Papers, 1861-1863.

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Papers, 1861-1863.

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Civil War letters from Edwin R. Sloan, a private in Company F, 1st Regiment, N.C. Cavalry, chiefly to his wife Sarah in N.C. Letters span Sloan's military career from 1861 to ten days before his death in September, 1863. Some of Sloan's letters are written from Camp Marsh; Camp W.S. Ash; Washington Co., Md.; Culpepper, Va.; Hanover Junction, Va.; Upperville, Va.; and Raccoon Ford, Va. Letters contain accounts of camp life, deprivations, and rumors and predictions about the war. The author expressed strong Southern sentiments. One letter written in 1861 provides an account of Confederate soldiers fraternizing with the United States soldiers under a flag of truce and being entertained and fed by them. Sloan also described scouting expeditions along the Potomac; Union soldiers burying Confederate dead at Upperville; his sorrow on the death of General Jackson; and his attempt to buy a furlough to come home. In August and September of 1963, Sloan reported of rumors that North Carolina would return to the Union. He expressed his desire for peace, but not at the expense of returning to the Union.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Private, Co. F, 1st Reg., N.C. Cavalry, C.S.A. Army. From the description of Papers, 1861-1863. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 30838942 ...