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Letter from Matthew to his daugher concerning travel of her friends Miss. Virgel and Ellen, who visited Jeremiah as well. Also concerns the death of his friends D'Lampt and D'Yandel & others' misfortune and unhappiness. Finally discusses the health...
Details various family members' activities & Anna's recent tragedies, probably illness and death of family members; also concerns the correspondant's daughter's position as principal of the school on the Vanderbilt's Bilmore estate.
Gage, Jeremiah; Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 11th. Company A; Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; University of Mississippi -- Students;
Concerns affection for Jeremiah and his other departed friends
Gage, Jeremiah; Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 11th. Company A; Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; University of Mississippi -- Students;
Thanks Mrs. Armistead for the photograph of Jeremiah and discusses attempts to publish an article on Gage in the Commercial Appeal
Slavery; Slaves; Secession; Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885; Religion; Families; Mount Holyoke Female Seminary;
Roxana writes about the beauty of Washington, GA; in-depth talk of slavery; feelings of guilt; talk of the union and possible secession; Senator Robert Toombs; a local Baptist revival meeting; her sister Lucy attending Mt. Holyoke 'Seminary'; her...
Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes, 1823-1862; Mount Holyoke Female Seminary; Lumpkin, Joseph Henry, 1799-1867;
Roxana writes of Mt. Holyoke; hearing from mutual acquaintances in Washington, [GA]; her wish that her sisters (Lucy and Emily) could be with her down South; stories about her step-children; T.R.R. Cobb's opinion of her; and the opinion of Judge...
Slavery; Slaves; Child rearing; Antislavery movements; Southern States -- Identity; Plantation life; Gerdine, Thomas Cobb; Gerdine, William Louis Crawford, d. 1878; Marriage; Travel;
Roxana writes of the raising of Tom Cobb Gerdine and southern children in general; her worries about bringing a slave north to visit with her because of their father's abolitionist views; talking off of her mourning (probably for her brother, Titus...
Slavery; Slaves; Christmas; Plantation life; Clothing and dress; Marriage;
Roxana writes about her first Christmas on the Mississippi plantation; the celebrations of the plantation slaves; the making of clothes for slaves [in 1860 the census listed 73 slaves for the Gerdine plantation]; sending her congratulations on...
This letter was written after Roxana visited her family in Chicopee, MA. She writes to let Emily know that the piano has been delivered; how excited her children are waiting for the ""box"" of goodies from the north to arrive
Travel; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Gerdine, William Louis Crawford, d. 1878;
Joe writes to Roxana while she was visiting family in Chicopee, MA. He discusses the Mississippi gossip and mentions seeing quite a number of Confederate veterans recently (Col. Chalmers, Col. Sims, Col. Young). Joe also write about ""Pa"" in some...
Roxana describes the unusually rainy winter they have had; gathering rents from the plantation and estate matters; her children's health and smallpox scares in Mississippi; their half-brother Edward's financial difficulties, and Emily's fellowship...
