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Mother is very uneasy about you
From the context of the letter below, Morgan O Taliaferro was a young, single man when he enlisted in New Orleans in the First Louisiana Volunteer Infantry in April 1861. He was a prisoner in Maryland for the first time in September 1862 when he was left behind, ill, in Frederick. He survived that experience…
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He fought like a hero
26 year old Sergeant Henry W Fullenwider of Company K, 23rd North Carolina Infantry was wounded in the thigh and side at Sharpsburg in September 1862 and was a prisoner in US Army hospitals on the field and in Frederick, MD, and at Fort McHenry in Baltimore before being exchanged to return to his unit…
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Grecian style couch of figured maple and cane (c. 1815)
Benjamin Huger (1768-1823) of Georgetown, SC … ordered “eighteen maple chairs with cushions, neat and fashionable but without gilding and two sofas d[itt]o to answer the above” from New York suppliers …
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The Warrenton Tragedies (1869)
Charles Wallace was the son of a prominent Atlanta businessman and politician, and first enlisted for war service in May 1861 with the First Georgia Infantry at age 17. When they were disbanded in early 1862 he enlisted again, as a trooper in Cobb’s Legion Cavalry Battalion. He was wounded in Maryland that September (probably…
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Questions. Questions.
Not-quite 19 year old farm boy John W Wesley enlisted at Decatur in DeKalb County, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Captain Luther Glenn’s Stephens Rifles – Company C of Cobb’s Legion Infantry Battalion. He was marked as present for the period of November and December 1861…
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Receipt for shoes, shirts, and drawers (1862)
At Frederick, MD on 9 September 1862 Adam J. Alexander of the 10th Louisiana Infantry signed this receipt for 3 pairs of shoes, 4 shirts, and 4 pairs of drawers for his men. It is likely these had been procured in the city from local businesses by Confederate quartermasters. There are a number of interesting…
