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

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Collection Overview

Title: Henry Richard Mozley Letters, 1862-1863, 1867

Collection identifier: 145

Primary Creator: Mozley, Henry Richard

Extent: 1.0 folder. More info below.

Subjects: Alabama, Military, United States--Civil War, 1861-1865

Forms of Material: Copies, Personal papers

Scope and Contents of the Materials

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.

Collection Historical Note

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.

Subject/Index Terms

Alabama
Military
United States--Civil War, 1861-1865

Administrative Information

Repository: Illinois History and Lincoln Collections

Alternate Extent Statement: (29 items)

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.

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URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/ihlcsfa/mozley-henry-richard.pdf

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