Military and family activities around Cornith, Mississippi, on the eve of Beauregard's evacuation of the railroad center after a month-long campaign against Halleck following the Shiloh Campaign, as observed by Lydia hay in a long autograph letter, signed 1 June 1862, to a brother.
Folio 4-pages approximately 2000 words. An impassioned mixture of rumor and fact (e.g., Hay claims that General Price's men killed eight or ten thousand Yankees in a great battle, although it was really just a minor skirmish with monor casualties); she also reports on prisoner exchanges, yellow fever in North..... More