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5 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)--History.

  1. Ezra Ayers Carman papers, 1861-1909

    1,500 items. 25 containers plus 2 oversize. 10 linear feet. 2 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    United States Army officer, civil servant, and author. Holograph drafts of chapters, plus maps, correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, and printed matter comprising Carman’s book file for his history of the American Civil War.

  2. Philip Henry Sheridan papers, 1853-1896

    18,000 items. 120 containers plus 1 oversize. 46.4 linear feet. 104 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Army officer. Correspondence, letterbooks, telegrams, writings, reports, orders, financial records, scrapbooks, and other papers relating primarily to the Civil War, Reconstruction, Mexican border disputes, Indian wars, and Sheridan's service as commanding general of the army.

  3. Nathaniel Prentiss Banks papers, 1829-1911

    50,000 items. 110 containers plus 3 oversize. 44.5 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    United States representative, governor of Massachusetts, and army officer. Family and general correspondence, diaries and notebooks, letterbooks, military papers, speeches and writings, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, and miscellany relating chiefly to Banks’s political career and as an army officer during the Civil War.

  4. Alvah H. Granniss papers, 1861-1907

    150 items. 1 container plus 1 artifact. 0.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Soldier. Correspondence, including originals and typescripts of letters, poems and a song, envelopes, printed matter, artifacts, and other material relating chiefly to Granniss's Civil War service with the First Connecticut Cavalry Regiment.

  5. John Carvel Arnold papers, 1856-1937

    190 items. 1 container. .4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Laborer and Union soldier. Principally correspondence of Arnold with his wife, Mary Ann Arnold, while he served in the 49th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the Civil War, and Mary Ann Arnold's postwar correspondence with their children.