Personal Letters, 1862 June - 1865 November

File — Box: 1, Folder: 1

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This collection contains a series of wartime letters written by James Aaron Fuller from 1862 to 1864. Another letter, written in November 1865, is from Ellen Whiteside to Fuller after the close of the American Civil War. Fuller was a Private in Company K of the 47th Alabama Infantry Regiment of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Also included in this collection are: ● State pension applications from 1897 to 1924 ● A brief service record of Fuller ● A photocopy of a book, titled “Historical Sketches of the Forty-Seventh Alabama Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.”, by Cpt. Joseph Q. Burton, Pvt. Theophilus F. Botsford, and William Stanley Hoole, published in 1909.

Dates

Other: 1862 June - 1865 November

Extent

From the Collection: 0.25 Cubic Feet (1 box)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Processing Information

At the beginning are brief, handwritten summaries of each letter;

The letters from June 24, 1862 to December 18, 1864 are from James A. Fuller to his wife, family, and friends about his wartime experiences. After his final letter in December 1864, he was captured in Savannah, Georgia and imprisoned in Illinois. A final letter, written on November 15, 1865, is from a woman named Ellen Whiteside in Litchfield to James A. Fuller following the war.