Letter from James Monroe Pearson in Marietta, Georgia, to his wife, Sarah, in Randolph County, Alabama.
During the Civil War, Pearson was a member of the 46th Alabama Infantry. In this letter he writes that he is still recuperating in the field hospital ("one of the lonesum places I ever saw in my life"). He praises his wife for managing the plantation successfully in his absence: "I gl...
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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/6762 |