Anna Blue McLaurin papers, 1860-1871 [manuscript].

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Anna Blue McLaurin papers, 1860-1871 [manuscript].

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Chiefly Civil War letters to Anna Blue McLaurin of Griffin, Ga., from her brother, Cornelius Muir McLaurin (d. 1862) and a family friend, Howard McCutchan, members of the Spalding Grays (2nd Georgia Battalion), 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 on. Letters of 1864 were from friends and relatives in North Carolina and in Griffin and other places in Georgia discussing conditions on the homefront.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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McCutchan, Howard, fl. 1862.

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McLaurin, Anna Blue, fl. 1860-1864.

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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. From the guide to the Anna Blue McLaurin Papers, ., 1860-1871, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Battalion, 2nd

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McLaurin, Cornelius Muir, d. ca. 1862.

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Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...