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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Scott-Palmer Family Papers, A&M 1423, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Papers of Jewett Palmer, a Union Army officer, Mayor of Marietta (Ohio), and Republican official of Washington County (Ohio). Includes correspondence, daily journals, clipping scrapbooks, military records, genealogical and autobiographical notes, and printed materials.

The papers regard the activities of Company B of the 18th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (OVI) and Company G of the 36th OVI in Western Virginia along the B & O Railroad, at Summersville, Lewisburg, Meadow Bluff, and the Kanawha Valley; at Second Bull Run and Antietam; in Tennessee (1861), at Nashville, Carthage, Middle Tennessee, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Missionary Ridge. In 1864, the 36th OVI returned to Camp Crook in Charleston, WV, moving along the Virginia Central Railroad up the Shenandoah to Martinsburg.

Collection also includes the journal of Wallace S. Stanley, Company G, 36th OVI (1861-1864); military records, and post-war records documenting veterans' activities, of the 18th and 36th OVI (ca. 1861-1865, 1880-1912); and correspondence and school papers of Saida Scott, who married Palmer in 1866 and taught music (1856-1863).

Addendum of 1996/09/23 is a muster roll of Company G, 36th OVI, signed by Captain Jewett Palmer, for 10/31/1863 - 12/31/1863.

See also A&M 1458.

Related Material

1423, 1458

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862
• Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862
• Camp Crook
• Charleston (W. Va.)
• Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863
• Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863
• Civil War - Ohio 18th Volunteer Infantry, Company B.
• Civil War - Ohio 18th Volunteer Infantry.
• Civil War - Ohio 36th Volunteer Infantry, Company G.
• Civil War - Ohio 36th Volunteer Infantry.
• Civil War -- War diaries
• Civil War battles.
• Diaries
• Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.)
• Lewisburg (W. Va.)
• Marietta (Ohio)
• Martinsburg (W. Va.)
• Meadow Bluff (W. Va.)
• Missionary Ridge, Battle of, Tenn., 1863
• Palmer family
• Palmer, Jewett.
• Palmer, Saida Scott.
• Railroads
• Rivers and river valleys.
• Scott, Theodore family.
• Scott-Palmer family.
• Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)
• Stanley, Wallace S.
• Summersville (W. Va.)
• Tennessee
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 18th (1861-1864). Company B.
• United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 36th (1861-1865). Company G
• Veterans. SEE ALSO under Civil War - veterans.
• Virginia Central Railroad Company
• Women's history -- 1850-1899