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The bulk of the correspondence is from Frazier to his wife, Elizabeth W. Frazier, and to his brother, Hiram Millis, while serving in the Confederate Army. Frazier describes two of the Seven Days battles, Malvern Hill and White Oak Swamp; the battle at Washington, N.C.; battles of Bundy Station and Winchester, Va.; battles at Hanover Junction and Mechanicsville, Va.; Shenandoah Valley Campaign in the fall of 1864; and the Petersburg, Va., Campaign. He describes camp life at Camp Mangum and Camp Holmes in Wake County, N.C., and other camps in or near Drewry's Bluff; Jones County, N.C.; Halifax County, N.C.; Goldsboro and Kinston, N.C.; and Hamilton's Crossing at Fredericksburg, Va. Other topics include rations, speculation, military equipment, diseases, prisons, conscription, the peace movement, problems on the home front, attempts to obtain a discharge, desertion and its punishment, and fighting alongside African American soldiers. Two post-war letters from Frazier family members who migrated to Clay County, Ind., describe crop prices, weather, wages paid to laborers, and the desire to move on due to the influx of foreign population. Other items include Guilford County delinquent tax lists, promissory notes, tax receipts, subpoenas and summons, receipts, cures for horse ailments, and a census of white children in District No. 3, Deep River Township, Guilford County, N.C. |
