Henry Richard Mozley Letters, 1862-1863, 1867 | Illinois History and Lincoln Collections

Scope and Contents:

The collection contains photocopies of Mozley's letters to his wife Jane and their five children.  The correspondence mainly focuses on family affairs, but Mozley also describes a battlefield after the Seven Days' Battle and shares a "Yankee" prisoner's views on the length of the war.  Mozley's death from pleurisy at Springhill Hospital in Farmville, Va., is described in two letters to his widow from John T. Sharpe, a hospital ward master.

Biographical/Historical Context:

Henry Richard Mozley, of Dudleyville, Tallapoosa County, Ala., was a private in Co. K, 47th Ala.  He served in Virginia and Maryland from 1862 until his death in Apr. 1863.

Acquisition Source: Vivian H. Flexman, Mozley's great-granddaughter, loaned these letters to the Library for photocopying in 1976. She also supplied extracts and summaries of the letters, many copies of which are almost illegible.