The Private Voices project would not exist without the help of many hands, especially the students at Missouri State University. These included graduate students enrolled in English 793, Seminar in Linguistics, between 2009 and 2015. These students transcribed a substantial amount of the documents which make up the Corpus of American Civil War Letters. The research assistants who served every semester from the Fall of 2008 through the Spring of 2015, also produced a remarkable number of high-quality transcriptions. Each of these students is identified with the collections they transcribed. The project owes a tremendous debt to W. D. Blackmon, the head of the English Department at Missouri State University, who was a constant supporter of the project. In addition, we would like to acknowledge three colleagues who photographed or scanned letters for the project: Brandon Cooper, who visited archives and libraries in North Carolina and Texas; Radoslaw Dylewski, who visited libraries in South Carolina and Virginia; and Tiffany Williams, who photographed letters at the Briscoe Center at the University of Texas. Finally, we must acknowledge the many institutions which allowed us to photograph their collections or who supplied photocopies.

Research Assistants,
Missouri State University

Andrew Albritton, Gemma Bellhouse, Andrea Cudworth, Jennifer Fields, Kenneth Gardner, Heather Messick, Toni Mitchell, Shiloh Peters, Bambi Whitaker, Casey White

Gradate Students,
Missouri State University

Barbara Anderson, Kathryn Aune, Kelly Baker, Judith Bridges, Kristen Carroll, Patrick Chism, Amanda Conner, Heather Cook, Holly Corbett, Jeanne Couey, Allyson Dale, Katherine Ellerbrake, Jennifer Felder, Rachel Flynn, Rebekah Fitzgerald, Kenneth Gardner, Duane Gilson, Alexis Gonzalez, Jessica Hall, Melody Hargiss, Tristin Hooker, Amanda Ingle, Barbara Jones, Jennifer Jones, Allison Kauffmann, Aubrey Larimore, Mary Lutze, William McDermott, Madison McFarland, Mellisa McGinnis, Chaz Miller, Toni Mitchell, Bailey Moore, Andrew Myers, Sarah Pasquale, Antonina Paver, Andrew Peterson, Catherine Pettijohn, Robert Pickering, Chelsea Rook, Sierra Sitzes, Daphne Smith, Jessica Sneeringer, Angela Stanley, Matthew Stewart, Theresa Teague, Nicole Teghtmyer, Genevieve Vallentine, Allen Vanness, Jessica Warren, Bambi Whitaker, Natalie Whitaker, Brittaney Whittenburg, Brenna Womer, Brian Wright, Brett Young, Jamie Young

Digital Research Assistants,
University of Georgia

Samuel McGuire, Katherine Brackett Fialka, Leah Richier, Tracy Lynn Barnett

Institutions

We are indebted to the following institutions for allowing us to photograph documents on site, providing document images for the project, or making document images available online: