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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Emily Gray Shreve Papers, A&M 3024, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

The papers of a Martinsburg native related to local prominent families. There are genealogical notes and papers concerning the following families: Anderson, Beall, Chenowith, Cowan, Cromwell, Gilbert, Gray, Hoffman, Magruder, McConnell, Newcomer, and Silver. Also included are the letters and papers of Edmond L. Hoffman, who served early in the Civil War as a lieutenant in the Stonewall Brigade. He describes in extensive detail the First Battle of Bull Run. In later letters, he presents his and the prevailing Confederate opinion about the Northern generals Pope, Burnside, Hooker and Meade. He also describes Confederate forces and their officers. Included are a few letters after the Civil War from the frontier mentioning Kansas City and Oklahoma (the Indian Territory). Also includes three Confederate currency notes (1864) and one reproduction of a Confederate currency note (1954).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Anderson family - Genealogy
• Beal family
• Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861
• Chenoweth family
• Cowan family
• Cromwell family
• Frontier and pioneer life
• Gilbert family
• Gray family
• Hoffman family
• Jefferson County.
• Magruder family
• McConnell family
• Money -- Confederate States of America
• Newcomer family
• Shreve, Emily Gray
• Silver family
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865