Special Collections Finding Aids
Publication Date
2021
Abstract
The Joseph Miles papers contains a pocket diary covering an approximately three-month period in 1864, detailing the daily life of a United States Civil War solider. It also contains two letters written to his father while he was away, a notebook from 1906-1907, a report card for his younger sister, a list of members of the Miles family, and a few letters written in 1914.
Source Collection
Special Collections Department, University Libraries, University of Memphis
Keywords
Civil War era, United States. Army., United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Correspondents
Recommended Citation
"MSS0319. Joseph Miles papers finding aid" (2021). Special Collections Finding Aids. 206.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-findingaids/206
Date
2023 May
Archival Statement
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