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Jackson Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5067
Abstract
A group of around 60 manuscript personal letters, almost all written by and/or to members of the Jackson family of Moore County, North Carolina before and during the Civil War. The collection includes letters of eleven Confederate States soldiers, serving in the 26th or 30th North Carolina Infantry or the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry.
Dates:
1852-ca.1866
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
Robert S. Edwards Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 1004
Abstract
Around 60 items, mostly manuscripts, with a bearing on the Civil War service of Lt. Robert S. Edwards of the 48th New York Infantry. Among the 45 personal letters are 14 written by Edwards and 22 directed to him by his brother and sister-in-law, Ogden and Nellie Edwards, then living in the Philippines. There are also a number of items relating to Robert Edwards's death (at Fort Wagner in Charleston Harbor) and post-mortem arrangements.
Dates:
1861-1865
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- Edwards, Helen E. 1
- Edwards, Ogden Ellery, Jr., 1829- 1
- Edwards, Robert S. (Robert Sedgwick), 1838-1863 1
- Jackson, Archibald A., 1835-1864 1
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