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R         Rainwater family.

227                  Rainwater and Fowler families, papers, 1863-1939.

                                    Two folders, photocopies.

 

 

 

These are Civil War letters of Maj. Charles C. Rainwater, a Confederate officer, to his wife, Sarah Fowler Rainwater, at Cole Camp in Benton County, Missouri.  The letters mention fight­ing at Hartville and Cape Girardeau, and Rainwater’s disabilities from wounds.  There are also genea­logical data on Samuel Fowler and his family, and biographical sketches of Sarah Fowler Rain­water.

 

Folder 1:  Rainwater’s Civil War papers, 1863-1865 (17 pages).

 

                20 Jan 1863            T. R. Ferguson, Post Surgeon, Hartville, Mo., to Daniel Fowler,

                                                 Cole Camp, Mo., written at the request of Maj. C. C. Rainwater

                                                 following the battle at Hartville on 11 January 1863.

                29 Apr 1863           C. C. Rainwater, Bloomfield, Mo., to Sarah Fowler Rainwater,

                                                 Cole Camp, Mo.; includes comments on Gen. John S. Marmaduke's

                                                 expedition to Cape Girardeau, Mo.

                06 Jul 1863             C. C. Rainwater, Jacksonport, Ark., to Sarah Fowler Rainwater,

                                                 Cole Camp, Mo.; speculates on Confederate retreat south of the

                                                 White River.

                17 Feb 1864           Certificate of Disability; Confederate States army medical review

                                                 board recommends Maj. C. C. Rainwater be retired due to gunshot

                                                 wounds to the head and hip.

                02 Jul 1864             Sarah Fowler Rainwater, Annapolis, Md., to C. C. Rainwater in

                                                 Arkansas.

                04 Oct 1864            C. C. Rainwater, Hamburg, Ark., to Sarah Fowler Rainwater

                                                 (Annapolis, Md.?); a brief note accompanied with verse.

                31 Dec 1865           C. C. Rainwater, Jackson, Miss., to Samuel Fowler, Cole Camp,

                                                 Mo.; comments on conditions in post-war South as seen on trip

                                                 through Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi.

 

Folder 2:  Fowler family; miscellaneous biographical and genealogical data, ca. 1865-1937.

 

                ca. 1865-1937         Copies of records from Fowler family Bible.

                27 Mar 1921           Sarah Fowler Rainwater, St. Louis, Mo., to “Smith,” n.p.; contains

                                                 an outline of the Fowler family.

                10 Feb 1929           Article on philanthropic work of Mrs. C. C. Rainwater, as published

                                                 in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

                ca. 1934                  “A short history of the life and activities of Mrs. Sarah Hannah

                                                 Fowler Rainwater,” by a “friend.”

                n.d.                         “Samuel Fowler and family.”

                n.d.                         “Fowler family.”

                n.d.                         “Biographical sketch of Sarah Fowler Rainwater.”

                n.d.                         “Reminiscences of Mrs. C. C. Rainwater,” concerning early days in

                                                 Benton County, Mo., from a Warsaw, Mo., newspaper.

 

 

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