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
Seven Days' Battles, Va., 1862; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Rumor -- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Troop movements; Man-woman relationships;
Recent letter from Tom; description of what it is like to participate in a big battle (Seven Days Battles); not all "crimson glory and undying fame"; possibility of Lincoln's calling for 300,000 more men; burial of a friend; camped near Richmond;...
Slaves; Slavery; Confederate States of America. Army -- Recruiting and enlistment; Confederate States of America. Army -- Promotions; Falconer, Howard;
Received welcome letter from home; laughed to think of Tom doing the milking now that the slaves have left; glad their home is still safe; still Adjutant General of General Posey's Brigade while still Lt. of Ordnance; waiting on General Posey's two...
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1864; Bombardment; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Weather; Health; Money; Whitfield, Anthony Dyer;
Apologizes for not writing sooner; mentions Anthony Whitfield; presidential campaign of 1864; mentions the shelling on Petersburg; mentions social life; weather very cold; asking Tom to abandon the idea of enlisting in the Army; talks about Tom's...
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1864; Health; Confederate States of America. Army -- Recruiting and enlistment; Confederate States of America. Army -- Salaries, etc.; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Virginia Military Institute;
Tom's illness and his wanting to enlist in the Army; Virginia Military Institute; food shortages; prices for clothing; Abraham Lincoln and the election; prospects for peace; possible visit to Petersburg; payment of salary.
Virginia Military Institute; Health; Weather; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Marriage; Falconer, Kinloch, 1838-1878;
Mentions Tom's recent illness; writes of the upcoming session of the Virginia Military Institute; talks about moving into winter quarters and social life in Petersburg; possibility of marriage; Kinloch Falconer
Virginia Military Institute; Health; Weather; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Marriage; Falconer, Kinloch, 1838-1878; Man-woman relationships; Smith, Franklin Millington; Nelson, J. H. (John Henry), b. ca. 1810; Nelson,...
Mentions Tom and his illness; possibility of Tom's going to school; Virginia Military Institute; Abraham Lincoln and election; prospects for peace; possibility of Will's marrying; winter quarters and return from the trenches; ladies returning to...
Commission on Presidential Debates; University of Mississippi -- Riot, Sept. 30, 1962; Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2008; Campaign debates -- Mississippi -- Oxford; Campaign debates -- United States;
This film documents the 2008 Presidential Debate at the University of Mississippi between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain and celebrates the enormous efforts of thousands of individuals to make this historic debate a success from the...
Families; Travel; Crops; Fathers and sons; Names, Personal;
Matthew Gage discussing Jeremiah's return trip to Oxford, which leads to a discussion of the bad road and rail conditions; his cotton crop; rising land values and naming conventions for children.
Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Travel; Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 11th. Company A;
Details the difficulty of traveling from Mississippi to his regiment in North Carolina, particularly his inability to travel through Knoxville, TN. Met friends in Atlanta, including many ladies.
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...
Slavery; Slaves; Child rearing; Antislavery movements; Southern States -- Identity; Plantation life; Gerdine, Thomas Cobb; Gerdine, William Louis Crawford, d. 1878; Marriage; Travel;
Roxana writes of the raising of Tom Cobb Gerdine and southern children in general; her worries about bringing a slave north to visit with her because of their father's abolitionist views; talking off of her mourning (probably for her brother, Titus...
Slavery; Slaves; Lumpkin, Joseph Henry, 1799-1867; Plantation life; Gerdine, Thomas Cobb; Travel;
Roxana writes about the move from Athens, GA to the Mississippi plantation outside of West Point; behavior of slaves; possibility of traveling north next summer; Tom Cobb Gerdine's boyhood antics; their father's resemblance to John P. Calhoun; and...
Slavery; Slaves; Christmas; Plantation life; Clothing and dress; Marriage;
Roxana writes about her first Christmas on the Mississippi plantation; the celebrations of the plantation slaves; the making of clothes for slaves [in 1860 the census listed 73 slaves for the Gerdine plantation]; sending her congratulations on...
This letter was written after Roxana visited her family in Chicopee, MA. She writes to let Emily know that the piano has been delivered; how excited her children are waiting for the ""box"" of goodies from the north to arrive
Roxana writes of her recent trip north to Chicopee, MA; her husband's favorable impression of the north, especially ladies who work; return home; visiting Waverly, MS; complains of their sister Lucy Chapin not helping with household work enough;...
Secession; Homefront; Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes, 1823-1862; Gerdine, Thomas Cobb; Southern States -- Identity; Railroads; Communication;
Roxana writes of talk of secession; their step-mother Sarah Chapin; T.R.R. Cobb; Tom Cobb Gerdine; the feelings of southerners via the north; her desire to obtain reliable northern news; talks of the new railroad through West Point; and writes of...
