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Size | 93 items |
Abstract | Anna Blue McLaurin (fl. 1860-1864) lived with in Griffin, Ga. Anna's brother Cornelius Muir McLaurin (died circa 1862) entered Confederate service in April 1861 and served with Howard McCutchan (fl. 1862) in the Spaulding Grays (2nd Georgia Battalion). The collection is chiefly Civil War letters to Anna Blue McLaurin from her brother, Cornelius Muir McLaurin and a family friend, Howard McCutchan, while serving in Virginia and coastal North Carolina, requesting information about family and friends at home and discussing camp life and troop movements, primarily in the vicinity of Norfolk, Va., and Portsmouth, Va., from April 1861 to April 1862; at Wilmington, N.C., in May 1862; in the vicinity of Richmond, Va., and Petersburg, Va., and along the James River in the summer of 1862; and in northern Virginia from August 1862. Letters of 1864 were from friends and relatives in North Carolina and in Griffin and other places in Georgia discussing conditions on the homefront. |
Creator | McLaurin, Anna Blue, fl. 1860-1864. |
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, May 2009
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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Anna Blue McLaurin (fl. 1860-1864) lived with her widowed mother, Eliza McLaurin, at Griffin, Ga. Anna's brother Cornelius Muir McLaurin (died circa 1862) entered Confederate service in April 1861 and served with Howard McCutchan (fl. 1862) in the Spaulding Grays (2nd Georgia Battalion), in Virginia and coastal North Carolina.
Back to TopThe collection is chiefly Civil War letters to Anna Blue McLaurin from Cornelius Muir McLaurin and a family friend, Howard McCutchan, serving in Virginia and coastal North Carolina, requesting information about family and friends at home and discussing camp life and troop movements, primarily in the vicinity of Norfolk and Portsmouth, from April 1861 to April 1862; at Wilmington, N.C., in May 1862; in the vicinity of Richmond and Petersburg, and along the James River in the summer of 1862; and in northern Virginia from August 1862. Also included are letters of condolence written to Eliza McLaurin after the death of her son, Cornelius McLaurin, and letters from friends and relatives in North Carolina and in Griffin and other places in Georgia discussing conditions on the homefront.
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