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[Identification of item], in the Anna Blue McLaurin Papers, #3562-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Munroe d'Antignac of Griffin, Ga., January 1962.

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A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Battalion, 2nd.
• Georgia--Social conditions.
• Griffin (Ga.)--Social conditions.
• McCutchan, Howard, fl. 1862.
• McLaurin, Anna Blue, fl. 1860-1864.
• McLaurin, Cornelius Muir, d. ca. 1862.
• North Carolina--Social conditions.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Wilmington (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Women--Georgia--Social conditions.

Anna Blue McLaurin (fl. 1860-1864) lived with her widowed mother, Eliza McLaurin, at Griffin, Ga. Anna's brother Cornelius Muir McLaurin (died circa 1862) entered Confederate service in April 1861 and served with Howard McCutchan (fl. 1862) in the Spaulding Grays (2nd Georgia Battalion), in Virginia and coastal North Carolina.

The collection is chiefly Civil War letters to Anna Blue McLaurin from Cornelius Muir McLaurin and a family friend, Howard McCutchan, serving in Virginia and coastal North Carolina, requesting information about family and friends at home and discussing camp life and troop movements, primarily in the vicinity of Norfolk and Portsmouth, from April 1861 to April 1862; at Wilmington, N.C., in May 1862; in the vicinity of Richmond and Petersburg, and along the James River in the summer of 1862; and in northern Virginia from August 1862. Also included are letters of condolence written to Eliza McLaurin after the death of her son, Cornelius McLaurin, and letters from friends and relatives in North Carolina and in Griffin and other places in Georgia discussing conditions on the homefront.