387. ERASTUS HOSKINS PAPERS
ca. 50 items, 1862-64
Letters of a captain in the Quartermaster Corps of the Confederate
army stationed in Mississippi, as well as letters
of James Preston Pinkston and a few other family
members. A March 17, 1853, letter from Hoskins to his son mentions that "Cousin John" had
some sick slaves that had been "pressed" by the government. A letter of March 17, 1864, from Alice Pearson to her aunt reports that the northern soldiers
burned the house of Aunt Maryan, the slaves told
the soldiers where everything was hidden, and twenty-eight slaves went with
the Federal troops.
(Acc. 7478)
