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The 31st Virginia Regiment, Confederate Army, included mostly soldiers from North-central Western Virginia (West Virginia).

1. Encampment of Artillery Unit Possibly in Thirty First Virginia Regiment During Civil War

Wagons and cannons parked at an encampment. Note the laundry hanging on a caisson in the foreground.

2. Possibly Artillery Unit in Thirty First Regiment, Confederate Army

An illustrated portrait of Elmer Ellsworth, Colonel of a New York Zouave Unit in the Union Army. A favorite friend of the Lincoln family, Ellsworth was killed by a Southern sympathizer, May, 1861 in Alexandria, Virginia.

3. Ellsworth, Elmer E. Colonel, Union Army

Portrait of George R. Boush of  Old Point Comfort, Va., a member of the Restored Government of Virginia's State Constitutional Convention held in Alexandria in 1864.

4. George R. Boush, Alexandria, Va.

Bliss was head of one of the largest army hospitals for wounded Union soldiers during the Civil War.

5. Dr. Willard Bliss, Surgeon in Charge, Armory Square Hospital, Washington D.C.

6. West Virginia University President Daniel B. Purinton

7. Portrait of Male Brooke Family Member

8. Portrait of Male Brooke Family Member

9. Portrait of Male Brooke Family Member

Signed 'My dear Brooke. Very truly your friend, Virginius Newton. (Friends at University of Virginia Law School 1867-1869).'

10. Portrait of Virginius Newton

Inscribed on back, 'This baby was named for my father---but no kin to him. A. B. Harold. He was St. George Brooke Tucker.'

11. Baby Named after St. George Brooke with African-American Nanny

Inscribed on back, 'Friend of St. George Tucker Brooke at University of Virginia Law School and Confederate Army.'

12. Friend of St. George Tucker Brooke

Inscribed on back, 'Friends of St. George Tucker Brooke. Taken while all were attending the University of Virginia Law School---and after all had been Confederate soldiers.'

13. Friends of St. George Tucker Brooke

14. George Perkins, a Brooke Family Friend

Portrait of Mary Jackson from the George W. Jackson family photo album.

15. Mary Jackson

Portrait of Elizabeth Jackson from the George W. Jackson family photo album.

16. Elizabeth Jackson

A portrait of French Ensor Chadwick about the time he graduated from the United States Naval Academy. Chadwick was subsequently promoted to Rear Admiral in 1904.

17. French Ensor Chadwick of Morgantown, W. Va.

A portrait of Baby Evelyn Stanley, seven months and eight days old, from the Ellison-Dunlap families collection, Monroe County.

18. Evelyn Stanley , For My Aunt Clara Ellison

19. Unidentified Mason Family Child

'Mrs. John L. Johnston; Died Feb. 1962'

20. Lucy B. (Johnson) Johnston