Guide to the Letters from Mother to Edmund Fish MSS.1941
Fish, Mother
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
2007
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
Letters from Mother to Edmund Fish
- Unit ID:
MSS.1941
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (2 letters, 2 pages)
- Dates:
1862
- Abstract:
Two letters written to Edmund Fish at Bellevue Hospital, New York, from his mother in Partridge Island, New York. She writes about a local boy who was taken prisoner in a recent battle.
- creator
Fish, Mother
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of two letters written by Edmund Fish's mother, on August 10 and 21, 1862, from Partridge Island to her son in Bellevue Hospital, New York. She writes about a local boy who was "taken prisoner at Culpepper in the last battle between Pope and Jackson."
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Faith White and Donnelly Lancaster Walton, 2007
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
Letters from Mother to Edmund Fish, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
gift of Wade Hall, 2004
Biographical/Historical note
Edmund Fish's mother lived in Partridge Island, New York. Her name is unknown. Edmund Fish was a Union soldier during the Civil War; in August of 1862 he was in Bellevue Hospital, New York University Medical College in New York City. The faculty members of the NYU Medical College played a leading role in treating soldiers wounded during the Civil War.
Source(s)
Bellevue Hospital.
Fish, Edmund -- Correspondence
Fish, Mother -- Correspondence
Letters (rbgenr)
Mothers of soldiers |z New York |v Correspondence (lcsh)
Prisoners of war |z Virginia (lcsh)
United States |x History |y Civil War, 1861-1865 |v Personal narratives (lcsh)
United States |x History |y Civil War, 1861-1865 |x Prisoners and Prisons (lcsh)
Letters Box SC0001 Folder 1941.1
Letter from Mother Fish, Partridge Island, [New York?], to her son, Edmund Fish, Bellevue Hospital, New York, August 10, 1862 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/22212
Letter from Mother Fish, Partridge Island, [New York?], to her son, Edmund Fish, Bellevue Hospital, New York, August 21, 1863 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/22213