Family Correspondence of W. Leigh Wickham (1828-1889), nephew of William F. Wickham

Containers:

Box 9, Folder 12

Extent:

1 folder(s)

Scope and content:

During the Civil War, Leigh Wickham received an appointment in the Confederate Quartermaster department at Memphis, Tennessee (September 13 and 19, and December 8, 1861); reports that the people of Mississippi were frightened of General Grant's army (December 23, 1862); and mentions the hanging of Colonel Lawrence Orton Williams as a Confederate spy by the Federals (June 14, 1863).

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