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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC03859.04 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of Byron E. Churchill |
| Title | Byron Churchill to Drazilla Churchill discussing recruitment, Confederate prisoners and the sympathies that some generals seem to hold for slave owners |
| Date | 14 August 1862 |
| Author | Churchill, Byron (fl. 1862-1900) |
| Recipient | Churchill, Drazilla |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Two men, Jonathan Snook and O.B. Boughton have been sent to Michigan to recruit soldiers for the company. Churchill is well and "as fat as a stuffed chicken." The Cavalry took 26 "cotton burners or guerillas," all of whom will presumably be released on parole of honor, "as General Ross, the Commander of this Post, has a peculiar way of returning fugitive slaves." Churchill speculates that some generals have sympathy for the "poor slave holder and nigger driver." David McCord and David Tyler are to be discharged and sent home. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Union Forces Union Soldier's Letter Soldier's Letter Infantry Children and Family Recruitment Health and Medical Cavalry Wartime Pillaging and Destruction Cotton Confederate States of America Prisoner of War Parole Guerrilla Warfare Fugitive Slave Act Runaway Slave Slavery African American History Union General |
| People | Churchill, Byron (fl. 1862-1900) Churchill, Drazilla (fl. 1862-1865) |
| Place written | [s.l.] |
| Theme | The American Civil War; African Americans; Slavery & Abolition |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Civil War: Recipient Relationship | Mother |
| Civil War: Unit | 15th Michigan Infantry, A company |