- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- Key family Civil War letters, 1864
- Creator:
- Key, E. H.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Key, P. C.
- Date of Original:
- 1864
- Subject:
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- correspondence
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The collection consists of 21 items, the majority of which are letters between P.C. Key and his wife, E.H. Key during the Atlanta Campaign in the Civil War, 1864. Some letters are personal, some relate battle information.
Typewritten transcripts available in repository.
P.C. Key, a Lieutenant in Colonel McMillan's 4th Georgia Militia, Confederate States of America, husband of E.H. Key who drew a pension in Banks County (Ga.) for his service.
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_harg0554-001-003
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/harg/turningpoint/do:harg0554-001-003
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Key family Civil War letters, MS 554. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries., as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Original Collection:
- Key family Civil War letters, MS 554. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-