Correspondence 1854-1871.

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Correspondence 1854-1871.

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Family correspondence of Shadrach Ward and of his children in Missouri and North Carolina concerning agricultural conditions, "bleeding Kansas," a drought and a flood in Missouri in 1854, Thomas Hart Benton, secession, fugitive slaves in Kentucky and Missouri, and the election of 1860. Letters from Confederate soldiers Samuel B. Ward (d. 1863) and from Lemuel B. Ward describe camp life, health conditions, the possibility of a substitute, clothes, food, hospitals and medications, commodity prices, and other matters.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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