Guide to the C.W. Hale letter MSS.1646
Hale, C.W.
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
June 2010
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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- Language Usage:
English
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C. W. Hale letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.1646
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (1 letter)
- Dates:
circa 1864 July 28
- Abstract:
One letter from C. W. Hale, Union soldier, to his father, 28 July, possibly in 1864. Almost the whole of the letter relates to the health of Hale and his comrades in arms.
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of one letter from Ward to his father, dated 28 July and written at Ft. Ward. The plastic cover in which the letter was housed on arrival identifies Ward as a member of the 166th Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, a unit that was stationed at Ft. Ward from May to September 1864. The unit also too part in defending the city from Confederate General Jubal Early's raid of 11-12 July 1864, although that episode is unmentioned in this letter. Indeed, almost the whole of the letter relates to the health of Hale and his comrades in arms.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Donnelly Lancaster/John Beeler, 2005
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
C. W. Hale Letter, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2004
Biographical/Historical note
Union soldier serving at Ft. Ward, one of the forts defending Washington, DC, during the Civil War
Letter Box 6476 Folder 3
Letter from C. W. Hale to father, July 28, [1864] http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20764