United Daughters of the Confederacy Correspondence

A letter postmarked May 2, 1922, bears the printed return address of Mrs. Thomas W. Wilson, the president of the North Carolina Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. An image of the first Confederate national flag, or the Stars and Bars, accompanies the return address. Wilson was writing to Major General William A. Smith, a Confederate veteran who was then serving as the commander of the North Carolina Division of the United Confederate Veterans. This envelope is part of the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress.