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Nelson, William Cowper, 1841-1904

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Nelson_WC_b1f96

Recipient

Maria Courtney Goodrich Nelson

Publication Date

7-16-1864

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Mentions what it was like to life amongst the shelling of Petersburg; mentions Jubal Early's assault into Maryland; mentions food shortage; writes about home; encloses a photograph picked up at the Wilderness and a piece of a tree cut down by bullets at Spotslyvania where Albert Peel was killed.

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Bombardment; Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894; Confederate States of America. Army -- Equipment; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Peel, Albert L.; Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864; Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 9th; Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 17th. Company G

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Original Format

correspondence

City

Petersburg (Va.)

Original Collection

William Cowper Nelson Collection, Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

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Also included in the Civil War in the American South collection.

William C. Nelson to Maria C. Nelson (16 July 1864)

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