The Alexander Letters, 1787-1900

Résumé du livre

These family letters are dated between 1787 and 1900. Adam Alexander (1758-1811), trained at Edinburgh, emigrated in 1776 to join the Revolutionary Army as a surgeon. He married Louisa Frederika Schmidt, who had emigrated in 1785 from Germany to Charleston, South Carolina with her parents. Adam had his practice at Savannah, and the family usually lived in a home in Sunbury, Georgia. After his death, the widow and her two children moved to New Haven, Connecticut, chiefly for the education of the children. The son, Adam Leopold Alexander (d.1882), married Sarah Hillhouse Gilbert in 1823. They settled at Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia, and raised ten children. The four sons served as Confederate officers, and the letters between the family homestead at Washington, Georgia and the battlefield of Gettysburg and Fredericksburg sketched the lives of those who went to war and those who stayed at home.