{"id":1023,"date":"2010-02-19T16:18:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:31:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:31:31","slug":"robert-c-caldwell-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/02\/19\/robert-c-caldwell-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert C. Caldwell Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.ecu.edu\/collection\/caldwell.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1022\" style=\"border: black 5px solid\" title=\"caldwell\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/02\/caldwell.jpg\" alt=\"caldwell\" width=\"298\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.ecu.edu\/collection\/caldwell.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Robert C. Caldwell Collection <\/a>at East Carolina University offers an interesting perspective on life in the South during the Civil War. The collection consists primarily of Robert Caldwell\u2019s letters to his wife between August 1863 and February 1865. He served with the 10th Battalion North Carolina Heavy Artillery, which remained in eastern North Carolina until they were <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.ecu.edu\/view.aspx?pid=526\" target=\"_blank\">sent to Georgia<\/a> November 1864. Caldwell <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.ecu.edu\/533\" target=\"_blank\">owned slaves<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.ecu.edu\/view.aspx?pid=514\" target=\"_blank\">by June 1864 <\/a>he hoped that \u201cthis cruel war\u201d would end and \u201clet&#8230;Soldiers return home to our love ones in pece [sic].\u201d In addition, this collection includes several letters from members of his extended family &#8211; Private Amzi Harris, who served in the 9th Mississippi Volunteer Regiment, <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.ecu.edu\/search.aspx?index=dcsubjects&amp;q=Harris,%20Amzi--Correspondence\" target=\"_blank\">wrote two letters in late 1861 <\/a>that described Confederate operations in Florida. Mary W. Driskill, who lived on a farm in Georgia with her daughter, <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.ecu.edu\/479\" target=\"_blank\">explained the hardships <\/a>she faced while her husband served in the army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Robert C. Caldwell Collection at East Carolina University offers an interesting perspective on life in the South during the Civil War. The collection consists primarily of Robert Caldwell\u2019s letters to his wife between August 1863 and February 1865. He served with the 10th Battalion North Carolina Heavy Artillery, which remained in eastern North Carolina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,172],"tags":[161,160],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-letters-diaries","tag-battles-soldiers","tag-women-families"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}