Title: Dear old Roswell
Description: "The King family, spread between Roswell, Georgia, and Virginia, faced the perils of the Civil War on different fronts. These correspondences ... cover Barrington S. King, a lieutenant colonel in Cobb's Legion, [leaving] his home in Georgia to fight in Virginia. On the other end of the correspondence are his father, mother, and young son in Roswell. Between Barrington and the family is his devoted wife, Bessie, who followed her husband to Virginia and traveled between the front and Roswell periodically, providing a woman's view"--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: Correspondence, Social conditions, Confederate States of America. Army. Cobb's Legion, Social aspects, Confederate States of America, Personal narratives, Confederate Personal narratives, Biography, History, Confederate states of america, biography, Georgia, history, Virginia, history, civil war, 1861-1865, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, personal narratives, confederate, Georgia, social conditions
Places: United States, Roswell (Ga.), Georgia, Virginia
People: King family, Barrington S. King (d. 1865)
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865, 19th century