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| dc.contributor.author | Knight, William W. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-09T15:15:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-08-09T15:15:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1862-06-26 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Knight, William W., Letter to Mary Knight. June 26, 1862. William Knight Letters, Box 1, Folder 2, Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10428/6833 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | 098EDD34-EA71-41BC-A88F-722948072D40 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10428/6833 | |
| dc.description | Knight, William W., Letter to Mary Knight. June 26, 1862. William Knight Letters, Box 1, Folder 2, Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. 1 PDF document, 2 pages and scans. Includes transcript. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Written on June 26th, 1862, at Causton's Bluff, William W. Knight's letter to his wife, Mary Knight, during the Civil War reveals his recent experiences. He discusses his picket duty on Whitemarsh and an exploration of Wilmington Island. He notes the island's beauty and lack of recent enemy activity. William acknowledges sickness among their ranks, particularly one soldier with typhoid fever. He appreciates Mary's sent socks for picket duty. He requests news from home and expresses hope for a future return. William assures Mary of his health and recounts observing Fort Pulaski's burial ceremony. He mentions planting peas and his obligations to drills and parades. He concludes by asking Mary to care for their children and expresses his love. | en_US |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf; image/jp2 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | MS/52;1862, Letter 5 | |
| dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. When using this work, please attribute to 'Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections'. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Georgia--Whitemarsh Island (Island) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Chatham County (Ga.) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Georgia--Wilmington Island (Island) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Fort Pulaski (Ga.) | en_US |
| dc.subject | United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 | en_US |
| dc.subject | United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal Correspondence, Confederate | en_US |
| dc.subject | Military Camp Life - Confederate States of America | en_US |
| dc.subject | Typhoid fever | en_US |
| dc.subject | Confederate States of America. Army | en_US |
| dc.subject | Georgia | en_US |
| dc.title | Knight, William W., Letter to Mary Knight. June 26, 1862 | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |
