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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, August (search)
st, August 20. General McClellan assumed the command of the army of the Potomac, and announced the officers attached to his staff.--(Doc. 201.) The Convention of Western Virginia passed the ordinance creating a State, reported by the select committee on a division of the State, this morning, by a vote of fifty to twenty-eight. The boundary as fixed includes the counties of Logan, Wyoming, Raleigh, Fayette, Nicholas, Webster, Randolph, Tucker, Preston, Monongahela, Marion, Taylor, Barbour, Upshur, Harrison, Lewis, Braxton, Clay, Kanawha, Boone, Wayne, Cabell, Putnam, Mason, Jackson, Roane, Calhoun, Wirt, Gilmer, Ritchie, Wood, Pleasants, Tyler, Doddridge, Wetzel, Marshall, Ohio, Brooke, and Hancock. A provision was incorporated permitting certain adjoining counties to come in if they should desire, by expression of a majority of their people to do so. The ordinance also provides for the election of delegates to a Convention to form a constitution; at the same time the quest
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862, March (search)
Over-coats and blankets lined the sides of the road. Stores were speedily closed, women screamed, horses dashed forward. Everything was excitement, but in good order. Col. Geary pushed on at the head, and at one time was within two hundred yards of the rebel cavalry.--Philadelphia Inquirer. Gen. Fremont, at Wheeling, Va., issued an order, assigning Brig.-Gen. Kelley to the command of all of Western Virginia north and east of the counties of Jackson, Roane, Calhoun, Braxton, Lewis, Barbour and Tucker inclusive, and west of the Alleghanies, Maryland and Pennsylvania, constituting the Railroad District Henry W. Bellows, D. D., delivered at Irving Hall, New York, this evening, a conversational lecture, detailing the experience of a three days visit to the battle-field of Bull Run and Manassas. He exhibited a number of trophies secured on the spot, including rebel letters, arms and equipments, and the skull and bone of a Union soldier, picked up from the spot where they had
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 216 (search)
New Orleans, April 25.--In the ranks of the Louisville Blues, now at Montgomery, from Barbour County, is the Rev. Alexander McLenan, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who, with his two sons, have enlisted with the company for the term of twelve months, in the service of the Confederate States. In a speech made by him at Clayton, on their way to Columbus, he remarked that our cause was honored of God, and He would crown it with success. Mr. McLenan is upwards of sixty years of age, and the greater part of his manhood has been dedicated to the service of the ministry. Equality and justice to the South is a motto to which he has always been religiously devoted.--Columbus Sun, April 21.
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
ars old. He was successful in this profession at Abbeville, S. C., then in Lumpkin, Ga., and lastly in Glennville, Barbour county, Ala., where he settled in 1848. Meanwhile he had been studying law. Being admitted to the bar in 1849, he opened his o the free and the slave States, and prevent the inevitable conflict between the two sections. In 1861 he represented Barbour county in the constitutional convention, but resigned his seat to go into the army, as captain of the Eufaula Rifles, which lt Clanton was born in Columbia county, Ga., January 8, 1827. His mother was a relative of Gen. H. D. Clayton, of Barbour county, Ala., himself a native of Georgia. His father was Nathaniel Holt Clanton, who represented Macon county at one time in d himself so completely to business that he kept entirely out of politics until 1857, when he was chosen to represent Barbour county in the Alabama legislature. He served as a member of the house of representatives until 1861. Upon the very first t
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
List of Virginia Bank Notes Unbankable in Richmond. Bank of the Valley½ and Branches, save at Staunton and Christiansburg. Bank of Wheeling, Wheeling. Manufacturers and Farmers' Bank of Wheeling and Branches. northwestern Bank of Virginia, Wheeling, and Branches. Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank of Wheeling and Branches. Bank of Charleston, Malden, Kanawha. Bank of Berkeley, Martinsburg. branch Bank of the old Dominion, at Pearisburg. Bank of Phillippi, Phillippi, Barbour county. Bank of Winchester, Winchester. Fairmont Bank, Fairmont. the Notes of the foregoing Banks are bought by the brokers of this city at 1 per cent. Discount. Virginia Bank Notes that are at twenty-five per cent. Discount. the Notes of the following Banks are at 25 per cent. Discount: Bank of Manassas, Front Royal. Bank of Weston. Lewis county. Trans-Allegheny Bank of Jeffersonville, Tazewell. There are probably few, if any, of the notes of the last named Bank
The Daily Dispatch: February 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Virginia post-offices. (search)
Virginia post-offices. --Establishments.--Pomona, Loudoun county, Va., Benjamin D. Kalb postmaster; to be specially supplied from Lovettsville. Calfee's Ferry, Pulaski county, Va., Jacob Philieger postmaster; on the route from Newbern to Reed Island. Wood Lawn, Carroll county, Va., E. S. Fulton postmaster; on route from Hillsville to Grayson Court-House. Office at White Top, Grayson county, Va., is discontinued. Appointments. J. L. Hilkey postmaster at Bellington, Barbour county, Va., vice E. R. Douglass, removed.--David Taylor postmaster at Chincoteague, Accomac county, vice Isaac K. Stevenson, resigned.
