Title: The tented field
Description: "Share the personal letters of a family separated because of the war.  Experience life in the South during the Civil War. Family members talk about the price of cotton, who has gone to war and who isn't coming home. James and Robert describe life in Army camps, battles, hospitals and in the Prisoner of War Camp, Elmira"--Publisher.
Subjects: Correspondence, Confederate States of America, Soldiers, Confederate Personal narratives, Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 21st, Personal narratives, Biography, History
Places: United States, Mississippi
People: James Tickell Downs (1841-1928), Downs family, Robert Willis Downs (1844-1865)
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865