Matthew Gault correspondence

Item Info

Title:
Matthew Gault correspondence
Date:
1842 to 1867
Creator:
Gault, Matthew
Description:
Collection consists primarily of personal letters to William Gault, of Hookset, N.H., containing comments on cotton planting, emigration to Texas, abolition, secession, the policies of Lincoln toward the South, the government of the Confederate States of America, Army life during the Civil War, freedmen and the Freedmen's Bureau, the scarcity of labor, the Radical Republicans, politics in Texas, and President Andrew Johnson's Peace Proclamation.
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Subject:
Format:
correspondence
Language:
English
Extent:
42 items
Digital Collection:
Matthew Gault correspondence, 1842-1867.
Catalog Record:
https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE000895191
Rights:
Free Re-Use
No Copyright - United States
Identifier:
  • 000895191
  • secst0985
  • ark:/87924/r49z9bj7m
  • 1d0bae7c-f32d-4161-92c9-4239d94ab7cd
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