Oh Lordy! A Story of One Family's Trials During the Struggle for Southern Independence As Told Through the Letters of Private Young H. E. Hitch of the 16th South Carolina Infantry

The document above is from the Mowbray Collection at the Edward H. Nabb Center for Delmarva History and Culture at Salisbury University in Maryland. It is from a large cache of documents discovered by Ms. Elinor Mowbray in her house in South Carolina and forms the foundation around which this book is assembled. A receipt dated April 8, 1861 that might seem but a rather unimportant item concerning a farmer that needed his gun repaired back in mid-19th century. But, there is something much mo...