Elias Winans Price Papers, . 1823-1868

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Elias Winans Price Papers, ., 1823-1868

Elias Winans Price Papers, . 1823-1868

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Elias Winans Price (1829-1897) was the son of Jeremiah Price (1786-1861) and his second wife Maria Gibbs Price (1788-1838) of Elizabeth, Essex County, N.J. Among Elias Winans Price's siblings were Theodore (born 1819) and Henrietta McDowell Price (born 1826). The collection includes papers of the Price family of Essex County, N.J., including eighty-five Civil War letters written home by Elias Winans Price, serving with the 5th New York Regiment in Maryland and West Virginia. Price's letters concern the discomforts of camp life; his activities as a nurse, cook, and prison guard; the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg; and his reactions to national news, especially the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Also included are antebellum papers, including records of Price's father, Jeremiah Price, constable of Essex County, N.J., relating to delinquent tax collections; letters from a brother in Michigan; and letters from E. W. Price and a brief account book Price kept while he was apprenticed to a bookbinder in Waterbury, Conn.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection