Carpenter, Henry C. (d. 1864)
Letters, 1862-64, Ms96-008
Introduction
Henry C. Carpenter was born in Bland County, Virginia. He served as a Corporal in Company H, 45th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. He participated in the Battle of Cloyd's Farm in May 1864, and died on October 6, 1864, in Woodstock, Virginia.
Scope and Content
The papers consist of seven original letters from Carpenter to his sister Elizabeth, written between February 1862 and June 1864 while encamped in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia; Monroe County, West Virginia; Saltville, Virginia; and Harrisonburg, Virginia. Also includes one letter to Elizabeth from Newton Thompson, written from Alderson's Ferry, Virginia, on June 4, 1863.
Transcripts are available to twenty-four letters from Carpenter to his family, including the eight originals.
Provenance
The letters were donated in May 1996 by L. Bane Coburn of Roanoke, Virginia. The materials were processed in June 1996 by Helen Harrison, student assistant, and Laura Katz Smith, Manuscripts Curator, Special Collections Department.
Container list
Transcripts of letters
1862:
- February 10, 1862
- August 25, 1862
- September 5, 1862
- September 26, 1862
- November 22, 1862
- December 12, 1862
1863:
- March 19, 1863
- March 30, 1863
- June 4, 1863
- June 8, 1863
- June 21, 1863
- July 7, 1863
- September 4, 1863 (to Liz)
- September 4, 1863 (to Emily)
- November 1, 1863
- December 6, 1863
1864:
See list of transcripts.
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