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Johnston, Albert Sidney

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1803 - 1862

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Civil War Confederate cartes de visite collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS206
Scope and Content

This collection contains twenty-six cartes de visite of Confederate generals and politicians. Generals include Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, Stonewall Jackson, and Nathan Bedford Forrest among others. Politicians include images of President Jefferson Davis and Vice President Alexander Stephens as a young man. There is also an image of Emperor Napoleon III of France.

Dates: undated

Francis Lawton Mobley Papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1008
Scope and Content The bulk of the collection is a series of letters from Lt. Francis Lawton Mobley to his wife, Rhoda Gaskins Mobley during his time of service in the Civil War. Lt. Mobley illustrates daily camp life for his wife and reports on his general health and well-being. In most letters he reports his current location and the various ailments afflicting the men in his regiment. The most common ailments mentioned were "Brain" fever, chills, measles, mumps, and diarrhea as well as battle field...
Dates: 1861-1916, undated; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1862

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Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 1
Charleston (S.C.) 1
Confederate States of America -- Armed Forces -- Uniforms. 1
Military maneuvers -- Georgia 1
Nashville (Ga.) 1