Letter from Jack Shackelford aboard the steamboat Kentuckian on the Mississippi River, fifteen miles north of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to his daughter, Harriet McMahon, in Courtland, Alabama.
Shackelford wrote to his daughter en route to Texas, where he the Red Rovers (a group of volunteers from Lawrence County, Alabama) were headed to participate in the Texas Revolution. In the letter, he describes the journey and his fellow passengers: "You will discover our progress has been very...
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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/23748 |