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Gerdine, Roxana Chapin, 1833-1891

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Identifier

MUM00683, 1.22

Recipient

Emily McKinstry Chapin

Publication Date

3-21-1863

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Roxana writes of the death of her good family friend Gen. Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb at the Battle of Fredericksburg (December 13, 1862); talks about her family and her worries over their father; talks about a possible trip north despite the war; talks about the opposition of her husband to the proposed trip north; begs her sister not to allude to military affairs; talks in general about the Confederacy; and discusses her continued sorrow over the war

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Homefront; Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes, 1823-1862; Death; Travel; Families; Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century ; Plantation life -- Southern States -- History; Confederate States of America

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correspondence

City

West Point (Miss.)

Original Collection

Roxana Chapin Gerdine Collection, Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

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A.L.S. (1 p.) With envelope

Also included in the Civil War in the American South collection.

Roxana Chapin Gerdine to Emily McKinstry Chapin (1863 March 21)

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