Search Results
- IDNO:
- 039089
- Title:
- Union General John Fremont
- Date:
- ca.1861
- Description:
- Fremont was given command of the Mountain Department in Western Virginia in early 1862. He resign his post in the Fall of 1862.
- IDNO:
- 039090
- Title:
- Union General Franz Sigel
- Date:
- ca. 1862
- Description:
- Sigel commanded the Federal forces in the Shenandoah Valley during the Spring of 1864, with many West Virginia units under him. After his defeat at New Market, Virginia, Sigel was reassigned to the Department of West Virginia, protecting the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
- IDNO:
- 039091
- Title:
- Union General Robert H. Milroy
- Date:
- ca. 1862
- Description:
- Milroy commanded the Cheat Mountain District in 1861, losing his first battle at Camp Allegheny. He surprised Stonewall Jackson at the Battle of McDowell in early May of 1862, inflicting heavy casualties.
- IDNO:
- 039092
- Title:
- Union General William S. Rosecrans
- Date:
- ca.1862
- Description:
- Rosecrans was responsible for several Union victories including the Battle of Rich Mountain during the Summer of 1861 in Randolph County, Virginia (West Virginia).
- IDNO:
- 039093
- Title:
- Union Army Second Lieutenant John Hinebaugh, Company D, 6th West Virginia Cavalry, from Preston County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca.1862
- Description:
- Inscription at the bottom of the image, "Yours ... John Hinebough". The 6th West Virginia Cavalry served in the mountains and the eastern panhandle of West Virginia during the war.
- IDNO:
- 039094
- Title:
- Staff and Warden Martin Luther Brown of Moundsville Penitentiary, Moundsville, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1912
- Description:
- Warden Brown is first on the left. Others, staff members at the state prison, are not identified.
- IDNO:
- 039095
- Title:
- Guards and Inmates of Moundsville Penitentiary at Work in Fields, Moundsville, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1914
- Description:
- Inmates work clearing a field, while two men, probably staff at the state prison, watch from a buggy. None of the subjects are identified.
- IDNO:
- 039096
- Title:
- Inmates and Staff at Moundsville Penitentiary, Moundsville, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca.1912
- Description:
- Group portrait of several unidentified inmates standing on a brick paved street on the state prison grounds. Two men standing at each end, wearing suits, are probably staff. None of the subjects are identified.
- IDNO:
- 039097
- Title:
- Interior of Moundsville Penitentiary, Moundsville, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca.1912
- Description:
- Unidentified guard stands on the second level of cells inside the state prison.
- IDNO:
- 039098
- Title:
- Former Slave William Stewart and Linnie May Slaughter, Morgantown, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1932
- Description:
- William Stewart, from Petersburg, Virginia was a slave during the Antebellum and Civil War Era. He moved to Morgantown after 1900 and worked for the Moreland family. He died in 1934.
- IDNO:
- 039099
- Title:
- Moundsville Penitentiary, Moundsville, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca.1912
- Description:
- Exterior of the state prison in Marshall County.
- IDNO:
- 039100
- Title:
- Moundsville Penitentiary, Moundsville, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1912
- Description:
- Exterior of state prison, including the five foot thick prison walls.
