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Francis Lawton Mobley Civil War Letters
Francis Lawton Mobley Civil War letters, 1862 (MSS 1008)
Francis Lawton Mobley mustered into the 50th Georgia Company I, on March 4, 1862, as a junior lieutenant and was promoted to a full second lieutenant in June of the same year. Mobley suffered a minor bullet wound on September 14, 1862 in the Battle of South Mountain but remained with his company. On September 17, 1862 he participated in the Battle of Antietam and received a more serious injury. Mobley was sent to a makeshift hospital in Winchester, Virginia and died on October 9, 1862.
This collection is primarily a series of letters from Lt. Francis Lawton Mobley to his wife, Rhoda Gaskins Mobley during his time of service during the Civil War. The transcripts of these letters are the digital surrogates available for viewing online. The original letters are available for viewing at the James G. Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center.
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