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Collection ID is exactly "6" AND Box is exactly "6"
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BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 1

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 1
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Letter, May 22, 1820, Alex[ander] Brevard, Mt. Tirza [Forge, Lincoln County, North Carolina], to his son Theodorus W. Brevard, Statesville, 1 p., regarding family matters: ''. . . your sister Hayne who has been very ill . . . got some better. Robert and Joseph were middling well, and we brought Mary home with us. She is not very well and we brought Franklin Hayne with us also who is in good health. . . your sister Hayne little Daughter [was] born above two months ago . . . its name Sarah Martha. I want you to write and let us know how you have enjoyed your health . . . and whether you have a desire to come home or not or can you stay untill your exhibition is not that to be in June. . .''
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BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 1

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 1
BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 10

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 10
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Letter, June 22, 1862, T. W. Brevard, Jr., Tallahassee, to ''My Dear Mother,'' 3 pp.: ''I arrived at home in due time after parting with Ephraim Brevard and find things in a more natural and cheerful condition than they are in the states further north and nearer the theatre of the war. There is of course great depression in the money market . . . Mary and the children are very well and I am very happy to be with them again. Carrie being older is of course more interesting than the boy who is very bright and in the most perfect health. Carrie is beginning to talk very sweetly. . . I think I will succeed in raising my Battalion . . . the only trouble now is the great scarcity of men, Florida having already sent . . . about 12000 . . . Mays is not so well as he has been. He had a little fever with asthma yesterday brought on by cold, but is much better . . .''
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BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 10

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 10
BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 11

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 11
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Letter, April 21, 1864, T. W. Brevard, Camp Milton, East Florida, to ''My Dear Mary,'' Tallahassee, 3 pp., wishing for a letter from her and discussing the war: ''We have come down at last to be a very little army. . . we are reduced to the force properly belonging to Florida . . . The force which the enemy have at Jacksonville is variously estimated, perhaps about seven thousand. . . We will see very soon what they intend. So far their expedition to Florida has been a sad failure, and no doubt the Yankees are heartily ashamed of it. . . I was very much taken aback . . . by an order from the War Department suspending all Leaves of absense and furloughs throughout the Army. I had been promising myself so much pleasure in my anticipations of a trip to Tallahassee . . . to think that I have had two children born, while I was away from home, and that I have to be introduced to them when we meet. I presume that my acquaintances Call and Carrie continue to grow and improve. . . I hope little Ellen is healthy and strong. By the way darling, I wish you would have her vaccinated, and have Call re-vaccinated as it did not take before. The small pox may become prevalent . . .''
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BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 11

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 11
BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 12

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 12
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Letter, August 2, 1864, T. W. Brevard, ''In front of Petersburg,'' to ''My Dear Mother,'' 4 pp., discussing his letter-writing habits and the war: ''We are generally in trenches, without any means very often of writing even a note. . . The 'situation' here is unchanged. The armies occupying the same relative positions held five weeks ago. Grant varied the monotony . . . by a few days since exploding a mine beneath one of our batteries . . . The battery was destroyed and the men in it blown up. The enemy poured in through the breach in large numbers . . . The slaughter of the enemy was very great. . . I visited the scene of explosion and fight . . . and the sight was ghastly enough to have satisfied Abe Lincoln himself. The dead covered the ground more thickly than I have ever seen . . . the victims of the explosion particularly were mutilated and disfigured beyond description . . . I am getting uneasy about Atlanta . . . I still hope however to see Shermans communications destroyed and his army defeated. . . Mays is very well - he is not in my regiment but I see him daily - he is a very good officer - stands very well, and is much improved in health.''
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BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 12

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 12
BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 13

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 13
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Letter, August 23, 1864, T. W. Brevard, ''Near Petersburg, Va'' to ''My Dear Brother'' Surgeon Ephraim Brevard, 2 pp.: ''Your letter to Mays of the 10th inst. has just been received and opened by myself. Our beloved brother was killed two days ago (21st) in the engagement near the Weldon Road, four miles from Petersburg. He was shot through the head and died without a struggle. Our troops were repulsed and his body was left in the hands of the enemy. This circumstance is inexpressibly painful to me. . .I would rather have died myself, than have left his unburried body on the field. . .''
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BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 13

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 13
BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 14

