Henry S. Figures Letter

Letter from Henry S. Figures, a young Alabama salesman, to his father. Much of the letter's content treats the military plans and aspirations of Figures' acquaintances, as the Confederacy hastened to mold existing state militias and fresh volunteers into a national army. Many of those mentioned would serve with Figures in the 4th Alabama: Clifton Walker, Samuel Moore, and Fielding Bradford all were privates in Company I, and William Fariss, like Figures, served in Company F. The regiment had in fact organized in the first week of May, at Dalton, Georgia, and by 9 May was already in Virginia (where Figures would join it in June, in time to fight at First Manassas). To his father, Figures says not a word of any plans he may then have had to follow his friends into the army.

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Creator: Figures, Henry S. (Henry Stokes), circa 1841-1864
Material Type: Mixed Materials
Genre/Physical Characteristic: Letters (correspondence)
Dimensions: 1 folder
Language: English
Identifier: /repositories/3/resources/2038
Campus Location: Rare Books & Special Collections, Hesburgh Libraries
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Subject: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence; Montgomery (Ala.) -- History -- 19th century; Sales personnel -- Personal narratives; Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 4th
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