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Contains 66 Results:

"Fac-similes, for Governor John B. Floyd, of the signatures of the Prince of Wales and Suite", 1860 October 9

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: id152762
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Signatures, dated 4 October 1860, are: Albert Edward P.; Lyons; Newcastle; Sc. Germans; Robert Bruce; [?]sdale; G.N. Grey; Gardiner D. Engleheart.

Dates: 1860 October 9

Leroy Pope Walker, Secretary of War, Confederate States of America War Department, Montgomery, Ala., to John B. Floyd, Brigadier General, Abington [sic], Va., 1861 May 23

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id152764
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Appoints Floyd as Brigadier General of the Provisional Forces of the CSA.

Dates: 1861 May 23

Robert A. Richardson, Princeton, Va., to Governor John B. Floyd, Jeffersonville, Va., 1861 May 29

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id152765
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Concerning Floyd's invitation to Richardson to join Floyd's Brigade and Richardson's decline because of dissatisfaction in the ranks.

Dates: 1861 May 29

William Montgomery Churchwell, Knoxville, Tenn., to General J.B. Floyd, 1861 May 30

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id152766
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Concerns the difficulty of raising and supplying companies for the Confederate Army in his section of Tennessee.

Dates: 1861 May 30

Joseph Emerson Brown, Executive Department, Milledgeville, Georgia, to John B. Floyd, Richmond, Va., 1861 June 18

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id152767
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Concerning arms that are pledged to the Georgia volunteers. Brown does not have enough to give to Floyd even though he's sure they would be used "for the promotion of a ... cause."

Dates: 1861 June 18

Henry Heth, Richmond, VA., to "Dear General," John B Floyd [?], 1861 June 27

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id152768
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Concerning commissions, medical supplies, and Col. Reynolds and the "Carbine affair."

Dates: 1861 June 27

Pleasant Murphy, Valley P.O., Tazewell Co., Va., to General John B. Floyd, Camp Jackson, Wytheville, Va., 1861 July 16

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id152769
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Concerning volunteers and their subsequent refusal to enter the service.

Dates: 1861 July 16

William A. Coleman, Camp Jackson, Va [?], to General John B. Floyd, Wytheville, Va., 1861 July 20

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id152770
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Concerning Coleman's promotion from private in the "Nelson Rangers." Written on Confederate States of America stationery.

Dates: 1861 July 20

W.W. Loring, Brigadier General, Staunton, Va. Orders. Copy, attested by Carter Littlepage Stevenson, to Gen. Floyd, 1861 July 23

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id152771
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General Loring assumes command of the Army of the North West.

Dates: 1861 July 23

Jacob Dolson Cox, Brigadier General U.S.A., Gauley Bridge, W. Va., to Peter Hargman, 1861 August 12

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id152772
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Scope and Contents Pass to permit his return to his home near Sewell [sic] Mountain. Including an answer from J.L.D. [?], concerning Hargman's report (to Confederates) of Federal strength.

Dates: 1861 August 12

General Henry Alexander Wise, Big Sewall, Va. [?], to Brigadier General John B. Floyd, 1861 August 19

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id152773
Scope and Contents

Discusses some differences between them as related to their respective commands, and some misapplication of the miltary propriety. Including a copy from General John B. Floyd, White Sulphur Va. [?], to General Henry A. Wise, 14 August 1861. General Order No. 82, ordering obedience and repect for General Wise, who assumed comand of the Department of the Kanawha Valley.

Dates: 1861 August 19

Alfred Beckley, Camp Fayette Court House, Va., to Brigadier General J.B. Floyd, Commanding Army of the Kanawha on Gauley, 1861 August 30

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id152774
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Requests transfer by Floyd of two companies to Beckly's newly formed regiment. Also refers to military situation below Gauley Bridge.

Dates: 1861 August 30

Alfred Ward Grayson David, Lewisburg, W. Va., to General J.B. Floyd, 1861 September 3

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id152775
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Scope and Contents Recommends Thompson Tyler as messenger or Confederate agent. Including an answer signed by Jno. P. Brock, Capt. Valley Rangers, also recommending Tyler.

