Troop movements; Travel; Health; Rumor -- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Skirmishing; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions;
Roberts writes that he has moved for the past week due to Union raids. He says that these travels have been difficult because of blood boils so he is hoping not to move out of camps until they are gone. Roberts fears that the Yankees have control...
Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Rumor -- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons; Troop movements;
Roberts writes that he has been transferred to Cheatham's Division. States that while passing Jackson's Brigade, men in his Brigade thought their forms of punishment were cruel and decided to break into the guard house; four were captured. He says...
Tells Maggie of his new location near Chattanooga and tells of the shelling of a town which resulted in the death of a woman and child, much to Roberts's dismay.
Confederate States of America. Army -- Equipment; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Fortification;
Writes of the new organization of the artillery arm of the service, the lines of entrenchment at Shelbyville and Tullahoma, and other happenings in their lives.
Confederate States of America. Army -- Promotions; Health; Military retreats; Troop movements;
Roberts tells Maggie of his attack of flux that he has recently gotten over, orders to advance that were no longer needed when Yankees turned back, and of his new position as Corporal of [Caisson].
Homefront; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Business;
Responding to a letter from Roberts' wife in which she tells him that the Yankees have taken their cow and calf. He sends her advice and tells her about life in middle Tennessee and about the biography of Aaron Burr he is reading.
Education; University of Mississippi -- Students; Health; Grading and marking (Students); Travel;
Howard [Falconer's] visit to Holly Springs; description of the boarding conditions; his health; asking for his summer clothes as the winter is ending; competitive recitations; academic standing in class; mentions Mr. Stearns
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...
Concerns Jeremiah's relationships to girls, and Mary's advise on the matter; also discusses Jeremiah's changing looks and the activities of various family members.
Confederate States of America. Army -- Recruiting and enlistment; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 11th. Company A; Rumor -- United States -- History --...
Jeremiah continuing his descussion of being tired of war and desire to find a replacement and, again, asking for Jerrie's aid in locating one; also discusses their cousin's romance and rumors of Union raids.
Bernard, Frederick Robert, 1850-1922; University of Mississippi -- Alumni and alumnae; University of Mississsippi -- History; Medical students; Families -- Louisiana
