Guide to the Caleb Henry Phillips letter MSS.1672
Phillips, Caleb Henry
- 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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English
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Caleb Henry Phillips letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.1672
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (1 letter)
- Dates:
186? September 9
- Abstract:
A letter from Caleb Henry Phillips, Union soldier, to his wife, Indianapolis, Indiana, 9 September 186?
Scope and Contents note
The collection consists of one letter from Phillips to his wife Carroline [sic], written from Indianapolis, Indiana, on 9 September, no year stated. Phillips assures his wife early in the letter "that you are a going to get your bounty money," probably a reference to enlistment bounties that many states began to offer as enlistments began to drop off following the first flush of enthusiasm for the war. This suggests that the letter may date from 1862 or 1863 but there appears to be no other means of dating it. The remainder of the letter is largely devoted to describing how Phillips' friends are doing, although at one point he states "i [sic] tell you this is a lazy life[;] they are all sick of it."
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Donnelly Lancaster/John Beeler, 2005
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
Caleb Henry Phillips Collection, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2004
Biographical/Historical note
Union Civil War soldier, 9 September 186?
Letter Box 6476 Folder 29
Letter from Caleb Henry Phillips, Indianapolis, Indiana, to Carroline Phillips, [location unknown], September 9, 186? http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20782