Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter, Newberry, Oliver Perry to Cornelia Perry Newberry (mother), Benton Barracks, St. Louis, MO (orders to fight, Union sentiment, dying in war, ambition, family), Envelope, Mar. 23, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Correspondence of Oliver Perry Newberry with his wife, Lydia Elizabeth McCorkle Newberry (Lizzie), his mother, Cornelia Perry Pangborn Newberry, and brother, Walter Cass Newberry, mainly pertaining to Newberry's Civil War military service in Missouri, and to a lesser extent in Mississippi and Tennessee; his activities immediately preceding and following the war; and children and other family matters. Newberry's Civil War letters express surprise at abolitionist sentiment in the North; talk...
Dates:
Mar. 23, 1863