William Walter Christian correspondence

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Title:
William Walter Christian correspondence
Date:
1855 to 1862
Creator:
Christian, William Walter
Description:
Letters depicting the social life and customs of rural, middle-class white Virginians during the years immediately preceding the Civil War, and of conditions at the outbreak of hostilities. Subjects discussed include a smallpox epidemic and the resulting quarantine, the John Brown raid at Harpers Ferry and the aftermath, white Southern attitudes toward a slave uprising, conditions in the first Confederate military camp in northern Virginia, early skirmishes and battles, Christian's hospitalization at Lynchburg, Va., recruiting of soldiers, and the hiring of substitutes by conscripts. Among the correspondents are Christian's mother, Mary Ann Christian, and his fiance, Carrie Harmon.
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Subject:
Format:
correspondence
Language:
English
Extent:
168 items
Digital Collection:
William Walter Christian correspondence
Provenance:
Acquired 1940
Rights:
Free Re-Use
No Copyright - United States
Identifier:
  • RL.30486
  • 000851124
  • duke:600867
  • secst0498
  • ark:/87924/r4q818h2q
  • 749e9e8e-ca85-46fa-a83e-c7e567d962e8
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