West Virginia Civil War Almanac: Volume 2
West Virginia Civil War Almanac: Volume 2

Author: Tim McKinney

Publisher: Quarrier Press

Published: 2022-12-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781942294542

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Like its predecessor, this second volume of the West Virginia Civil War Almanac by Tim McKinney adds substantially to information in print regarding West Virginia Civil War veterans, and constitutes a highly informative tool for historians, Civil War enthusiasts, and genealogists. It consists of nine parts. Part One provides a roster of 31,519 Union soldiers from West Virginia. Part Two is an index to 12,683 Union veterans listed in the 1890 Civil War Veteran Census and published in volume one of this series. Part Three lists Civil War veterans and their widows. Part Four contains the names of deceased United States veterans in the 1890 Census. Part Five provides names of deceased Confederate veterans. Part Six indexes black troops credited to West Virginia. Part Seven focuses on distribution of the state's Civil War veterans with respect to their counties of residence. Part Eight gives a Statistical Review of the 1890 Civil War Veteran Census of West Virginia. Part Nine includes Addenda to Volume One. In five earlier works on the Civil War, including Robert E. Lee at Sewell Mountain: The West Virginia campaign, McKinney has established himself as a careful craftsman in historical matters and a perceptive student of the war during which West Virginia was born. McKinney's West Virginia Civil War Almanac will place all persons with a serious interest in the Civil War in debt to him for making valuable source materials available in a convenient, attractive, and affordable format. by Otis K. Rice, Professor Emeritus of History, West Virginia University Institute of Technology

West Virginia Civil War Almanac
West Virginia Civil War Almanac

Author: Tim McKinney

Publisher: Quarrier Press

Published: 2022-12-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781942294245

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A dream come true for researcher and genealogist alike. Tim McKinney has enriched West Virginia Civil War history with his books on the The Civil War In Fayette County, Robert E. Lee at Sewell Mountain: The West Virginia Campaign, and Robert E. Lee and the 35th Star, all within the brief span of tem years. Now, his Civil War Almanac, an outgrowth of his researches into the nation's most tragic war, will place historians, genealogists, Civil War enthusiasts, and other informed readers still more deeply in debt to him. In this, the first of two volumes, McKinney sets high expectations for the usefulness his work and raises keen anticipation for the second volume. Major sources for identifying Civil War veterans from West Virginia include the 1890 Civil War Veteran Census, which includes nearly 14,000 veterans, who had worn either the Blue or the Gray, and were still living in West Virginia in 1890, along with their names, regiments, and periods of service. For many of the veterans there are also special remarks. The 1890 Confederate Index provides names and counties of residence of 1,097 Confederate veterans turned up by extensive research by the author; listings of both Union and Confederate veterans by county of residence; Civil War service medals Of Union veterans identified in the 1890 Census, many of which remain unclaimed at the West Virginia Division of Archives and History; a compilation of West Virginia Confederate soldiers and citizens who died in Federal prisons or military hospitals; an index to records of the Southern Claims Commission, which identifies more than 200 West Virginians who sought compensation from the United States for confiscated or stolen property, and transcribes as examples case files from Greenbrier and Jefferson Counties; and identification, with name, county, and regiment of ore than 160 physicians of the Blue and Gray who were from West Virginia. McKinney's compilations are of interest in their aggregate, but they provide detail that makes the soldier a person rather than a mere number. by Otis K. Rice, Professor Emeritus of History, West Virginia University Institute of Technology