Date Original
1908
Description
This collection contains reminiscences written by Susan Bricelin Fletcher of Saline County, Arkansas during the Civil War. Fletcher wrote her account in August 1908.
Biographical/Historical Note
Susan Bricelin (1837-1911) was born October 19, 1837 in Arkansas to Milo Bricelin and Camelia Baldwin Bricelin. She married Henry Fletcher Lewis Jr. around 1855. At the time of the Civil War she lived on a plantation twenty miles west of Little Rock in Saline County with her son and her niece while her husband served with Captain Ed Nowland's Company in the Confederate States Army. Fletcher moved her family to Little Rock in 1864 but soon found living there expensive and moved south. The Fletchers moved back to Little Rock after the war. Susan Bricelin Fletcher died May 1911 and is buried beside her husband at Oakland Fraternal Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Physical Description
Document, 8.5" x 11"
Geographical Area
Saline County (Ark.)
Language
English
Identifier
SMC.053.001
Resource Type
Text
Collection
Susan Bricelin Fletcher papers [photocopy], SMC.053.001
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Susan Bricelin Fletcher papers [photocopy], Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Rights
Use and reproduction of images held by the Arkansas State Archives without prior written permission is prohibited. For information on reproducing images held by the Arkansas State Archives, please call 501-682-6900 or email at state.archives@arkansas.gov.
Disciplines
United States History
