Z 1939.000 Tracy (Edward Dorr) Papers

Edward Dorr Tracy was a lawyer and a politician from Georgia before becoming a general in the army of the Confederate States of America. He fought at the battles of Bull Run and Shiloh and commanded a brigade in eastern Tennessee before entering the Vicksburg campaign. Tracy was killed at Port Gibson, Mississippi, on May 1, 1863. He was thirty years old.

Tracy wrote these two letters on May 16 and 19, 1861, to his wife, Ellen Steele Tracy, in Huntsville, Alabama, from Harper's Ferry, Virginia, before and after its abandonment by Federal troops. The May 19 letter makes reference to the Mississippi troops that were arriving at Harper's Ferry. Both letters describe camp conditions.

1. Letters. 1861. 0.10 c.f.
2. Letters (typescript). 1861. 0.10 c.f.