The Gibson Letters: 100 Years of a Family's Correspondence

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Mary Virginia Rice Gibson, an upper-class woman of Fauquier County, Virginia, was forced to relocate with her husband due to his refusal to join the Confederate Army during the Civil War. They eventually settled in rural Moniteau County, Missouri. She began a correspondence with a cousin in Virginia describing her new life. After her cousin's death Mary wrote to her children and, in turn, Mary's children continued writing after her death. This collection of over 500 letters spanning the years between 1858 and 1958 contains the correspondence between family members