07195cpcaa2201345 a 4500 mm 79020321 DLC 20260227111655.0 cr ||||||||||| 790515|||||||||||| eng mm 79020321 ms 62004665 DLC DLC DLC dacs W lcmd Feamster family papers, 1794-1967 (bulk 1813-1946). 3,000 items. 5 containers. 2 linear feet. Arranged in 4 series. Series 1: Diaries and Notebooks, 1844-1961; Series 2: Correspondence, 1794-1967; Series 3: Financial Papers, 1819-1861; and Series 4: Miscellany, 1815-1967. Open to research. Correspondence, diaries, essays, notes and notebooks, financial and legal records, circulars, genealogical material, newspaper clippings, and other papers of the allied Feamster (Feemster), Alderson, Cary (Carey), and Mathews (Matthews) families. Subjects include farming, law, medicine, military, politics, and religion, as well as geography, economic and social conditions, and education in areas and states in which members of the family visited or resided including Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Other subjects include conduct of the War of 1812 in Ohio; troop movements under William Henry Harrison; army life in the 18th and early 19th centuries; an 1824 visit to the United States by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Lafayette; the Episcopal Church; the James River and Kanawha Company, Richmond, Va.; the Battle of Gettysburg; occupied Germany after World War I; college life in the 1930s; the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II; and the American sector of occupied Germany following the war. Correspondents include Robert E. Lee and William Meade. Family papers include a memorandum book (1844-1872) of Martha Alderson Feamster; account book of Company A of the 14th Regiment of Virginia Cavalry kept by her sons, Thomas L. Feamster and Samuel William Newman Feamster, during the Civil War; diary (1864-1865) and correspondence of Thomas L. Feamster; journal of the military career (1901-1923) of his grandson, Claudius Newman Feamster; letters (1914-1953) from his sons, Robert Cantrell Feamster and Felix Claudius Feamster, concerning their experiences at college and in the Army as army surgeons in World War II; diary (1849-1851) of Charles William Cary as a medical student; and correspondence of J.D. Alderson, Cyrus Cary, Ophelia Mathews Cary, William Cary, Eliza Cary Greene, and John Mathews. Members of the Feamster (Feemster) family. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010313 Alderson, J. D. (John Duffy), 1854-1910. Cary, Cyrus, 1794-1832. Cary, Ophelia Mathews. Cary, William, 1798-1857. Greene, Eliza Cary. Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841. Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834. Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 Correspondence. Mathews, John, 1768-1849. Meade, William, 1789-1862 Correspondence. Alderson family. Carey family. Feemster family. Matthews family. Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry Regiment, 14th. United States. Army Military life. United States. Army Surgeons. Episcopal Church. James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.) Agriculture. College students United States Social life and customs. Education Arkansas. Education Iowa. Education Kansas. Education Maryland. Education Missouri. Education Texas. Education Virginia. Education West Virginia. Genealogy. Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863. Law. Medical students 19th century. Medicine. Religion. World War, 1939-1945 Medical care. World War, 1939-1945 United States. World War, 1939-1945 Europe. Arkansas Economic conditions. Arkansas Geography. Arkansas Social conditions. Arkansas Social life and customs. Germany History 1918-1933. Germany History 1945-1955. Iowa Economic conditions. Iowa Geography. Iowa Social conditions. Iowa Social life and customs. Kansas Economic conditions. Kansas Geography. Kansas Social conditions. Kansas Social life and customs. Maryland Economic conditions. Maryland Geography. Maryland Social conditions. Maryland Social life and customs. Missouri Economic conditions. Missouri Geography. Missouri Social conditions. Missouri Social life and customs. Ohio History War of 1812. Pennsylvania History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns. Texas Economic conditions. Texas Geography. Texas Social conditions. Texas Social life and customs. United States Armed Forces. United States History War of 1812. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865. United States Politics and government. Virginia Economic conditions. Virginia Geography. Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865. Virginia Social conditions. Virginia Social life and customs. West Virginia Economic conditions. West Virginia Geography. West Virginia Social conditions. West Virginia Social life and customs. Cary, Charles William. Feamster, Claudius Newman, 1876-1966. Feamster, Felix Claudius, 1914- Feamster, Martha Alderson, 1797-1885. Feamster, Robert Cantrell, 1916- Feamster, Samuel William Newman, 1836-1915. Feamster, Thomas L., 1829-1906. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010313 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010313.3 42204 42204