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| | Hunter Library: James Watson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | The collection contains two letters to James Watson, a Confederate soldier in the 25th North Carolina Regiment, from his wife, Elizabeth Watson, and a friend, Alfred Wilson. |
 | | The Watsons and Wilson were residents of Hamburg, Jackson County, North Carolina. |
 | | In the first letter, dated October 29, 1861, Elizabeth Watson wrote of missing her husband, food prices, crop conditions, the scarcity of money, the family, deaths in the county, and the weather. |
| www.wcu.edu /library/specialcoll/manuscripts/watson.htm (128 words) |
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