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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Clarksburg Public Library, Collector, Miscellaneous Papers, A&M 1653, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous papers collected by the Clarksburg Public Library, including Harrison County land papers of John Lang, 1782-1821; General Land Office Warrant of Thomas Cunningham, an 1812 veteran for 160 acres in Illinois; letter from Melville D. Long from Point Lookout prison, April 1865; letter to Mrs. John J. Davis, Clarksburg, telling of an unexpected invasion of Baltimore by the Rebels in July 1854; and farm diary, 1856-1861 of P.R. Page, Gloucester County, Virginia. This volumes gives accurate and detailed information on the operation of a grain and livestock farm in eastern Virginia

Related Material

1285, 1653

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Baltimore (Md.)
• Civil War - Point Lookout Prison.
• Civil War -- Confederate Army
• Clarksburg (W. Va.)
• Clarksburg Public Library.
• Cunningham, Thomas.
• Davis, Mrs. John J.
• Diaries and journals.
• Farms and farming.
• Gloucester County (Va.)
• Harrison County (W. Va.)
• Lang, John.
• Livestock
• Long, Melville D.
• Page, P.R.
• Prisons -- Point Lookout Prison
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
• United States -- History -- War of 1812