- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- Joab Roach letters 1863-1864
- Creator:
- Roach, Joab, 1838-1906
- Date of Original:
- 1863/1864
- Subject:
- Roach, Joab 1838-1906
Confederate States of America Army Georgia Infantry Regiment, 27th. Company B
Cedar Creek, Battle of, Va., 1864
Olustee, Battle of, Olustee, Fla., 1864
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives - Location:
- United States, Florida, 28.75054, -82.5001
United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Americus, 32.07239, -84.23269
United States, Virginia, 37.54812, -77.44675 - Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
love letters - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/x-djvu
application/pdf - Description:
- This collection consists of five letters from Joab Roach to Fannie Rouse. The letters, written during the Civil War while Roach was serving in the Confederate Army, were written to Rouse while she lived in Americus, Sumter County, Georgia. One of the letters is incorrectly dated as March 5, 1863, when in fact it was written in 1864, as it mentions two specific battles: the battle of Olustee on February 20, 1864, and a battle at Cedar (spelled "Seader" in the letter) Creek on March 2, 1864.
Joab Roach was born on 2 January 1838 and served in the Confederate Army. He enlisted in the Army on 10 September 1861, in Bibb County, Georgia, and served as a private in Georgia's 27th Infantry Regiment, Company B (also known as the Rutland Greys). After returning home, Roach married Fannie E. Rouse (d. 1885). He died on 14 February 1906 and is buried, along with his wife, at Pleasant Grove Methodist Church Cemetery in Sumter County, Georgia.
Material was acquired from the creator's great-grandson.
America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia received support from a Digitizing Historical Records grant awarded to the Atlanta History Center, Georgia Historical Society, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Digital Library of Georgia by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_turningpoint_ghs1019-001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ghs/turningpoint/do:ghs1019-001
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [Identification of item], Joab Roach letters, MS 1019, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia, as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Original Collection:
- Joab Roach letters, MS 1019, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Historical Society
- Rights:
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