TY  - GEN
AU  - Cary,Charles William
AU  - Feamster,Claudius Newman
AU  - Feamster,Felix Claudius
AU  - Feamster,Martha Alderson
AU  - Feamster,Robert Cantrell
AU  - Feamster,Samuel William Newman
AU  - Feamster,Thomas L.
TI  - Feamster family papers,
KW  - Alderson, J. D.
KW  - Cary, Cyrus,
KW  - Cary, Ophelia Mathews.
KW  - Cary, William,
KW  - Greene, Eliza Cary.
KW  - Harrison, William Henry,
KW  - Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier,
KW  - Lee, Robert E.
KW  - Mathews, John,
KW  - Meade, William,
KW  - Alderson family.
KW  - Carey family.
KW  - Feemster family.
KW  - Matthews family.
KW  - Confederate States of America
KW  - Army
KW  - Virginia Cavalry Regiment, 14th
KW  - United States
KW  - Military life
KW  - Surgeons
KW  - Episcopal Church
KW  - James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.)
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - College students
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Education
KW  - Arkansas
KW  - Iowa
KW  - Kansas
KW  - Maryland
KW  - Missouri
KW  - Texas
KW  - Virginia
KW  - West Virginia
KW  - Genealogy
KW  - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
KW  - Law
KW  - Medical students
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Religion
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Europe
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Geography
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 1918-1933
KW  - 1945-1955
KW  - Ohio
KW  - War of 1812
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Open to research
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010313
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010313.3
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