Gold mines and mining -- Accounting -- History;Silver mines and mining -- Accounting -- History;Consolidated Virginia Mining Company;California Mining Company;Portland Mining Company
This study found evidence which supports the thesis that cost accounting techniques evolved rapidly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The cost accounting system employed by the leading mines of the Comstock Lode during the 1870's...
Slavery; Slaves; Child rearing; Southern States -- Identity; Plantation life; Gerdine, Thomas Cobb;
Roxana writes of her baby Tom Cobb Gerdine; Tom's nurse (slave) and the differences between ""northern"" and ""southern"" children; their sister Lucy Chapin (who came to teach at the Lucy Cobb Institute in January 1859; William L.C. Gerdine's...
Death; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions;
Tells Maggie that the Yankees took about fifty men and a hundred horses from his cavalry regiment and they had killed some of them and taken six prisoners. Roberts claims that the men in his cavalry have become too comfortable.
Homefront; Rumor -- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons; Confederate States of America. Army -- Management; Confederate States of America. Army -- Officers;...
News of events in Huntsville, Alabama and surrounding counties; discussion of 600 "disloyal citizens" destroying property; expection of a fight in Tullahoma, Alabama; requests tranfer
Troop movements; Health; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Confederate States of America. Army -- Salaries, etc.; Crops;
Henderson describes his trip to Mobile and the forthcoming trip to Chattanooga; his bowel issues and medicine (opium); available food; payment & money; cotton prices;
Troop movements; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Kirby-Smith, Edmund, 1824-1893; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons; Health;
Henderson describes their march to Sparta; rumor of the Union retreat; a battle in which Gen. Kirby-Smith captured 3000 Union troops; Confederate victories in Virginia; his health
Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg (Va.) 1862; Van Dorn, Earl, 1820-1863; Wheeler, Joseph, 1836-1906; Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877; Rumor -- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865;
Henderson discusses the Battle of Fredericksburg, rumor of General Van Dorn's adultry and murder; Colonel Wheeler's capture; Lieut. Gen. Forrest's success; Union success in Mississippi;
Troop movements; Confederate States of America. Army -- Equipment;
Indicates that his unit is moving through Columbus, Miss. towards Alabama; says that his horse was valued at $1,200. Latter information indicates march began near Tupelo, Miss.
Explains that although he expected to be headed towards Alabama, instead they have passed through Winston, Leake, and Madison counties and are currently in Jackson, Mississippi which is "nearly all burnt down."