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Letter, 1861 May 22, Henry E Edmunds to Clairborne G. Barksdale

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dc.contributor.author Edmunds, Henry E.
dc.date.accessioned 2014-05-30T17:29:06Z
dc.date.available 2014-05-30T17:29:06Z
dc.date.issued 1861-05-22 en_US
dc.identifier.citation Henry E. Edmunds Letter to Claiborne G. Barksdale, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10288/20212
dc.description.abstract Letter written by Henry E. Edmunds to Claiborne G. Barksdale, a member of the 14th Virginia Regiment, about the patriotic fervor of the early days of the American Civil War, shortly after Virginia ceded from the Union the month before. In the letter, Edmunds wrote of Barksdale joining the Virginia troops, how Edmunds would make a great soldier if he was younger, a local man named Townes gathering up troops to join the fight, and the great condition of the wheat crop en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Confederate States of America. Army Virginia Infantry Regiment, 14th
dc.subject.lcsh Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
dc.subject.lcsh United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives
dc.subject.other Barksdale, Claiborne G.
dc.subject.other Edmunds, Henry E.--Correspondence
dc.title Letter, 1861 May 22, Henry E Edmunds to Clairborne G. Barksdale en_US
dc.type Text en_US
dc.type.genre Letters (correspondence) en_US
dc.contributor.correspondent Barksdale, Claiborne G.
dc.date.digital 2014-02-26
dc.identifier.collectionId Mss. Acc. 2014.013 en_US
dc.identifier.archon 234479
dc.identifier.DQnumber 1290 en_US
dcterms.isPartOf Henry E. Edmunds Letter to Claiborne G. Barksdale en_US

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