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[Identification of item], in the James M. Skelton Letters, #3347-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Purchased 1958.

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• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Cavalry Regiment, 15th.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Infantry Regiment, 2nd.
• Mississippi--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Skelton, A. H.
• Skelton, Emily.
• Skelton, James M., d. 1863.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

James M. Skelton (died 1863) of Cass County, Tex., served as a Confederate soldier in the 15th Texas Cavalry in Tennessee and Mississippi during the Civil War. He also served in the 32nd Cavalry.

The collection includes letters to Emily Skelton of Randolph County, Ga.: nine from her brother James M. Skelton, chiefly while he was a soldier in the 15th Texas Cavalry of the Confederate army in Tennessee and Mississippi; two from her brother A. H. Skelton, 2nd Texas Regiment; and one, a notification of James's death. The letters deal chiefly with relatives and friends, rumors and comments about military events, the trip with troops from Texas to Tennessee in 1862, and reactions to conscript regulations and exemptions. There are comments on the Vicksburg Campaign, but no first-hand descriptions of military action.