Troop movements; Rumor -- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Confederate States of America. Army -- Salaries, etc.; Confederate States of America. Army -- Leaves and...
Henderson writes of their movements and rumor of a possible future; news of events in Mississippi; money & cost of food; payment expected from his furlough; sale of slaves;
Rumor -- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Siege, 1863; Skirmishing; Homefront; Death; Imprisonment; Theft;
Henderson sends sympathy for Sallie's unfortunate health following his furlough; the weather; rumor from the homefront & Vicksburg; skirmishes with his company; news of a local man's imprisonment for killing a member of Henderson's company for...
Military life; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions;
Describes life at camp near Dyson's Farm [Peach Creek, Panola County, Miss.] including: food, killing a swan, the Conscription Act, a flag presentation, and wolves.
Discusses possible future movements, south to Smith and Jones counties, then back up to the Panola area; requests that his mother care for the diary he is sending to her and asks for another blank book; discusses the difficulty of changing his pay...
The Lomaxes, and other collectors of their time and also decades later, found some of the most powerful vernacular music of the American South in the region's oppressive and violent prison system. The songs they found there, John and Alan Lomax...