Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives
L. A. and Lizzie Harper correspondence
Harper, L. A
Harper, Lizzie C.
WLU.Coll.0087
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1.25 Linear Feet
1 document case, 1 oversize folder
1862-1864
English
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Willam G. Bean.
Biographical / Historical
L. A. Harper was a 1st Lieutenant with 'St. Matthew Rifles' (South Carolina Infantry. 25th Regiment, Company F) during the American Civil War. He was wounded in Virginia, September 1864 and furloughed. Lizzie, his wife, resided in Poor Chance, South Carolina.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the correspondence of L. A. Harper and his wife, Lizzie, while he was stationed at James Island, South Carolina during the siege of Charleston and later during the Virginia campaigns of 1864. Topics include camp life, Harper's court-martial, domestic affairs, sanitary conditions, and supplies. The collection also includes muster rolls, other documents, and typed transcriptss of the correspondence.
Personal narratives -- Confederate
South Carolina
Registers
Correspondence
Soldiers -- Social conditions
Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 25th
Letters between L. A. and Lizzie Harper/repositories/5/archival_objects/204931862 January-March11Letters between L. A. and Lizzie Harper/repositories/5/archival_objects/204941862 April-June12Letters between L. A. and Lizzie Harper/repositories/5/archival_objects/204951862 July-September13Letters between L. A. and Lizzie Harper/repositories/5/archival_objects/204961862 October-December14Letters between L. A. and Lizzie Harper/repositories/5/archival_objects/204971863 January-March15Letters between L. A. and Lizzie Harper/repositories/5/archival_objects/204981863 April-May16Letters between L. A. and Lizzie Harper/repositories/5/archival_objects/204991863 June-July17Letters between L. A. and Lizzie Harper/repositories/5/archival_objects/205001863 August18Letters between L. A. and Lizzie Harper/repositories/5/archival_objects/205011863 September19Letters between L. A. and Lizzie Harper/repositories/5/archival_objects/205021863 October-December110Letters between L. A. and Lizzie Harper/repositories/5/archival_objects/205031864 January-February111Letters between L. A. and Lizzie Harper/repositories/5/archival_objects/205041864 March-August112Letter fragments/repositories/5/archival_objects/20505circa 1862-1864113L. A. Harper Military Documents/repositories/5/archival_objects/205061862, 1864114S. C. Infantry, 25th Regiment, Company F Muster Rolls/repositories/5/archival_objects/205071862-1864Folder 1