Letter from Mary Ann Hall in Portland, Alabama, to her son, Edward, probably in Connecticut or New York.
In the letter she discusses money that has been sent to Edward to buy clothes; unreliable mail delivery; the difficulty of traveling between the North and South; and her husband's new retail firm. She makes predictions about the outcome of the newly begun war, and she advises her son to keep hi...
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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/4251 |
| Summary: | In the letter she discusses money that has been sent to Edward to buy clothes; unreliable mail delivery; the difficulty of traveling between the North and South; and her husband's new retail firm. She makes predictions about the outcome of the newly begun war, and she advises her son to keep his Southern viewpoints to himself while he is away from home: "If the North persist in refusing to acknowledge the southern confederacy there will be a long and bloody war. The southerners will be extermined before they yield...You had better not get excited on political subjects and say just as little as possible. I think the Southern Confederacy is bound to succeed." A transcription is included. |
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