File:John Kennedy Street papers, 1858-1899 (IA unc chapel hill john kennedy street papers).pdf

Chiefly letters from John Kennedy Street to his wife, Melinda Pace Street (1839-1899), describing marches, camp life, picket duty, sickness, hospitals, bushwhackers, religious revivals, and the formation of a Young Men's Christian Association in his brigade. He also wrote of his battlefield experiences at Shiloh, Perryville, and Murfreesboro, and of the fall of Vicksburg and skirmishing around Jackson, Miss., that took place at the same time. Street commented generally on the war and on southern independence and mentioned family members whom he visited during the course of his military service. There are two letters written by his daughter, Elizabeth Kennedy Street Wallace. Also included is a diary Street kept recounting his time spent in federal prisons at Vicksburg and Memphis; newspaper clippings; an 1862 photograph of Street; a contemporary hand-drawn map of the siege of Vicksburg; a poem, a calling card, and an invitation to a wedding anniversary celebration

John Kennedy Street (1837-1914), originally of Giles County, Tenn., was a private in the 9th Texas Infantry, July 1861-November 1863, then a chaplain with the 14th Texas Cavalry. He fought in campaigns in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Kentucky

Chiefly letters from John Kennedy Street to his wife, Melinda Pace Street (1839-1899), describing marches, camp life, picket duty, sickness, hospitals, bushwhackers, religious revivals, and the formation of a Young Men's Christian Association in his brigade. He also wrote of his battlefield experiences at Shiloh, Perryville, and Murfreesboro, and of the fall of Vicksburg and skirmishing around Jackson, Miss., that took place at the same time. Street commented generally on the war and on southern independence and mentioned family members whom he visited during the course of his military service. There are two letters written by his daughter, Elizabeth Kennedy Street Wallace. Also included is a diary Street kept recounting his time spent in federal prisons at Vicksburg and Memphis; newspaper clippings; an 1862 photograph of Street; a contemporary hand-drawn map of the siege of Vicksburg; a poem, a calling card, and an invitation to a wedding anniversary celebration

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Subjects: Street, John Kennedy, 1837-1914; Street, Melinda Pace, 1837?-1899; Wallace, Elizabeth Kennedy Street, 1862-1912; Confederate States of America. Army; Confederate States of America. Army; Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Cavalry Regiment, 14th; Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Infantry Regiment, 9th; Diaries (Blank-books); Revivals -- Confederate States of America; Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862; Soldiers -- Confederate States of America; Soldiers -- Confederate States of America; Mississippi -- History Civil War, 1861-1865; Murfreesboro (Tenn.) -- History; Tennessee -- History Civil War, 1861-1865; United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Maps; United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons; Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History Siege, 1863; Vicksburg (Miss.) -- Maps