Record #:

7106

Author(s):

Duffus, Kevin P.

Abstract:

Jacob Edwin Keiger left his parent's Stokes County farm and enlisted as a private in Company D of the 53rd North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War. Within three years dozens of Company D's 120 men were wounded, over forty were captured and held as prisoners, twenty-one deserted, and thirty-five died, mostly from disease. Keiger and his parents exchanged over one hundred letters before his death, at 24, in Raleigh from disease in July 1863. Excerpts his letters, interspersed with narrative of the company's movements, create a picture of one soldier's life during the Civil War.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 10, Mar 2005, p74-76, 78, 80, 82-83, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives; Keiger, Jacob Edwin, 1839-1863; Soldiers--North Carolina--Correspondence

Record #:

7109

Author(s):

Grant, Lee

Abstract:

For war-weary soldiers, serving stateside or abroad during World War II, letters from home were a welcome diversion from the tedium of camp life or the terror of the battlefield. Grant recounts soldiers' responses to receiving a letter from loved ones.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 10, Mar 2005, p93-94, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Soldiers--North Carolina--Correspondence