Letterpress copybook of correspondence received by Colin J. McRae from September 28, 1861, to December 15, 1862.
Subjects discussed in the letters include railroads; communication; payments and supplies; the Shelby County Iron Manufacturing Company and a similar business in Bibb County; and the Confederate Navy, specifically the construction of boats for use in the Civil War. Among the correspondents in the vo...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/17346 |
| Summary: | Subjects discussed in the letters include railroads; communication; payments and supplies; the Shelby County Iron Manufacturing Company and a similar business in Bibb County; and the Confederate Navy, specifically the construction of boats for use in the Civil War. Among the correspondents in the volume are Captain Joseph Booth and the Secretary of the Navy Stephen R. Mallory. Many of the pages are badly deteriorated and incomplete. |
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