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Mollie Wendel to Jeremiah Gage (8 May 1863)

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Identifier	Gage_b1f51
Title	Mollie Wendel to Jeremiah Gage (8 May 1863)
Author	Wendel, Mollie
Recipient	Gage, Jeremiah
Date	8 May 1863
Location	LaGrange (Ga.)
Subject	Man-woman relationships Marriage Confederate States of America. Army -- Recruiting and enlistment
Broader Subject	Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 11th. Company A United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Gage family -- Correspondence
Description	Mollie wishing to delay any formal committments to Jeremiah and provides her disdain over his desire to seek a substitute.
Type	Text
Original Format	correspondence
Original Collection	Gage Family Collection
Collection Finding Aid	http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00196/
ASERL URL	www.american-south.org
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Citation	Gage Family Collection, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
Rights	This item is free from copyright and may be reproduced without prior consent.

Title	Gage_b1f51_1
Transcript	La Grange Georgia - May 8th 1863 - ) Dear Mr. Gage.) How shall I thank you for the sweet, sweet long letter I recieved from you a few days since? I do assure you I was seriously thinking of sending you a drift again and right here in this communication. Let me ask you to think earnestly upon what I am about to say - I think that our engagement cannot or ought not to be consummated before the termination of this war that we had better simply have an understand -ing - that each shall be true - and yet nothing binding - I Love you devotedly as you well know - and will be true to you always - but I do not like this
ASERL URL	www.american-south.org
Rights	This item is free from copyright and may be reproduced without prior consent.

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