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 14
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Letter, November 17, 1864, T. W. Brevard, ''Camp Near Petersburg, Va'' to ''My Dear Father,'' 4 pp. (last leaf missing): ''I wish very much that Mary and the children could be with you until the end of the war; and I do not know how it can be better arranged than by your returning to Florida and taking charge of the plantation. . . Mary is as much devoted to both yourself and Mother as if she were your own child. . . I hope that my dear Mother will abandon the idea of teaching school. It will scarcely pay enough . . . and it would be too confining . . . I agree entirely with you in your purpose to prevent Robert from entering service until the law claims him as a soldier. God knows the law is sufficiently severe, and will take him soon enough. . . let him join cavalry in Florida . . . do not let him join infantry . . . Why not make an effort to get him into the Virginia Military Institute, in which case he would not be liable to conscription, and would upon his graduation, be entitled to a commission. . . The re-election of Lincoln gives us the certainty of four more years of war . . . and we have no choice but to fight for it to the bitter end. . . The army is nothing like equal to the same army in 1862 - but this is much attributable to the want of the thorough discipline, and the lack of the completeness of organization which existed in the earlier part of the war, and before the regiments had been reduced to as low a standard as to have lost the esprit de corps of former days. . .''
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BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 14

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 14
BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 15

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 15
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Letter, December 22, 1864, Mary Call Brevard, Tallahassee, to ''My Dear Mother'' (her mother-in-law, T.W. Brevard's mother), 4 pp., conveying family and war news: ''The children are very well the change as I hoped has been very beneficial to Carrie and Call looks like a mountain boy. Your friends here all make so many inquiries after you and express such desire to see you again. . . Dr. Bacon who was surgeon of Hopkins regiment . . . said that the troops were lying down to shield themselves from the enemies fire and our dear boy raised his head and was shot when he did so. Dr. Duval was next to him and was talking to him he did not struggle and the Dr. did not know for some time that he was dead. . . Don't let Robert join Maxwell's company it is composed of young boys of a very low order. . .''
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BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 15

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 15
BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 16

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 16
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Letter, December 23, 1864, T.W. Brevard, ''Near Petersburg, Va,'' to Mary Call Brevard, 3 pp., conveying war and family news: ''Everything is very quiet with us here . . . it is very different towards the South. A heavy expedition has just sailed for Wilmington, and matters of interest will soon transpire in that direction. And Sherman has completely [illegible] Savannah, and claims that it is in effect already in his hands. . . Since the great mistake at Atlanta every thing has gone wrong with us; indeed I do not believe the President has ever muddled with the management of military affairs, that misfortune has not resulted. . . he has projected the most preposterous campaigne, that was ever known to history. I feel very anxious about Florida . . . I wrote Wilk . . . and urged upon him the importance of making arrangements to transfer a portion of the negro force to some point in Georgia. . . What makes Tallahassee so gay? I suppose the numerous bridals. It seems to me that the people must be either very frivolous or very heartless to forget the grave posture of our public affairs. . . As these gayeties however have been generally led by the Gambles, who studiously decline a representation in the army, I mean the fighting portion of it, perhaps it ought not to excite our 'special wonder.' . . It is so cold that I can scarcely hold my pen. . .''
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BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 16

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 16
BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 2

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 2
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Letter, 1822, Alexander Brevard, to Theodorus W. Brevard, Columbia, South Carolina, 1 p., giving instructions regarding forgotten articles of clothing and offering advice: ''I must enjoin it on you to write once a month . . . Your Mothers Request and advice to you is to try to regulate your Temper and conduct in Mr. Hayne's family with caution and care so that you offend not him or his wife or any of the children. . . for I wish you to live in friendship and happiness with that family . . . be carefull not to indulge in smoking sigars, for we do believe it may injure your health. . .''
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BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 2

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 2
BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 3

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 3
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Letter, January 20, 1823, Alexander Brevard, Mt. Tirza, to Theodorus W. Brevard, Columbia, South Carolina, 1 p., regarding an impending visit by his sister and brother, Mary and Joseph, and the need for T.W. to earn the respect of his teachers and fellow students, to behave prudently, and to not go into debt.
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BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 3

BREVARD FAMILY PAPERS - Box: 6 Folder: 1 Item: 3
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