, Gettysburg in 1863, and the siege of Richmond in 1864-1865. It also includes one letter from Samuel McDowell Reid to Agnes Ross and one letter from Ross to his mother. Additionally there are photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and Ross...

Dates: Inclusive 1856-1912

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives