Letter from Edmund Pettus while on board the steamer "Dew Drop" in Sunflower Bayou in northern Mississippi, to his wife, Mary, in Cahaba, Alabama.
At the time he wrote this letter, Pettus was serving as a colonel of the 20th Alabama Infantry regiment, which he helped form. He was ultimately promoted to the rank of brigadier general.
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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/5436 |