- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- Joe Bowers letter 1864
- Creator:
- Bowers, Joe
- Date of Original:
- 1864
- Subject:
- Confederate States of America. Army
Pen pals
Bowers, Joe
Champion Hill, Battle of, Miss., 1863
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care
Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Siege, 1863 - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, Warren County, Vicksburg, 32.35265, -90.87788
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/x-djvu
application/pdf - Description:
- This collection consists of a letter written by Joe Bowers in 1864 while serving as a solder in the Civil War. The letter is addressed to "Esteemed Mademoiselle;" Bowers had placed an advertisement for a correspondent while he was away at war. He states in the letter that he was not looking for a wife, but for a person to write to in order to pass the time. He describes the unclean conditions of camp life (stating he contracted an itch from "Body Guards"), declares he never had a substitute to fight for him, and tells of his service at the battle of Vicksburg and the wound he suffered at the battle of Baker's Creek. On the last page of the letter, Bowers accuses his correspondent of being a man posing as a woman. He demands proof of the recipient's gender, insisting that if the recipient is truly a man that he must reveal himself to be so, at which point they will cease correspondence.
Joe Bowers was a soldier in the Confederate States of America Army during the Civil War.
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_ghs1034-001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ghs/turningpoint/do:ghs1034-001
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [Identification of item], Joe Bowers letter, MS 1034, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia, as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Original Collection:
- Joe Bowers letter, MS 1034, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Historical Society
- Rights:
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