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Abstract | C. A. Withers (born 1842) of Lexington, Ky., was a soldier in the Confederate army. The collection includes Confederate recollections of Withers emphasizing humor, pathos, and adventure. Withers served in the 1st Kentucky Infantry Regiment in Virginia early in the Civil War; he then moved to the western theater, was captured during the Vicksburg campaign, and was later exchanged. He also served with General John Hunt Morgan's partisans in eastern Tennessee and western Virginia, was captured in the same engagement in which Morgan was killed, escaped from prison to Canada, and returned to the South by way of Cuba. The recollections particularly relate to attitudes and conditions in the border states. |
Creator | Withers, C. A., b. 1842. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, June 2010
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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C. A. Withers (born 1842) of Lexington, Ky., served in the Confederate army with the 1st Kentucky Infantry Regiment in Virginia early in the Civil War; he then moved to the western theater, was captured during the Vicksburg campaign, and was later exchanged. He also served with General John Hunt Morgan's partisans in eastern Tennessee and western Virginia, was captured in the same engagement in which Morgan was killed, escaped from prison to Canada, and returned to the South by way of Cuba.
Back to TopThe collection includes a typescript copy of Confederate recollections of C. A. Withers emphasizing humor, pathos, and adventure. The recollections particularly relate to attitudes and conditions in the border states.
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