Randall Lee Gibson and Family archive, divided into two sections: Randall Lee Gibson correspondence (.001-.039 and .025B) and Gibson family correspondence (.040-.105). The collection contains letters, military documents, financial documents (including bills of slave sales) and a carte de visite. The collection shows some child-rearing and education practices in southern Louisiana in the ante-bellum South. Other Gibson materials in the Gilder Lehrman Collection include GLC0026 (ALS to Col. T. O'Hara, 1/11/1863), GLC00821 (ALS to John C. Breckinridge, 9/26/1863), GLC01810 (ALS to James Seddon, 3/1/1863), GLC03505 (ALS to Grover Cleveland, 2/2/1887) and GLC05253 (tintype portrait in uniform, ca. 1862).
- GLC#
- GLC04501
- Type
- Header Record
- Date
- 1836-1871
- Author/Creator
- Gibson, Randall Lee, 1832-1892
- Title
- Archive of Confederate general & family, primarily pre- and post-war re: plantation, slaves, military maneuvers, reconstruction. [decimalized]
- Place Written
- Various Places
- Pagination
- 106 items (#1-105 item 0.025 contains a separate incomplete letter labeled .025B)
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
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