Letters received from Confederate veterans living in Colorado, 1913-1920.

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Letters received from Confederate veterans living in Colorado, 1913-1920.

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Eight letters received by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) in response to the organization's request for memoirs of Confederate veterans' Civil War service. Included is a statement from Captain Allison Cheeley, North Carolina Volunteers (April 8, 1913), detailing his participation in the campaign of Burnside's Expedition to North Carolina, and the Battles of Cold Harbor, Gettysburg, and Petersburg; a letter from a veteran (July 24, 1913) mentioning his espionage activities in Maryland and Washington D.C.; and a letter (January 14) in which a veteran writes of his orders to destroy Confederate documents as Jefferson Davis fled Richmond, Virginia, and mentions the formation of two Negro Confederate Army companies in Richmond. Collection also includes two letters sent by UDC members to the Denver Post, protesting a 1917 cartoon depiction of Jefferson Davis as being traitorous. With an annotated photograph of a Memorial Day parade of the United Confederate Veterans, Beauregard Camp, of Denver, Colorado (1900).

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