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| Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 50 items) |
| Abstract | Richardson family of Iberia Parish, La., including Frank Liddell Richardson, Confederate soldier; his wife, Martha Josephine (Moore) Liddell (1846-1897); and his father, Francis DuBose Richardson (b. 1812), Louisiana state legislator. Letters from Frank Liddell Richardson to his father, Francis DuBose Richardson, and to members of the Liddell family. Letters from Frank to Francis, 1851-1852, deal chiefly with Louisiana politics, and letters to other family members, 1861-1865, discuss Frank's Civil War experiences as a soldier in the 2nd Louisiana Regiment. Also included are volumes relating to Frank's wife, Martha Josephine Moore Liddell, containing school work, poems, essays, and diary entries. |
| Creator | Richardson, Frank Liddell, fl. 1850-1869. |
| Language | English |
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Frank Liddell Richardson (fl. 1850-1869) was the son of Francis Dubose Richardson (b. 1812) and Bethia Liddell Richardson (d. 1852). His father was a planter and owned Bayside Plantation on Bayou Teche in Iberia Parish, Louisiana.
Little in known about Frank Liddell Richardson other than that he served in Company II of the Second Louisiana Regiment in the Confederate army. Sometime after 1869, he married Martha Josephine Moore (1846-1897).
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Letters from Frank Liddell Richardson to his father, Francis DuBose Richardson, and to other members of the Liddell family. Letters from Frank to Francis, 1851-1852, deal chiefly with Louisiana politics, and letters to other family members, 1861-1865, discuss Frank's Civil War experiences as a soldier in the Second Louisiana Regiment. Also included are volumes relating to Frank's wife, Martha Josephine Moore Liddell, containing school work, poems, essays, and diary entries.
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Series 1. Correspondence, 1851-1867 and undated.
Chiefly letters, 1861-1865, from Frank Liddell Richardson, serving in the Confederate army, to members of his family. Richardson wrote from various places, including Camp Moore, Louisiana; the New Orleans barracks; Columbus, Kentucky; Humbolt Station, Tennessee; Corinth, Mississippi; Mobile and Selma, Alabama; and Knoxville, Tennessee. Richardson discussed camp life, sickness, friends and acquaintances, skirmishes, and other matters.
Also included are a few letters, 1851 and 1852, from Frank Liddell Richardson to his father, Francis DuBose Richardson, then a member of the Louisiana legislature. These letters chiefly concern Louisiana politics.
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Series 2. Volumes, 1861-1869.
Four volumes of Martha Josephine Moore of New Orleans, who married Frank Liddell Richardson sometime after 1869, the last year reflected in the volumes.
Processed by: Ellen Strong, May 1964; Shonra Newman; September 1990
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
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