Dates: 1861 September 3

Lucius Bellinger Northrop, Richmond, Va., to General John B. Floyd, 1861 September 4

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id152776
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Concerning the settlement of bills, the purchase of bacon, and congratulations on a successful campaign.

Dates: 1861 September 4

John McCausland, Summersville, Va., to John B. Floyd, 1861 September 6

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id153246
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Concerning prisoners.

Dates: 1861 September 6

John Henninger Reagan, C.S.A., Post Office Department, Richmond, Va., to Brigadier General John B. Floyd, Army of Kanawha, Va., 1861 September 20

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id153249
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Concerning mail facilities fro the Army of Kanawha.

Dates: 1861 September 20

Gabriel C. Wharton, Colonel, 51st Regiment, Virginia Volunteers, Floyd's Brigade, Head Quarters, Camp near Meadow Bluff, Va., 1861 September 28

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id153253
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Authorization for Stephen Clark to proceed to Grayson County and vicinity to purchase bacon for the use of the army, approved by order of Brig. General John B. Floyd.

Dates: 1861 September 28

William Wing Loring, Head Quarters, Camp Sewell Mt., to General R.E. Lee, Commanding, 1861 October 3

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id153255
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Scope and Contents Concerns purchase of cattle by speculators which prevents the army from getting a sufficiency. Including letter from R. E. Lee, Head Quarters Camp Sewell Mt., to General John B. Floyd, 4 October 1861, referring matter to Floyd.

Dates: 1861 October 3

Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Camp at Meadow Bluff, W. Va., to John B. Floyd, 1861 October 8

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id153256
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Concerning two prisoners and a "pass" found.

Dates: 1861 October 8

Frank Gildart Ruffin, Confederate States of America, Subsistence Department, to Captain W.E. Peters, Floyd's Brigade, 1861 October 14

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id153257
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Scope and Contents Concerning the feeding and location of cattle. Including letter from Lucius Bellinger Northrop, Confederate States of America, Subsistence Department, to Captain W. E. Peters, Floyd's Brigade, 14 October 1861, supporting Ruffin's orders concerning the cattle.

Dates: 1861 October 14

William E. Starke, Lewisburg, Va., to Brigadier General John B. Floyd, 1861 November 13

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id153258
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Asks for instructions with regard to the route to be taken to move his troops to meet General Floyd's troops, after they have received their winter supplies.

Dates: 1861 November 13

Henry Washington Benham, Brigadier General, U.S. Army, Hawkins farm, 5 miles S.E. from Fayette, Va., to Brigadier General J.B. Floyd, 1861 November 15

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id153261
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Scope and Contents Concerns the mortal wound of Col. St. George [sic] John Groghan of the Confederate Army, in a calvalry skirmish, 14 November 1860, and the disposition of his effects. Including an answer from H.W. Benham, Hawkins farm Raleigh Road, Va., to Governor John B. Floyd, n.p., 15 November 1861, stating that the bearer of the letter is John Hawkins, son of Pleasant Hawkins, a prisoner of Floyd's. Desires that John Hawkins be permitted to return.

Dates: 1861 November 15

Samuel Preston Moore, Surgeon General's Office, Richmond Va., to Brigadier General John B. Floyd, 1861 November 21

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id153263
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Special orders assigning Surgeon James A. Forbes to the Army in the North West.

Dates: 1861 November 21

Daniel S. Donelson, Brigade Head Quarters, near Lewisburg, Va., to Gen. John B. Floyd, Commander Army of Kanawha, 1861 November 24

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id153266
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Concerning the selection and establishment of Winter Headquarters.

Dates: 1861 November 24

Petition to Gen. John B. Floyd to return John A. Hooker to his disrupted family, 1861 December 6

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id153269
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers, 1831-1863, of John B. Floyd, governor of Virginia, United States Secretary of War and Confederate general. The papers, chiefly 1850-1862, concern the three positions he held. Correspondents include James Buchanan, Jefferson Davis, Samuel Houston, Benjamin Huger, Alexander von Humboldt, R. M. T. Hunter, Charles James Faulkner, Jenny Lind, James Murray Mason, William Ballard Preston, Winfield Scott, John Tyler, Daniel Webster and the Duke of Wellington.

Dates: 1861 December 6