“November 22, 1863 - April 2, 1866. Memphis and La Grange, Tennessee. Nine letters from a native Virginian, who had moved to Joliet, Illinois, before being sent to Western Tennessee as an agent of the U.S. Treasury Department, to his family,…
“April 2 - May 4, 1865. Richmond and Danville, Virginia, and Washington, Georgia. The last CSA Treasurer describes, in recollections written in 1882, the effort to take Confederate southward in April 1865.”
“1861-1865. Records the difficulty of managing a 200-acre cotton plantation in central Georgia, as prices increased, and the supply of goods and labor decreased. When Sherman's soldiers ravaged Burge's well-stocked smokehouse and larder and stole…