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Tag Archives: illness
2 June 1863: “Rest assured my dear exacting wife…”
Item description: Letter, dated 2 June 1863, from General Lafayette McLaws to his wife. Item citation: From folder 7 in the Lafayette McLaws Papers, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item transcription: Headquarters Division … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Augusta GA, disease, Georgia, Habersham County GA, illness, Lafayette McLaws, Sparta GA
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12 February 1863: “I am here gathering up conscripts straglers and absentees and hope you will come up before I leave”
Item description: Letter, 12 February 1863, from Robert E. Brumby to his sister Sarah Simpson, while he was on leave in Goodman, Mississippi. [Item transcription available below images.] Item citation: From the Simpson and Brumby Family Papers, #1408-z, Southern Historical Collection, The … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged absentees, Brumby family, Emancipation Proclamation, family, Goodman, home front, illness, Mississippi, peace, Robert E. Brumby, Sarah Brumby Simpson
Comments Off on 12 February 1863: “I am here gathering up conscripts straglers and absentees and hope you will come up before I leave”
25 January 1863: “A few days’ quiet generally relieves me, but exposure and irregular living generally bring it on again.”
Item description: Published letter, dated 25 January 1863, as collected and published in Memoir and Memorials (The Neale Publishing Co., 1907), a memoir of Elisha Franklin Paxton. Elisha Franklin Paxton was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia in 1828. He studied at Washington College … Continue reading
Posted in University Library
Tagged Elisha Franklin Paxton, illness, published accounts
Comments Off on 25 January 1863: “A few days’ quiet generally relieves me, but exposure and irregular living generally bring it on again.”
8 January 1863: “We have had several cases of fever lately, occasioned, it is said, by malaria from the lower swamps in the neighborhood.”
Item description: Portions of “Leaves from a Diary Written While Serving in Co. E, 44 Mass., Dep’t of No. Carolina,” an account, written by John Jasper Wyeth of Co. E, of the experiences of the 44th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. The book … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 44th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, Civil War medicine, illness, John Jasper Wyeth, malaria, Massachusetts, North Carolina, published accounts
Comments Off on 8 January 1863: “We have had several cases of fever lately, occasioned, it is said, by malaria from the lower swamps in the neighborhood.”
23 October 1862: “Alas, I am sorry to say many are interred without even a prayer!”
Item description: Letter, 23 October 1862, from Henry Drane, Wilmington, N.C., to Mary Lindsay Hargrave Foxhall (1840-1911) about the yellow fever epidemic raging in the city. Item citation: From folder 1 of the Foxhall Family Papers #4531, Southern Historical Collection, The … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Foxhall family, Henry Drane, home front, illness, Mary Lindsay Hargrave Foxhall, North Carolina, Wilmington, women, yellow fever
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3 October 1862: “My Dear mis I rite you a few Lines for to Let you Know how we ar i hav Bin Sick all this week But am gitting Better…”
Item description: These two letters, both dated 3 October 1862, were written by two enslaved individuals owned by the DeRosset Family of Wilmington, N.C., William Thurber (who later became a minister) and Bella DeRosset. Both write about sickness among other … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged DeRosset family, illness, North Carolina, slave letters, slavery, slaves, William Henry Thurber, Wilmington, yellow fever
Comments Off on 3 October 1862: “My Dear mis I rite you a few Lines for to Let you Know how we ar i hav Bin Sick all this week But am gitting Better…”
10 August 1862: “Mr. Green has been in two battles lately, came out of both uninjured.”
Item description: Diary entry from Sarah Lois Wadley, dated 10 August 1862. [Transcription available below images] Item citation: From the Sarah Lois Wadley Papers, #1258, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item transcription: … Continue reading
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Tagged diaries, home front, illness, Louisiana, Sarah Lois Wadley, Wadley family, women
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1 March 1862: “Maggie we are beginning to have indications of spring the weather seems like April at the north”
Item description: Letter, 1 March 1862, from Union soldier Stephen Tippet Andrews to his beloved, Margaret (Maggie) Little. For an introduction to the correspondence between Andrews and Little, please see our post of 11 February 1862. [Transcription available below images.] … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 85th New York Infantry Regiment, illness, Margaret Little Andrews, New York, Stephen Tippet Andrews
Comments Off on 1 March 1862: “Maggie we are beginning to have indications of spring the weather seems like April at the north”
3 December 1861: “he having received a Furlough from the 3rd day of Dec to the 1st day of January at which period he will rejoin his company at /near Centreville or wherever it is they may be or be considered a deserter”
Image description: Application for Furlough for H.E. Duncan, from Captain Boykin’s Independent Mounted Company of Rangers, 3 December 1861. Item citation: From the Boykin Family Papers, #78, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Item … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Boykin's Rangers, illness, North Carolina, South Carolina, troops
Comments Off on 3 December 1861: “he having received a Furlough from the 3rd day of Dec to the 1st day of January at which period he will rejoin his company at /near Centreville or wherever it is they may be or be considered a deserter”
15 October 1861: “they have been threatened with quite a formidable insurrection in Adams County, near Natchez, 40 miles from here. 27 have been hung.”
Item description: Letter, 15 October 1861, from Sophia Hughes Hunt, of Woodville, Mississippi, to her sister, Jennie Hughes, of Cedar Grove, South Carolina. The letter describes the efforts of relief societies to provide warm winter clothing for Confederate soldiers, mentions … Continue reading
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Tagged Adams County (Miss.), Cedar Grove (S.C.), economic decline, health, Hughes family, illness, Jennie Hughes, Mississippi, Natchez, slave insurrections, slavery, slaves, Sophia Hughes Hunt
Comments Off on 15 October 1861: “they have been threatened with quite a formidable insurrection in Adams County, near Natchez, 40 miles from here. 27 have been hung.”