Guide to the Edwin Keiger Letters MSS.1942
Keiger, Edwin
- 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
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English
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Edwin Keiger Letters
- Unit ID:
MSS.1942
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (7 letters, 7 pages)
- Dates:
1862 – 1863
- Abstract:
Seven letters sent to Edwin Keiger of the 53rd North Carolina Regiment, 1862-1863.
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of seven letters to Edwin Keiger, during the years of 1862 and 1863. Six letters are from family members, one is from Sergeant William A. Butner. The content of the family letters contain material related to an unidentified 1863 fight in which Keiger participated, weather, health, and minor domestic concerns. Some of the later family letters refer to Keiger’s illness (smallpox) and the Butner letter describes a march from Fredericksburg to Culpepper, VA.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Faith White and Donnelly Lancaster Walton, 2007
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
Edwin Keiger Letters, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
gift of Wade Hall, 2004
Biographical/Historical note
Edwin Keiger, of Stokes County, North Carolina, was a member of the 53rd North Carolina Regiment, Company D. He died of disease in July, 1863; he was 24 years old. The North Carolina 53rd fought in the battles of Cold Harbor, Gettysburg, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign.
Letters Box SC0001 Folder 1942.1
Letter from John Keiger, [presumably Stokes County, North Carolina], to Edwin Keiger, Proctor?s Creek, Virginia, October 10, 1862 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/22214
Letter from John Keiger, [presumably Stokes County, North Carolina], to Edwin Keiger, Proctor?s Creek, Virginia, November 11, 1862 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/22215
Letter from John Keiger, [presumably Stokes County, North Carolina], to Edwin Keiger, January 10, 1863 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/22216
Letter from John Keiger and T. Keiger, [presumably Stokes County, North Carolina], to Edwin Keiger, Goldsboro, North Carolina, March 10, 1863 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/22217
Letter from John Keiger, [presumably Stokes County, North Carolina], to Edwin Keiger, Kinston, North Carolina, March 27, 1863 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/22218
Letter from Joseph Boles and Elizabeth Westmoreland, Yadkin, North Carolina, to Edwin Keiger, Kinston, North Carolina, May 21, 1863 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/22219
Letter from Sergeant William A. Butner, Culpepper Courthouse, Virginia, to Edwin Keiger, Raleigh, North Carolina, June 8, 1863 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/22220