- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- Byron D. Paddock letter, 1864
- Publisher:
- Byron D. Paddock letter, MS 2409. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.
- Date of Original:
- 1864
- Subject:
- United States. Army
Soldiers--Georgia--Correspondence - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
image/x-djvu - Description:
- The collection consists of one soldier's letter, dated 1864 from Atlanta, concerning military life in the Civil War, what he is doing, and where his unit (Battery F, 1st Michigan) is moving. While the intended recipient is vague, he appears to be writing a woman named Hattie. There is also an acquisition description of the letter in this collection. It provides a partial transcript of some of the letter.
Byron D. Paddock "from Coldwater, Mich., served in Battery F, 1st Michigan Light Artillery, as quartermaster sergeant, second and first lieutenant, and captain, and was discharged April 6, 1865."-- "Michigan in the Civil War." http://bentley.umich.edu/research/guides/civilwar (Retrieved June 30, 2009)
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_harg2409-001-001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/harg/turningpoint/do:harg2409-001-001
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Byron D. Paddock letter, MS 2409. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
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