Box 9
Contains 1 Result:
Family Correspondence of W. Leigh Wickham (1828-1889), nephew of William F. Wickham, 1848-1863, 1888
During the Civil War, Leigh Wickham received an appointment in the Confederate Quartermaster department at Memphis, Tennessee (September 13 and 19, and December 8, 1861); reports that the people of Mississippi were frightened of General Grant’s army (December 23, 1862); and mentions the hanging of Colonel Lawrence Orton Williams as a Confederate spy by the Federals (June 14, 1863).