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Episodes tagged "letters": 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. To My Betrothed:
    date August, 1873 to December, 1875map GREENVILLE, South Carolinatags letters, courtship

    The courtship correspondence between 37 year-old Luther P. Hawkins and 26 year-old Mary Roe followed a new trend of a romantic America. After the American Revolution, courtships sought a match based on love and affection over economic gain. A person’s character became an essential concern in choosing a spouse. Middle-class women more commonly looked for kind men who were slow to anger, and men looked...

  2. A drummer boy writes about his experience of the war
    date March, 1863 to 1863map HAMILTON, Indianatags Civil War, camp-life, letters

    The letters of a drummer boy are a gathering of the letters of a sixteen years old drummer boy in the 47th Indiana Regiment during the Civil War. His letters to his parents show how an adolescent would see the war from the front. The 47th was active in the Western theater during the whole war, aside from the Vicksburg campaign, but the little everyday facts show better what war was like. The drummer...

  3. Citizens Appeal to the White House to put an end to Lynching
    date May 19, 1918map Brooks, Georgiatags letters, Women

    On the night of Thursday, May 16, 1918 assailants killed white farmer, Hampton Smith in his home and wounded his wife in Brooks County, Georgia. The next night a white mob lynched two black men in conjunction with Smith's murder. By Sunday a mob lynched two tenants of Smith, husband and wife, Hayes and Mary Turner, while another black man went missing, also believed to be involved in Smith's death....