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Language
English
Abstract
Correspondence, diary, and farm account book of a Confederate officer and Pocahontas County cattleman and farmer. The correspondence
deals primarily with Gatewood's activities as adjutant general and chief of staff of the West Virginia Division, United Confederate
Veterans. The Civil War diary, 11 March-15 December 1865, covers action of Company F, Eleventh Virginia Cavalry, "Laurel Brigade,"
Rosser Cavalry Division, from Staunton to Appomattox. The farm account book, 1866-1869, also contains an account of Gatewood's
Civil War experiences, including fighting in western Virginia and Jones' northwestern Virginia raid of 1863. The account book,
1801-1805, 1816, pertains to the John Rodgers estate. There are a few papers of Gatewood's father, Samuel V. Gatewood. Other
subjects and topics covered are farming and stock raising in Pocahontas County, the Warm Springs of North Carolina, William
and Mary College, Virginia Military Institute, Ann Smith Academy, Greenbrier Male Academy, Civil War in the Bath County, Virginia
area, and cattle trade in the Kanawha Valley.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], A.C.L. Gatewood Papers, A&M 1519, West Virginia and Regional History
Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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