This collection consists of a letter written by William Wilkinson while he served with the 35th Missouri Infantry.

Robert F. Wilkinson letters,1860-1865, include two early letters from Williams College, but mostly relate to his Civil War service with the 128th New York volunteers. They are written to his father, William Wilkinson, his mother, Mary, or to his family in general. He describes taking part in the siege of Port Hudson, and writes detailed accounts of conditions in New Orleans; some letters discuss legal work in the army. He also describes campaigning in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864, and a few letters from his father describe his condition after being wounded in the battle of Cedar Creek; one final letter discusses his return to service in Georgia.

The content of the letters is typical for Civil War correspondence and diaries. The diary includes a record of Wilkinson's expenses and extra income he received from repairing jewelry.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

This book provides historians and genealogists with a one-stop guide to every Civil War–related manuscript collection stored in Georgia’s many repositories. With this guide in hand, researchers will no longer spend countless hours pouring through online catalogs, emailing archivists, and wondering if they have exhausted every lead in their pursuit of firsthand information about the war and the experiences of those who lived through and were impacted by it. In assembling the first state-specific bibliography to be compiled since the Indiana and Illinois bibliographies were assembled for the Civil War Centennial in the 1960s, David Slay has expanded the scope of this survey to include works relating to women, African Americans, and social history, as well as the letters and diaries of soldiers who fought in the war, reflecting society’s evolving understanding and interest in this defining period of American life. In addition, this compilation is not confined to material produced from 1861 to 1865, but also includes collections spanning the lives of prominent Civil War figures, making it an invaluable source for biographers. Organized by institution, Georgia Civil War Manuscript Collections has many time-saving features, all designed to increase efficiency of research. Each collection description contains the title and catalog number used in the holding institution. Where possible, collection descriptions have been improved upon, providing the researcher with information beyond what is listed in the holding institution’s card catalog and finding aid. It also cross-references duplicate collections that are held in two or more institutions as microfilm or photocopies. Simply put, Georgia Civil War Manuscript Collections takes the mystery out of Civil War research in Georgia.

This collection consists of photocopies of business and personal letters of Morton S. Wilkinson, who was the first attorney in Mankato. The contents of this collection cover a variety of topics, including: the secession of the Southern states, the pending Civil War, local politics, the Indian problem in Blue Earth County, pending legislation, and the funeral of Abraham Lincoln. Correspondents to Wilkinson or his law office include: Jared Benson, J.W. North, Henry Sibley, and Daniel Buck. Letters included in this collection were written to: Franklin H. Waite, and Abraham Lincoln. Also included in the collection are law book price lists from publishers, a subpoena to J.E. Porter of Mankato to the senate trial of impeached Judge E. St. Julien Cox of St. Peter, and a form letter to Mrs. Wilkinson from Mrs. Sibley. The original copies of these letters are at the Blue Earth County Historical Society.