Notre Dame: Shriver Manuscripts of the American Civil War

I was researching the letters between members of the Shriver family during the American Civil War, for an upcoming column in January 2013, and came across an unexpected great source of information at Notre Dame:

Notre Dame: Shriver Manuscripts of the American Civil War

http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/civil_war/letters/shriver/

Undated Retrieved November 30, 2012

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Introduction to the Shriver Family Correspondence

By George Rugg

The Shriver correspondence is a small group of mostly war-related notes and letters, written from 1860 to 1865 by the brothers Andrew Keiser Shriver (four items) and Thomas Herbert Shriver (three items). The authors were two of the thirteen children of William and Mary Owings Shriver of Union Mills, Carroll County, Maryland. The Union Mills Shrivers were a locally prominent family, whose "homestead" on the Westminster-Gettysburg road served as a base for various entrepreneurial and political activities. At the time of the Civil War ownership of the homestead properties was divided between William Shriver (1796-1879), who managed the milling operations, and his brother Andrew. The children of William and Mary Shriver were raised as Roman Catholics, under the tutelage of their mother… http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/civil_war/letters/shriver/

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