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Contains clippings on various subjects, including: General Cox's message to the people of Charleston, General Orders, No. 8, Headquarters, District of the Kanawha, Elk River, July 25, 1861; Scary Creek battlefield [includes map]; Confederate money in Stockholm, Sweden; Capture of Steamboat "Levi" [General Eliakim P. Scammon], illustrated; Hawk's Nest incident [1862]; Kanawha Valley [includes map, photo of General Wise, copy of 1861 broadside "Men of Virginia! Men of the Kanawha! To Arms!"]; Lightburn's Retreat, Kanawha Valley 1862, illustrated; occupation of Charleston by Union Troops in 1861; "Fort Hill" Charleston, illustrated; Colonel George S. Patton and the "Kanawha Riflemen," illustrated; "The Dixie Rifles," Beuhring H. Jones, and the burning of Gauley Bridge, illustrated; Duskey's Raid on Ripley, illustrated; Wise's retreat from the Kanawha [includes map, illustrated].

Includes clippings on various subjects, such as: Hart residence and Rich Mountain battlefield, illustrated; monument to Gus Bailey of Fayette County; West Virginia's Generals in Gray, illustrated; Clarksburg, 1861, illustrated; role of the 'Wheeling Intelligencer' in the birth of West Virginia; Isaac J. Settle's Diary; preparing for action on the Kanawha, illustrated; Old Jack and Old Jube; list of issues of 'The Confederate Veteran' that have a West Virginia interest history of Company B, 14th West Virginia Infantry; "Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864" painting; etc. Also includes stamps and an envelope regarding the Centennial of the Philippi Covered Bridge in 1952.

Includes original and facsimile clippings on: the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston; Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Mill at Richwood; horse-powered boat "Adventurer" built at Coatsmouth [Coalsmouth?] in 1840s; facsimile, top of page 1, Parkersburg's West Virginia Walking Beam, vol. 2, no. 13 [October 9, 1880]; old grist mills; "The Story of Salt," illustrated; Gatts Mound [at Cresap]; covered bridges; Hinkle Fort, Pendleton County, illustrated; the Mercer Grant, Mason County; Bailey's Hotel, Weston; early history of the 'Weston Democrat'; Harman Blennerhassett naturalization papers, Wood County court records; Blennerhassett episode--depositions of John Graham and Alex. Henderson, also J. Graham letter to Henderson; the Philippi Bar of the 1880s; doubts about Morgan, first white settler in West Virginia; Teays River; Spanish War Vets Convention, Weston; erosion, Canaan Valley and Blackwater Falls, illustrated; the Greenbrier Hotel in 1908; Fairfax survey map and Lower Shenandoah Valley Settlement; Selby House, Shepherdstown; Claudius Crozet; delegates to Commercial Convention in Memphis; list of U.S. Navy ships with West Virginia names; Old Richards Fort, Harrison County; John L. Cole; George Rogers Clark; etc.;