The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
List of Virginia Bank notes Unbankable in Richmond. Bank of the Valley and branches, save at Staunton and Christiansburg. Bank of Wheeling, Wheeling. Manufacturers and Farmers' Bank of Wheeling and branches. Northwestern Bank of Virginia, Wheeling, and branches. Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank of Wheeling and Branches. Bank of Charleston, Malden, Kanawha. Bank of Berkeley, Martinsburg. Branch Bank of the Old Dominion, at Pearisburg. Bank of Phillippi, Phillippi, Barbour county. Bank of Winchester, Winchester. Fairmont Bank, Fairmont. The notes of the foregoing Banks are bought by the brokers of this city at 1 per cent, discount. Virginia Bank notes that are at twenty-five per cent. Discount. The notes of the following Banks are at 25 per cent. discount: Bank of Manassas, Front Royal. Bank of Weston, Lewis county. Trans-Alleghany Bank of Jeffersonville, Tazewell. There are probably few, if any, of the notes of the last named Ban
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
of the Valley, Christiansburg List of Virginia Bank notes Unbankable in Richmond. Bank of the Valley and branches, save at Staunton and Christiansburg. Bank of Wheeling, Wheeling. Manufacturers' and Farmers' Bank of Wheeling and branches. North western Bank of Virginia, Wheeling, and branches. Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank of Wheeling and Branches. Bank of Charleston, Malden, Kanawha. Branch Bank of the Old Dominion, at Pearisburg. Bank of Phillippi, Phillippi, Barbour county. Bank of Winchester, Winchester. Fairmont Bank, Fairmont. The notes of the foregoing Banks are bought by the brokers of this city all per cent, discount. Virginia Bank notes that are at twenty-five per cent. Discount. The notes of the following Banks are at 25 per cent. discount: Bank of Manassas, Front Royal. Bank of Weston, Lewis county. Trans-Alleghany Bank of Jeffersonville, Tazewell. There are probably few, if any, of the notes of the last named Bank afl
The Daily Dispatch: February 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
st of Virginia Bank Notes Unbankable in Richmond. Bank of the Valley and branches, save at Staunton and Christiansburg. Bank of Wheeling, Wheeling. manufacturers' and Farmers' Bank of Wheeling and branches. Northwestern Bank of Virginia, Wheeling, and branches. Merchants' and Mechanics' band of Wheeling and branches. Bank of Charleston, Malden, Kanawha. Bank of Berkeley, Martinsburg. Branch Bank of the old Dominion, at Pearisburg. Bank of Phillippi, Phillippi, Barbour county. Bank of Winchester, Winchester. Fairmont Bank, Fairmont. the Notes of the foregoing Banks are bought by the brokers of this city at 1 per cent. Discount. Virginia Bank Notes that are at twenty-five per cent. Discount. the Notes of the following Banks are at 25 per cent. Discount: Bank of Manassas, Front Royal. Bank of Weston, Lewis county. Trans-Alleghany Bank of Jeffersonville, Tazewell. There are probably few, if any, of the notes of the last named Bank
The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
of Virginia Bank Notes Unbankable in Richmond. Bank of the Valley and branches, save at Staunton and Christiansburg. Bank of Wheeling, Wheeling. Manufacturers' and Farmers' Bank of Wheeling and branches. Northwestern Bank of Virginia, Wheeling, and branches. Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank of Wheeling and branches. Bank of Charleston, Malden, Kanawha. Bank of Berkeley, Martinsburg. Branch Bank of the Old Dominion, at Pearisburg. Bank of Phillippi, Phillippi, Barbour county. Bank of Winchester, Winchester. Fairmont Bank, Fairmont. the Notes of the foregoing Banks are bought by the brokers of this city at 1 per cent. Discount. Virginia Bank Notes that are at twenty-five per cent. Discount. the Notes of the following Banks are at 25 per cent. Discount.: Bank of Manassas, front Royal. Bank of Weston, Lewis county. Trans-Allegheny Bank of Jeffersonville, Tazewell. there are probably few, if any, of the notes of the last named
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