Date: 1904 - 1915.

Scope and Content Note:

Two letters written by R. N. Rea to Dunbar Rowland and a typewritten manuscript "Autobiography & Personal Experience of Captain R. N. Rea." A resident of Lauderdale County, Rea enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private in Company H, Eighth Mississippi Infantry. He later served as First Lieutenant and Captain, Company F, Forty-sixth Mississippi Infantry.