1866 GAULEY BRIDGE WV MANUSCRIPT +LETTER FAYETTE CASSADY/YOUNG LOVE +CIVIL WAR

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1866 GAULEY BRIDGE WV MANUSCRIPT +LETTER FAYETTE CASSADY/YOUNG LOVE +CIVIL WAR:
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GAULEY BRIDGE W VA MANUSCRIPT POSTMARK JULY 10 WITH 3c STAMP, HEADLINED FAYETTE C.H. (COURT HOUSE) WEST VA, JULY 6th 1866,\" SIGNED BY J.S. CASSADY (James Solace Cassady (June 4, 2819-May 14, 1898), delegate from Fayette County in theregular session, was born in Floyd County, Virginia. In 1853, he, together with his mother, fivesisters, and two brothers, Kennerly and William R. Cassady, moved to a farm on Laurel Creek,about five miles west of Fayetteville in present Fayette County, West Virginia, where he engagedin farming. February 19, 18867, he married Emily A. Young of Putnam county, West Virginia,daughter of the Rev. John Valley Young, a Union soldier. Their only child, Mabel KirbyCassady, died May 20, 1913, at the age of forty-five. She was unmarried.The Cassadys were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Kennerly Cassadywas a local preacher of that sect. When the War of Secession began, James S. Cassady raised acompany of home guards, which he placed at the order of General W.S. Rosecrans. Under athirty-day leave from Rosecrans and bearing a petition signed by members of his own company,he was admitted too membership in the Convention. His leave was extended but he resigned onFebruary 1, 1862, and, without formality of an election but also at the request of petitioners, wastwo days later succeeded by Edward W. Ryan, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church.James S. Cassady was a delegate in the Fourth West Virginia Legislature (1866). From1866 to 1872 he was circuit clerk of Fayette County, West Virginia, and from 1867 to 1873 was its first county superintendent of schools. He and his wife are buried in the Cassady familygraveyard on Laurel Creek, Fayette County, West Virginia.) --- SENT TO MR EMMA A YOUNG IN WINFELD, PUTNAM COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA, LONG LETTER, I SHOW ALL PAGES, WELL WRITTEN WITH GREAT DETAILED CONTENT ABOUT HUNTING TRIP TO KANAWHA & MUCH MORE, PLEASE READ ALL PAGES, ALSO MENTIONS CORPORAL CLARK JOHNSON WHO HAD BEEN MY NEAR FRIEND ON OUR MARCHES & ON THE BATTLE FIELD, HE SEEMED GLAD TO SEE HIS OLD CAPTAIN, ETC.SEE PHOTOS !!! , SHIPPING AND HANDLING IS $2.00 IN USA, OR $4.00 FOREIGN. ALL ITEMS OVER $40.00 IN USA MUST BE INSURED AT BUYERS COST. ALL ITEMS OVER $80.00 FOREIGN MUST BE REGISTERED AT BUYERS COST. I COMBINE SHIPPING COSTS ON MULTIPLE ITEM TO SAVE YOU MONEY. CHECK MY VERY HIGH response !!!!! ----