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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC04662.118 |
| From Archive Folder | Charles E. Walbridge Collection |
| Title | Charles E. Walbridge to his mother discussing his small pox vaccination, freed African Americans contracting with planters and a church service |
| Date | 28 January 1866 |
| Author | Walbridge, Charles E. (b. 1842) |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Does not think his family needs to worry about an outbreak of small pox near their house. He thinks his vaccination kept him from getting the disease, even though he was in the company of small pox victims on several occasions. He has been delayed from shipping goods that he bought in auction. The blacks in the area are contracting with the planters. He disliked a church service because it sounded a "little to[o] "Beechering' for my taste." |
| Subjects | Disease Medical History Civil War Military History Union Forces Union Soldier's Letter Soldier's Letter Smallpox Epidemic Health and Medical Business and Finance Finance Religion Slavery African American History Freemen Contract |
| People | Walbridge, Charles E. (fl. 1842-1866) |
| Place written | Newberne, North Carolina |
| Theme | Reconstruction; Health & Medicine; African Americans; Religion |
| 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 | 100th New York Volunteers, H Company |