Box 1
Container
Contains 12 Results:
Letter, Beach, John to mother (good food, improved health, money and items sent home) La Grange, TN, Jun. 20, 1862
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
John Beach’s correspondence from Jun. 20, 1862 through Aug. 31, 1865, written from La Grange and Memphis, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., and Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Georgia to his mother.The letters describe everyday camp life as being very monotonous. Beach makes few references to any military action except picket duty, and seems more concerned with receiving letters and packages from his girlfriends, Mary Anne and Jennie, and his family back home. He regularly sends money to...
Dates:
Jun. 20, 1862
Letter, Beach, John to mother (items to send from home, money that will be sent home) Memphis, TN, Sept. 24, 1862
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
John Beach’s correspondence from Jun. 20, 1862 through Aug. 31, 1865, written from La Grange and Memphis, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., and Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Georgia to his mother.The letters describe everyday camp life as being very monotonous. Beach makes few references to any military action except picket duty, and seems more concerned with receiving letters and packages from his girlfriends, Mary Anne and Jennie, and his family back home. He regularly sends money to...
Dates:
Sept. 24, 1862
Letter, Beach, John to mother (items to send from home) Memphis, TN, Oct. 1862
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
John Beach’s correspondence from Jun. 20, 1862 through Aug. 31, 1865, written from La Grange and Memphis, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., and Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Georgia to his mother.The letters describe everyday camp life as being very monotonous. Beach makes few references to any military action except picket duty, and seems more concerned with receiving letters and packages from his girlfriends, Mary Anne and Jennie, and his family back home. He regularly sends money to...
Dates:
Oct. 1862
Letter, Beach, John to mother (Jennie, General Sherman, health) Memphis, TN, Oct. 31, 1862
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
John Beach’s correspondence from Jun. 20, 1862 through Aug. 31, 1865, written from La Grange and Memphis, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., and Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Georgia to his mother.The letters describe everyday camp life as being very monotonous. Beach makes few references to any military action except picket duty, and seems more concerned with receiving letters and packages from his girlfriends, Mary Anne and Jennie, and his family back home. He regularly sends money to...
Dates:
Oct. 31, 1862
Letter, Beach, John to mother (box sent from home) Memphis, TN, Nov. 24, 1862
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
John Beach’s correspondence from Jun. 20, 1862 through Aug. 31, 1865, written from La Grange and Memphis, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., and Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Georgia to his mother.The letters describe everyday camp life as being very monotonous. Beach makes few references to any military action except picket duty, and seems more concerned with receiving letters and packages from his girlfriends, Mary Anne and Jennie, and his family back home. He regularly sends money to...
Dates:
Nov. 24, 1862
Letter, Beach, John to mother (cloth and watch sent from home, visit from Brown’s wife) Memphis, TN, Aug. 18, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
John Beach’s correspondence from Jun. 20, 1862 through Aug. 31, 1865, written from La Grange and Memphis, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., and Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Georgia to his mother.The letters describe everyday camp life as being very monotonous. Beach makes few references to any military action except picket duty, and seems more concerned with receiving letters and packages from his girlfriends, Mary Anne and Jennie, and his family back home. He regularly sends money to...
Dates:
Aug. 18, 1863
Letter, Beach, John to mother (regiment deaths, shelling, letters received sent back home) Georgia, June 22, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
John Beach’s correspondence from Jun. 20, 1862 through Aug. 31, 1865, written from La Grange and Memphis, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., and Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Georgia to his mother.The letters describe everyday camp life as being very monotonous. Beach makes few references to any military action except picket duty, and seems more concerned with receiving letters and packages from his girlfriends, Mary Anne and Jennie, and his family back home. He regularly sends money to...
Dates:
June 22, 1864
Letter, Beach, John to mother (money, shirts, George Hawk, furlough) unspecified location, Aug. 31, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
John Beach’s correspondence from Jun. 20, 1862 through Aug. 31, 1865, written from La Grange and Memphis, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., and Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Georgia to his mother.The letters describe everyday camp life as being very monotonous. Beach makes few references to any military action except picket duty, and seems more concerned with receiving letters and packages from his girlfriends, Mary Anne and Jennie, and his family back home. He regularly sends money to...
Dates:
Aug. 31, 1864
Letter, Beach, John to mother (expected box from home, letter from Jennie) Memphis, TN, Mar. 17, 1865
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
John Beach’s correspondence from Jun. 20, 1862 through Aug. 31, 1865, written from La Grange and Memphis, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., and Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Georgia to his mother.The letters describe everyday camp life as being very monotonous. Beach makes few references to any military action except picket duty, and seems more concerned with receiving letters and packages from his girlfriends, Mary Anne and Jennie, and his family back home. He regularly sends money to...
Dates:
Mar. 17, 1865
Letter, Beach, John to mother (sending photo of girlfriend) Washington, D.C., May 22, 1865
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
John Beach’s correspondence from Jun. 20, 1862 through Aug. 31, 1865, written from La Grange and Memphis, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., and Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Georgia to his mother.The letters describe everyday camp life as being very monotonous. Beach makes few references to any military action except picket duty, and seems more concerned with receiving letters and packages from his girlfriends, Mary Anne and Jennie, and his family back home. He regularly sends money to...
Dates:
May 22, 1865
Letter, Beach, John to mother (received last letter, will write more later) Memphis, TN, June 15, 1865
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
John Beach’s correspondence from Jun. 20, 1862 through Aug. 31, 1865, written from La Grange and Memphis, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., and Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Georgia to his mother.The letters describe everyday camp life as being very monotonous. Beach makes few references to any military action except picket duty, and seems more concerned with receiving letters and packages from his girlfriends, Mary Anne and Jennie, and his family back home. He regularly sends money to...
Dates:
June 15, 1865
Letter, Beach, John to mother (small pox hospital, money sent home, sister, regiment) Memphis, TN, June 26, 1865
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
John Beach’s correspondence from Jun. 20, 1862 through Aug. 31, 1865, written from La Grange and Memphis, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., and Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Georgia to his mother.The letters describe everyday camp life as being very monotonous. Beach makes few references to any military action except picket duty, and seems more concerned with receiving letters and packages from his girlfriends, Mary Anne and Jennie, and his family back home. He regularly sends money to...
Dates:
June 26, 1865