Guide to the C.A. Carson letter MSS.1767
Carson, C.A.
- 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
- Creation:
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- Language Usage:
English
- Description Rules:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
C. A. Carson letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.1767
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (2 letters and envelope)
- Dates:
1863
- Abstract:
Letter from C. A. Carson, Union Civil War soldier in Sulphur Springs, Virginia, to his family.
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of two letters from C. A, Carson, Union Army soldier at “Camp near Sulphur Springs, Virginia (the extreme southwestern corner of the state, wedged between Kentucky and Tennessee), 12 September 1863, to his parents and brother. The letters are both on the same sheet of paper, and discuss, among other things, an episode of fraternization between Carson’s unit and a Confederate force on the far side of a river. The accompanying envelope is postmarked Washington, DC, 15 September 1863, and addressed to S. L. Carson, South Dorridgewood, Maine.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Donnelly Lancaster/John Beeler, 2006
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
C. A. Carson letters, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2005
Biographical/Historical note
Union Civil War soldier, 1863.
C.A. Carson Box 6533 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/22203