Charles Roberts Collection. 1862-1865.
(MUM00391) Collection of 42 Civil War letters written by Corporal Charles Roberts to his wife back home in Oxford, Mississippi. Roberts was attached to Stanford's Battery of Mississippi Light Artillery as part of Brig. Gen. Otho T. Strahl's brigade in the Army of Tennessee. Roberts later transferred to the Quartermaster Department of the Army of Tennessee after Chickamauga. His letters provide vivid descriptions of camp life and detailed army movements in Tennessee and during the Chattanooga/Chickamauga and Atlanta campaigns. Typed inventory available. (1 box).
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