Everton Judson Conger correspondence

The correspondence includes 40 letters between Conger and his wife Emma Katherine "Kate" Boren Conger, 1861 to 1867; 12 letters from Seymour Beach Conger to his brothers, 1862 to 1864; and seven miscellaneous letters, 1863 to 1867, and undated. The letters cover a range of subjects, including the effort to recruit Virginia Unionists in the first months of the American Civil War; state and national war and political news; and Conger's military and intelligence service in Virginia and Washington, D.C. Everton Judson Conger also references his post-war employment by the "Impeachment Committee" to gather evidence in Washington, D.C. The Conger brothers write primarily from the following locations in Virginia and West Virginia: Camp Carlisle, Fairfax Court House, Stafford Courthouse, Culpeper, Rappahannock River, and a camp near Middleton. Also included is an 1840 photograph of Conger's mother Esther West Conger, and an untitled poem beginning "The clouds were thick and dark...."