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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Barrier Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5057
Abstract

More than one hundred letters written during the Civil War by two brothers serving in the Confederate army, Sgt. William Lafayette Barrier (1st North Carolina Cavalry) and Col. Rufus Barrier (8th North Carolina Infantry). The letters are mostly directed to the brothers' father, Mathias Barrier, in Mt. Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina.

Dates: 1861-1868; Majority of material found in ( 1861-1865)

Shipman Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5043
Abstract

A Civil War family correspondence of 19 letters occasioned by the Confederate States military service of Jesse Albert Shipman, Co. G, 1st North Carolina Cavalry. The Shipmans were from Henderson County, in the North Carolina highlands.

Dates: 1861-1864