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Description: Joel B. Clough lifetime membership, Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church, Alexandria, Virginia.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1864 January 31
Call number: mssClough
Creator: Clough, J. B (1823-1887)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Luanne R. Abel Green and George F. Clough, October 2005.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Joel B. Clough letters

Manuscripts

Letters from Joel B. Clough to his wife written between January 1863 and February 1864. The letters discuss operations of the Construction Corps in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania; Adna Anderson, Herman Haupt, and other staff of the Military Railroads and Construction Corps; Aquia Creek, Potomac Creek, Fredericksburg, and Alexandria camps, battles and skirmishes, including Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Bristoe Campaigns, Joseph Hooker, George G. Meade, and other commanding officers of the Army of the Potomac; political news, especially the Democratic Party. Clough also mentions the visit of Lincoln, Halleck, and Stanton to Aquia Creek on April 18, 1863. Also included is a copy of a photograph of J.B. Clough taken in the 1870s, and ephemera.

mssClough

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Letters

Manuscripts

Letters from J. B. Clough to his wife written between January 1863 and February 1864. The letters discuss operations of the Construction Corps in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania; Adna Anderson, Herman Haupt, and other staff of the Military Railroads and Construction Corps; Aquia Creek, Potomac Creek, Fredericksburg, and Alexandria camps, battles and skirmishes, including Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Bristoe Campaigns, Joseph Hooker, George G. Meade, and other commanding officers of the Army of the Potomac; political news, especially the Democratic Party, etc. Clough also mentions the visit of Lincoln, Halleck, and Stanton to Aquia Creek on April 18, 1863. Also included is a copy of the photograph of J.B. Clough taken in the 1870s, and ephemera.

mssClough

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Brock Collection: Clergymen's collection : Methodist Church and Baptist Church

Manuscripts

Collection of miscellaneous personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, and documents of Methodist and Baptist ministers and congregations, mostly of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and Baptist Southern Convention. Included are groups of correspondence of Samuel T. Moorman, a Methodist minister who served in North Carolina and Virginia in 1840-1860's., Rev. George William Keese, a Richmond, Va. Baptist minister, and materials relating to First Baptist Church (Richmond, Va)

mssBR Box 119

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Joel B. Clough Collection of United States Military Railroad Photographs / (bulk approximately 1863-approximately 1864)

Visual Materials

Collection of photographs depicting Union railroad engineering projects in Virginia during the Civil War from 1863-1864, given to Captain J. B. Clough on his retirement from the construction corps of the United States Union Army. The photographs were taken by Andrew J. Russell. Of particular note are views of bridge and railroad constructions in Alexandria, Fort Davis, Manassas, Culpeper, Potomac Creek, Bull Run, Fredericksburg, as well as images of wharfs, town views, military convalescent camps, soldiers, and the deck and sailors of the Russian frigate "Osliaba." The collection also includes a pen-and-ink drawing on board, with hand-colored lettering, entitled: "A Testimonial to Joel B. Clough from the Members of the Construction Corps, U.S. Military R. Rds of VA., dated December, 1864." The "Testimonial" is illustrated with several Civil War scenes drawn by artist William M. Merrick. The collection also includes a brass-handled walking stick inscribed to Joel B. Clough on the occasion of his birthday from the City Eng[inee]r Corps, 1874.

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This certifies that Sally Williams having paid…

Visual Materials

Image of a certificate issued to Sally Williams from the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church; an angel with a trumpet and the Holy Bible flies over three vignettes, including people tormented by snakes in front of a cross with a building being destroyed by flood and fire in the background, a group of Native American Indians seated in a circle in front of tipis with a priest preaching to them, and three African people kneeling and reaching towards the sky with a hut and palm trees in the background.

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Wilshire Methodist Episcopal Church and unidentified Portland Cement Company bldgs. (4350 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, California)

Visual Materials

Date built: 1924 Architect:Allison & Allison (church); Unidentified Description: Exterior views of Wilshire Methodist Episcopal Church and other unidentified buildings. Negatives came in box labeled "Portland Cement Company" who probably commissioned the photographs.

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