Forget-me-nots of the Civil War
By: Lee, Laura Elizabeth (Battle, Laura Elizabeth Lee)
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Women; Biography; History; Personal narratives; Sherman's March through the Carolinas; Military life; Confederate Personal narratives; Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 4th. Company F.
Description: Describes family life in Clayton, N.C., beginning with the years leading up to the Civil War.  Her father was an abolitionist but her two half-brothers were secessionists and joined Company F of the Fourth North Carolina Regiment.  Their letters (p. 41-134) describe details of military life and battles until their deaths, one in battle and the other from exposure.  Other topics include Sherman's march to Raleigh, North Carolina, the Ku Klux Klan, postwar poverty, and family events culminating in her own marriage to Jesse Mercer.
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The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH digitization project, Documenting the American South, Beginnings to 1920.

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Transcribed from: Forget-me nots of the Civil War : a romance containing reminiscences and original letters of two Confederate soldiers / by Laura Elizabeth Lee ; illustrated by Bryan Burnes. St. Louis, Mo. : Press A. R. Fleming printing co., c1909. 355 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

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