selections from the letters of the Archibald Smith family of Roswell, Georgia, 1864-1956 /
edited by Arthur N. Skinner & James L. Skinner.
Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
c1996.
xlviii, 296 p. :
ill., maps ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-279) and index.
The letters cover William and Archibald Smith's service in the Confederate armies at Savannah and in the Carolinas ; the family fleeing Sherman's advance, William's death shortly after the war, life under Reconstruction, and how subsequent generations remembered the war years. Included is a very brief description of an 1899 reunion of Confederate veterans at the Citadel.
Smith family
Smith, Archibald,1801-1886-- Family
Georgia, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Personal narratives, Confederate.
Roswell (Ga.), Biography.
United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Personal narratives, Confederate.