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    <unittitle>Samuel Young Letters (photocopies)</unittitle>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1863/1863">1863</unitdate>
    <abstract id="aspace_d94ba83f6d806f5fdb7ea5b2437a1819">Photostatic copies of two letters from Samuel Young to John Sharp, written in 1863 at Wheeling, West Virginia, where Mr. Young was representing Pocahontas County in the West Virginia legislature. The letters deal mostly with the appointment of Sharp as Adjutant of the 127th Reg., West Virginia Militia (Pocahontas County), and with West Virginia senatorial elections.</abstract>
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<p>Gift from Alice R. Waugh and Jane Price Sharp, 1974.</p>  </acqinfo>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Samuel Young Letters (photocopies), A&amp;M 2737, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80048175" source="lcsh">Pocahontas County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81062621" source="lcsh">Wheeling (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041557" source="lcsh">Elections</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">West Virginia senatorial elections.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">West Virginia legislators - Pocahontas County.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Pocahontas County - West Virginia legislators.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Civil War - West Virginia 127th Militia.</subject>
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    <corpname source="local_LC">West Virginia. Militia. Regiment, 127th </corpname>
    <corpname source="local_LC">West Virginia. Militia. Regiment, 127th </corpname>
    <persname source="ingest">Young, Samuel</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Sharp, John.</persname>
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