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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Joseph Espey Papers, #3349-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from G. H. Matheson of Jackson, Ga., March 1958, with funds given by Dr. Dannie Heineman of Greenwich, Conn.

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A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2010

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• Agriculture--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Cherokee County (Ala.)--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 65th. Company D.
• Espey family.
• Espey, James H., d. 1862.
• Espey, Joseph S.
• Espey, Joseph, fl. 1861-1867.
• Family--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Floyd County (Ga.)--Social conditions.
• Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Griffin, F. T.
• Savannah (Ga.)--History--19th century.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Van Buren County (Ark.)--History--19th century.

Joseph Espey (fl. 1861-1867) was a resident of Texas Valley, Floyd County, Ga. His wife was Jane Espey. Their children included James H. Espey (died 1862) and Joseph S. Espey, both of whom served in the Confederate Army; Mary A. E. Espy; F. Margaret Espey; and a younger son D. Thomas Espey.

The collection includes letters between Joseph and Jane Espey of Texas Valley, Floyd County, Ga., and their children, and from relatives in Cherokee County, Ala., and Van Buren County, Ark. Letters from sons in the Confederate Army include those of James H. Espey (died 1862), stationed near Savannah, Ga., and Joseph S. Espey, a member of Company D, 65th Georgia Volunteers stationed mainly in Tennessee and Georgia, who was frequently ill and wrote of the medical care he received. Also included are letters from Lieutenant F. T. Griffin, a family friend who served with Joseph Junior Letters written from Floyd County, Ga., concern agriculture, health, and the welfare of family and friends, and the presence of federal troops in Cherokee County, Ala., and northern Georgia in 1864.