1862-08-16 - From Dan Parker to parents

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Content type
Digital Document
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Collection(s)
Dan Parker Civil War Letters
1862-08-16 - From Dan Parker to parents
Title
Title
Title
1862-08-16 - From Dan Parker to parents
Resource Type
Resource Type
Text
Description
Description
Dan Parker writes to his parents with news from his camp in Alabama, including a robbery and a train derailment.
Language
Language
English
Local Identifier
Local Identifier
SC115_01_0054h
SC115_01_0054a
SC115_01_0054b
SC115_01_0054c
SC115_01_0054d
SC115_01_0054e
SC115_01_0054f
SC115_01_0054g
Persons
Persons
Creator: Parker, Daniel W.
Subject
Subject
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives
Slaves
Robbery
Firearms
United States. Army--Military life
War casualties
Railroad accidents
Geographic Subject
Geographic Subject
Tuscumbia (Ala.)
New Madrid (Mo.)
Subject Name Person
Subject Name Person
McDermit, Charles H.
Tillson, John
Cowan, Charles S.
McKinney, Colin
Wilson, Samuel J.
Simpson, Charles B.
Morgan, James D.
Arrickson, Augustus
Pogue, John W.
Subject Name Organization
Subject Name Organization
United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 10th (1861-1862). Company E
Origin Information
Origin Information
Place
Greeley (Colo.)
Date Created
1862-08-16
Date Captured
2014-01-28
Publisher
University of Northern Colorado
Extent
Extent
8 sheets
Physical Form
Physical Form
Correspondence
Digital Origin
Digital Origin
reformatted digital
Note
Note
Note
Transcript file attached.
Note
No year is given, but the letter can be dated to 1862 since the 10th Illinois Infantry Regiment was stationed in Tuscumbia from July 21-August 28, 1862.
Note
Users should be warned that some of the text from this collection is considered racially offensive. The materials are presented verbatim in order to provide an accurate historical view of common depictions of African Americans during the Civil War.
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These images exist as archived TIFF images and one or more JPEG versions for general use. The were scanned at 600 dpi, 24-bit from the original.
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Related Item
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host
Title
Dan Parker Civil War Correspondence (SC115)
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Use and Reproduction
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