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Language
English
Abstract
Mainly letters written to Bassel from U.S. Army officers from various forts and camps in several western states and territories.
There are no copies of Bassel's correspondence in the collection, but his career in the army to about 1870, his subsequent
military service in Egypt, and his employment in China and Japan, ca.1874-1875, as the representative of an American ship
builder, are covered in the letters. There are a few letters from Thomas Handbury, a cadet at West Point in 1862; also materials
on political affairs in West Virginia, including Bassel's candidacy on the People's Party ticket for governor of West Virginia
in 1892, and certificates of election returns from several counties in 1892.
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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], James Bassel Papers, A&M 0327, West Virginia and Regional History Center,
West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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