United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Jacob Elder Civil War Letters
Collection
Identifier: MC 1409
Scope and Content Note
The collection includes letters to Margaret Watson Elder from her husband Capt. Jacob Elder, USA, written from camp while he was serving with the 2nd Arkansas Colored Infantry, and a letter from the nurse who attended Capt. Elder at his death in a military hospital in Memphis. Added is a fragment of a biographical note by the Elders' daughter Jane Elizabeth. Genealogical documents were placed in the accession file for the collection, along with a ruined page of Harper's Weekly, January 3,...
Dates:
1863; undated