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Anderson-Reavis Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5004
Abstract
A small Civil War manuscript group consisting mostly of personal letters written home to Alabama by civilian medical doctor Leroy Hammond Anderson.
Dates:
1857-1863; Majority of material found in 1862-1863
H. H. Wiseman Diary
Item
Identifier: MSN/CW 8022
Abstract
A manuscript diary maintained by Confederate States Pvt. H. H. Wiseman, Co. B, 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery, recounting Wiseman's experiences in Union prison camps at Governors Island and Elmira, New York in 1864-1865.
Dates:
1864 August-1865 February
Leonard Williams Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5068
Scope and Contents
Of the 127 letters in the collection, 115 were written by Leonard Williams to his wife Anna Laval Williams during the Civil War. These letters range in date from 18-19 July 1861 to 11 February 1865, and provide a literate, lengthy, and relatively continuous epistolary narrative of Williams's wartime experiences. The letters also stand as one side of an ongoing dialogue with Anna on managing the Greenville household and farm, including the slaves. (During the war the mercantile store was...
Dates:
1861-1865
Meek Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5053
Abstract
A group of 27 personal letters written by, to, or about James Monroe Meek, an East Tennessee lawyer and legislator jailed by the Confederates for his Unionist sympathies. Most of the correspondence dates from the Civil War.
Dates:
1861-1869; Majority of material found in 1861-1865
Paris-Heard Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0507
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of personal papers of members of the Paris and Heard families of Augusta and Rockingham counties, Virginia. Materials date from 1852 to 1937, with the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction years all represented. Included are land deeds, contracts, and militia records of James R. Paris, as well as family correspondence and photographs. The Antebellum letters are chiefly between Lucy Paris, James’s wife, and her family, while later correspondence is mainly between...
Dates:
1852-1937
Read Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5015
Abstract
A small group of papers originating with the Read family of the central Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Included are 28 letters written by three different family members during the Civil War: Confederate States soldier Thomas Griffin Read, Co. I, 33rd Virginia Infantry (10 letters); his wife Martha White Read, of Augusta County (15 letters); and the CS artilleryman John Henry Read (3 letters).
Dates:
1850-after 1900; Majority of material found in 1861-1865
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- Anderson, Leroy Hammond, 1814-1863 1
- Confederate States of America. Army 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. Hampton's Brigade 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, 2nd 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 33rd 1
- Elmira Prison (Elmira, N.Y.) 1
- Heard Family 1
- Heard, Ella Paris, 1873-1937 1
- Heard, Jesse Thomas 1
- Meek, Elizabeth Walker, 1839-1921 1
- Meek, James Monroe, 1821-ca. 1899 1
- Paris Family 1
- Paris, James R., about 1828-? 1
- Paris, Lucy, about 1832-? 1
- Read, John Henry, b. 1839 1
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