This is Roxana's last surviving letter to Emily before her stroke in April 1891. She writes mostly about family matters, especially of her sons Chapin and Lynn and stepchildren Mary, Joe and Jane White
Troop movements; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Kirby-Smith, Edmund, 1824-1893; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons; Health;
Henderson describes their march to Sparta; rumor of the Union retreat; a battle in which Gen. Kirby-Smith captured 3000 Union troops; Confederate victories in Virginia; his health
The economic life, customs and importance of 1794 Middletown, Delaware are interpreted from the accounting ledgers of a general store and a blacksmith shop.