Description
The King circle of relatives, spread between Roswell, Georgia, and Virginia, faced the perils of the Civil War on different fronts. These correspondences will captivate the reader as they cover Barrington S. King, a lieutenant colonel in Cobb’s Legion, leaves his home in Georgia to fight in Virginia. At the other end of the correspondence are his father, mother and young son in Roswell. Between Barrington and the circle of relatives is his devoted wife, Bessie, who followed her husband to Virginia and traveled between the front and Roswell periodically, providing a woman’s view.
Since many letters belonging to Bessie in addition to Barrington survived, different impressions of the similar incidents are given. As well as, the letters also cover the King circle of relatives’s business, the Roswell Manufacturing Company, which manufactured cloth for the Confederacy; the death of friends and a brother within the war; the refugee revel in of the ones fleeing Northern advances on Atlanta; accounts of the Union forces occupation of Roswell, including the hole of Roswell King’s burial vault, a secret Bessie kept from her husband’s relatives; and details of Jessie, the trusted circle of relatives slave, who followed King to Virginia and escorted his wife and youngest son all over the war.