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Collection Reference Number GLC04662.056
From Archive Folder Charles E. Walbridge Collection 
Title Charles E. Walbridge to his mother discussing dancing with "real live ladies" and the possibility of buying confiscated lands
Date 30 January 1864
Author Walbridge, Charles E. (b. 1842)  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description "I attended a hop at Gen'l Saxton's, and saw some real live ladies, and danced with them!" Is considering buying confiscated lands, but thinks the speculators may have beaten him to them.
Subjects Civil War  Military History  Union Forces  Union Soldier's Letter  Soldier's Letter  Land Transaction  Entertaining and Hospitality  Women's History  Union General  
People Walbridge, Charles E. (fl. 1842-1866)  
Place written Beaufort, North Carolina
Theme The American Civil War; Banking & Economics; Women in American History
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: Theater of War Main Eastern Theater  
Civil War: Unit 100th New York Volunteers, H Company