0 Linear Feet, Summary: 1 reel of microfilm (ca. 500 items)
Creator
Caperton, William Gaston (1815-1852)
Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown,
WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Language
English
Abstract
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of: a Monroe County, West Virginia, farmer and politician; his wife, Harriette Boswell
Alexander; their daughters, Isabel and Alice Beulah; Alice's husband, Frank Hereford, U.S. senator from West Virginia; and
his daughter, Katherine Hereford Stoddard. There is one folder of business papers, 1820-1841, of Thomas Edgar; a few letters
from Caperton's son, John, while a cadet at the Camp of Instruction, Richmond, 1861; a folder of letters concerning Isabel's
trips through the American West, the British Isles, and Europe; and a folder on family genealogy. Subjects include mid-nineteenth
century life in Union, Monroe County; the excitement in Virginia following John Brown's raid; Washington, D.C., and the slavery
controversy, 1860; the secession crisis in Virginia; impressment of material in Monroe County by Union troops; the effect
of the war on the social and economic life of Richmond; work of the Ladies Relief Hospital in Lynchburg; and the aftermath
of war in Virginia.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], William Gaston Caperton (1815-1852) Family Papers, A&M 1436, West Virginia
and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.