Military And Family Activities Around Cornith Mississippi On The Eve Of Beauregards Evacuation

by Lydia Hay

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Folio 4-pages approximately 2000 words. An impassioned mixture of rumor and fact e.g., Hay claims that General Price's men killed eight or ten thousand Yankees in a great battle, although it was really just a minor skirmish with monor casualties ; she also reports on prisoner exchanges, yellow fever in North Carolina, news from a brother captured at Fort Donelson, and from another one in service in Virginia. Contempt for the enemy pervades the letter: Gen. Polk had our house for his

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