Search Results
- IDNO:
- 001153
- Title:
- Portrait of Unidentified Confederate Officer
- Date:
- ca. 1862
- Description:
- Bearded man wearing a dress uniform with dark trim, of a Confederate officer, and holding a sword.
- IDNO:
- 001280
- Title:
- Union Army Private Archibald H. Rowand Jr., in Confederate Uniform
- Date:
- ca. 1862
- Description:
- Private Archibald H. Rowand, Jr. of Company K, 1st West Virginia Cavalry. He became senior scout attached to the staff of Union General Phil Sheridan, and was awarded the Medal of Honor. See West Virginia Collection Pamphlet 6610 and Boyd Stutler's 'West Virginia in the Civil War.'
- IDNO:
- 033613
- Title:
- Steamboats Conveying Troops and Munitions of War for the Federal Forces on the Great Kanawha, Bell Air, OH.
- Date:
- ca. 1862
- Description:
- 'Library of Congress Negative Number: LC-USZ6Z-20525'
- IDNO:
- 039081
- Title:
- Maryland Heights Across Potomac River at Harpers Ferry, Va, (W. Va.)
- Date:
- ca. 1862
- Description:
- Maryland, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and a reconstructed Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge on the Potomac River as viewed from the Harpers Ferry cemetery. Note the head stones in the foreground and the smoke stack of the burned out United States Armory below. The photograph was taken during the Civil War.
- IDNO:
- 039085
- Title:
- Adjutant, First Sergeants and Drummer Boy of 22nd New York State Militia, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Va. (W. Va.)
- Date:
- ca. 1862
- Description:
- A group portrait of an adjutant of the regiment, front and center, with a young drummer boy on his left and flanked by several first sergeants during the Civil War. None of the subjects are identified.
- 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:
- 039106
- Title:
- Union General George McClellan
- Date:
- ca. 1862
- Description:
- McClellan commanded Federal troops in Western Virginia at the outbreak of the Civil War. After an initial victory at Rich Mountain and the Union's embarrassing defeat at Manassas, McClellan was given command of the Union Army of the Potomac.
- IDNO:
- 039119
- Title:
- Group Portrait of Union Army Officers During Civil War
- Date:
- ca. 1862
- Description:
- Unidentified officers, probably belonging to a West Virginia Regiment.
- IDNO:
- 039207
- Title:
- Union Corporal Jacob Pierpoint, 19th Indiana Vol. Regiment
- Date:
- ca. 1862
- Description:
- Pierpoint was originally from Morgantown, Virginia (later West Virginia. He was employed in Indiana at the start of the Civil War and enlisted in a Indiana regiment. His parents, also loyal to the Union, were still living in Morgantown. This cased image is probably an ambrotype.
- IDNO:
- 040438
- Title:
- Group Portrait of West Virginia Statehood Leaders
- Date:
- ca. 1862
- Description:
- Possible identifications includes, L to R: 1st-Arthur Boreman; 3rd-Andrew Wilson; 4th D.D.T. Farnsworth; 5th- Henry Dering; 6th- Gibson Cranmer.
- IDNO:
- 041551
- Title:
- Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War During Lincoln Administration 1862-1865
- Date:
- ca. 1862
- Description:
- Stanton stayed in close contact with Governors Pierpont and Boreman of the Restored Government of Virginia and West Virginia respectively, during the Civil War. Stanton supported West Virginia statehood and was aware of the need for a strong Union military presence in the region.
