Title: Letter from Thomas Simmons to Captain Thomas Sparrow

Identifier: 0001-b1-fb   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/23905)

Description: Letter from Thomas Simmons in Boston to Captain Thomas Sparrow during his imprisonment at Fort Warren. Simmons sent a bill for items he sent to Sparrow. The Civil War correspondence relates the activities of Thomas Sparrow and his Washington Grays from their formation as a volunteer company in April of 1861, until their parole from a Union prison in February, 1862. From the papers of Thomas Sparrow (1819-1884), a lawyer from Washington, N.C. who fought in the Civil War and later represented Beaufort County in the North Carolina General Assembly.