Papers, 1863 - 2019

This collection consists of four series. The first contains syllabuses by Colonel Weaver, biographical articles, letters, photographs, a register of books borrowed from Political Science Library with borrowers' names, and clippings. The second consists ony of his Civil War diary. The Civil War diary has been scanned and a digital facsimile is available in its entirety on Flickr and in the DePauw Digital Library. The diary has now been transcribed, edited and published as the book, James Riley Weaver's Civil War: the Diary of a Union Cavalry Officer, 1863-1865. The third series consists of the pieces used in the exhibit that ran in the Roy O. West Library's main floor exhibit cases from Sept. 7, 2018-July 22, 2019. The fourth series consists of research materials collected during preparation for the book. Much of this was not used in the final product, but could be useful to researchers.