These recordings of oral history, play songs, blues, spirituals, and stories were made in 1948 when Alan Lomax invited Vera Hall to come from her home in Livingston, Alabama, to New York City for a concert. Vera Hall's mother had been a slave, and...
Smallpox; Health; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Confederate States of America. Army -- Leaves and furloughs; Confederate States of America. Army -- Recruiting and enlistment;
Thomas discussing the smallpox outbreak & vaccinations in the regiment, his failed attempt for a furlough, his disdain for Colonel Miller, news of 15 year old son, Isaac, joining the Cavalry and rumors of home events.
Money; Payment; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Soldiers -- Wounds and injuries; Rumor -- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865;
Reiteration of the previous letter, dated October 1862, regarding distribution of the same money. Mentions the death of Thos. Goode and rumor of injury from the troops on the Potomac, including their friend Ben Brown who lost part of his left arm....
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 11th. Company A
Letter from Richard C. Bridges to his sister answering her reproach for not having received his letters; notes a dearth of provisions; refers to fights in the West; describes preparations for a battle on the Potomac and the sinking of a schooner;...
Soldiers -- Wounds and injuries; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Confederate States of America. Army -- Equipment; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons; Rumor -- United States --...
Jonathan writing of the wounded soldiers and his guard duty over Union prisoners. Also discusses the rising prices or supplies, such as Molasses, and rumor of Union troops in Oxford.
Troop movements; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Rumor -- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Weather; Confederate States of America. Army -- Equipment; Education;
Benjamin discussing hearing of other battles, his marching in poor weather and word from home. Also provides a list of desired clothing from his mother.
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...
Bernard, Frederick Robert, 1850-1922; University of Mississippi -- Alumni and alumnae; University of Mississsippi -- History; Medical students; Families -- Louisiana