Alley-Brewer Family Letters, 1857-1866 (C0196)

8 folders

INTRODUCTION

Letters to Margaret E. Brewer Alley and her husband, Hadley Alley, Mercer County Missouri, from her brother James L. Brewer, a Civil War soldier with the 28th Illinois Volunteer Infantry; from George W. and John W. Deen who address her as sister and from other brothers and sisters.

Comments on army matters and family business. Written from Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, Illinois, and other places where James S. Brewer served.

DONOR INFORMATION

The papers were donated to the University of Missouri by Mrs. Tom Botts on 10 October 1954 (Accession No. 312).

FOLDER LIST

f. 1-3

Letters from George and John W. Deen from Camp Wickiffe, Ky., Memphis and Colleyville, Tennessee and Waterford, Natchez, and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Army marches, provisions and their scarcity, mail difficulties, reinlistment, formation of Negro regiments, resentment against Negroes and Abolitionists, siege of Vicksburg and family matters.

f. 4-8

From Vicksburg Mississippi and Chattanooga, Tennessee, Chenneys Grove,
Illinois. Describes reinlistment bonuses, furlough, railroad accidents, future duty, family funerals, and duty at Brownsville, Texas. Also, comments on high food prices. Letters from other members of family, Sarah C. Delila, Ann, William, and Dugan Brewer and Belle Adams, family matters and crops.

f. 7-8

Duplicate typed copies.

INDEX TERMS

These index terms are the subjects, people, places, etc. under which this collection is listed in all available indexes at The State Historical Society of Missouri-Columbia. If you are interested in a specific index term, please contact the reference staff.

Subject

Folders

Abolitionists

1-8

Civil War

1-8

Civil War--Battle of Vicksburg

1-8

Civil War--Black soldiers

1-8

Civil War--Correspondence

1-8

Civil War--Illinois. Infantry, 28th Regiment

1-8

Deen, George W.

1-8

Deen, John W.

1-8