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Letter from Thomas Simmons to Captain Thomas Sparrow
Title: Letter from Thomas Simmons to Captain Thomas Sparrow
Identifier: 0001-b1-fb   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/23922)
Description: Letter from Thomas Simmons in Boston to Captain Thomas Sparrow at Fort Warren. Simmons writes about sending supplies to Sparrrow. He says to give his regards to his friends in Washington, NC. 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.

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