Federal soldiers' letters, 1861-1862 [manuscript].

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Federal soldiers' letters, 1861-1862 [manuscript].

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Letters and fragments said to have been taken by William Hyslop Summer Burgwyn (1845-1913) from the body of a dead Union soldier. Some letters apparently had been sent to J. G. (George) Smith, who was from Massachusetts or Rhode Island. It is not clear whether all the letters belonged to the same person. The letters principally contain family and local news from people, possibly relatives and friends, in Maine, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. One letter and two fragments were written by Patrick Conway with the Union army on Waxsaw Island, Ga.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Conway, Patrick, 1867-1929

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Along with Patrick S. Gilmore, John Philip Sousa, and Arthur Pryor, Patrick Conway stands as a major contributor to the history of bands in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Patrick ("Patsy") Conway was born on July 4, 1867 near Troy, New York. He received his early formal education at the Homer Academy. Following the death of his father, when Conway was fifteen, he went to work at a carriage factory. It was there that he was taught ...

United States. Army

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Burgwyn, William Hyslop Sumner, 1845-1913

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William Hyslop Sumner Burgwyn (1845-1913) served in the 35th North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War and became a prisoner of the Union Army. He later graduated from the University of North Carolina and Harvard Law School and became a lawyer in Baltimore, Md. and Henderson, N.C. From the description of W.H.S. Burgwyn diaries, 1862-1864 [microform]. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 34634629 From the description of W.H.S. Burgwyn papers [microform]. Vol....