Letter from Jack Shackelford in New Orleans, Louisiana, to his wife, Maria, in Courtland, Alabama.
Shackelford wrote to his wife while traveling home after the Texas Revolution, during which he had led the Red Rovers, a group of volunteers from Lawrence County, Alabama. Most of his fellow Alabamians were killed at the Goliad Massacre on March 27, 1836: "After having pass'd through a sce...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/23746 |